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Finola Hughes and Jason Thompson help Who Wants To Be a Millionaire celebrate General Hospital 50th anniversary

March 25, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

As the General Hospital 50th anniversary nears (April 1 at 2pm ET on ABC), two of the show’s stars — Finola Hughes (Anna Devane) and Jason Thompson (Dr. Patrick Drake) will appear on the syndicated game show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire April 1 and April 2 to help host Meredith Vieira celebrate GH‘s big 5-0. RELATED: KATIE COURIC GOES BEHIND THE SCENES OF GENERAL HOSPITAL Finola Hughes and Jason Thompson apparently brought some of the General Hospital drama with them to their tapings on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, acting out a soap-inspired scene with Meredith Vieira […]

“The Talk” celebrates 40th anniversary of “The Young and the Restless”

March 25, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

The CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless will be celebrating its 40th anniversary on Tuesday, March 26, as the long-running favorite leads up to a “killer” wedding between super-couple Victor and Nikki (the couple’s fourth trip down the aisle over the course of the show). The day before the 40th anniversary episode, on Monday, March 25, CBS’ daytime show The Talk will host actors from the series to talk about the iconic soap opera. On the March 25 episode of The Talk, The Young and the Restless cast members Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott), Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea Newman), […]

Katie Couric “20/20” special goes behind the scenes of General Hospital

March 22, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

On April 6, at the end of ABC’s daytime drama General Hospital 50th anniversary week, Katie Couric will anchor an hourlong 20/20 special that goes inside the fictional town of Port Charles to look at what has made the soap the longest-running scripted drama currently on television. RELATED: SOAPNET MARATHON CELEBRATES GENERAL HOSPITAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY Called “General Hospital — The Real Soap Dish,” the special features interviews with General Hospital fan favorites including Anthony Geary, Genie Francis, Maurice Benard, Jack Wagner, Rick Springfield and others, as well as executive producer Frank Valentini. 20/20 goes behind the scenes to offer a […]

ABC partners with amfAR as “General Hospital” reprises the Nurses Ball

March 19, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated March 26, 2013, 8:58am CT Approaching the historic General Hospital 50th anniversary on April 1, and to help mark the daytime drama’s Golden Anniversary, ABC has partnered with amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, for a storyline integration as the show brings back the popular GH Nurses Ball. The Nurses Ball is a fictional charity event complete with musical performances from the characters of General Hospital‘s setting of Port Charles, and is dedicated to HIV/AIDS awareness. The inaugural GH Nurses Ball aired in 1994 and became an annual event and fan favorite until 2001. It is returning in 2013 for […]

SOAPnet marathon celebrates General Hospital 50th anniversary

March 14, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated April 5, 2013, 12:41pm CT If you’ve been a longtime viewer of ABC’s daytime drama General Hospital, you’ve probably been having flashbacks the past couple of months. Fan-favorite characters and actors from decades past — goodies and baddies — have been popping up left and right in the fictional town of Port Charles, some of whom haven’t been seen in years. That is all leading up to the General Hospital 50th anniversary episode airing April 2 at 2pm ET/1pm PT/CT on ABC (originally scheduled for April 1, the episode has been bumped a day because of yesterday’s General Hospital pre-emption […]

Meredith Vieira returns to “General Hospital”

December 12, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Meredith Vieira will reprise the General Hospital role of Bree Flanders that she originally played in March 2003 when she returns to the venerable soap as a guest star this Friday, Dec. 14. A decade later, though, fans will find that Bree has moved up in the world. “At that point [in 2003, Bree] was a madam,” says Vieira. “Now she’s a Senior Vice President of a company, so she’s definitely improved her lot in life.” As a madam, Bree once tempted Luke Spencer’s girlfriend to join her ranks, but, as Vieira says, she is now the SVP of Marketing […]

“Days of our Lives” to broadcast a memorable 1997 Eileen Davidson episode this week

November 19, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

On the heels of Eileen Davidson’s return to Days of our Lives as longtime fan favorite Kristen DiMera, the long-running NBC daytime drama will dig into its archives and take viewers back to one of the villainess’ most memorable Days episodes to date, airing it this Friday, Nov. 23, as a day after Thanksgiving treat. The episode — originally telecast on June 24, 1997 — involves John’s (Drake Hogestyn) wedding to a Kristen impostor. Meanwhile, Marlena (Deidre Hall) and the real Kristen (Eileen Davidson) are still unconscious in a secret room where evil mastermind Stefano (Joe Mascolo) is holding them […]

“The Young and the Restless” will air its 10,000th episode on Sept. 27

September 21, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

In an era when long-running daytime dramas seem to be getting the axe in favor of more lifestyle-oriented series, a few stalwarts remain. Chief among these is CBS’ The Young and the Restless, which the network has wisely not been tinkering with up to this point, and for good reason — it has been the No.1-rated daytime drama for more than 23 years. As it approaches its 40th anniversary next March (it premiered March 26, 1973), The Young and the Restless will also be hitting another milestone this coming Thursday, Sept. 27, when it will air its 10,000th episode. In the […]

“Days of Our Knives” programming block brings iconic soap stars to Investigation Discovery

August 22, 2012 Lori Acken

Happy news, soap fans! Josh Lewis and Reva Shane are coming back to daytime TV! And John Black and Hope Williams Brady, too (aw, no Bo?)! And Jack Deveraux, Scotty Baldwin, Bobby Spencer, Lucy Coe and other iconic faves. And they’re all on the same channel, too! OK, the actors who played those iconic soap characters are back — as hosts of Investigation Discovery’s new five-week daytime programming block “Days of our Knives” which premieres Monday, Aug. 20 at 1pm ET/PT. Recognizing that we ladies are crazy about the net’s original true-crime programming — and hoping to lure devoted daytime fans eager to […]

TCA recap: TNT’s “Dallas” – Hagman, Duffy and Gray all return

January 15, 2012 Lori Acken

TNT exec Michael Wright began yesterday’s TCA session for it’s upcoming revival of the beloved ’80s series Dallas by gently taking journos to task over the words we’ve been using to describe it. “Dallas is not a remake,” he said. “It is not a reboot. It is a continuation of the story of the Ewings.” Those of us who’ve seen the pilot would be hard-pressed to argue. In the first episode alone, original Dallas alum Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray (“The Big Three,” all regulars on the new series), plus Charlene Tilton and Steve Kanaly were all present. […]