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News, Cast Updates and Scoop(News section last updated March 2, 2026)What’s Coming Up for Soap Couples in March on ‘GH,’ ‘Y&R,’ ‘DAYS,’ and ‘B&B’(3/2/26) (swooon.com) As winter’s chill begins to fade, the soaps are just getting warmed up. March will deliver passion in all of its forms, from first kisses and steamy encounters to intimate confessions that will change everything.Secrets will be revealed, past wounds reopened, and several couples will find their bonds pushed to the brink. Here is Swooon’s exclusive look at what’s coming up on The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. The Bold and the Beautiful Ivy Forrester (Ashleigh Brewer) pulls the puppet strings for Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace) and Will Spencer (Crew Morrow). R.J. Forrester (Brayan Nicoletti) can’t stop thinking about Electra. Dylan Shaw (Sydney Bullock) confides in Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) about Will. A couple shares a first kiss. A couple makes love for the first time. Days of Our Lives Cat Greene (AnnaLynne McCord) pulls EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) into a kiss. Gabi Hernandez (Cherie Jimenez) and Philip Kiriakis (John-Paul Lavoisier) say “I love you” to each other for the first time. Tate Black (Leo Howard) suggests Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) take a pregnancy test. General Hospital Carly Spencer (Laura Wright) and Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) come to an understanding. Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst) talks about a future with Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst). Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Justine Turner (Nazneen Contractor) admit there’s something between them. Lulu Spencer (Alexa Havins) and Nathan West (Ryan Paevey) grow closer. Jacinda Bracken (Paige Herschell) tells Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) about her past. Molly Lansing (Kristen Vaganos) opens up to a supportive Cody Bell (Josh Kelly). The Young and the Restless Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and Nikki Newman’s (Melody Thomas Scott) relationship is tested. Holden Novak (Nathan Owens) makes a sacrifice for Audra Charles (Zuleyka Silver). Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) and Claire Newman (Hayley Erin) clear the air. Sally Spectra (Courtney Hope) shares a secret from her past with Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson). Tom Pelphrey Takes on Task of Playing the Most Famous Man to Ever Live — Jesus Christ(3/1/26) (hollywoodreporter.com) (Trailer) The story of Jesus Christ has inspired countless adaptations for stages, pages, sermons and screens big and small. But since this is the year 2026, there’s a new version being readied for podcast audiences just in time for the Easter holiday.Faith Podcast Network will debut a four-part series, The Christ, billed as “an audio epic” and “the first ever full-scale audio dramatization of Jesus’ life across four immersive episodes using cinematic-quality sound, music and performances.” It will feature more than 100 different characters and some high-profile Hollywood names toplined by Task and Emmy-nominated Ozark star Tom Pelphrey as Jesus Christ, opposite David Oyelowo as Pontius Pilot, Paul Walter Hauser as John the Baptist, Courtney Hope as Mary, mother of Jesus, Patricia Heaton as the host and John Rhys-Davies as the narrator. The Christ comes from a creative team that includes writer and director Paul Cuschieri, co-director and producer Mark Ramsey and producer Jim Young. The Christ drops during Holy Week, with the first episode debuting on March 30. A new episode will be released each day through April 2, scheduled accordingly so that the entire series will be available by Good Friday on April 3. The official logline says The Christ will cover “the life, death and legacy of Jesus of Nazareth. Through betrayal, courage, suffering and hope, the series explores how one man’s story reshaped history — and redefined love, authority and sacrifice.” Needless to say, it’s a tall task to step into the shoes of the most famous man who has ever lived. But Pelphrey seems to have arrived at the opportunity at just the right time in his life and career. Engaged to fellow Emmy nominee and beloved TV star Kaley Cuoco, he’s a new father who has only recently started to share more about his life off set. Long considered an actor’s actor, Pelphrey longed to stay in the space of being able to disappear into roles like his acting idol, Robert De Niro. As his profile changed, thanks to critically acclaimed turns in Ozark, Mank and Task, so did his perspective on how to engage with the public as a recognizable actor. He largely credits the shift in worldview to his sobriety, which he revealed on Instagram last October. “12 years sober today,” he posted on Oct. 1, 2025. “Sober by the grace of God. Deeply grateful for my sobriety and the life I get to live because of it.” He wrote more words about it, but the one mentioned above — God — is most necessary for the below conversation with The Hollywood Reporter as Pelphrey opens up on the intimidation of voicing Jesus in The Christ, how some early Shakespearean acting advice from Mark Rylance came in handy while recording his first podcast series and the beauty of being able to wait for “the next thing that just lights me up.” What was your reaction when your reps presented an opportunity to play Jesus in a new podcast? I was so excited. Faith is such a big part of my life, and it has been for a while now. This came to be out-of-the-blue, and I was so excited to be a part of it and tell this great story. Tell me more about your faith. How far back and how deep does it go? I was raised Catholic, and you can still see remnants of the ashes on my forehead from [Ash Wednesday services]. But my real relationship to faith started when I got sober, and that is actually what got me sober. When people talk about sobriety, you often hear the phrase “by the grace of God.” I fully believe that to be true in my case. My life went from chaos into order. Maybe a lot of people can relate to this, but I think of my faith like the story of the prodigal son. You’ve gone astray and get beat up out there. You’re sad, scared and don’t know what to do, so you think you should go home. But instead of getting yelled at, punished or kept at arm’s length, you are received with joy. That’s how it felt for me. To now have an opportunity to be a part of telling a story about Jesus, who I believed saved my life, and for that story to possibly help someone who has felt lost, stranded, sad or scared, is deeply meaningful to me. That was beautiful, thank you for sharing. You get the job, then comes a challenge of finding the voice of Jesus, perhaps the most famous person who has ever lived. Obviously, he sounds a bit like Tom Pelphrey, that’s why they hired you, but how did you settle on what Jesus sounds like? I have to say that there’s a certain size to this that if I thought about it in a certain way, I would’ve been too scared to even attempt it. I’m new to voiceover work, and so regardless of the role, I was already a little intimidated. But I was also very nervous leading up to it. I felt that I shouldn’t try and do too much. And I thought that if I could add