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News & Cast Updates(News section last updated April 10, 2024)Andrew Keegan To Star In Soapy PR Drama Series From Horror Actress Devanny Pinn(4/10/24) Andrew Keegan (10 Things I Hate About You, O, Living Among Us) is to star in an indie drama series from horror actress Devanny Pinn.He will play an entertainment titan in The BLVD, which is being worked up as a six-part series set in LA’s hottest boutique public relations agency during awards season. Keegan’s character will be Jake Flynn, head of a rival PR firm that is poised to depose longstanding celebrity publicist Persephone Reed (Kinmont). Also starring in the indie production are Chelsea Gilson (Hawaii 5-0, Black Mass), Jordi Vilasuso (The Young and the Restless, Guiding Light), Vincent Irizarry (Bold and the Beautiful, All My Children), Nichole Tom (The Nanny, Beethoven), Adam Huss (Power, General Hospital), Candace Kita and Eric Himel. The show is currently in production in LA, with Pinn (Camp Lake Pleasant) producing through her Jaguar Motion Pictures imprint from a script from Brandon Slagle and Eric Pereira. Sonia Blangiardo (Days of Our Lives) and Brian Beacock are serving as consulting producers with Michelle Romano (Escape From Ensenada) co-producing. Miranda Mariposa (The Black Mass), David Zagorski, Kimberly Cole, Robin Cote, Heather Cusick and Eleanore Sunchild are executive producing. Keegan is rep’d by Deanda Management and Pinn is rep’d by Sheila Legette Entertainment. Clint Howard Recalls His 'Exhilarating' Experience Working on The Bold and The Beautiful: 'It Was Go Time'(4/8/24) (people.com) (Photo1, Photo2, Photo3) Clint Howard is used to poring over “boatloads” of dialogue, but for the veteran actor, starring in The The Bold and the Beautiful meant returning to a brisk pace of working he hasn’t experienced since appearing on Santa Barbara in 1987.Howard, 64, discussed with PEOPLE his new role on The Bold and the Beautiful, appearing in the April 26 and April 29 episodes as the mysterious homeless man Tom, who provides Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) and Dr. John Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) with pivotal clues to a mystery. Howard shot his scenes with Kanan and Novlan just weeks before the episodes are set to air, which he says proved to be an “exhilarating” experience, partly due to the show’s brisk pace of production. “You're handed a lot of scenes to do and you’d better be prepared,” Howard tells PEOPLE. “I was taught by both my mom and dad, Rance and Jean Howard, since I was a little kid that my primary responsibility is to be prepared to show up to work, even as a very young child… And then knowing that soap operas, it's possible to get handed boatloads of dialogue, and you've got to learn it. You've got to understand it. You got to be able to deliver it. You got to be light on your feet.” In PEOPLE’s exclusive first look of the scenes, Howard looks almost unrecognizable as Tom, sporting long hair, a beard and a hoodie over several shirts while talking to Novlan and Kanan. When the actor was first approached for the role, Howard notes he already had long shaggy hair, which suited the role of Tom perfectly. "There was this homeless guy that the team over The Bold and The Beautiful has invented. They looked at me and they said, 'homeless guy,'" he jokes of his appearance on the show. Howard’s return to soaps is a long time coming. In 1987, the actor appeared as an orderly named Marshall in three episodes of Santa Barbara, which ran for nine seasons from 1984 to 1993. "That was a freedom. That was another lifetime ago,” he recalls of the project. “I didn't have as much to do on Santa Barbara as I did on Bold and The Beautiful, and I haven't gone back and looked at it. I don't even know if I could.” The actor joins a long list of surprise guest stars who have popped up on The Bold and The Beautiful over the years, including Bob Barker, Drew Carey, Gina Rodriguez and Betty White. Last fall, Marie Osmond appeared as the wealthy Countess Von Frankfurt — a role she told PEOPLE at the time that she "enjoyed" for its unusual nature. ("It’s not one [character] that I’ve played before," she said then.) Howard, for his part, hints his character Tom could return in future episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful. In the meantime, the actor is keeping busy in other ways, appearing recently on Pauly Shore's podcast The JITV Show, spending time with wife Katherine Cruz (who visited him on set of The Bold and the Beautiful) and enjoying quality moment with friends like Dee Wallace, helping the E.T. star celebrate her 75th birthday in December. But Howard is particularly