Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Hererra and McCouch Returning to ATWT


The evil James Stenbeck, ATWT's all-time villain played by Anthony Hererra on and off since 1980, is returning to the show, and will first appear on August 27th. Now that the cat is out of the bag, I can report that I did see James on the shooting schedule when I visited the studio recently, but couldn't reveal this tidbit until it was formally announced.

Soap Opera Digest is reporting that Grayson McCouch is returning as Dusty Donovan. He will begin taping in mid-August and debut on September 24th. This one is news to me. Dusty died earlier this year, so I'm not sure if this return means Dusty isn't dead or not (ATWT has featured ghost Sofie a lot lately). But he probably is alive since his return is somehow connected to James, the master at coming back from the dead.

Also joining the cast is Benton Greene, whose character will make life difficult for Paul starting August 18th.

With all the talk about budget issues at ATWT, the show certainly has not stopped casting, recasting and casting some more. This has lead to the show being very hit or miss and feeling disjointed from one day to the next.

2 comments:

  1. Let's hope "Dusty" is alive and well. It was a huge mistake to let Grayson go and I hope he will be back permanently. Plus, I really HATE characters coming back as "ghosts" or "visions."

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  2. I'm also hoping it's 'not as a ghost', as something tells me CBS has already realized what they'd lost by letting him go. Say what you want to about Grayson but I believe this is versatile enough to play just about 'any' character out there, one of the 'most under-rated' actors around these days. He sometimes reminds me of Michael Vartan in that ABC doesn't seem to 'know what to do with him either' television-wise, but thank God there's still movies to be made.
    Welcome back McCouch, let's hope it's for an even 'longer' run this time.

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