to this in any way, I should try and add what it is that I feel like I do best — try and find the most human interpretation of what Jesus is experiencing. That’s part of the power and the beauty of the story — fully God, fully man — and it was interesting to walk through the story by thinking of it more on the fully man side. For me personally, those are the moment in the story that have always touched me the most when Jesus felt and responded like a vulnerable human being. You mentioned being nervous. How did those nerves affect you? I knew I would be saying some of the most famous sayings in human history, and if that doesn’t intimidate you a little bit, God bless, but it intimidated me. This is a slightly different way to talk about it but when I was in college at Rutgers, we got to study at [London’s] Globe Theatre, and it was amazing. It was such an incredible juxtaposition of what we were learning with [Sanford] Meisner and the kitchen sink, and all of that. We learned to stand up tall, use your voice and project. Mark Rylance was still the artistic director there, and he came to talk to our class. At one point, he gave us an example of performance by doing the “to be, or not to be” speech five different ways in a row. He just ripped it, like, whoa. In my mind, what got blown open was how it was this very famous Shakespeare text that is so well known and can, at times, seem inaccessible because it’s so sacred and revered, [that it] became something else. Mark said, “Make everything personal.” He taught us to know what you’re saying and live in the truth of what’s happening. It blew my mind open. To come full circle, I was nervous because [the Christ project] was this very heightened and important role based on something that everybody knows and is familiar with and there’s a presumption that it needs to be said perfectly. I just knew that I would never say it perfectly. When we were about to start, it came time to surrender to the idea that it was never going to be perfect. But what I could offer to the best of my ability was that if I put myself into it, made it personal, said it how I felt it and how it made the most sense to me, we would accomplish the best version of that. Logistically, what was the recording process like? We recorded for four or five days. It was really nice because the recording process allowed us to be in the room with multiple actors at once, so that was a really nice way to play scenes. All of the actors are excellent voice actors, and they are so professional and can talk about the differences between this microphone and that microphone, all of this stuff that I didn’t know about. It was amazing to be in the room with them and be able to ask questions in between takes and learn a little bit of technique. I remember when a light bulb went off when I understood how the less volume you had, the more chance there would be for dexterity within the speech. You can cheat these things because there’s a microphone so close to you. You can literally just get right on top of the microphone and whisper if you want. It’s very powerful and becomes very dynamic. Being in the room with these other actors was so helpful for performance and to build a sense of momentum so that every word, every line wasn’t uttered in isolation in a vacuum. It allowed me to pick up technique, which I’m always trying to do with everybody I work with. What can I steal here? What can I learn here? How can I get better? Was there something you stole that was most impactful or meaningful during the process? Understanding how much more you can play with dynamics in terms of sound, volume and proximity to the mic. I started on stage, and there’s a certain amount of volume and projection needed for that. When you start to work in film and TV, you understand that everything is going to come sit in your lap, and you can whisper and barely move your eyes and everything will be projected. I needed to make that jump in the booth as well. That was definitely something I felt like I walked out of there with on day five that I hadn’t walked in with on day one. What was the most challenging or most emotional scene? The obvious answer is the entire passage on the crucifixion. That was obviously a very intense thing to try and capture sitting on a chair in a booth. We tried to get as creative as we could to try and help that feel a little more impactful, even if that meant standing during some of those efforts, or even doing something as simple as breathing. I haven’t listened to it yet to see how it turned out. How are you with that part of your job, as in listening to or watching your performances? The nice thing is when there’s a lot of space between when you do it and when you might get to watch it. In general, I am not in love with myself and I don’t hate myself, so it’s OK. It’s really useful if you can try and watch it somewhat objectively. You can learn and see where you can get better the next time, which is always the goal. But what happens is when you first do something, you have so much information about it in your head. If I saw a scene on Task a month later, I still remember what we ate for lunch that day or that the scene required six hours of setups. You have so much information about it that you are not able to experience it for the first time or how the audience is experiencing it. But you are able to get that feeling the more time that has gone by. I’ve never once watched myself and didn’t think that there’s a lot of good things I could learn and do better the next time. But I don’t watch it and think, oh, I’m horrible, or anything like that. I feel like I’m getting better all the time, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted. I’m excited to listen to this. There were some challenges of being in an audio booth when you’re meant to embody something very physical, because how do you create that? There were specific things that you would never have to do in any other context. I never have to be on set and act like I’m struggling to lift something or I’m exhausted sitting on a chair. If I’m on set and they want me to do that, I can go pick the fucking thing up and start running up and down with it until I’m exhausted and having a hard time lifting it, and then they can film me doing that. Was the decompression time after work different for this type of project? Credit to the group of people I worked with — and this happens on a great set, too — but, honestly, every day I left in such a great mood. There are times when you work on things, and you can’t help but to feel like there’s an energy that comes and it lives in you. You can feel it. When you get to work in such a way and you’re accumulating that energy in the process of working, you release it and leave happy, even if what you worked on or released was very dark or intense or heavy. This doesn’t happen to me much anymore but when I was younger, I might leave feeling heavy. If you haven’t been able to live through or share that energy, that’s when you feel bad because you’ve cooked up something that is not yours and you weren’t able to get rid of it. It’s an energy thing. This was also lovely because David Oyelowo is one of my good friends. The day before I was going in, I looked at the call sheet and I said to [my wife Kaley Cuoco], “David’s going to be there!” It was my first day and would be the first thing