Guiding Light's Olivia and Natalia: Lez Be Frenemies?

• Oct 23, 2008 11:00 AM ET
• by Michael Logan

Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia

Just as All My Children takes Bianca's new relationship to the next level, the Internet is abuzz with reports that Guiding Light is about to launch its own lesbian romance between Olivia and Natalia, the heterosexual — or so we thought — frenemies played by Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia.

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Tune In Tamara: AMC Plot Twisters Surround Bianca's Return

• Oct 20, 2008 10:45 AM ET
• by Michael Logan

Eden Riegel and Tamara Braun

Tamara Braun didn't plan to be back in the suds so soon, but she couldn't turn down a chance to make some daytime TV history. The acclaimed actress, recently seen as nutjob Ava Vitali on Days of Our Lives, will join All My Children Oct. 30 as lesbian architect Reese Williams. Viewers will learn that Reese has been having a very serious romance in Paris with the soap's sapphic icon, Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel). So serious that they're about to become parents. Yep, Binks is pregnant.

Get lots more scoop plus Braun's take on her new daytime gig, after the jump. read more

Logan Rave: Sweet Sounds on the Night Shift

• Oct 17, 2008 01:28 PM ET
• by Michael Logan

Tristan Rogers and Finola Hughes

I nearly bailed on General Hospital: Night Shift because its season premiere back in July was just so awful. But then the show got good. Really good. And now it's indisputably superior to the mob-infested soap that spawned it.

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Soaps Scribe James E. Reilly Dies at 60

• Oct 14, 2008 04:03 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

James E. Reilly, a sometimes controversial soap scribe who twice served as Days of Our Lives' headwriter and created the supernatural-themed Passions, passed away over the weekend, at age 60, Soap Opera Digest reports. Reilly was recovering in the hospital from cardiac surgery when he died.

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Logan Rave: Lisa LoCicero Brings Sexy Back to GH's Sonny

• Oct 14, 2008 10:53 AM ET
• by Michael Logan

Maurice Benard and Lisa LoCicero

Wasn't Lisa LoCicero's arrival on General Hospital as ballsy Brooklyn babe Olivia Falconeri utterly fantastic? Clearly, the show's top star, Maurice Benard (Sonny), thinks so. In their first scenes together last week, the duo set off some wildly intriguing sex sparks — which makes Benard's lack of chemistry with current leading lady Megan Ward (Kate) all the more obvious and disappointing.

GH is making a huge mistake if it doesn't team Sonny and Olivia now.

Viva LoCicero!

All My Children's Eileen Herlie Dies

• Oct 9, 2008 04:13 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng

Eileen Herlie

All My Children's Eileen Herlie, better known as Pine Valley's Myrtle Fargate, died on Wednesday due to complications from pneumonia, ABC announced. She was 90.

An AMC mainstay for more than three decades, Scottish-born Herlie honed her acting chops in
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Exclusive: World Now Turns for GH Alum Jon Lindstrom

• Oct 8, 2008 02:22 PM ET
• by Michael Logan

Jon Lindstrom

You can't keep a bad man down – but you can give him a handsome new puss. As the World Turns has cast former General Hospital fave Jon Lindstrom as Craig Montgomery, the arch-scoundrel who fled Oakdale last February after attempting murder. The actor's first airdate is Dec. 3.

"Jon is a witty and immensely likable actor even when he's doing unspeakable things – as he did [playing twins Kevin and Ryan] on GH," says ATWT head writer Jean Passanante. "And that pretty much sums up Craig."

The character will return to Oakdale "with a deep desire to reconnect with his family," adds the scribe, "though his first order of business is to get himself off the hook for trying to kill Paul [Roger Howarth]. It's a big problem, but Craig is up for the challenge."

Though Craig, who first appeared in 1982, is one of the great villains in suds history, this marks the fourth recast in three years. Hunt Block was dropped from the role in 2005. His replacement Jeffrey Meeks was fired in 2007 and replaced by the original Craig, Scott Bryce, who in turn got the ax early this year.

Look for an exclusive interview with Lindstrom in TV Guide magazine.

Inside Night Shift's Emotional GH Reunion

• Oct 8, 2008 03:00 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

John Reilly, Sharon Wyatt Anthony Geary, and Tristan Rogers

Complications from his latest surgery, coupled with the existing trauma caused by chemotherapy, have sent General Hospital: Night Shift's Robert Scorpio into a coma. As things look dire, the resilient former superspy is visited on the SOAPnet spin-off's Oct. 14 season finale by a bevy of buds, Luke (Anthony Geary), Anna (Finola Hughes) and brother Mac (John J. York) included.

TVGuide.com welcomed the opportunity to catch up with two of Robbie's visitors, John Reilly and Sharon Wyatt, who back in GH's globe-trotting days played former WSB boss Sean Donnelly and his starlet-turned-newswoman wife, Tiffany.

See what the two actors had to say, after the jump. read more

Quick Hits: Bianca's New AMC Lover! An ATWT Exit?

• Sep 30, 2008 01:43 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

Eden Riegel by Jennifer Gonzelez/ABC; Anthony Herrera courtesy PGP Productions

Bad Timing: The insanely popular Eden Riegel returns to All My Children Oct. 17. Good news for us, bad news for her character, Bianca. Erica's youngest daughter shows up in Pine Valley just as a killer tornado hits. No one knows she's in town until Zach (Thorsten Kaye) finds her body in the rubble. And get this: Binks has a new lover, played by soap great Tamara Braun (ex-Carly, General Hospital)! BTW: If you're not into Riegel's outrageous web series, Imaginary Bitches, on YouTube, you're missing out on the most shameless pleasure ever.Survivor: Oakdale: This week, As the World Turns kills off supervillain James Stenbeck — played by Anthony Herrera — when he takes a flyer off a lighthouse. But is he really most sincerely dead? As veteran ATWT fans know, Stenbeck has come back from the dead many times — even after a fall from an airplane. Herrera's quite the survivor, too. In 1997, he was diagnosed with terminal lymphoma but is still with us thanks to a stem-cell tran... read more

Nancy Lee Grahn & Friends Invite Fans to Talk Politics

• Sep 30, 2008 01:34 PM ET
• by TV Guide News

Nancy Lee Grahn by Bob D'Amico/ABC

On Wednesday, Oct. 1, General Hospital's Nancy Lee Grahn will host an online chat with friends and fans, to discuss the upcoming presidential election.Starting at 8 pm/ET at NancyLeeGrahn.com, Alexis' portrayer will be joined by GH mates Jane Elliot (Tracy), Kimberly McCullough (Robin) and Kelly Monaco (Sam), The Bold and the Beautiful's Susan Flannery and Heather Tom, The Young and the Restless' Michelle Stafford and Jeanne Cooper, Days of Our Lives' Deidre Hall and Mary Beth Evans, Guiding Light's Kim Zimmer, One Life to Live's Kassie DePaiva and Bree Williamson, All My Children's Debbi Morgan, and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois). Following an hour-long discussion among the actresses and Schakowsky, the group will answer fan questions which can be posted to the website. — Matt Mitovich read more