Big changes in soaps

WOW! Some big names coming back to daytime. Unfortunately, they are big losses for General Hospital. First, the one I am most excited about is Lynn Herring's return to daytime. She's coming to As the World Turns as Henry's mother. I'm glad Lynn will be back in daytime, but I really wish GH had snagged her to return as Lucy Coe. Can you imagine Lucy hitting Jake's with Diane and Alexis? That would be a total riot. Oh well.
Lynn will be reuniting with quite a few of her former Port Charles costars: Jon Lindstrom, Marie Wilson and Julie Pinson. Lynn will also be commuting from the west coast.
General Hospital's other loss is Wally Kurth. Yup, he's returning to Days of Our Lives as Justin Kiriakis. Am looking forward to that. Now let's hope Judi Evans returns as Adrienne. Probably not likely though since she has just signed up for a role on As the World Turns.
Rick Hearst is leaving General Hospital to reprise his role as Whip on The Bold & the Beautiful. Apparently, his character on General Hospital gets on an elevator and that's the last we see of him.
At least General Hospital grabbed powerhouse Martha Byrne.
Also coming to Days of Our Lives is Crystal Chappell. She will be reprising her role as Carly Manning. She was famous for the buried alive storyline back in the 90's. Good for Crystal as she would otherwise be out of a job once Guiding Light ends. Apparently Days approached her first.
In other news: Arianne Zucker and Kyle Lowder are expecting their first child. Congratulations to them!

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Martha Byrne is coming to General Hospital

Great news! Martha Byrne is returning to daytime! Yup, according to the 5/19/09 issue of Soap Opera Digest, Martha has an open ended recurring role on General Hospital, as Mayor Garrett Floyd's wife. She will be involved in a political scandal that involves the hospital. Apparently Martha has just started working with the great Michael Bruno and was on Facebook talking to her GH friend Lisa about it. Lisa talked to Bob Guza and three days later the deal was done.
Martha will be commuting from the East Coast for now.
Her first tape date is May 14.


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Another Star is leaving Days of Our Lives

Days of Our Lives is going to be short one more cast member. Yup, Rachel Melvin, Chelsea, has opted not to renew her contract. Kind of surprising since Chelsea and Max are reviving their romance. A romance with Darin Brooks would keep me interested. Apparently the role of Chelsea is not being recast and the door is being left open for Rachel to return. Max will also be found another love interest. No word on Rachel's last air date, but her contract ends in the spring.


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Two One Life to Live Stars Pass Away

Extremely sad news from One Life to Live. Both Clint Ritchie, Clint, and Phil Carey, Asa, have passed away. Both within 1 week of each other.
Clint suffered a heart attack in January. He underwent surgery for a pacemaker and died in his sleep 10 hours later from a blood clot on January 31. He was 70. Clint was the original Clint Buchanan on OLTL for 20 years. He retired in 1998 and made several guest appearances since then. He was eventually replaced by Jerry Ver Dorn. Jerry does a good job, but Clint will always be Clint Buchanan to me.
No word as to Phil's official cause of death on February 6, but in 2006 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. For 28 years Phil played Asa Buchanan until 2007 when TIIC wouldn't renew his contract. Phil didn't want to be recurring, so Asa was killed off. The show did come to their senses a little and brought Phil back in 2008 in appearances where he was reading his will. Phil was 83.
Very sad. Clint and Phil will be missed.


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More Days of Our Lives Firings

OMG! TIIC at Days of Our Lives are slowly killing the show. Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans, Steve and Kayla, are the latest to be fired. Apparently, they will not even get an exit storyline.

Thaao Penghlis has also been fired. Speculation has it, he may be killed off. Let's hope not.
Firing vets is one thing, but killing them off is something else.
Sounds like things at Days are going from bad to worse. Firing the characters fans want to watch will surely make things even worse.
Let's hope these firings are only temporary, things will improve and the vets will be brought back. If not, cancellation will be inevitable. Who wants to watch a show full of Melanie's?


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Second person who dies on General Hospital Crisis '09

The second person who dies on General Hospital Crisis '09 is Leyla. I was never a fan of her. Just didn't care for her, probably due to the trouble she made between Robin and Patrick.
There was an article in my local, small town newspaper about how the nurses station is getting a facelift. Producers are taking advantage of the biotoxin storyline to give the nurses station a more modern look. After the explosion on Friday, it will certainly need it.

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First person who dies on General Hospital Crisis '09

******************SPOILER ALERT********************

The latest issue of Soap Opera Digest arrived with a little bit of scoop on the General Hospital crisis. During an operation, a vial containing a biotoxin in the patients stomach is pierced, releasing the airborne toxin. Monica, Matt, Elizabeth and Andy the anesthesiologist from GH: Night Shift are knocked out. Andy turns out to be the first casualty. Fortunately not a major player. Andy was on Night Shift and he was the one who would gas himself to sleep, almost overdosed, ended up sleeping with Kelly.
Anyways, Michael's benefit is being held upstairs and the toxin drifts up through the vents and everyone at the benefit starts dropping.
No other word yet on who else is overcome by the biotoxin.
Apparently Liz is in bad shape and does take a turn for the worst. Lucky sneaks in and sits by her side. Monica has a remark that things must be bad if Jason is working with the FBI. lol

In other General Hospital news, Claire Coffee has been let go from her role of Nadine. Maybe a Nikolas, Emily I mean Rebecca union is in the works?


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