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Days of Our Lives - Days Of Our Lives' Nu-Arianna vs Old Arianna Poll!
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Aug 31
There's a nu-Arianna in Salem and Soaps.com is wondering what your thoughts are on the recast. Felisha Terrell originated the role as Arianna Hernandez and suddenly, she was let go and replaced with Lindsay Hartley, who used to play Eric Martsolf's (Brady Black) love interest, Theresa Lo...
Days of Our Lives - Days Of Our Lives Weekly Blog!
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Fri, Jul 31
These are the "Days" of my week for July 27-31: The big news this week is that not only did I report that Louise Sorel would be returning to Salem to play one of my favourite villainesses, Vivian Alamain, but following news earlier in June that Crystal Chappell is returning as Carly Manning,...
Meningitis Storyline Hits Home for Galen Gering
Original at Celebrity Baby Blog
• Sun, Jul 26
By Angela The former Passions star knows that daytime storylines can sometimes be “fantastical,” but says baby Grace’s death “made sense and felt very real” to him. “It was definitely heavy stuff,” Galen, 38, said of the filming. “That week, I didn’t talk to anyone — I just hung out in my dressing room....
Days of Our Lives - Lindsay Hartley Coming to Days Of Our Lives!
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Wed, Jul 22
Onscreen duo back together! Ex-Passions star, Lindsay Hartley, who portrayed Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, sister of Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald has reportedly been hired by Days of Our Lives to take over the role of Arianna Hernandez, currently played by Felisha Terrell. Soap Opera Digest s...
Days of Our Lives - Nick Stabile and Mark Hapka to Days Of Our Lives
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Jun 15
Considering the Hortons are far and few between these days, we’re happy to report that our account about the possibility of Nick Stabile joining Days of Our Lives as a Horton has come to pass. Stabile played Mark on the now defunct "Sunset Beach," if you recall and Fox Crane on Passions in mor...
Days of Our Lives - Days Of Our Lives Weekly Blog!
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Fri, May 22
These are the "Days" of my week for May 18-22: Again, the show has a different feel to it this week, again, similar to Passions. There has been some show repetition, so my blog will be shorter. I don’t want to repeat what I’ve said last week! These are a few of the things that have stood out for me th...
Days of Our Lives - Days Of Our Lives Weekly Blog!
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Fri, May 15
These are the "DAYS" of my week for May 11-May 15: Another interesting week went by with a second kidnapping and we know, soon to follow, an exchange. Stefano for Stephanie. Say that three times fast – or better yet, read on! The ghost of Passions past: Sometimes I feel as though DOOL is channel...
Guiding Light - Guiding Light: Rumors of the Future.
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Thu, May 7
Since Guiding Light's cancellation was announced on April 1, both the print and online press have been swarming with rumors about whether the series will be picked up by another network. So far, Oxygen, Lifetime and a few other networks have been mentioned but nothing concrete has happen...
Nine great soap opera moments
Original at Orlando Sentinel
• Mon, Apr 13
FL Television's longest-running soap opera, "Guiding Light," will end its run in September. Other shows, like "Passions and "Port Charles" also have been canceled in recent years. Here's a look back at some of the weddings, traumas, secrets and surprises ...
Ex-Miss New Mexico USA Popped for DUI
Original at PopEater Music Blog
• Fri, Apr 3
NY Kelli McCarty | Miss USA, 1991: The former beauty queen, who starred for years on the soap opera 'Passions,' is now shifting the focus of her acting career to porno. Her first feature XXX film is called 'Faithless.' "I enjoy acting, and I really like ...
TV Recap: Dancing With the Stars, Guiding Light
Original at Gay Wired
• Wed, Apr 1
CA Soaps are going through quite a rough patch at the moment. Days of Our Lives cut one of THE supercouples of daytime television: John and Marlena, while the wickedly sadistic Passions faced cancellation last year. Now comes word of CBS considering ...
Passions Live Passions LIVE! Show #4 (09/13)
Original at Paste Magazine
• Tue, Mar 3
Eric Martsolf hosts, with guests "Pilar" Eva Tamargo and "Luis" Galen Gering! www.nbc.com
ABC Daytime Autumn Review
Original at LA Canyon News
• Sat, Nov 1
• 16 related articles
CA - Sad losses for daytime include soap writer James E. Reilly, who also created “Passions” and brought some of “Days of Our Lives” best storylines into our ...
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Days of our Lives’ Eric Martsolf Answers His Fans’ Questions!
Original at soapoperafan.com
• Mon, Oct 27
By Lori Wilson So there you have it. Straight from the man himself. For more about Brady’s return to Days of our Lives, read our exclusive interview with Eric Martsolf on Soaps.com. But before you do, don’t forget to share your thoughts about Eric taking over the role of Brady with Soap Opera Fan Blog below!
The Creator of The Best TV Show Ever, 'Passions,' Has Died [Passions]Original at Defamer
• Wed, Oct 15
By Kyle Buchanan In 2003, Passions submitted a trained orangutan named BamBam, who had been portraying the recurring role of Precious, for a Daytime Emmy Award. Precious was the non-speaking live-in nurse and caregiver for elderly Edna Wallace, and held an unrequited love for Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, w...
