Posts with tag GeneralHospital
Posted May 1st 2008 10:04AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Reality-Free
There's something about the name Carly, I guess. The four actresses that have caught my attention are now or have played a "Carly" on daytime TV. They are all terrific actresses. They've all brought something dynamic and exciting to their characters, even when they are no longer named Carly. The four ladies in question are Laura Wright, the current Carly Corinthos Jacks on
General Hospital, Maura West, Carly Tenney Snyder on
As the World Turns, Tamara Braun, Carly #2 on
GH and currently Ava Vitali on
Days of Our Lives, and Sarah Brown, Carly #1 on
GH and presently Claudia Zacchara on
GH. Each woman has made a lasting impression on daytime, and they continue to rattle the rafters still.
Continue reading TV Squad Soap Report: The Carlys of my life
Posted Apr 30th 2008 2:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Talk Show, Emmys, Reality-Free
The Daytime Emmy nominations were announced this morning on
The View. My initial reaction is this: there are so many repeat nominees! This list is filled with actors who have won multiple times. Are the Daytime Emmys in a rut? I'm afraid so. This list seems very stale to me, not that many of these performers aren't worthy, but a lot of other worthy actors were completely overlooked. Again. Emmy could use an overhaul, but we'll discuss that another time.
Here are the main nominees -- and some comments -- and you can check out the complete list and a photo gallery of the
Daytime Emmy nominees at AOL Television. On Friday, June 20, ABC will broadcast the awards in primetime (8-11 p.m. EST) from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.
Outstanding Daytime Drama General Hospital
Guiding Light
One Life to Live
The Young & the Restless Here we have the usual suspects. Last year,
Y&R and
GL shared the prize. My choice would be
OLTL this time around -- they had a great year and have been on the uprise. However,
Y&R has a lot of actor nominations and that could mean another Emmy for the Bell show. I'd be flabbergasted if either
GH or
GL win. Both shows have received critical blasts this past year.
Continue reading The Daytime Emmy nominations announced
Posted Apr 23rd 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Ratings, Reality-Free
You might be surprised to learn that the results of a new poll by AOL.com found that the
number one soap opera among web searchers is Day of Our Lives. According to the
Nielsen ratings for the soaps,
The Young and the Restless is the top daytime drama -- and has been for over a thousand weeks. But I'm not surprised to read these AOL results, which shows
Days, General Hospital and
All My Children at the top of the list.
Y&R is number eight. Also getting a lot of search engine hits is a Spanish telenovela,
Fuego en la Sangre, from Mexico.
Continue reading Days of Our Lives tops poll as most searched soap
Posted Apr 20th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
In honor of
General Hospital's 45th year on the air,
AOL came up with a terrific photo trivia quiz which was like a trip down memory lane for longtime fans like me. Seeing all those familiar faces made me realize that through the years there have been some wonderful actors who've called Port Charles home. Here's ten that were memorable and, in my opinion, let an indelible mark on
General Hospital.
Amber Tamblyn (1995-2001)When the producers and writers of
GH realized the quality of an actress they had with Amber Tamblyn, they took this 12 year old girl and made her an important part of the Quartermaines, a core family. She appeared as Emily Bowen, the daughter of Page, a woman Monica befriended while they were undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. When Page died, Monica and Alan adopted Emily and she became part of the family, and eventually the conscience of the squabbling, occasionally unscrupulous clan (along with Lila). Amber grew up on
GH, going through growth spurts and the emotions of the awkward years. She never failed to convey a reality and truth in her acting. She was a shooting star, passing through
GH on the way to bigger things, like
Joan of Arcadia.
Continue reading Ten actors who helped make General Hospital shine
Posted Apr 1st 2008 11:00AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, TV Squad Lists
Today, April 1st, is
General Hospital's anniversary -- 45 years on the air. The ABC soap has been very successful through most of that time, although it hasn't really followed the path that many daytime dramas take. In the late 1980's,
GH changed from a romance-based, hospital drama to more of a crime/spy/action-oriented soap. It's continued that style, and I can tell you six things that keep me tuning in daily to
General Hospital (or checking it out on SoapNet).
Continue reading Six things that keep me tuning in to General Hospital
Posted Mar 26th 2008 9:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, TV Squad Lists
For some actors, the soaps are a stepping stone to a career in features. That's how it was for Meg Ryan, who began as Betsy on
As the World Turns. For others, like Eva Longoria Parker, the place she made her mark before becoming one of the
Desperate Housewives was as Isabella on
The Young & the Restless. Allison Janney is another one. She was a lowly -- but brilliant -- maid at the Spaulding mansion on
Guiding Light before lighting up the screen as C.J. Cregg on
The West Wing and winning four Emmys along the way. Looking at the current crop of actresses at work in daytime today, who are the women, the divas if you will, who are ready for primetime, nay silver screen, success? Here's a list of seven who have caught my eye.
Continue reading Seven soap divas ready for primetime
Posted Mar 24th 2008 3:21PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Casting
They'll be whistling Dixie in Pine Valley again.
