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Sunday, July 10, 2016

NEWS: Kim Matula, Mal Young, Rhonda Ross, Sean Kanan, Tom Degnan

Kim Matula stars in Season 2 of UnREAL. Photo by James
Dittiger Copyright 2016
The Bold and the Beautiful alum Kim Matula savors every salacious minute on UnREAL
“As an actor, I’m not incredibly pleased with the popularity of reality shows,” says Matula, who’s most widely known for her five-year run as Hope Logan on B&B. “As an actor, I want there to be lots of scripted shows — and I want them to be really well-written scripted shows.”

“When I got the audition notice for this show, I watched the first episode and got hooked,” she says. “I just loved it so much that I went and downloaded the entire first season before auditioning."

Local South Dakota would-be stars audition for soap opera roles
Several dozen people went to the Rushmore Mall on Friday afternoon to audition for a walk-on role in one of two CBS soap operas: The Young and the Restless or The Bold and the Beautiful.

KELOLand, the local CBS affiliate, coordinated the casting call as part of regional auditions held throughout July. The local casting committee will select 10 finalists from each region. The national network will select the winners.

New The Young and the Restless executive producer Mal Young loves a vocal audience
“If they weren’t vocal, I would worry, because their opinions count," Young said in the new issue of Soap Opera Digest. "I love that. I encourage that, but then you have to surprise them. You can’t just keep saying, ‘Let’s give them what they want. ‘ We’ve got to give them what surprises them and thrills them.”

How Mal Young got sucked into Y&R
When the pilots he developed with Simon Fuller failed to be picked up, Young found himself approached by Sony to take a look at Y&R. “I was honored to be asked my opinion,” he tells CBS Soaps in Depth. “But also, when I really started to watch it, the quality shone through. I was just sucked into it. To be passionate and be part of the people involved in keeping this thing going, I love it.”

Red Rock coming to BBC1's afternoon lineup
The drama is told from the point of view of the officers from the local Garda station where the men and women there police the surrounding area. This program was originally shown in Ireland in 2015. It is being shown here in double length episodes each weekday afternoon.

Motown progeny (and Another World alum) Rhonda Ross makes her own music
Ross (Toni Burrell on AW) is enjoying spending time, professionally and personally, with her mother, Diana Ross.

“We are working together in a way we never have before,” says Ross, who appears on her mom’s “In the Name of Love Tour,” in the Bay Area this week.

The Bold and the Beautiful star Sean Kanan announces new comedy gigs
Kanan (Deacon Sharpe on B&B) will be taking his stand up comedy act to the Lake Tahoe/Reno/Auburn CA area next week, and the actor/comedian couldn’t be more thrilled. “My routine is getting stronger and stronger,” he beams. “I’m doing more and more material, and working towards filming a half-hour special, hopefully before the end of the year.”

EastEnders character's life is set to be left hanging in the balance (spoilers)
The drama begins when the Beales and Mitchells receive a call to say Ben (Harry Reid) has been involved in a mystery incident, and has been rushed to hospital with critical injuries. Desperate to find out what’s happened, Phil and Ian panic and make their way to hospital - but what news awaits them? These scenes air on Monday, July 18.

Tom Degnan marries Erin Cummings
Tom Degnan (Joey Buchanan on One Life to Live) married actress Erin Cummings over the Fourth of July weekend at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at The University of Notre Dame. The couple was introduced by Christian Campbell (Bobby on All My Children) and his wife, America Olivo.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

NEWS: Alyvia Alyn Lind, Amanda Seyfried, Pierson Fode, Tom Degnan, Jon Hamm, Simon Gregson

Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jennifer Nettles and Ricky Schroder
First look at The Young and the Restless actress Alyvia Alyn Lind as young Dolly Parton
“She is gonna be a star,” raves the country icon of Alyvia Alyn Lind (Faith on Y&R), who plays young Parton opposite Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Ricky Schroder as her parents in NBC's Coat of Many Colors movie. Tons of little girls auditioned, but everyone "knew the right one would show up. The second I saw that little face, I just went, Thank you, God. She was so there; so much light and so much spirit."

