R.I.P. Ellen Holly — First Black Person to Star in a Daytime Soap Opera Dies at 92
Ellen Holly, the first Black person to star in a daytime soap opera, has died. The beloved "One Life to Live" actress who played Carla Gray was 92 years old.
Ellen Holly, the first Black person to star in a daytime soap opera, has died. The beloved "One Life to Live" actress who played Carla Gray was 92 years old.
Susan Lucci says "Pine Valley" has been delayed due to COVID when asked for an update on the potential primetime spinoff of "All My Children."
Susan Lucci will appear on the Friday, April 30 episode of "The Dr. Oz Show." She'll be discussing vaccinations, seeing her 104-year-old mother in person, and "Pine Valley," the "All My Children" primetime reboot currently in development at ABC.
"All My Children" alums Kim Delaney and Alicia Minshew are open to reprising their roles on "Pine Valley," ABC's primetime reboot currently in development.
Former "All My Children" star Mark Consuelos talks for the first time about ABC's primetime reboot of the iconic daytime soap opera, tentatively titled "Pine Valley." Find out what he had to say.
Today would have marked "All My Children's" 51st birthday, and thankfully there's a bright future ahead for the soap on ABC.
ABC and PEOPLE present "The Story of Us," a two-hour primetime special airing Tuesday, May 19 at 8:00 p.m. EDT/PDT on ABC.
Susan Lucci says, "There is some conversation about a way to do it," when talking about bringing "All My Children" back to TV. Would you be up for a reboot?
Brandon Stoddard, the former president of entertainment and director of daytime programming at ABC, who is best known for spearheading the launches of such series, specials and miniseries as "All My Children," "Roseanne," "Roots," "ABC Afterschool Specials," "Moonlighting" and "Thirtysomething," among many others, died today at his home in Bel-Air after a long battle with cancer. He was 77 years old.
The official Drama Performer Pre-Nominations for this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards were announced earlier today, and fans of “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” may have noticed something peculiar: Both online versions of the shows were much less represented than their network counterparts.
Had ABC not canceled "All My Children" back in 2011, and Prospect Park didn't decide to cancel it again in 2013, Agnes Nixon's "All My Children" would have celebrated its 44th anniversary today. Susan Lucci, who portrayed matriarch Erica Kane on the soap, was the only original cast member from the first season of “AMC” that had remained with the show without interruption since its debut on January 5, 1970 through its final ABC broadcast on September 23, 2011.
TVGN is proving why it's now the "the new way to watch soaps." With the network already picking up encore airing rights to "The Young and the Restless" this past summer, and "The Bold and the Beautiful" earlier this month, the network plans to provide soap fans with even more "soap" for their viewing pleasure courtesy of the new documentary, "Who Shot the Daytime Soap?" Airing Monday, December 16 at 8:00 PM ET/PT, preceded by airings of…
In the new book, "Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live," actress Ellen Holly (ex-Clara "Carla" Hall) accused former co-star Erika Slezak (Viki Lord Buchanan) of getting her fired off of the ABC soap back in the 1980's. The actress says Slezak used the words, "Get those two black bitches out of my face," in reference to Holly and Lillian Hayman (Sadie Gray) during an anniversary party for the show in 1983. Until now, Slezak had not…
“One Life to Live” is celebrating the 45th anniversary of it’s very first episode, which aired on July 15, 1968, and in honor of the special moment, the suder’s ‘MORE’ show has released never-before-seen footage from two of the show’s iconic stars, Robin Strasser (Dorian Lord) and Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord)!
There seems to be more drama going on behind the scenes over at “All My Children” than there is onscreen. But as Vincent Irizarry (David Hayward) tells Soap Opera Network, that will no longer be the case once the material by the sudser’s new headwriters, Lisa Connor and Chip Hayes, takes center stage.
There’d be no Pine Valley and no Llanview if it hadn’t been for “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” creator, Agnes Nixon. The 85-year-old penned both sudsers and consequently is responsible for putting thousands of people to work over the past 40-plus years. She’s received countless awards for her additions to the genre, most recently receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences during the 37th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2010. And…