NEWS: The Queen Is An EASTENDERS FAN; WALKING DEAD Actress Arrested for Sending Ricin Letters to Obama; Double Life of Jason Thompson

WALKING DEAD Actress Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson Arrested for Sending Ricin Letters to Obama
The arrest of Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson, 35, comes two weeks after Richardson contacted the FBI claiming that her husband, Nathan Richardson, had sent the letters last month to Obama, Bloomberg and Mark Glaze, head of a gun-control organization co-founded by Bloomberg.

Richardson, according to a federal criminal complaint, is charged with mailing a threatening communication to the the president. An arrest affidavit says Richardson mailed the letters on May 20. She made an initial court appearance in Texas Friday afternoon. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison.

PRISM of Interest: How TV Drama Anticipated the Data-Mining News
The revelations this week about the extent to which the government national-security apparatus has been data-mining phone records and Internet communications may have come as a complete shock. It may, if you’d seen the reporting on surveillance and data-mining under the PATRIOT Act since after 9/11, may have been less of a surprise, whether or not you’d guessed at the extent.

Or it may have been something you more or less assumed was going on all along, depending on how many primetime spy shows you watch.

The Double Life of GENERAL HOSPITAL's Jason Thompson
Thompson has more than 47,000 Twitter followers, and he interacts with them often on a daily basis about the show, their lives and the intersection of the two. “It definitely opens the door to a lot of communication, which is cool. You hear the good and you hear the bad — if they like you, if they hate you — but that’s all part of it. At the end of the day, it’s the passionate fan that you love, whether it’s a hockey team or a television show. Passion shows that you care about something, which I really dig, because I’m a fan of things too.”

Sometimes, he says, that line can get a little too fine. “Don’t get me wrong — there’s moments that I feel like throwing my phone over the balcony somewhat because of it, but at the end of the day the fans are the whole reason why I have a job and why GENERAL HOSPITAL is still on the air. I owe a lot to the people that support me.” If daytime television is to endure in the age of social media, it will be because of that attitude, and that willingness to engage with fans in a way that other actors on other shows can’t, don’t or won’t.

The Queen officially opened the BBC’s new £1billion HQ yesterday and revealed she is a fan of EASTENDERS
Her Majesty let slip her fondness for Albert Square during a tour around the revamped Broadcasting House, where staff lined up to cheer her arrival.

With Prince Philip, 91, just a few hundred yards away in a London hospital, it was a solo visit.

But the Queen, 87, smiled away as she chatted with stars including veterans Sir Bruce Forsyth, 85, and David Dimbleby, 74.

Hayden Panettiere offered drugs as a child star
The NASHVILLE actress - who shot to fame in daytime soap ONE LIFE TO LIVE at age six - has revealed she resisted offers of illegal substances and booze as a young girl in Hollywood, and credits her family and friends for helping her avoid the same pitfalls as troubled actresses Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan.

REVENGE star Emily VanCamp blogs for Huffington Post: Elephants, Bikes and Gardens: Why I Care About All Three - Especially Today
"Today, on this World Environment Day, a day that celebrates all the courageous and positive environmental actions taking place around the world, I stop to reflect on what being an environmentalist means to me."

Jensen Ackles and Danneel Harris welcome baby girl Justice Jay 'JJ' Ackles
SUPERNATURAL star Jensen Ackles and former ONE TREE HILL actress Danneel Harris have officially welcomed a baby girl to their family.

For HBO, GAME OF THRONES Ratings Second Only to THE SOPRANOS
So far this season, GoT is bringing in 4.9 million viewers with its 9 p.m. Sunday telecasts, up nearly 30 percent vs. last year's average of 3.8 million and basically double the 2.5 million who watched the show Sundays during its inaugural 2011 run.

On Newsstands, Allure of the Film Actress Fades
Even a few years ago, the prize for a magazine editor was in luring an A-list Hollywood star onto the cover. But just as much critical attention has shifted to television from theatrical releases, readers are now more likely to pick up a magazine featuring a television actor, reality star or musician.

Robin Strasser Reacts To ONE LIFE TO LIVE Hiatus
On her hotline, OLTL's Robin Strasser (Dorian) addressed the show's early hiatus. "I got the news that the show was not going to tape today, Thursday [June 6] because of a union dispute, [International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees] the small local [chapter] in Connecticut," she says. "I listened to some really smart people during the day who were saying, 'Well, there's going to be a problem when we come back from the hiatus.' Now, I was already in a state of deep concern and I've been tweeting about feeling off-center but trying to keep it obliquely upbeat. Not untruthful, but just, 'Okay, this seems a little odd, two weeks ago we were told we would close down production on June 15 and then not resume until September 8.' Now, if it is to fine-tune and make the already existing shows that Prospect Park has made of ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ALL MY CHILDREN and make them better and better and better, well that's wonderful and I really look forward to that possibility…. I want to take every opportunity I can to thank the people who've been involved in making the revived ONE LIFE TO LIVE episodes. When you watch them on Hulu and iTunes and they're edited together, they look like movies. They look like these groovy regeneration of the concept of the multi-generational storytelling…. Prospect Park spent a fortune and enormous energy making those shows. So anger placed at them is misplaced. Absolutely misplaced, alright? Those two wonderful men [Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz] have a set up where they can produce shows, entertainment and create jobs and let's all say 'Thank you'. I'm gonna and that's my recommendation." For her full report, call 212-414-5300.