jazzed about another upcoming project that couldn't be more different from soaps: a comedy horror film entitled Another Ice Cream Man. The movie, which is a direct sequel to the 1995 cult classic Ice Cream Man, revolves around his character Gregory Tudor and his motivation for deciding to “put body parts in ice cream.” “I go to make personal appearances at horror conventions, and it [Ice Cream Man] is by far and away my number one horror film that people respond to,” Howard explains, referring to the sequel ultimately as a “warm movie" despite its seemingly scary overtones. “We're going to follow that journey of what makes a guy go absolutely nuts," he continues. "It will be so delicious. Not to use a bad ice cream pun!” The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays at 1:30 p.m. ET on CBS and is available for streaming on Paramount+. Howard's episodes are set to air on Friday, April 26 and Monday, April 29. Tom Hanks-Robin Wright-Robert Zemeckis Reteam ‘Here’ Gets Fall Awards-Season Launch(3/30/24) Sony is opening Miramax’s Here stateside as a platform release, going to New York City and Los Angeles on November 15, then a limited break on November 22, followed by a wide opening on November 27.The movie reps the first time that filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and scribe Eric Roth have all worked together since the Best Picture Oscar-winning 1994 smash Forrest Gump. The pic follows multiple families and a special place they inhabit — traveling through generations and capturing the human experience in its purest form. Here is based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire. Producers are Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Derek Hogue and Bill Block. EPs are Jeremy Johns, Andrew Golov and Thom Zadra. The movie also stars Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly and Michelle Dockery. Also going wide on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is Disney’s Moana 2 and Universal’s Wicked. Miramax will handle overseas on Here. CBS Studios NAACP Venture To Develop New Daytime Drama For CBS Called ‘The Gates’(3/6/24) In a move that could bode well for the future of daytime dramas, CBS Studios and the NAACP, in partnership with P&G Studios, is developing a new sudser for CBS that would follow the lives of a wealthy Black family in a posh, gated community.Dubbed The Gates, the new daytime drama is from Michele Val Jean, who has written more than 2,000 episodes of daytime dramas and won multiple Daytime Emmys for her work on The Bold & The Beautiful and General Hospital. She will serve as writer and showrunner and will also executive producer alongside CBS Studios NAACP Venture President Sheila Ducksworth, along with Leon Russell, Derrick Johnson and Kimberly Doebereiner. “The Gates will be everything we love about daytime drama, from a new and fresh perspective,” said Ducksworth. “This series will salute an audience that has been traditionally underserved, with the potential to be a groundbreaking moment for broadcast television. With multi-dimensional characters, juicy storylines and Black culture front and center, The Gates will have impactful representation, one of the key touchstones of the venture.” “I’m excited to develop this project with CBS and P&G, two of the longest and most passionate champions of broadcast and daytime television, and the NAACP, whose enduring commitment to Black voices and artists is both powerful and inspiring,” continued Ducksworth. “I also want to thank CBS’ George Cheeks, NAACP’s Derrick Johnson and P&G’s Marc Pritchard for their personal involvement and support to take our next step forward with The Gates.” It’s been years since one of the broadcast networks launched a new daytime sudser. There are only three still existence between CBS and ABC — B&B and The Young and the Restless on CBS, and General Hospital on ABC. CBS continues to rank No. 1 in daytime with its dramas but all three of the soaps are down in the key demos versus last year. Days of Our Lives is now streaming on Peacock — having moved from NBC to the the platform in 2022. The CBS Studios’ production venture and development deal with the NAACP was established to help elevate a diverse range of voices as well as increase the visibility of Black artists on broadcast and streaming platforms in an ever-evolving media landscape. P&G Studios is a division of Procter & Gamble. Michele Val Jean was represented by Gersh in the deal with CBS and the NAACP. Talk Show Appearance(2/23/24) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, NBCWe 2/28: Robin Wright