Amanda Seyfried joins Showtime's Twin Peaks
The As the World Turns alum will have a big role on the Twin Peaks revival, but her character is being kept under wraps.

The Bold and the Beautiful casting "Alisha"
B&B has issued a casting call for the contract role of “Alisha,” an African-American female, 18-21 years old, who is described as, “assertive, sexy, Midwestern, unsophisticated and beautiful." The role is set to begin in October.

UPDATE: B&B has revised the casting call for Alisha, who is now described as an 18-21 year-old who is Hispanic or Middle Eastern, sexy, Midwestern, unsophisticated and beautiful. The notice specifically asks that nobody be submitted for the earlier casting breakdown.

Pierson Fode's new movie, Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List, now available on iTunes
Incoming NYU freshmen and childhood neighbors Naomi (Victoria Justice) and Ely (Fode) have been in love with each other their whole lives, even though Ely isn't exactly into girls. While Naomi and Ely date others, they create a "No Kiss List” to prevent them from falling in love with anyone else. But, their bond is tested when Ely falls in love with another boy……and unfortunately it’s with the same guy that Naomi is dating.

One Life to Live and As the World Turns alum Tom Degnan to recur in CBS sci-fi drama Limitless
The series centers on Brian Finch (Jake McDorman) — a new character that exists in the same world as the movie’s Eddie Mora (Cooper) — who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary cognitive abilities to solve complex cases for them. Degnan will play Agent Ike, a physically fit FBI agent in charge of watching over Brian (McDorman).

Will Jon Hamm finally win an Emmy?
The Mad Men star, who has gone 0 for 7 in the lead actor category, has two more chances to win an Emmy on Sunday (as lead actor and as a producer on Mad Men). Hamm has already lost an Emmy this year for guest role on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Three more advertisers bail on The View over the nursing controversy
Party City, Snuggle and McCormick spices have joined Johnson & Johnson and Eggland's Best in pulling their ads. In a Facebook posting, McCormick said: "Like you, we also value and admire nurses, so we have paused advertising on the daytime television show."

How to Get Away with Murder is coming to Netflix
The first season became available on Friday.

How We Went From Television's Golden Age to 'Peak TV' Blues
There will not be enough hours in 2015 to watch all the TV you want to see in 2015. It's not humanly possible. If you give each of your eyeballs its own screen, then wire another screen directly into your cortex for a third rail, you'd still run out of time.

TV now is overstuffed, underdeveloped and crying out for must-watch shows
There will be more than 400 scripted television shows this year, and there is no way that any human could reasonably watch all of them. The result is a market absolutely glutted with programming, and an audience that increasingly falls into niches—cult comedy, primetime soaps, shows aimed at black audiences, shows for teen girls. Even though this drives down overall viewership of any one thing—and even though making money off of these shows is a confusing and at times faulty process—networks, new and old, keep churning out television.

Coronation Street star Simon Gregson to take 'extended' break from soap due to illness
Gregson is to leave the soap opera for up to three months as he battles a mystery illness. A source within the soap told the Daily Mirror that Gregson had decided to take "a bit of time out" and that he has support from his fellow cast and crew members. Gregson has played the character of Rovers Return landlord Steve McDonald in the primetime soap since 1989.

Monday, May 21, 2012

WE LOVE SOAPS TV 3.44 Ellen Dolan & Tom Degnan Reunite & Talk AS THE WORLD TURNS, EMPIRE, Reserved For Rondee & More

Love Out Loud VII, an annual event sponsored by We Love Soaps and Poz magazine, was held on Wednesday, May 16 at Prohibition in New York City. It's an AIDS Walk NY fundraiser: the hosts, the sponsors, and (this is truly wonderful) the celebrities are all donated their time to the cause!

In the latest episode of our web series, WE LOVE SOAPS TV, we reunites former AS THE WORLD TURNS stars Ellen Dolan and Tom Degnan who share their thoughts about the soap.

Dolan also previews her work in front of and behind the camera for the upcoming season of EMPIRE as well as her next film, being shot in Iowa.

Degnan is still playing in a band with former co-star Billy Magnussen, Reserved For Rondee.  Their next show is June 6 at Mercury Bar in New York City.

Watch our latest episode below.