I ever recorded, and thank God it was with David because it just calmed me down and put me in such a great mood. He’s incredible. What a sweet, sweet, good, gentle, beautiful man. Paul Walter Hauser is also a buddy. He didn’t get to be there in person but he Zoomed in and I was able to say hi. It was a great group of people. I’m doing this interview because it’s Tom Pelphrey playing Jesus, alongside other well-known actors like David Oyelowo and Paul Walter Hauser. They could’ve cast famous actors from the faith space but since it is recognizable Hollywood names, this has the potential to travel to a wider audience. Did you think about how it might circulate in the world with your involvement, and was that a motivator at all? There are so many versions of me answering this. I love being an actor, and I will say that for a long time, I really struggled with sharing any part of myself publicly. I really tried to dance around it, partially because of how it made me nervous and partially because of all the insecurities around it. Also, I read an interview once a long time ago with a young Robert De Niro. He was one of my heroes as a young actor. He said that the more people knew about him, the harder it was for him to do his job. I must’ve read that at 17, and it burned into my brain because it’s undeniably true. As an actor like De Niro, which is the kind of actor I’ve always wanted to be, you want to disappear. You want to serve the character. But we don’t live in that world anymore. As much as Robert De Niro was able to do that back then, it’s not the world we live in now. Sharing about sobriety and faith are so personal to me, and it means so much to me. The other thing you notice is when people are sharing things, you could say a word to a thousand people, and a thousand people hear a different version of that word. In all humility, to share something that matters to you, you first have to come to an understanding and acceptance that you’re surrendering how it’s going to be heard or what it means to anyone listening. You have no control over it. That’s been an amazing process to go through. You’re quite new to sharing parts of your life, too. Yes. We were talking about sobriety and the first time I ever shared, on my own, about my sobriety was in the past year. There are a million reasons for that, and part of it was that with sobriety, with faith or getting to do a podcast like this, there came the possibility that at some point, an honest sharing of any of this in whatever humble way I can could potentially help someone or make them feel less alone. That outweighed my fear of being misunderstood. It’s an amazing thing. Once the seal was broken, it felt very freeing. I’m grateful that, like you said, on some level, my participation or David and Paul’s participation would lead you to want to do an article about this. It’s wild. Also, being a dad, you start to think about everything differently. That was beautiful, thank you. And I appreciate you sharing about your sobriety because as someone who has been a fan of your work, seeing you share about your sobriety last year led me to think of your work in a new way. I know how meaningful of an experience it is and how it changes your life. But where do you go from here? How do you follow up playing Jesus Christ? Well, I don’t imagine that I will ever have an experience quite like that again. But I will tell you that I will do the same thing that I always do. I wait patiently for the next thing that just lights me up. Honestly, right now, I’ve been waiting for a long time but there are some things coming that I’m really excited about. That in and of itself is such a blessing. You want to talk about life-changing, 12 years ago, I was just hoping for a way to pay my rent. I’m not able to wait forever now, but I can sit back a little bit and be a dad and I don’t need to work immediately to pay my bills. I can wait for things that really move me or speak to me. The longer I am in my sobriety, the deeper I am in my faith, the more I feel that there’s a real power in trying your best in all ways to be of service. I want to be like that as an actor, too. When I read something, if I feel like I can bring something special to it or help it come to life in a very unique way, then I go for it. I felt that way when I read Task because I felt like I could be of service to something bigger than me, and that’s where I want to live these days. I don’t feel that way all the time, so I wait until I do. What a perfect way to tend. But I do have one more quick question because looking at you, you’re giving a little bit of Jesus today with the longer hair and the beard. Have you thought about letting it grow so when the podcast drops, you sound like Jesus but look a little like him, too? As tempting as that might seem on some level, the last thing we need anybody thinking is I’m like Jesus in any way. I am a very poor, poor, pale imitation. But Jesus is somebody I’m trying to be more like. Like we say, it’s progress, not perfection. The Christ is for free to listeners and can be found on all podcast platforms as well as TheChristPodcast.com. Ashleigh Brewer is Pregnant with Her First Baby(2/16/26) (soapoperadigest.com) Bold and Beautiful star Ashleigh Brewer (Ivy Forrester) revealed some very special news over Valentine’s Day weekend: She is pregnant with her first child! The actress and her husband, Mark Bauch, are poised to welcome their new addition, a baby girl, in May. She opened up about her courthouse wedding, pregnancy and more in a revealing new interview with with Something to Talk About, a podcast based in her native Australia.After a two-year engagement, Brewer and Bauch tied the knot in Santa Barbara in December 2025. The actress explained, “We just couldn’t quite figure out how to do a wedding, where to do it. He’s English, I’m Australian. We both live in L.A. We have a great, amazing, large group of friends here in L.A. as well. So, we’re like, ‘Oh my god, how would we even do this?'” Discovering that she was expecting lit a proverbial fire under the couple, and in just 9 days, they planned and executed their intimate courthouse ceremony. “It was just the most picturesque, most fun day,” beamed the newlywed, who wore a pregnancy-friendly white silk dress from Bumpsuit as her bridal attire. “I had the day off work, so we were like, ‘Let’s just go,’ and it was amazing,” Brewer summed up. Now, entering into her third trimester, Brewer felt like the time was right to share her pregnancy news with the world. “It wasn’t that I was, like, really keeping it a secret or anything. It was just nice being in the bubble of a pregnancy bubble and no one really knowing,” she mused, noting that she’d been quite sick in her first trimester. She has also, of course, been working on B&B throughout her pregnancy. “Working pregnant is such a gift because I get to not think about being pregnant for a really long stretch of time, but we cover the bump and it’s just lovely to be in a zone every day of, you know, working and then the weeks go fast and the weekends roll around and I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s a baby coming soon.'” Brewer admitted that she was a bit nervous letting her B&B boss, Executive Producer/Head Writer Brad Bell, know that she was with child, given that “my storyline had just started ramping up on the show after being around for quite a while again.” But Bell had a heartwarming reaction. She recalled, “He basically just gave me a high five and a hug and he said, ‘Congrats.’ And I’ve not stopped working since I told him. And I just feel so supported by him and by the whole production. I mean, I’ve known these people for 12 years. So to be pregnant with them and they’ve known me since I was about 22, it’s just so special.” Because Ivy is not pregnant in the storyline, the show has been doing its best to conceal Brewer’s growing bump, and Brewer shared that “in between action and cut, I really, truly forget that I’m pregnant! [But] I’ll have directors whisper in my ear being like, ‘Honey, you’re you’re just rubbing your tummy,’ which is a new thing that’s started because I’ve popped quite a lot now.” On Instagram on February 14, Brewer posted a photo of herself displaying her bump with the caption, “ We are so excited!!” Denise Richards Signs With Innovative Artists Entertainment(2/9/26) Actress Denise Richards has inked with Innovative Artists Entertainment for representation in all areas.Best known for roles in The World Is Not Enough, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Wild Things, Love Actually, Starship Troopers, and Scary Movie 3, Richards also had starring roles in Madea’s Witness Protection, The Toybox, The Prayer Box, and Money Plane, playing Shauna Fulton in CBS’s The Bold and the Beautiful. Recently, Richards was seen on Bravo’s reality series Denise Richards & Her Wild Things. Previously, she was on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test on Fox and Denise Richards: It’s Complicated on E!, also appearing as a cast member on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for two seasons. Additional television credits for Richards include NBC’s 30 Rock, Spike TV’s Blue Mountain State, NBC’s Friends, FX’s Anger Management, The CW’s Jane the Virgin, CBS’s Two and a Half Men, and ABC Family’s Twisted. She also co-starred in the Lifetime TV movie Blue Lagoon, a remake of the 1980 film. Also an author, whose 2011 memoir The Real Girl Next Door became a New York Times Best Seller, Richards continues to be represented by Vault Entertainment, law firm Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, and Jill Fritzo PR. Wyatt Spencer Back on ‘B&B’? Darin Brooks Says He’s Discussed a Possible Return(2/6/26) (tvinsider.com) Darin Brooks may be starring in a new film, The Roaring Game, out Friday, February 6, but his soap roots are never far from his mind.Brooks launched his career in 2006 on Days of Our Lives as Max Brady, earning a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series, before spending a decade on The Bold and the Beautiful as fan-favorite Wyatt Spencer from 2013-24. A return to daytime? He’s not ruling it out. “The door is always open on my end,” he notes. “I went to see Brad [Bell, B&B‘s executive producer and head writer] a couple of months ago to see the new digs, the new studio. They’re up in Sunset Las Palmas, which is amazing. They’re doing so well, and it’s a bigger studio and a lot more accommodations. It’s really nice to see because then a show can really flourish. So, I talked to Brad a little bit, and we don’t know what’s on the horizon yet, but I’m open to it.” He’d also be on board if another soap came calling. “I would be open to that, too,” he shares. “I’d be open to anything right now. I’m at a place in my life where I want to start doing more and getting back into the swing of things. This movie really lit a fire in my belly to get out there again and hopefully do some fun stuff. I’m back into my acting class again, where I’m getting re-inspired and reinvigorated.” Looking back on his B&B years, Brooks says the experience remains especially meaningful. “My 10 years there were phenomenal and ones I don’t take for granted,” he reflects. “I had some of the best times there and some of the craziest experiences, too. Traveling to different places, like Monte Carlo and Paris, and having so many wonderful memories from being there and just having the opportunities to be able to do that was amazing. It’s the only show that gets to travel abroad and do those kinds of things. And the family there, the whole cast and crew and everybody, I love them, and I miss them.” That strong sense of family carried over to his latest project, where the ensemble was a major draw. “When I found out who was attached to it, I was like, ‘Double yes, let’s do this,’” Brooks shares. “Mickey Rourke‘s in there, and when I was filming with him, I was sitting across the table and pinching myself, like, ‘I’m freaking working with Mickey Rourke right now. This is insane. I’ve seen all his movies.’“ Rourke’s not the only name that appealed to Brooks. “Rob Gronkowski is in it, and we have Justin Chatwin from Shameless,” he adds. “Fivel Stewart plays my love interest; she’s from The Recruit on Netflix, and Eddie Kaye Thomas, who is Finch in American Pie, plays my brother. Antoine Tanner and Paul Johansson from One Tree Hill are in it. We have Jon Stoddard from all the GAC stuff and Hallmark, and then the great William Forsythe plays our dad.” Best of all, the chemistry clicked. “Everybody came with their A game and just created some really fun characters,” Brooks reports. “We didn’t have a bad day on set. Everybody was laughing, and we were cracking each other up. When you have that kind of magic on set where everybody’s just trying to make each other break, you know that it’s going to be a funny film.” (Movie Trailer) In The Roaring Game, Brooks plays Rickey, a former hockey star whose life is derailed by injury, until he finds a second chance when he decides to put together a curling team. For the Hawaii native, taking the ice was a new experience, but one he fully embraced. “We have one skating rink on the whole island of Hawaii; curling is not a thing,” Brooks muses. “But we shot the movie in Rhode Island, and we had a day of training on the ice on one of the weekends before we started shooting with the whole cast and crew, so that people could get used to being in the shoes and being on the ice and getting a feel for everything. By the end of it, we were having a blast. It’s like bowling and shuffleboard on ice. How could you go wrong?” While the film marks a new chapter, Brooks is also waiting for word about a revival of Blue Mountain State, the college football series in which he starred as Alex Moran. “It’s still up in the air,” Brooks reveals. “It’s got a huge cult following. I still get people coming up to me every single day going, ‘Oh, my God, you’re that guy from Blue Mountain State,’ and shoot, that was 16, 17 years ago. It’s kind of the gift that keeps on giving, and I love it. I love hearing people still loving that show and watching that show. It’s back on Netflix and Amazon Prime, so people are starting to watch it again.” And with The Roaring Game in theaters now, Brooks hopes audiences embrace it. “I’m excited,” he enthuses. “I really hope it does well. It’s such a good throwback to those ‘80s, ‘90s comedies — Dodgeball, Blades of Glory, and Kingpin — and it’s got a lot of heart. We have a lot of fun elements in it, and I think people are going to be happily surprised. Hopefully, there’s a newfound appreciation from the people who don’t know a lot about curling. And the Olympics are starting, so the timing is great.”
