Saturday, April 12, 2008

News Brief

Kavin Sacre quits HOLLYOAKS
HOLLYOAKS actor Kavin Sacre has quit the Channel 4 soap after almost six years. Sacre, who is the oldest member of HOLLYOAKS' young cast, promised himself he'd leave the show when he hit the age of 30. Now he plans to pursue other projects and interests which he enjoyed prior to his stint in the Chester-based soap.

Speaking of his decision to quit, the actor said: "I have been here since I was 24 and I turned 30 in March. I decided that once I turned 30 I'd go and explore other avenues. We have a lot of good actors on the show and it's good to see them go on to do great things because people are always saying that Hollyoaks actors are rubbish, which is so unfair and untrue. I'd love to go and do something and people say 'oh look there's Kev, he's doing well and he's one of our lot."

AMC's Thorsten Kaye updated NHL playoff blog
"In playoffs, it’s always one game at a time. Well…one down, fifteen more to go. The boys looked great coming out of the gate last night. Even though I was working, shooting a scene with my friend Cameron Mathison, and one of the execs happened to be on set and we got him to push the Versus feed down to where we could see it. So we were filming, but between takes, we got to see the scores and the replays.

Believe me; I won’t miss this time of year for anything. As a matter of fact, I’ve watched all the games, every one of them. I’ve had to flip back-and-forth between a couple, but I haven’t missed seeing at least part of every single game. My family isn’t exactly loving me right now, but I can’t help it. This is by far the best time of year."

Miss Texas wins Miss USA with Kristian Alfonso judging
Crystle Stewart, 26, from Missouri City, Texas, beat out 50 other aspiring beauty queens on Friday night when she was crowned Miss USA 2008. The judging panel for the 2008 Miss USA Pageant included Kristian Alfonso from DAYS OF OUR LIVES and Kelly Carlson from NIP/TUCK.

"Endless Drama" promotes fantasy baseball
"Endless Drama" represented the first major long-format work outside the traditional broadcast commercial arena for Arnold producer Paul Shannon, whose recent spot endeavors included Volvo television ads directed by Matthew Badger of bicoastal Epoch Films and a Fidelity campaign helmed by Joe Pytka of PYTKA, Venice, Calif.

In this case, doing such justice entailed exploring new talent sources and/or resources. Shannon related that Disney owns ESPN and ABC and "I wanted to see if we could exploit that tie-in. I called the account guys and asked if we could tap into ABC, my original thought being to be able to access the sets of [that network's long running soap opera] ONE LIFE TO LIVE."

That initial intent then blossomed to getting ONE LIFE TO LIVE executive producer/director Frank Valentini to direct the ESPN fantasy baseball soap opera, which was produced by Redtree Productions, Boston and New York.

Interview with DAYS star James Scott
"I prefer to play a bad guy. It's a lot more interesting. You can have a lot more fun, I think. Good guys, their role is pretty clean cut. They turn up, they say the right thing and, generally speaking, they end up running in circles looking like idiots, for the most part. Bad guys always tend to be smarter than that."

VIDEO: Kristian Alfonso on CNBC's BIG IDEA
Kristian Alfonso talks about her busy life as an actress and jewelry designer.

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