The former Donna Logan proves once and for all she is the new Mrs. Eric Forrester when she ousts the original Forrester children from the company their parents started next week on The Bold and the Beautiful.

According to our bud TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco, Donna will keep her sister and nephew/stepson Rick in the fold.  For more news and gossip on all the soaps be sure to read this week's Suds Report!

On the heels of reprising his signature role as Greg Nelson for Jesse and Angie's wedding on All My Children, veteran soap actor Laurence Lau (ex-Jamie Frame, Another World; ex-Sam Rappaport, One Life to Live) has booked a role on As The World Turns as a new love interest for Oakdale barracuda Lucinda Walsh (Elizabeth Hubbard). Brian will be the director of the new foundation Luke sets up with his Grimaldi millions (Couldn't he have used just a smidge of the money to, I don't know, buy an townhome so he can boink his boyfriend without fear of Emma or her shotgun?).

ATWT is on fire right now and this news makes me even more secure in my decision to put ATWT back on my DVR's recording schedule. Lucinda is one of my favorite characters, I couldn't get enough of her chemistry with Tom Eplin's Jake and I adored Lau on AW as Jamie so this will be quite the treat for this fan, as Jake and Jamie were bitter enemies on AW.

Who knows, maybe ATWT will cast Lau's former Bay City mom Victoria Wyndham (ex-Rachel, AW) as his disapproving mother? Okay, okay, that last part was just wishful casting! Thanks MarkDutchViewer for the tip!

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Seems that the folks over at The Young and the Restless, are wrapping up things that have been left hanging in a major way!

It sucks to be Nikki right about now! After David spikes her drink with the liquid morphine, she starts to react to it and due to quick thinking by Paul and JT; she’s rushed to the hospital.

Meanwhile Sabrina decides she wants to leave the gala and begs David for a ride back to the ranch since he was headed that way to snatch Nikki (Which Sabrina isn't aware of). Unbeknownst to them, David’s old buddy Walter has cut the breaks on David's car.  While en route the limo crashes…

At the ranch Victor speaks with Sabrina's ex-lover Phillipe about the article. Slick Vic finds out that  Smilin' Jack was the one he spoke, not Adrian. Victor later arrives at the scene of the crash. He asks a dying David if Sabrina was with him. David tells Victor she was.  David dies while Sabrina is rushed to the hospital in bad shape!. Continue Reading...

Join Daytime Confidential in wishing John Aniston (Victor Kiriakis, Days of Our Lives) a very Happy Birthday!  Jen's dad celebrates his 75th Birthday today!

Here's the Scoop!  07.24.08

Scotty returns today!  Look for fireworks when he finds out Logan is dead.

Sam undercover... will she be found out?  RUMORS have Jerry working for/with Karpov and Sam gets a job piloting Karpov's ship.  Jerry knows somethings up with Alexis' oldest daughter and figures out she's undercover.  When Sam's cover is almost blown, will Jerry cover for her?  RUMORS say yes! Of course IF this happens it'll be after Sam has already warned her mother away from Jerry.

Speaking of Alexis and her girls... It looks like we'll see the DA with her daughters.  Kristina has definitely taped, not sure about Molly.  Also getting some family screentime, Elizabeth and her boys.  There is some talk that both ladies get positive feedback from the fans whenever they're onscreen with the kiddies. Hmmm... could it be that the fans are just glad to see that the kids are still alive?  The way GH uses them so sporadically you never know what's going on with the children on this show.  Where's Spencer been? Continue Reading...

Fans of All My Children's aborted (would that it were the only thing they aborted!) lesbian supercouple Bianca and Maggie are in for quite a treat on this Friday's All-Eden/All-Elizabeth episode of Imaginary Bitches.

"Andrew was so impressed with Lizzie's comedy in some of the earlier episodes that he said he had to write something to showcase that,"  Eden Riegel revealed to Luke and I during a podcast interview airing soon.

