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News & Cast Updates(News section last update March 25, 2024)Ron Harper, ‘Land of the Lost’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ Actor, Dies at 91(3/25/24) (hollywoodreporter.com) Ron Harper, who starred on Planet of the Apes and four other short-lived primetime series and on the final season of the beloved kids TV show Land of the Lost during a very busy 15 years on television, has died. He was 91.Harper died Thursday of natural causes at his home in West Hills, his daughter, Nicole Longeuay, told The Hollywood Reporter. After understudying for Paul Newman on Broadway, Harper portrayed Det. Bert Kling alongside Norman Fell, Robert Lansing, Gregory Walcott and Gena Rowlands on the 1961-62 NBC cop show 87th Precinct, based on the novels of Ed McBain. He played Jeff Conway, the husband of Connie Stevens’ character, on the 1964-65 ABC sitcom Wendy and Me, also starring George Burns, who produced the show and appeared as the owner of the apartment building in which the young couple lives. Next up for Harper were turns as the son of Jean Arthur’s lawyer — they both portrayed lawyers, in fact — on CBS’ The Jean Arthur Show in 1966 and Lt. Craig Garrison on the World War II-set Garrison’s Gorillas, which aired on ABC in 1967-68. All four never made it to a second season, with 87th Precinct lasting 30 episodes, Wendy and Me 34, The Jean Arthur Show 12 and Garrison’s Gorillas 26. In 1974, Harper finally seemed to have a hit on his hands when he landed the role of astronaut Alan Virdon on CBS’ Planet of the Apes. The series, after all, had come on the heels of the five Planet of the Apes movies and starred Roddy McDowall, who was in four of the films, as a chimpanzee. However, the high-cost show, which also starred Jim Naughton as an astronaut, performed poorly in its Friday night slot and was canceled, with just 14 episodes airing. “Our Planet of the Apes stories degenerated into The Fugitive with fur. I think that’s one of the things that curtailed what should have been a longer run,” Harper said in an interview for Tom Weaver’s 2008 book, I Talked With a Zombie. Harper then joined Sid and Marty Krofft’s Land of the Lost in 1976 for its third and final season, stepping in for Spencer Milligan to play the family’s Uncle Jack on the NBC sci-fi show. He was on just 13 episodes, but those showed up often in repeats over the years. “The stories were very good,” Harper said in 2005. “Each generation of children as they come up and are exposed to it like those stories and remember them, pass them right on. I have about three tapes, and I’ve been showing them to my daughter since she was 5. And she still, of all my series, loves Land of the Lost best.” Ronald Robert Harper was born on Jan. 12, 1933, in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh. He graduated from Turtle Creek High School and earned a scholarship to Princeton University, where he did two seasons of summer stock. He then was offered a fellowship to Harvard Law School. “I kept saying to myself, ‘Should you waste your good education being an actor?’ And that little voice within me kept saying things like, ‘What do you want to take that fellowship to Harvard Law for? Be an actor. Starving is fun,’” he said in 1966. “And like the fool that any actor has to be, I listened to that dumb little voice.” He studied with Lee Strasberg, served in the U.S. Navy and in 1959-60 was Newman’s understudy in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Elia Kazan. He got to play opposite Geraldine Page four times one week when Newman was ill. “In my last performance of it, I saw Paul in the audience,” he recalled in 2015. “If he was not feeling too well, he was feeling a little bit better. He was a wonderful, sweet guy. I think he probably felt generous enough to say, ‘Let Ron do one or two of the performances.’” After that, he appeared on installments of such shows as Tales of Wells Fargo, Thriller, Wagon Train and The Tall Man before landing on 87th Precinct. Harper returned to Broadway in 1972 in 6 Rms Riv Vu and did lots of soap operas, among them Another World, Loving, Capitol, Generations, Where the Heart Is and Love of Life. His résumé also included the movies The Wild Season (1971), The Odd Couple II (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001) and TV guest stints on The Big Valley, Remington Steele, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Walker, Texas Ranger, The West Wing and Cold Case. In addition to his daughter, survivors include his son-in-law, Daniel; granddaughters Ronnie and Harper; and ex-wife Shirley. His first wife was actress Sally Stark. Talk Show Appearance(11/19/23) The Talk - CBSAIRING Nov 22, 2023 Actress Teri Hatcher Trailer for How to Fall in Love by the Holidays(10/31/23) Watch a trailer for How to Fall in Love by the Holidays, starring Teri Hatcher and premiering this Friday, Nov. 3 on The Roku Channel: Video.Soap Opera Digest Is Ending Its Weekly Print Edition(10/27/23) The weekly print edition of Soap Opera Digest — the newsstand chronicler of daytime drama — is ending after nearly five decades.Staffers were informed of the decision Friday, according to sources. A spokesperson for a360Media, the company that owns the brand, confirmed that the weekly edition is being discontinued. The company plans to continue publishing special print issues of Soap Opera Digest four times per year. “Soap Opera Digest, like many other brands, is adjusting its print frequency and shifting more resources to digital to better accommodate its audience,” the a360Media rep said in a statement to Variety. Soap Opera Digest was first launched in 1975. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought the publication in 1989 for $70 million before selling it two years later, per the New York Times, and it has had a succession of different owners ever since. In its heyday, the magazine had a circulation of 1.5 million in 1991, according to the Times. But the reach of its print edition, as with many magazines, has sharply fallen off in the decades since. According to its website, Soap Opera Digest is “the leading magazine reporting on the soap opera industry for over 40 years,” serving up “behind-the-scenes scoops and breaking news to passionate soap fans every week.” The mag also has included special editorial features on beauty, fashion, parenting, and health and fitness. Soap Opera Digest has been available in print and digital subscription plans, priced at $45.97 for six months (26 issues at $1.77 apiece) or $69.97 for one year (52 issues at $1.34 apiece). A360media houses a media portfolio of celebrity, entertainment and women’s lifestyle brands including Us Weekly, Star, InTouch and Life & Style. The company claims that it is the largest print publisher in the U.S., both in retail sales and units sold, with its titles representing about one-third of all magazines sold at retail. A360media was formerly known as American Media Inc., which had been the owner of the National Enquirer (involved in the “catch and kill” scandal involving Donald Trump and which Jeff Bezos accused of an extortion attempt). In 2020, AMI was acquired by Atlanta-based logistics firm accelerate360, which sold off the National Enquirer, Globe and National Examiner tabloids earlier this year. Holiday Movies with Soap Stars on Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix and Others(10/13/23) HEART FOR THE HOLIDAYS - BET+Release Date: Thursday, Nov. 2 Cast: Erica Peeples, Kyle Lowder, Starletta DuPois, Chuck Inglish, Lanelle Cooper, Leila Weisberg and Asia Harmony Premise: Hardworking businesswoman Rachel travels to the small town of Cheverly for a life-saving heart transplant. Fate connects her with a heart donor, Ms. Sims, who tragically dies in a car accident. In Cheverly, Rachel crosses paths with Amy, who also received an organ from the same donor. As Rachel attempts to leave the town, an inexplicable force keeps her bound to Cheverly, and she discovers a deep affection for the community. Amid her journey, Rachel unexpectedly falls in love with Scott, Amy’s brother. SWORN JUSTICE: TAKEN BEFORE CHRISTMAS - BET+ SO FLY CHRISTMAS - BET+ CHRISTMAS RESCUE - BET+ ‘TWAS THE TEXT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Great American Family A CHRISTMAS BLESSING - Great American Family A PARIS CHRISTMAS WALTZ - Great American Family A ROYAL CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - Great American Family CHECKIN’ IT TWICE - Hallmark Channel WHERE ARE YOU, CHRISTMAS? - Hallmark Channel UNDER THE CHRISTMAS SKY - Hallmark Channel MYSTIC CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel JOYEUX NOEL - Hallmark Channel THE SANTA SUMMIT - Hallmark Channel A MERRY SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel HAUL OUT THE HOLLY: LIT UP - Hallmark Channel A BLITMORE CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel CHRISTMAS WITH A KISS - Hallmark Channel CHRISTMAS ON CHERRY LANE - Hallmark Channel MYSTERY ON MISTLETOE LANE - Hallmark Movies & Mysteries A WORLD RECORD CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Movies & Mysteries HEAVEN DOWN HERE A CHRISTMAS FREQUENCY - Hulu LADIES OF THE ’80S: A DIVAS CHRISTMAS - Lifetime BEST. CHRISTMAS. EVER! - Netfilx HOW TO FALL IN LOVE BY CHRISTMAS - Roku YULETIDE THE KNOT - Uptv
William deVry & Teri Hatcher Star in a Romantic New Holiday Movie!(9/19/23) (Trailer) Fans who miss seeing William deVry in daytime will be able to enjoy the actor as he stars in the romantic new holiday film Christmas at the Chalet opposite Teri Hatcher! “Who knew?” the actor teased as he shared the movie poster on his Instagram. “Rom-com with Teri Hatcher and the other dude. Christmas at le Chalet. Okay… the Chalet.”The movie centers around ex-TV host and socialite Lex (Hatcher) finding herself sharing a luxury chalet with her son, ex-husband, and his new girlfriend. But after a problem with her reservation, the only way she can stay in the chalet is to work there. However, she soon finds herself documenting this new stage of her life for a rapidly growing group of online followers and also sparking romance with the chalet’s owner, Eric, played by deVry. After a brief appearance as Tim Dolan on PORT CHARLES in 2002, deVry became well known to daytime viewers as the villainous Michael Cambias on ALL MY CHILDREN from 2003-04, earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his work. He then moved over to CBS to take over the role of Storm Logan on THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL from 2006-08. In 2013, deVry began playing Derek Wells on GENERAL HOSPITAL, a character who was soon revealed to be the presumed-dead Julian Jerome. Loyal fans were saddened when the soap killed off the character in 2020. In addition to his work in daytime, deVry has appeared in primetime shows like INSECURITY, NIKITA, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, HEMLOCK GROVE, CASTLE, and NCIS: LOS ANGELES. There is currently no official release date for Christmas at the Chalet, but it’s more than likely to be sometime in December in time for the holiday season. There is also no information as to where this production from writer Julia Cranney and director Lucie Guest will air, but it’ll probably be Lifetime. ‘Desperate Housewives’ staffers avoided making eye contact with Teri Hatcher on set, writer claims(8/29/23) Teri Hatcher allegedly contributed to an already-icy environment on the set of “Desperate Housewives,” according to a former staffer.