Celebrating 26 years as daytime’s most watched drama series, “The Young and the Restless” is hotter than hot as it gets ready to kick off a new year of jaw dropping twists. In a newly released promo highlighting some of the things television critics have been saying about the soap opera, CBS touts the series as “explosive.”
To kick off 2015 in style, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will air all-day marathons of several programs during the month of January including “Hart to Hart,” “Diagnosis Murder” and “Murder, She Wrote.” The network will also air marathons of its popular original mystery movies, including Kellie Martin‘s “Mystery Woman” series.
When it looked like “General Hospital’s” Sonny Corinthos would finally be paying for his crimes as he was set to serve some serious jail time for the murder of AJ Quartermaine, it looks like he’ll soon be released after time served with word that actor Maurice Benard has signed a new deal with the daytime drama series.
DIRECTV and The Walt Disney Company gave subscribers of the top satellite provider an early Christmas present with word that the two companies have reached a new multi-year deal that’ll provide high quality entertainment to millions of viewers via DIRECTV Everywhere and Authenticated WATCH Services. The deal with DIRECTV concludes Disney’s negotiations with the top ten pay-TV providers.
“One Life to Live” alum Tuc Watkins got into a heated online exchange with “Modern Family” actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson on representation of gays on hit show.
On Sunday, December 14, “The Young and the Restless'” Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman) took to Twitter to announce that she had been “incapacitated” with a serious reaction to a medication she had been prescribed for a sinus infection. As a result of taking the medication, Scott said she returned to work after six weeks of “misery, a brief hospital stay, and have turned to alternative remedies, as the medical community had nothing to offer me.” On Monday, December 22, Scott posted an in depth essay titled “Prescription for Madness,” which details the ordeal the actress said began on November 13.
As it prepares to close out 2014, which included the series enders of such noteworthy programming as “True Blood,” “The Newsroom” and “Empire,” HBO has released its annual year-ender video that teases what’s to come in 2015 to the premium cable network.
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.
Tuesday, January 6 is the day fans of OWN’s Tyler Perry‘s “The Haves and the Have Nots” have been waiting for: the much anticipated third season of the popular drama series premieres with all new episodes. In clips released by OWN highlighting the new season, the primetime soap promises that being bad never felt so good.
Best known for helming CBS’ “Love of Life” for nearly three decades, veteran daytime director Larry Auerbach died on Saturday, December 20 in La Jolla, California from complications of glioblastoma. He was 91 years old.