Actor Jacob Young (ex-Rick, The Bold and the Beautiful), who stars in the independent film A Murder Between Friends (which he also directed), was up for the coveted role. A chance run-in with a pair of Young’s former B&B castmates set in serendipitous motion a call that played a role in his move to Port Charles. “Anthony Geary was a big part of me getting on General Hospital,” Young told TV Insider at a screening in Century City for A Murder Between Friends. “Jonathan was leaving, and [the show] wanted to make sure that they had somebody playing Lucky. Tony had a big, big say in recasting because they didn’t want to recast him [lightly]. Tony had been working with this young guy for so many years. Jonathan had three Daytime Emmys at the time.” Young had gone through an initial casting process and was poised to go on tape in the hopes of landing the role. “The night before [my test], I ran into Ian Buchanan [ex-James, B&B; ex-Duke, GH] and Susan Flannery [ex-Stephanie, B&B] on Franklin Avenue [in Los Angeles]. Susan says to me, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m screen-testing tomorrow for General Hospital.’ “And she goes, ‘What character?’” Young continues. “I said, ‘Lucky Spencer,’ Tony Geary’s son. Susan goes, ‘I love Tony. I’m going to call him.’ So, she called him.” Does Young feel that Flannery’s phone call and discussion with Geary helped tip the scales in his favor? “It definitely did,” Young states. “I don’t think I would have gotten that role without that support.” In 2002, Young won his own Daytime Emmy for playing Lucky in the now-retired category of Outstanding Young Actor in a Drama Series. Just as Jackson has returned to GH over the years, so has Young with B&B. After he returned to the half-hour soap (following the cancellation of All My Children in 2011, the show on which he played JR Chandler), Rick emerged as a more forceful presence at Forrester Creations. Rick wouldn’t hesitate, on occasion, to remind everyone that Stephanie’s firstborn, Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), was, in fact, not a Forrester by blood but rather a Marone, as his father was Massimo Marone (Joe Mascolo), not Eric Forrester (John McCook). “I felt like Rick had been a stepchild for so long,” Young recalls. “I wanted to up him and make sure that he had a voice in the company… Rick had been put down for so many years. I’m not going to play a character that’s not going to speak up for himself.” Young says the show’s writers picked up on Rick’s new attitude and soon, he began seeing Rick standing up for himself in the scripts. “Brad [Bell, head writer/executive producer] and I discussed it, and we ended up moving forward with that angle,” Young shares. “Rick has a fond place in my heart. It was at the beginning of my career. I would not be where I am today without The Bold and the Beautiful. I was 17 when I got the part and didn’t know my head from my toes. I had a really wonderful experience on B&B.” Now, Young’s making movies, and he plans to bring more films to the big screen. His character, Josh, in A Murder Between Friends, is a man who gets together with friends for a college reunion when a murder takes place. “Josh is kind of a wild card,” Young teases. A Murder Between Friends is a playful whodunit/Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, starring and produced by Joan Collins (Alexis, Dynasty; Alexandra, Guiding Light), Young, Trent Garrett (ex-Asher, AMC), Percy Gibson, and Toby-Alexander Smith (EastEnders). The film was shot on location over two weeks at Úsobí Castle in the Czech Republic. Collins stars as Francesca Carlyle, a legendary TV star, who sets out to solve a murder that takes place on her estate. “She’s a mixture of Angela Lansbury and Auntie Mame,” Collins tells TV Insider of her character. “I like murder stories, and I thought A Murder Between Friends was a great idea!” A Murder Between Friends, Now Streaming on Video on Demand Platforms.
The 75-year-old actress is reprising her role as San Francisco socialite Dorothy, aka Dottie, who last appeared on the long-running daytime drama in 2009. At the time, she featured as the friend of the cast matriarch, Stephanie Forrester (played by Susan Flannery). Fairchild is joined by her friend and fellow actor Jim J. Bullock, who also last appeared on the show 17 years ago. Bullock previously portrayed wedding planner, Serge, from 2005 to 2009. He is now set to play the new character, Joseph, Dottie’s gem-inspecting assistant. The guest star roles come as Stephanie Forrester’s granddaughter, Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), travels to San Francisco to pitch Dottie her jewelry line. Fairchild and Bullock make their return in the Tuesday, January 27, episode. The official episode description reads: “During a special fashion show in a San Francisco hotel suite, Steffy Forrester and her cousin Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace) are joined by Dottie, a wealthy San Francisco socialite, and her fabulous longtime assistant Joseph to purchase a Forrester original jewelry item.” In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fairchild opened up about her return to The Bold and the Beautiful and what fans can expect from Dottie 17 years after her last appearance. “The first time I did Bold, God, how many years ago? A long time ago. I remember I was shooting the day Michael Jackson died. So that’s however long ago that is,” Fairchild told the outlet. Fairchild, who also appeared in the soaps General Hospital, Falcon Crest, The City, Flamingo Road, and Search for Tomorrow, noted that Dottie “is still kind of the same!” “In the first scene we have here, I’m coming in to check out the jewelry — as I would. So Jim, as Joseph, is giving me the heads up, like, ‘Oh, that’s fabulous,’ as only he can. So we’re having a lot of fun with it,” she added. Fairchild also spoke highly of the cast and crew, stating, “They really do make you feel like you’re part of the team, even though it’s always awkward coming in when you’re kind of the new kid on the block. Especially onto an established show, especially one that’s this established that’s been going on forever.” The Bold and the Beautiful, Weekdays, CBS, Check Local Listings.