Cady McClain is coming back to All My Children. It's not unusual for a soap favorite to return to the show where they once were a prominent player. It happens all the time. Cady has done it before, multiple times. But this time is different. This time she's coming back as a ghost!
You see, last January 2007, Dixie was killed by a serial killer. She returns now because she has a job to do, reuniting Tad with the child they thought they'd lost, Kate.
Continue reading Cady McClain will haunt All My Children
Posted Mar 22nd 2008 11:32AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Ratings
Has it really been 45 years since
General Hospital started broadcasting? Four decades + five years of medical machinations, legendary love stories, action and intrigue. Yes, yes, it's true,
on April 1, ABC's General Hospital will celebrate 45 years on the air. Current executive producer, Jill Farren Phelps, will cut the cake and members of the cast will blow out the candles, but we're the ones that probably should be smiling. Memories of the great years gone by are inevitable with any show that's run as long as
GH. But there's something special about this ABC soap.
Continue reading General Hospital celebrates 45th anniversary
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:04AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, OpEd, 24, CSI, Daytime, Cable/Satellite, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Psych, Project Runway, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, TiVo, Damages, Lipstick Jungle
Is it really a big surprise that television advertising isn't as effective as it used to be? As TV watchers -- okay, we're uber-watchers -- we know that with DVRs and TiVos we're zooming through ads, or we're channel surfing in between segments of our favorite shows, or renting/buying content in formats that allow us to avoid commercials altogether. Now, according to the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research's TV & Technology Survey,
we learn that six out of 10 marketers believe that TV advertising has become less effective in the past two years. And it's getting worse.
Continue reading Products galore...and you can't avoid them
Posted Jan 11th 2008 8:00AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Late Night, The Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Daytime, The Daily Show, Entourage, Music and Variety, Talk Show, Project Runway, 30 Rock, Awards, Pushing Daisies
Finally someone shows some love for
Lost, which got itself back on track last season. The Directors Guild announced their nominees for this year's awards.
Lost nabbed two nominations in the Dramatic Series category, for "The Looking Glass" and "The Brig."
The Sopranos picked up two of the three remaining nominations, saving the last one for AMC's excellent freshmen drama,
Mad Men.On the comedy side,
30 Rock nabbed two nominations, with
Desperate Housewives and
Entourage picking up one each. And the critical love for ABC's incredibly charming
Pushing Daisies continues as it snatches the final spot. But one category in which the Directors think very differently than anyone else is in Reality Programs. Not only is the kitschy
Who Wants to be a Superhero? nominated, but is joined by
Shooting Sizemore and
Pros vs. Joes. The full list, including commercials, documentaries and mini-series after the jump.
Continue reading Directors Guild Awards nominations are in
Posted Feb 13th 2007 7:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Daytime
It's called General Hospital: Night Shift, and it is, as the title indicates, a spinoff of General Hospital. The new series, set to premiere on SOAPnet this summer with thirteen episodes, will flesh out the stories from General Hospital and delve deeper into the characters and their lives. Really, it's more of an extension of a series than a bona fide spinoff, but whatever you call it, it's a clever idea. If ever a series had a built-in fanbase, it's this one. The new series will be written by General Hospital head writer Robert Guza, Jr., and executive produced by General Hospital executive producer Jill Farren Phelps.
This is just part of SOAPnet's plan to extend beyond daytime programming: the cable channel will also begin airing episodes of The OC and One Tree Hill starting April 9. SOAPnet recently acquired the rights to all seasons of both series.
[via TV Filter]
Posted Apr 12th 2006 2:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Daytime, Celebrities
As part of May sweeps, actress Finola Hughes will be reprising her role as Anna
Devane (or, if you will, Anna Devane Scorpio Lavery Scorpio Hayward) on
General Hospital. Hughes was
originally on the soap opera in the 1980s, and left the show in 1992 before taking the role to
All My Children
in the late 90s. She currently hosts
How Do I Look? on the Style Network. I don't watch soap operas, but I do
remember the character of Anna since my mom watched
General Hospital pretty religiously. Hughes won Emmys for
her role as Anna on both
General Hospital and
All My Children, although she also won a Razzie for her
role in the movie
Staying Alive. I'm not sure if the awards cancel each other out or not. Hughes has also
been in numerous guest roles on shows such as
Charmed and
Tracey Takes On.... She's set to make her
return to Port Charles on May 12.
Posted Apr 3rd 2006 12:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Talent, Daytime, Obituaries
Those of you who are a bit older than me might remember that in the
late 70s and early 80s General Hospital began to get a bit, well, "weirder." Suddenly their were
weird plots involving criminal master minds, aliens, and other wacky sci-fi stuff. I only know this because my mother
watched General Hospital pretty religiously when I was growing up.
Well, Gloria Monty, the woman who was responsible for sending General Hospital in all those weird
directions, as well as overseeing the show during the height of those steamy "Luke and Laura" years, passed
away Thursday at the age of 84. Monty was called in as a producer in the late 70s when the show was experiencing a sag
in ratings due to more women working outside the home. Her solution was to target younger audiences, thus the show got
stranger. The producer character in the movie Tootsie was also based on Monty.
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