Archie Panjabi is departing CBS’ “The Good Wife” when her contract expires at the end of this season, it was announced today. Panjabi portrays Private Investigator Kalinda Sharma on the hit primetime series, which is experiencing some of its highest ratings since debuting in 2009.
As we previously reported, “The Young and the Restless’” Michael Fairman (Patrick Murphy) will be appearing on an upcoming episode of the ABC Family hit “The Fosters,” and Soap Opera Network is bringing you his airdate!
As Soap Opera Network previously reported, former “Passions” and “Desperate Housewives” star Jesse Metcalfe will be appearing on an upcoming episode of CBS’ “2 Broke Girls,” and a photo from his guest appearance has surfaced!
One is a drama, and one is a comedy, but both “How To Get Away With Murder” and “Black-ish” are proving to be quite popular additions to ABC’s lineup — so much so, the alphabet network has ordered additional episodes of each.
They say good news comes in threes, but in the case of “The Young and the Restless’” Wilson Bethel (ex-Ryder Callahan), good news has come in a pair: He not only has landed a spot on ABC’s upcoming drama series, “The Astronaut Wives,” but also closed a deal with the CW to write a new drama for the network!
Goods news for fans of CBS’ current primetime lineup: The network has decided to pick up its original scripted series “Under the Dome” and “Extant” for next summer!
The success of its breakout drama series, “Gotham,” has led FOX to extend the series’ run with an order of six new episodes!
Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group, announced yesterday that they’ve decided to pick up six more episodes of the drama, bringing it to a full 22-episode season. “’Gotham’ debuted as one of the most buzzed-about shows of the fall, and with good reason. Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon have created an incredibly rich world, with characters that draw you in and a cast that brings to life these heroes and villains in a way we’ve never seen before,” said the execs via an official press release. “We are so excited to see where Bruno, Danny and the entire ‘Gotham’ team take this story over the course of this season, and so thankful to all the fans who have embraced it this fall.”
Halloween hasn’t even happened yet, but “The Young and the Restless” fans are already getting one heck of a holiday present: It’s been confirmed that Kristoff St. John (Neil Winters) and Victoria Rowell (ex-Drucilla Winters) will both be appearing in an UPtv film, “Marry Us for Christmas!”
Former “All My Children” star Cameron Mathison (ex-Ryan Lavery) has kept himself very busy as a correspondent for “Extra” and designing a line of children’s clothing with wife, Vanessa, but that hasn’t kept the Canadian away from acting. In fact, he’ll be appearing in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film, “Along Came a Nanny,” which premieres this weekend!
With soap stars Eileen Davidson (Ashley Abbott, “The Young and the Restless”; Kristen DiMera, “Days of our Lives”) and Lisa Rinna (ex-Billie Reed, “DAYS”; ex-Taylor McBride, “Melrose Place”) currently filming the fifth season of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” it was only a matter of time before a network greenlit a new reality series/docu-series comprised solely of the divas of daytime and primetime soap operas.
