Matt Crane made his debut on Martha Byrne's Gotham on yesterday's episode. Watch the installment after the jump.

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As the World Turns' Michael Park, Kelley Menighan-Hensley, Mick Hazen and Martha Byrne turned out for the 5th Annual When You Wish Upon A Star event, organized by Laurie Park, for the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club on March 6. Check out pictures from the event after the jump.

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Catherine (Martha Byrne) is considering calling Richard (Michael Park) for old time's sake, much to the chagrin of her controlling sister Claire (Melanie Smith) on the latest installment of Gotham. Meanwhile, time is running out for Richard. Will gun-wielding mobster Dominic (Paolo Seganti)— who is  growing weary of waiting for his money— harm Richard, or his daughter Rachel (Caroline Byrne), or will moneyed sexualite Sheila Stevens (Maggie Reed) save the day? Delicious, soapy fun. Why couldn't P&G give Byrne the reigns of As The World Turns before it was too late? 

Matt Crane (ex-Matthew Cory, Another World) and Martha Byrne (pictured with LaMont Craig above) shot upcoming scenes from Gotham at the Nicole Miller Design Studio on February 18. Byrne has kept busy filming episodes for her webseries with recent shoots at the Nicole Miller fashion show and law offices in Hoboken.

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The cast of Martha Byrne's Gotham  has been busy with location shoots lately. Anne Sayre, Byrne and Tamsen Fadal filmed scenes while attending Nicole Miller's fashion show on Feb. 12.  Anna Stuart, Brianne Moncrief, Kurt McKinney and Michael Park shot scenes at law offices in Hoboken.   READ MORE

Okay, I will readily admit, when God was handing out the virtue of patience, I was probably somewhere yelling at a heavenly microwave to hurry up. A few weeks back I blogged that Martha Byrne's web soap opera Gotham was "really, really boring", and, well, it was. At least it was then. In tonight's episode, however things begin to shape up quite noticeably, and I couldn't be happier. READ MORE

New York City, along with several soap notables, made it into a longer, more dialogue-packed episode of Gotham The Series. The fifth installment broadened Catherine and Richard's world and introduced Anna Stuart, Kin Shriner, Matt McKinney, Brianne Moncrief and Paolo Seganti. Catch the full episode after the jump. READ MORE

Score one for Gotham The Series! Martha Byrne's web soap let it be known today on Twitter that Matt Crane (Matthew Cory) of Another World fame is set to join the series. More details will be coming soon.

There's an old theater adage that says drama should be life without the boring parts. For webisodic soap operas, that saying holds true more than ever before. With just a few short minutes to tell a dramatic story, every second counts if you are hoping to hook Internet viewers with the attention span of breeding rabbits on crack. Unfortunately, Martha Byrne's new series Gotham is falling a bit short in this endeavor. 

Now before anyone races to the comments section to join in for a good, old-fashioned, patented Jamey Giddens rip apart session, that isn't what this is. I want Gotham to succeed. I want to like this show, not just because I admire Byrne greatly, and truly believe she is trying to give disenchanted soap opera viewers what we want, but also because the sky is literally falling in terms of our beloved daytime soap operas. Just look at the depressing Nielsens report this week. READ MORE

Gotham the Series aired its third installment last night and there were improvements right from the start. The music in the opening sequence was moody, and there were snippets of the two previous episodes. After a little nudge from Anne Sayre's Tina at the beginning, it was all Martha Byrne and Michael Park.

The short episodes make for slow moving action. It was 45 seconds before anything happened and it was all over in little more than three minutes. It's enough to keep me engaged in the conversation, but certainly not long enough to feel as connected as Catherine and Richard do. I need more! Byrne and Park do have great chemistry however, and it is clear that they have a great off-screen friendship as it comes across in their scenes. As always, I have problems adjusting to the shaky camera.  What do you think of the web series? Catch the latest episode after the jump. READ MORE