Nicoletti (whose first name is pronounced Bryan) steps into the role previously played by Joshua Hoffman, last seen in 2024. As the son of supercouple Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke Logan Forrester (Katherine Kelly Lang), R.J. is poised to play an integral role in the drama ahead. Nicoletti’s path to B&B began with a self-tape submission that led to an in-person audition with Kaye and Laneya Grace (Electra Forrester), an experience that left the actor feeling optimistic. “The audition went great,” he reports. “Thorsten really took me under his wing, and both of them were incredible. And then the next day, my agents called me and told me that they wanted to cast me.” The timing of the offer couldn’t have been better. “I was actually journaling about the audition when I got the call, so it was very unexpected,” he recalls. “I didn’t know how long it would take to hear back from them, and the rest of the day I was on top of the world.” While he grew up entertaining his family and friends, acting wasn’t always part of Nicoletti’s long-term plan. That changed during the COVID lockdown, when time at home and a steady string of movies sparked a pivotal realization. “I think that’s when the idea clicked that this could be something that I could pursue,” he says. “I remember I went to turn in a paper to one of my counselors, and she asked me what my plans were after high school. I told her, ‘I’ve kind of been looking at this acting thing,’ and she had a nephew that had just graduated from this film school in Los Angeles. She told me to take a look at it, and that led to me moving out here right after high school. They say L.A. is the land of dreams.” Landing a contract role marks a major milestone for the Denver, Colorado native, though the genre itself was new territory. “I hadn’t watched B&B, or a lot of the American soaps,” he explains. “My family is from Brazil — I’m first generation — so growing up, my relationship with soaps were always Spanish soaps. It was more my mom would be watching them, and I’d come into the to grab something, and I’d just kind of watch with her for a little bit when the storylines were dramatic.” To prepare for the role, Nicoletti looked back at R.J.’s limited history on the canvas. “I did all my research beforehand, but once it got to set, it was really figuring out the chemistry and the relationships with everybody,” he explains. “He’s grown into this man who’s really trying to figure out what he values and where his priorities should be.” Despite his unfamiliarity with daytime, Nicoletti quickly found his footing once he got past his jitters. “My first day on the show was pretty nerve-wracking,” he recalls. “It was a little bit overwhelming because I’ve never done anything like that before. I was handed a lot more than I guess I was expecting, as far as scripts and episodes, but I think, luckily, my training had prepared me for that. The first day was really the overwhelming one, but after that, once I realized how not only excited people were for me to be there, but that it really feels like a family on that studio lot, any time I was feeling nervous or questioning if I deserved to be there, everybody really took me under their wing and helped me succeed.” That sense of belonging was reinforced by his on-screen family, including Kaye, Lang, and John McCook (Eric Forrester). “I don’t know if you can ask for two better soap parents to have,” Nicoletti declares. “They’re incredibly generous with their time, but also so talented. Same with John. I first met him on set, and he immediately took me to his dressing room and sat me down, and was asking me questions about how I was enjoying the show and how I got to where I am, and about my family, and he gave me a lot of guidance and advice. I love seeing John on set because I think everybody can learn from him. He’s a ball of energy, and I think it rubs off on people and makes it very exciting to get to work and create something new.” Nicoletti is also energized by the show’s new generation, from Grace to Crew Morrow (Will Spencer) and Sydney Bullock (Dylan). “I think bringing in a younger set of performers and having that young cast on the show adds so many dynamics to it,” he offers. “I’m really excited for what the future holds this year, not only for myself, but just the show in general.” So far, the experience has exceeded expectations. “I have no complaints, honestly,” he says. “I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited to show up to work. It’s so much fun, and I’ve really been enjoying the liberty of figuring out this character for myself and who he is to me and understanding his perspective. There is a sense of play, which I really enjoy, on top of the family aspect. I feel like I’m living out my dream, and every day is a new opportunity to push myself professionally, but also creatively as well.” And as his debut approaches, Nicoletti is focused on honoring the past while carving out something new. “I’m excited,” he enthuses. “There’s a legacy to this character, and to this family, so I want to make sure I uphold that and do the character justice. My main goal is to just be as truthful as I can, do my best to understand the dynamics and the history of the show, but also bring a new energy to it that we might not have seen yet.” The Bold and the Beautiful, Weekdays, CBS, Check Local Listings
Cuoco’s friend, actress Ashley Jones, shared pictures of their close-knit group Wednesday, which includes Lacey Chabert, Ali Fedotowsky and Amy Davidson. The pictures included moments of the group getting together with their kids, solo shots of just the gal-pals, as well as throwbacks of when various members of the group were pregnant. “Mom groups are having a real moment on the interweb this week,” Jones wrote. “Shoutout to my village, without whom I could be very lost and lonely.” “Tag your supportive ride or die mom group!” she continued. “I miss them all this little, but so grateful we had each other during this stage —-and every stage. #lifteachother #womensupportingwomen **not all are pictured, but all who are pictured are loved #momgroup.” Tisdale made waves when she criticized her former mom group in an essay for The Cut. While the “High School Musical” star didn’t name names, fans quickly zeroed in on past pics of her with Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor and Mandy Moore. In Tisdale’s essay, she claimed she was excluded from hangouts from the group, which made her feel “not cool enough” and “lost” as to why she was being left out. The actress, 40, said she eventually texted the group, “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.” But a source familiar with the drama told Page Six that Tisdale is “insufferable,” and that the friend breakup “has been a long time coming.” Members of the mom group have since publicly supported one another on social media. Duff raved about fellow mom group member Janice Gott in an Instagram Story Wednesday, after her husband, Matthew Koma, savagely hit back at Tisdale in a more direct way. Koma posted a fake mocked-up cover of himself on the cover of The Cut, with a headline that read, “A mom group tell all through a father’s eyes: When You’re the Most Self-Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.” Moore then gushed of Koma in an Instagram Story post just hours later, “@matthewkoma happens to be one of the most talented and generous humans I’m lucky to know.” Meanwhile, Trainor humorously shared her surprised reaction while reading the drama online in a TikTok video set to her 2025 track “Still Don’t Care.” “Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” she wrote over the clip she posted Thursday.