“The writers weren’t barred from the set, but we weren’t exactly welcome,” Patty Lin, who worked on Season 1 of the hit ABC show, claimed in her new book, “End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood.” “Usually we’d only see the cast at table reads, where we’d sit quietly in the back and try not to make eye contact with Teri Hatcher.” Lin did not elaborate on why staffers didn’t make eye contact with Hatcher, and reps for the actress did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment. This is not the first time there has been negative claims about one of the show’s leading actors. In 2019, creator Marc Cherry alleged in a legal letter in support of Felicity Huffman, who was awaiting sentencing for the college admissions scandal at the time, that she was polite to a “big star” who displayed “big behavioral problems” on the “Desperate Housewives” set. “Everyone tried their darndest to get along with this woman over the course of the show. It was impossible,” he wrote — without naming the actress. “And things went from bad to worse. Felicity still insisted on saying, ‘Good morning’ to this actress, even though she knew she wouldn’t get a response. I found out about this and asked Felicity about it.” Cherry further claimed that the unnamed actress was “determined to be rude.” Aside from Hatcher, 60, and Huffman, 58, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan and Marcia Cross starred on the hit series, which lasted for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012. Lin also claimed in her book, which hit shelves on Tuesday, that Cherry himself exhibited toxic behavior. She wrote that the TV producer and writer showed “overt racism,” citing as an example a time when he compared Lin to comedian Margaret Cho, who is of Korean descent. “One day at lunch, the topic of Margaret Cho came up, and someone mentioned ‘All-American Girl,’ Cho’s short-lived sitcom about a Korean American family. Marc turned to me and said, ‘Patty, you should write a show like that,'” she wrote. “I love Margaret Cho, but please don’t lump us together just because we’re both Asian women in show business.” Lin accused Cherry of telling his staff to “gang bang” a draft without the knowledge of the original writer. “With this wildly inefficient system, it’s a miracle that any episodes of ‘Desperate Housewives’ ever got made,” she added. “The quality that had attracted me to the pilot — the dark humor — was lost in the slapdash, assembly-line approach to what was supposed to be a creative process.” Lin was fired from the series after the first season, which she wrote was “no surprise” after being excluded from multiple writers meetings. “I knew our days were numbered,” she wrote of her and two others who weren’t called in to work. “I had to remind myself over and over that I hated this job and wanted out.” Reps for Cherry and ABC did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.. Dishing with Digest 7/7/23 - Miranda Wilson(7/7/23) (Listen/download) Miranda Wilson reflects on her first run as DAYS’s Megan and comeback decades later, her other soap roles, her life in Europe and more with Digest’s Stephanie Sloane and Mara Levinsky. We also preview the hottest stories coming up on every show.Teri Hatcher and James Denton guest on Fantasy Island(1/13/23) Empty nesters Dolly and Dutch seek clarity on how to spend their next chapter. Meanwhile, Helene helps Ruby tap into her newfound youth. Javier opens up to Roarke as he wrestles with his new role in the all-new “Paymer vs. Paymer” episode of Fantasy Island airing Monday, Jan. 16 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FAN-203) (TV-14 L, S)Cast: Roselyn Sánchez as Elena Roarke; Kiara Barnes as Ruby Akuda; John Gabriel Rodriquez as Javier Guest Cast: James Denton as Dutch; Teri Hatcher as Dolly; Andy Richter as Game Show Host; Alexa Mansour as Helene; Bryan Cid Borrero as Harrison Fantasy Island Season 2 Photos Find Teri Hatcher and James Denton in Desperate Straits(12/16/22) (Pic1, Pic2) Life on Wisteria Lane is nothing compared to what two former Desperate Housewives stars are about to experience on Fantasy Island.Teri Hatcher and James Denton guest-star in the third episode (Jan. 16, 8/7c) of the Fox reboot’s upcoming sophomore season, and TVLine has an exclusive first look at the dangers awaiting them upon their arrival. The TV spouses formerly known as Susan and Mike Delfino are now playing a couple of empty nesters named Dolly and Dutch, who come to the island to “seek clarity on how to spend their next chapter.” But because no island experience goes as the guests expect, Dolly and Dutch soon find themselves as contestants in a twisted game show — hosted by Andy Richter, no less! — centered around their fraught marriage. And with quicksand as the punishment for an incorrect answer, the stakes are ridiculously high. Other familiar faces visiting the island in Season 2 include Rachael Harris, Cheryl Hines, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Brett Butler, Lynn Whitfield, Joely Fisher and Jonathan Bennett. Fantasy Island returns on Monday, Jan. 2 at 8 pm. For Older News Visit The Daytime Soap Operas News Archives: Here!
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