Lifetime announced last week that it wasn’t moving forward with a third season of “Witches of East End,” reports Deadline. The series followed a new generation of witches based on the book of the same name. Featuring former “Days of our Lives” and “Revenge” actor, Eric Winter, “Witches” ended its second season in early October.
Last week Bravo finally confirmed that “Days of our Lives” and “The Young and the Restless” actress Eileen Davidson had officially joined the cast of the network’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” As viewers get ready to watch all the drama unfold between Davidson and her co-stars, which includes former soap star Lisa Rinna (“DAYS,” “Melrose Place”), TV Guide Magazine has an exclusive look at Davidson’s home.
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” has been entertaining millions of late night talk show fans since debuting earlier this year as an escape from late night talk shows. The premise of the HBO series is that host John Oliver takes a closer look at the happenings of the past week in terms of news, politics and social media, and culls it altogether into one half hour of entertainment that seeks to empower and inform its viewers. In a segment highlighting a “CBS This Morning” report on a device known as the Salmon Cannon, Oliver, who was so in awe of the Salmon Cannon concept, gives viewers insight into the purpose (it helps push the Salmon that typically get caught in hydroelectric dams over said dams) and decided to make his own, which resulted in the flying fish hitting several of television’s biggest stars including “The Young and the Restless'” Sharon Case (Sharon Newman) during a made up “Y&R” scene featuring co-star Joshua Morrow (Nicholas Newman) as the two fight over Sharon’s hidden secrets.
The November Sweeps ratings period is a time where the daytime soaps pull out all the stops to attract new and old viewers with big events, big reveals and big returns. No other soap has all three points nailed down as CBS’ “The Young and the Restless,” which will give viewers another dose of Grace Turner (Jennifer Gareis), now that Mariah (Camryn Grimes) has officially been revealed to be Sharon’s (Sharon Case) daughter, while also giving fans insight into what Sharon’s childhood friend, Amy Wilson (Julianna Morris Polaha), has been up to since last being seen in Genoa City. The soap will also welcome former “M*A*S*H” star Sally Kellerman to the cast in the newly created role of Constance Bingham. To ensure viewers are well versed into the happenings on screen and behind the scenes during this very important month, Soap Opera Network is breaking down who’s coming, who’s going, and when to expect those pesky preemptions we all love (to hate).
Fans have long wondered when “General Hospital’s” contract cast would be a receiving a trimming, as it’s widely known that the series has quite a large group of actors that make up the Port Charles canvas, but it was anyone’s guess whose status would be changed. Soap Opera Network has learned that actors Marc Anthony Samuel (Felix DuBois), Kelly Thiebaud (Britt Westbourne) and John J. York (Mac Scorpio) have all been placed on recurring status. In the case of Thiebaud and Samuel, their status change will be reflected in the on air credits in the coming weeks. York has been listed as a recurring cast member since early October.
It’ll be baby girl number three for “General Hospital’s” Dominic Zamprogna (Dante Falconeri), who is expecting his third child with wife, Linda. “It was a bit of a surprise!” the actor tells ABC Soaps In Depth of being a father again. “Found out it was a girl two weeks ago in a text from Linda saying baby was healthy and to pour myself a drink because it was another girl,” said the actor to Soap Opera Digest. “It’s my goal to make them the best soccer/hockey playing princesses whether they like it or not!”
Ratings Report for the Week of October 27-31, 2014
In the midst of “The Bold and the Beautiful” gearing up for an exciting storyline in Amsterdam, which will begin airing Friday, November 7, the show’s stars Scott Clifton (Liam), Kim Matula (Hope), Ashleigh Brewer (Ivy) and Darin Brooks (Wyatt) dropped by CBS’ “The Talk” to discuss the twists and turns ahead. But don’t fret if you missed the actors’ appearance yesterday: A clip of their visit to the popular talk show has just been released!
“The Young and the Restless'” Steve Burton is sticking around for at least another year as Dylan McAvoy, reports CBS Soaps In Depth. “I’ve re-signed for a year, and I’m very happy!” Burton tells the magazine.
Shortly after Kim Matula shocked the soap world with the news that she has chosen not to renew her contract as “The Bold and the Beautiful’s” Hope Logan and that she has already taped her final scenes, her longtime co-star Scott Clifton (Liam Spencer) took to social media and publicly declared his thoughts on the turn of events.
