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Deep Soap: Suffer The Little Children
Sara A. Bibel blogs: "You know how it goes. Your brother-in-law comes to town for a visit. You introduce him to your hot new girlfriend. After a couple glasses of wine, one thing leads to another and you get out the turkey baster. Nine months later he’s delivering your baby in the midst of a tornado and you realize you forgot to tell your sister her husband is your baby’s biological father. Oops. Of all the stories ALL MY CHILDREN could have told about daytime’s only lesbian heroine, this is the one they picked."

A Groundbreaking Proposal on AMC
ALL MY CHILDREN has a daytime first on Friday, Oct. 31, when Reese proposes to Bianca. "There is a ring that they found in Milan," previews Tamara Braun (Reese) in the Nov. 4 issue of Soap Opera Weekly. As for the location of the eventual nuptials, Erica better start planning a destination wedding.

PATRICK ERWIN: Back to the future
"For me, the show that virtually SCREAMED 'bring me back' for the last few years was EDGE OF NIGHT. Think about it: mysteries are some of the highest-rated shows on the air."

BOSTON GLOBE: "The most satisfying soapy pleasure on TV right now is DIRTY, SEXY MONEY"
Joanna Weiss opines: "90210? Grow up, people. The most satisfying soapy pleasure on TV right now is DIRTY, SEXY MONEY. Skip over PRIVATE PRACTICE, by all means. But please get to know New York's rich, depraved Darling family and the people who (sometimes) love them.

NOTE: Former ATWT star Scott Holroyd will appear on tonight's episode.

Who will return for the MELROSE PLACE remake?
Heather Locklear? Grant Show? Probably not Marcia Cross or Doug Savant.

Hulu celebrates one year today
The site has grown steadily, providing 142 million streams to 6.3 million unique viewers in September, Nielsen Online reported last week. Hulu is now the sixth-most-popular online video brand in the United States, surpassing the online video networks operated by ESPN, CNN, MTV and Disney. (It ranks far below YouTube, which streams 20 times as many videos as any other brand in the United States, and behind sites owned by Yahoo, Fox, MSN and Nickelodeon.)

Hulu recently began showing 1991 episodes of ANOTHER WORLD (where SOAPnet left off) and 2007 episodes of AS THE WORLD TURNS and GUIDING LIGHT.

"Ghost" on Y&R
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS has tentatively scheduled the use of independent musician/composer Robert Kramer’s, “Ghost In My House” for inclusion in the Halloween 2008 Episode # 9012, Airdate: 10/30/08.

Back to glam Eva Longoria dumps her frumpy DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES look
Eva Longoria plays a frumpy mother of two in the hit show Desperate Housewives, but the actress was back to her glamorous self on a night out in LA yesterday.

The star, who sparked pregnancy rumours after gaining weight for Gabrielle Solis's latest storyline on the show, looked in amazing shape as she arrived at her Hollywood restaurant Beso in a form-fitting little black dress.

Reilly remembered at Shangri-La Tea House
"In a memorial gesture for the recently deceased DAYS OF OUR LIVES writer, James E. Reilly, we turned over the three-minute hourglass and let our pot of Northern Blue Star blueberry herbal tea ($4) steep in reverent silence."

ATWT's Schulenburg in "Angel Eaters"
Marnie Schulenburg will star in "Angel Eaters" from November 3 until November 21 at the Wings Theater, located at 154 Christopher Street in New York City.

CORRIE's William Roache almost has the world record for continuous run on a TV show
That record belongs to an American actor called Don Hastings who has played Bob Hughes on the American soap, As The World Turns, since October 1960, two months longer than Bill has been playing Ken Barlow. There are two other actors that have played their characters longer but both women have not been continuous in their portrayal. Eileen Fulton, who has played the much married Lisa on the same soap since May 1960, has left the soap three times over the years. Helen Wagner beats them all, having played Nancy Hughes, "Bob's" mother, again on the same show, since April 1956 but was only on the show sporadically over a five year period in the 1980s.