The films will focus on “thrillers, women in peril, and event themes with an emphasis on female directors, writers and stars”. According to the partners, the slate includes the recently wrapped Greatest Actress in the World, starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and C. Thomas Howell (The Outsiders), and directed by Lara Daans. Scheduled to film from this month will be Silent Night Fall, which has Stana Katic (Castle), Elisha Cuthbert (24) and Talia Asseraf (Off The Grid) attached, with Danny Friedman directing. On the slate and scheduled for a February shoot is Key To Freedom from writer-director Damian Lee with an attached cast of Denise Richards (The World Is Not Enough), C. Thomas Howell, Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy) and Patrick Muldoon (Marlowe). Also in the works are projects No Free Lunch, written by Jacques Frederick and Jeff Kazanian; Satisfaction, written by Dana Fradkin and Kate Cassidy; The Trout Fisher, written by Jay Brock; Black Friday, written by B Harrison Smith; and Cat On Hot Tin Roof, adapted by Lara Laskin. The films will be produced by Damian Lee and Bennet De Brabandere and executive-produced by Rich Salvatore. Quiver Distribution will handle domestic sales. Red Sea Media will be handling foreign sales. March On Productions is led by Rich Salvatore, the veteran independent producer of more than 80 features including The Comeback Trail and The Big Wedding. Horizon Line principals are Damian Lee and Bennet De Brabandere, whose features as producer, writer or director include Ski School, National Lampoon’s Last Resort, A Dark Truth, Hearts of War and A Fighting Man. Shooting on the slate will take place in Hamilton, Ontario, with local partner Russ De Jong’s North Film Company. Post-production, supervised by Darren Bell, will take place at Rolling Pictures Company in Toronto, which is headed up by George Levai and Michael Forsey.
“Luna is dead,” Bell tells TV Insider exclusively in our 2026 preview. “We all saw it.” He went on to gush about Yamada’s Emmy-winning performance, adding, “What a joy she was to work with and what a wonderful person. She took that character and ran with it, and it was so wonderful collaborating with Lisa.” So there you have it — we’ll miss Luna (and Yamada) on our screens, but knowing the world of soaps, there’s always a chance she’ll return in 2027 or beyond!
While the younger story was fueled, in part, by Luna Nozawa’s (Lisa Yamada) machinations, viewers shouldn’t expect an encore in 2026. “Luna is dead,” Bell confirms. “We all saw it. I mean, Lisa Yamada — wow. And to cap it off with an Emmy and to have her bring levity and that spark in her eye and the unique delivery? What a joy she was to work with and what a wonderful person. She took that character and ran with it, and it was so wonderful collaborating with Lisa.” Behind the scenes, the show’s move to a new studio has opened up creative possibilities that Bell says are already paying off. “It’s amazing,” he notes. “We had a handful of sets at our old stage, and now we have three times the size. I would have to choose to write in certain sets, and now, at any time, I could write 12 sets in an episode. I don’t have to think of what’s on the floor and what needs to be trucked in or trucked out, and the turnover days. It’s just really, really wonderful.” See the new R.J. Forrester, played by Brayan Nicoletti, with Thorsten Kaye and John McCook: Here! The soap also went big visually in 2025, filming on location in Naples and Capri. While no destination has been selected for 2026, Bell is open to traveling again. “I’m sure we’ll be doing a great location,” he offers. “We haven’t decided where that will be yet. Now, we’re just really enjoying our new studio and our bigger space and some new, creative minds that we’ve brought into the mix. I feel like we’re on a roll and it’s been a lot of fun.” Another backstage change includes Casey Kasprzyk, who was promoted from supervising to executive producer in October. “He really runs the booth and so much else,” lauds Bell. “My role has not changed. I look at other shows, and they have five and six executive producers. He’s earned it, and it’s wonderful to have him as an EP.” As 2026 kicks off, B&B will continue to lean into the formula that has sustained it for nearly four decades. “We have new characters, we have some romance ahead,” he teases. “And have a wedding coming up in 2026.” Here’s what’s in store for… Spencer vs. Forrester “We’re really fortifying our families. We’re going to have some fashion drama. The new fashion house [Logan] is well underway, and it’s very exciting to be back in a rivalry, which we did for so long with Forrester and Spectra and other ones along the way. Katie [Logan, Heather Tom] is determined to succeed in her new fashion house, fueled by Brooke [Logan, Katherine Kelly Lang], who’s going to have many issues with her sister doing this. Bill’s [Spencer, Don Diamont] chased Brooke a number of times, but he’s grown out of that. Really, through almost losing Liam [Spencer, Scott Clifton], he’s become not so much about money and toughness, but about leading the family. He wants to be a better Bill. So, it’s great to have the Spencers united as a force, and Ridge [Forrester, Thorsten Kaye] and Brooke united and pitting those two companies, those two families, against one another. This should be a great, fresh new rivalry, and everyone’s going to be wrapped up in it.” Eric Forrester “Eric [John McCook] is going to rebel. He feels like best intentions be damned. He’s the founder of that company [Forrester]. He always felt that he would have a place there until the end, and then to have Ridge wanting to take over, even though he’s been working beside him all these years, it upsets him. Eric is going to find a new avenue to channel his passion, which is design.” Will Spencer, Electra Forrester, Miss Dylan, and R.J. Forrester “Now that Luna is dead, it’s smooth sailing for Will [Crew Morrow] and Electra [Laneya Grace] — but that begins to see some bumps in the road. They know Miss Dylan [Sydney Bullock] is living in her car, so they’re going to find a little place for her to stay at the beach house until she gets her footing and finds that next teaching job. And we will have