Category Archives: ABC

‘All My Children’ creator visits Pine Valley one last time

By doris | Published: August 9, 2011

Full Story at The Clicker.today.com How do you know a soap opera is winding down? The guest stars paying homage keep on a-comin’. In the case of “All My Children,” which ends its run on ABC in September, Carol Burnett and Sarah Michelle Gellar are among the cast veterans who have booked return appearances. Now, [...]

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‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ may live on online

By doris | Published: July 10, 2011

Full Story at TheClicker.today.com Finally! There’s good news for soap fans. While daytime classics “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” are still due to get the axe on ABC in the not-too-distant future, the weekday dramas are far from over. As the New York Post first reported and ABC has since confirmed, the [...]

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Elizabeth Smart to work as ABC commentator

By doris | Published: July 7, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart is taking a job with ABC News as a commentator focusing on missing persons and child abduction cases. The Utah woman who was kidnapped from her bedroom at knifepoint, raped and held captive at age 14 by a Salt Lake City street preacher can [...]

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ABC sets end date for ‘All My Children’

By doris | Published: June 30, 2011

Full Story at TheClicke.today.com It’s really happening, soap fans. “All My Children” is really, truly coming to an end. ABC revealed today that the final episode will air on Friday, Sept. 23. As the network has said before, the soap will end in a way that “respects the show’s legacy and honors its history.” Stars [...]

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Carol Burnett returns to ‘All My Children’

By doris | Published: June 27, 2011

Full Story at TheClicker.today.com Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane will have to surrender the spotlight on “All My Children” for a few days this September. That’s because Verla Grubbs is coming back to town! Verla who? Longtime “AMC” fans will know, because Verla originated in 1983 as the long-lost daughter of a character named Langley Wallingford [...]

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What will we lose when soap operas go kaput?

By doris | Published: June 14, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com And while “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Young and the Restless” “General Hospital” and “Days of Our Lives” are keeping the chat shows at bay, the status of one of those already looks a little shaky: With Katie Couric’s announcement that she’ll be debuting a syndicated talk show next year, [...]

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Ryan Phillippe ready to quit acting

By doris | Published: April 25, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Ryan Phillippe is burned out. “I think I’m going to end my acting career,” the “Bang Bang Club” actor recently told the New York Post’s Page Six. PHOTOS: Ryan and other shirtless Hollywood hunks He explained, “I’m so introverted. I’m ready to go behind the scenes. I’m 36, but I’ve been [...]

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Five lessons of the fall TV season

By doris | Published: December 16, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Kudos to the executive who came up with the idea of casting Bristol Palin in ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” but not to NBC for passing on the eventual AMC hit “The Walking Dead.” Here are five lessons to be learned from the fall television season. 1) Serialized dramas ain’t DeadAMC’s [...]

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Tim Allen: Back on TV in fall 2011?

By doris | Published: September 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (EW.com) — The fall season doesn’t officially begin until Sept. 20, but the broadcast networks have already kicked off development for the following September. A number of hot projects have hit the marketplace — a crime thriller and an Alcatraz drama from uber-producer J.J. Abrams, just to name two — but [...]

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Barbara Walters to undergo heart surgery

By doris | Published: May 11, 2010

Full Story at marquee.blogs.cnn.com Talk show host Barbara Walters announced Monday she will undergo surgery this week to replace a faulty heart valve. “I have known of this condition for a while now, and my doctors and I have decided this is the best time to do the surgery,” the 80-year-old co-host of ABC’s “The [...]

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