Shari Belafonte may have looked cool, calm and collected during her “General Hospital” debut as Janice Lomax, mayor of Port Charles, on Tuesday, January 19, but inside she was “a wreck,” the actress admitted to Soap Opera Digest. “They threw me into the fire the first day, shooting two shows.”
A long, lost castaway is about to make an appearance on a CBS soap. Hint: She was a passenger aboard the S.S. Minnow. “Gilligan’s Island’s” Dawn Wells, remembered as Mary Ann to fans of the classic sitcom, is set to guest star on “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
Vincent Irizarry debuts as Deimos Kiriakis and Brandon Beemer returns to ‘Days of our Lives’ as Shawn Douglas Brady, this week. Look for both actors and their characters to hit the ground running upon arriving in Salem.
There’s a new doctor scrubbing in at “General Hospital.” Matt Cohen has landed the role of Dr. Griffin Munro. The character makes his Port Charles debut the first week of February.
Ratings Report for the Week of January 4-8, 2016
Ratings Report for the Week of December 28, 2015 – January 1, 2016
Brooklyn Rae Silzer, who plays Emma Drake on “General Hospital,” exits the soap, today, and admits she’s “very sad” to be leaving. Unfortunately, the child star became a casualty, when her TV dad Jason Thompson (Patrick Drake) opted to leave the soap and head over to “The Young and the Restless” to take over the role of Billy Abbott.
With reports that she has opted to leave NBC’s “Days of our Lives” leaking months before she last appears on screen, actress Kate Mansi has taken to social media to explain her decision for leaving the daytime drama series and promises there’s plenty of drama to see as her time as Abigail Deveraux comes to a close.
Actor Michael Weatherly (ex-Cooper Alden, “Loving”) will be departing “NCIS” at the end of this season, the actor and CBS confirmed today. Weatherly, who is only one of four original actors to have appeared in all of the show’s near 300 episodes to date, portrays the widely popular Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on the series.
It’s taken years, but Scrubs fans are finally getting their wish, this week on “General Hospital.” Newly reunited Patrick (Jason Thompson) and Robin (Kimberly McCullough) are getting remarried, and this time they’re going to live happily ever after.