Morning Show Appearance(2/23/24) Today - NBCWednesday, February 28 (7-9 a.m.) Robin Wright on Damsel (10-11 a.m.) Robin Wright on Damsel General Hospital Casts All My Children Vet as Blaze’s Mother(2/13/24) (Photo) Another Pine Valley mainstay is making their way to Port Charles.All My Children vet Eva LaRue — who played neurologist Dr. Maria Santos Grey on the now-defunct ABC soap off and on over the course of 18 years — is joining General Hospital as Blaze’s (Jacqueline Grace Lopez) mother. LaRue’s character, Natalia Rogers-Ramirez, will make her first appearance on Feb. 26 Natalia arrives at a critical time in her singer-daughter’s life: Blaze is in the early stages of a romance with Kristina (played by Daytime Emmy winner Kate Mansi). It’s been previously established that one of the reasons Blaze has kept her sexual orientation under wraps is because she fears her coming out could have negative career implications. She also hinted that there could be blowback from her family. LaRue, whose TV credits also include a series regular role on CSI: Miami as well as a stint on The Young and The Restless, will reunite with several of her former AMC co-stars on GH, most notably Cameron Mathison and Michael E. Knight. In 1997, LaRue received a Daytime Emmy nomination for supporting actress for her work as Maria on AMC. LaRue’s casting comes as GH is navigating a major change behind the scenes. Last month it was announced that head writers Chris Van Etten and Dan O’Connor had stepped down, replaced by current GH script editor Elizabeth Korte and celebrated soap vet Patrick Mulcahey (GH, Santa Barbara, Guiding Light). The new material from Team Korte/Mulcahey will begin airing in mid-to-late March. SANTA BARBARA Co-Creator Bridget Dobson Dead at 85(1/11/24) (soapsindepth.com) The daytime community has lost one of its most talented creators. Bridget Dobson died on Jan. 3 at the age of 85. The sad news was shared by Pierpaolo Dongiovanni on his Facebook page where he wrote that “Jerome Dobson told me that his beloved wife, Bridget, passed away three days ago.”Dobson had soaps in her blood as the daughter of GENERAL HOSPITAL creators Frank and Doris Hursley. She married Jerome Dobson in 1961 and began working as a team writing scripts for GH in the early ‘70s. In 1975, the Dobsons were made headwriters of CBS sudser GUIDING LIGHT and later AS THE WORLD TURNS. In 1984 the Dobsons created the iconic NBC soap SANTA BARBARA which became well-known for its wit and humor as well as its creative and dramatic storylines. “We wanted to take risks,” Bridget told the L.A. Times. “Otherwise, we know the show would die in that time slot as other soaps and game shows had. So we created two competitive families, the Capwells and the Lockridges, who were psychologically complicated but also psychologically and emotionally valid. We took the core of our own inner souls and put it on screen, for multifaceted characters with multidimensional personalities. That there was humor made the show unique — each character has a sense of humor.” Nancy Lee Grahn, who now plays Alexis on GH, became a soap star playing Julia Wainwright Capwell on SANTA BARBARA and paid tribute to the legendary soap creator in a heartfelt Instagram post. “Bridget Dobson and her husband Jerry hired me to play the most curious, absorbing, complex, inspiring character of my career,” she wrote. “Realizing the role of Julia Wainwright, having the privilege of feeling my way through this beautifully constructed character’s relationship with herself and others was life-altering for me. It advanced me as an actress and a woman. It introduced 140 -some countries to me and me to them and it set the path to a career that has so far lasted 38 years. The effect just one person can have on your life is quite extraordinary. Rest in greatness, Bridget, and thank you.” Our thoughts are with Dobson’s family and friends during this difficult time. 2024 SAG Awards Nominations(1/10/24) Winners in SAG’s 15 categories will be announced Saturday, February 24 at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles in a ceremony streaming live on Netflix.Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture AMERICAN FICTION BARBIE THE COLOR PURPLE KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON OPPENHEIMER Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series THE CROWN THE GILDED AGE THE LAST OF US THE MORNING SHOW SUCCESSION Paul Thomas Anderson & Warner Bros Set Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall In Film To Shoot This Year(1/10/24) Warner Bros has Paul Thomas Anderson set to direct Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn as well as Regina Hall in an untitled film that will begin production this year in California. Anderson wrote the script, and he will produce the film with Sara Murphy and Adam Somner.The film is currently untitled and they’re keeping the logline under wraps. We have learned that it is a contemporary setting and it is the most commercial one PTA has attempted, with commensurate budget. It came out of a relationship that Warner Bros Picture Group co-chairs/CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy built making PTA’s last film, Licorice Pizza, while they ran MGM. That film got three Oscar noms for Best Picture, and Best Screenplay and Best Director for PTA. While DiCaprio, Penn and Hall are the leads, the new film will have a big ensemble cast that is still falling into place. Anderson has done ensemble in the past, notably with Boogie Nights, the film that De Luca shepherded when he headed production at New Line. The film is significant for several reasons. Along with developments like the strategic alliance just formed with Tom Cruise and projects that include the Paul Greengrass-scripted/directed adaptation of the T.J. Newman bestselling novel Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 421, Warner Bros and De Luca and Abdy have the opportunity to change the narrative for the studio. It was a rough 2023, even as the studio finished with the top-grossing film in Barbie. DiCaprio was courted for many things in the wake of Killers of the Flower Moon, which has him in the thick of the Oscar race along with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone and Eric Roth, who adapted the David Grann book with Scorsese. Penn stars in Daddio, teaming with Dakota Johnson in the Christy Hall-directed two-hander that was a fall festival favorite and acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, and he’s part of the Patricia Arquette-directed Gonzo Girl. Hall was executive producer on Gonzo Girl, and she next stars in the Geremy Jasper-directed rock opera Odessa for Searchlight. She most recently starred in Peacock’s The Best Man: The Final Chapter, and starred in the fest film Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. DiCaprio is repped by LBI and Hansen Jacobson; Penn by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein; and Hall by Independent Artists Group. Anderson is with CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Australia’s AACTA International Awards Nominations(12/14/23) The hardware will be handed out February 10 at AACTA Awards, held on the Gold Coast in Queensland.Best Lead Actor Best Supporting Actress The Critics Choice Awards Nominations(12/13/23) The 29th annual Critics Choice Awards will air live Sunday January 14, 2024 on The CW from 7-10 pm ET (delayed PT, check local listings).BEST ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Shirley Anne Field Dies: ‘Alfie’, ‘Saturday Night And Sunday Morning’, ‘Santa Barbara’ Actor Was 87(12/12/23) British actor Shirley Anne Field, whose long career included memorable performances in such 1960s classic Angry Young Men genre dramas as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Alfie — as well as a pivotal, several-month stint on the NBC soap Santa Barbara — died Sunday, Dec. 10, of natural causes. She was 87.Her family announced her passing In a statement to the BBC. “It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that Shirley Anne Field passed away peacefully on Sunday… surrounded by her family and friends. Shirley Anne will be greatly missed and remembered for her unbreakable spirit and her amazing legacy spanning more than five decades on stage and screen.” Born June 27, 1936, in the Forest Gate district of East London, Field began working as a model in the early 1950, moving into acting by the middle of the decade with roles in such films as Loser Takes All and It’s A Wonderful World (both 1956). In 1960 she had several roles – including in the unnerving horror film Peeping Tom that would later go on to become a cult favorite – before her breakthrough performance as Tina Lapford opposite Laurence Olivier The Entertainer, also released in 1960. An acting career of more than 50 years followed, with film credits including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning starring Albert Finney (1960) The Damned (1962), Alfie (1966), House of the Living Dead (1974) and, in 1986, the Daniel Day-Lewis arthouse hit My Beautiful Laundrette. TV credits over the decades include a 1987 stint as Pamela Capwell Conrad the on American soap Santa Barbara, and appearances on Murder, She Wrote, Bramwell, and a recurring role on Where the Heart Is in 2001. Her final credit was the short film Beautiful Relics in 2014. Information on survivors was not immediately available. For Older News Visit The Daytime Soap Operas News Archives: Here!
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