Riegel's husband Andrew Miller-swell guy that he is-sent Daytime Confidential over the exclusive pic of Eden and Lizzie above from this week's show. We don't know about you, but it looks like a can't miss episode to us!

For more dish on Imaginary Bitches, check out this Thursday's edition of Nelson Branco's The Suds Report for TV Guida Canada where I will reveal who Imaginary Bitches fans are simply screaming to have come on the hit web series!

As the World Turns is on roll. Solid, witty dialogue lathers up the DVR with a daily dose good old fashioned drama. Taking characters and putting them outside their normal orbits has made for some great TV. Casey's surprisingly hot fling with Oakdale's favorite playground reignited a long simmering feud between Emily and Margo. The spillover has pulled in Tom and Susan, and more will follow as they go public.

Any longtime soap fan will tell you that family is the core of a good soap opera. For several years, family took a back seat and some of the essence of why we watch was lost. As the World Turns has effectively put the family back in it's soap. Isolation was a problem for many characters. They often would play out in their own stories with little or no contact with other characters. Things in Oakdale sure have changed. The cast is better integrated and kids are involved with their parents. This show has become multi-generational practically overnight, which makes for great viewing. Continue Reading...

Tv Guide just posted this great video interview of Jay Kenneth Johnson and Kristen Renton. Check it out and carefully listen for small spoiler Kristen drops at the end.

Even though General Hospital Night Shift’s, second season premiere was a smash (take that as you want) I was upset over the fact that Dr. Russell Ford was given the bum rush on Night Shift and on its mother ship, GH.
 
Dr. Ford wasn’t a fan favorite, yes I know, but we never knew why he was so frosty. Viewers weren’t given the chance to find out what’s under the exterior of his gruff demeanor; we were denied a glimpse of Russell Ford the man, under the hostile layers that was called his personality.

I was a bit perturbed that a medicine man such as Ford, made a huge error in judgment by pulling out the glass shard from his neck resulting in his death. Being a doctor, the Chief of Staff at that, making such a huge blunder such made no sense. Especially since GH made it a point to show that Ford was one who didn't like mistakes made at all. Look how he jumped all over Nurse Elizabeth Webber for the medicine that he stated she never administered. I know that when you’re in shock you do crazy things but this one was ridiculous.

So many missed opportunities were lost with this man. He could have had a back story, hell he really could have had a future story also. I loved his interactions with Jason Morgan on the last season of Night Shift.  Continue Reading...

Happy Birthday Beth Ehlers!  The newest member of the All My Children cast celebrates her 40th Birthday today! 

German actor Florian Klein is joining the cast of General Hospital and you will absolutely, positively, even with the most ponderous thought, never guess what he's been cast as...

That's right folks, General Hospital has cast at least its fourth mob related character in about the past year.

The new character will join Anthony, Claudia, and Karpov in its line up of mob related characters.

While a collective groan may have just gone up from General Hospital fans at the thought of yet another mob related character, the role is a breakthrough for the German actor into the U.S.

Congrats to the actor. For General Hospital fan's sake I hope it turns out he's a double agent for the WSB. I'm not holding my breath though.

General Hospital's Kelly Monaco (Sam McCall) was caught cooling off with Dancing with the Stars' Cheryl Burke.  

The war of words that started out on the The View between Elisabeth Hasslebeck and Whoopi Goldberg earlier this week, during a discussion of Jesse Jackson's use of the N-word on a Fox News show, spilled over onto CNN's Larry King which Joy Behar hosted last night.

Fran Drescher, most famous for her role as Fran Fine on The Nanny, was one of Joy's guests and took issue with Elisabeth becoming emotional during the discussion on The View. Always one to defend herself, Elisabeth called in and sparred with Drescher for a few minutes.

The first clip is of The View and the second clip, after the fold, is from Larry King. Continue Reading...

On my morning blog hop, my stop at PerezHilton.com showed a great new ad for Bongo Jeans featuring All My Children alum, Jesse McCartney (ex-JR). 

For more pics and some behind the scenes action, check out Bongo's Official Site. Don't forget, Jesse's third album is available now!