another Spencer/Forrester rivalry with Will and RJ, so that’s going to be some fun. Years ago, when R.J. and Will were born, we thought, ‘Well, we’re never going to be around to see these guys acting as adults against one another,’ and here we are.” Carter Walton and Daphne Rose “Daphne [Murielle Hilaire] is an incredibly successful woman in fashion and fragrance, but she fell for Carter [Lawrence Saint-Victor], and Carter didn’t see it. Now he sees it clear as day that she is the one who knows him and loves him and understands him, and he is determined to make her his bride. They’re going to get married and want to start a family right away. That’s their path. They’ll have an interesting story as they’re wanting to start this family, and they’ll also be involved in other stories, some interesting, unforeseen plots that are unfolding. We’re going to see a completely different side to Daphne.” Taylor Hayes, Deacon Sharpe, and Sheila Carter “I felt I had to bring the Taylor [Rebecca Budig]/Brooke/Ridge triangle to a conclusion. It’s been decades, and at some point, Ridge can only be in the middle of something without being too cruel for so long. Brooke and Ridge, from year one, have been destined to be together, and Taylor has always been second place with Ridge for most of her life, so I wanted her to find a man who totally appreciates her for the knockout that she is, and it happens with Deacon (Sean Kanan). He’s married to someone who has a very checkered past, and although he believes in Sheila’s [Kimberlin Brown] renaissance, other people, not so much. So Deacon really wants his family back, and it’s a lot to sacrifice to be with Sheila. But Deacon grows so fond of Taylor that he doesn’t want to put Taylor in harm’s way. Right now, Sheila thinks Taylor really saved their marriage — and in a way she has — so she’s grateful to Taylor, but little does she know that these psychiatric sessions have a little heat in them. And when she finds out, watch out.” Steffy Forrester “Steffy will be involved in a story with her mother. Steffy, who has feared for her life and her family’s life because of Sheila, does not want her mother involved with Sheila’s husband. It’s a hard no. Steffy is really determined to protect her family and not allow Taylor to go down this path at all.” Deke Sharpe and Hope Logan “I love Harrison Cone. He’s really special and a great actor. Deke doesn’t care for Sheila at all, along with Hope [Annika Noelle], and that’s a big part of their story, trying to get their dad to leave Sheila. And Steffy’s trying to get Taylor not to get involved, so it’s a family can of worms. Deke also has aspirations to design. He’s going to run into some roadblocks along the way.” The Bold and the Beautiful, Weekdays, CBS, Check Local Listings
Though details about their characters are being kept under wraps, Netflix did share their names. Matula will play “Nadia Kelly,” and FitzAlan is “Lincoln Trout.” The duo joins returning cast Brittany Snow, Malin Akerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, George Ferrier, Karen Rodriguez, Hunter Emery, and Branton Box. Per Netflix, additional cast is still pending announcement. Season 2 of The Hunting Wives is currently in production in the U.S. It will be released exclusively as a Netflix-branded series after the first season landed at the streamer in a bit of an unconventional way. The series was originally developed and produced for Lionsgate TV’s then-sibling Starz before the studio acquired back the rights in the two companies split in May May split. When it was pulled from Starz, Season 1 became a Netflix U.S.-only acquisition in a one-year domestic licensing deal. Created by Rebecca Cutter, The Hunting Wives’ first season was based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb. Season 2 will be an original concept-based continuation of the story. Per the logline, at the start of Season 2, Sophie (Snow) and Margo (Akerman) are on the outs. But soon enough, old secrets and new foes force them back together. As they play their dangerous games, the question arises. Are they the hunters or the hunted? The series is executive produced by writer-showrunner Cutter, Erwin Stoff (The Serpent Queen) for 3 Arts Entertainment and Cobb. Lionsgate remains the studio.
Additionally, original cast member Lori Loughlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm, On Call) is set to reprise her role of Abigail Stanton and will appear in six of the 12 episodes, the network revealed. “Since the series’ debut in 2014, the character of Abigail Stanton was a fan favorite and beloved by the Hearties,” said Michelle Vicary, Head of Programming, Hallmark Media. “At its core the Hallmark brand is about hope, positivity and connection, which is also the central theme of When Calls the Heart. We felt that Season 14 was the right time to continue Abigail’s story with her return to this beloved series.” Based on Janette Oke’s novel When Calls the Heart, the period-set series stars Erin Krakow, Kevin McGarry, Jack Wagner, Chris McNally, Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith. It follows a cultured, early-1900s schoolteacher named Elizabeth (Krakow) who leaves her comfortable world in the city for a new life in a frontier town. When Calls the Heart is an All Canadian Entertainment Production in Association with Brad Krevoy Television and Believe Pictures. Brad Krevoy, Brian Bird, Michael Landon Jr., Joy Gregory, Mike Rohl, Jimmy Townsend, Amy Hartwick, Erin Krakow, Susie Belzberg, and Michael Shepard are executive producers. Vicki Sotheran and Greg Malcolm serve as producers.
B&B also kicks off its 15th season with two new characters. Daytime newcomer Courtnee Draper joins the cast as Erica Lovejoy, a Forrester admirer. Draper has appeared in several films, including The Duke, Hannah and the about-to-be-released The Biggest Fan. On the Disney Channel's The Jersey, Draper played series regular Morgan Hudson. All My Children alumnus Matt Borlenghi (ex-Brian) is also making his way onto the B&B canvas. He'll play Ziggy, Erica's apartment manager. Borlenghi's previous credits include A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, The Jeff Foxworthy Show and Kate's Addiction.
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