Opinion: Deep Soap: So Crazy It Just Might Work
Original at Fancast
• Fri, Oct 3
By Sara A Bibel Fancast.com Friday Night In The Daytime? Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: Friday Night Lights is falling in Passions footsteps. The critically acclaimed primetime soap has moved from NBC to DirectTV for its initial... By Sara A Bibel Fancast.com Friday Night In The Da...
Lindsay Hartley's New Role: Stay-at-home Mom
Original at Celebrity Baby Blog
• Sun, Aug 10
By Angela R. Lindsay Hartley has spent the last nine years of her life portraying Passions' Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald Crane, but now that the show has ended, she's enjoying being a stay-at-home mom for the first time. Saying that 4-year-old daughter Isabella Justice is at "such a great age," Lindsay...
Passions - Saying Goodbye to Passions
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Thu, Aug 7
As everyone knows, this has been the final week for Passions, barring some surprise resurrection in the future. Unlike some of the characters on the series, I have little faith in such things and have been watching the show quickly move to its fated conclusion. Now everyone has seen the conc...
Passions - Lindsay Hartley Exit Interview with Soaps.com!
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Aug 4
After nine years of Theresa's crocodile tears and outrageous schemes, Passions Lindsay Hartley is enjoying life as a mom. "I'm just hanging out and taking care of Isabella (4)," Lindsay Hartley told soaps.com when we ran into her and hubby Justin Hartley at a CW party in July. "It's great. She...
Passions Liza Huber Announces Second Pregnancy
Original at Celebrity Baby Blog
• Tue, Jul 22
By Angela We're so thrilled. Royce is going to be an adorable big brother! The pregnancy comes at a perfect time, as Liza's run on the daytime serial Passions comes to an end with the show's finale on August 11th. Source: Soap Opera Digest; Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images.
Passions - Passions' Kim Johnston Ulrich Talks to Soaps.com
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Jul 21
After nine years of playing the entitled and ever-meddling Ivy Winthrop Crane, Kim Johnston Ulrich has been through it all on Passions - blackmail, a lightning storm, a tsunami and even DirecTV. So after speaking with her on the phone, I wasn’t surprised to learn that walking away from Har...
Passions - Passions’ Christopher Maleki Talks to Soaps.com
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Thu, Jul 17
• 1 related articles
The last time we saw Spike on Passions, he was threatening Jessica (of course) in regards to their son. It’s been months since that happened, so when I recently spoke with Spike’s portrayer, Christopher Maleki, after he returned from a relaxing eight-day trip to the Virgin Islands, I assu...
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Passions - Tracey Ross Looks Back at Her Time on Passions
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Jul 14
She has played Eve Russell since Passions began in 1999, but in just a few short weeks, her portrayer Tracey Ross and her fans must say goodbye to the good doctor permanently. For the past nine years, we have seen Eve battle drug and alcohol addiction, Alistair, her sister Liz and her son/dau...
Passions - Super Channel to Re-run Passions From the Beginning
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Thu, Jul 10
Although Passions is scheduled to end on August the 11th, Canadian fans of the series can still look forward to it continuing to air on a daily basis. Super Channel, which is the only Canadian channel that still carries the series, has confirmed for us that they will continue airing episode...
Passions - Where Are They Now: The Charitys Part 1
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Wed, Jun 25
Although Passions currently has its share of rather unpredictable blond women, the show used to have one who wasn't a Crane. Yes, I am speaking of course of Charity Standish, the insanely innocent and virginal niece of resident goody-goody Hope Bennett. She arrived in Harmony after Tabit...
Passions - Passions: RIP Alistair Crane
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Thu, May 22
It finally happened. After years of people promising to kill Alistair Crane, the most evil man in Harmony, he finally died. The death was an appropriately ironic one; the man who always sought to purify his family, often through torturing and even killing his own children or grandchildren...
Passions - Eric Martsolf Says Goodbye to Passions
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Wed, Apr 30
Passions may be airing on DirecTv through August, but for the cast and crew, the show is essentially over. Having finished taping at the end of March, the actors already bid adieu to their home in Harmony, but fortunately for us fans, we have a couple of months before we have to say our goodbye...
Soaps: Real Life and On Screen Death for "Passions"
Original at National Ledger
• Mon, Apr 14
Is it true that two "Passions" actors died on the very week the characters they played were killed off? -- Phyllis in Lyndhurst, Ohio asks Lynda Hirsch in her weekly Soap "Question & Answer" Column. via National Ledger
Passions - Passions: Whatever Happened to... Aunt Irma
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Tue, Apr 8
Harmony's, apparently solitary, super doctor, Eve Russell could use a little more support right now considering the chaos that seems to engulf every moment of her life, drunk or sober. Unfortunately for her, there's no one to turn to, certainly not her family, who are usually the source o...
Passions - Passions Finishes Shooting
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Mar 31
Since the end of Passions on DirecTV was announced several months ago, fans have anxiously sought out news of a third life for the show, whether it would be online, on the Oxygen Network, or somewhere else. These past few weeks have been especially tense as the show wrapped production, bega...
Passions - Passions: The Other Theresa
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Wed, Feb 20
While Theresa seems to be swimming with the fishes this week, we thought it would be a good time to see what the other Theresa was up to. For those who don't recall, or perhaps didn't notice, the role of Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald Crane has actually been played by an actress other than the inimi...
Passions - Passions, Telenovela Style
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Mon, Jan 14
This past week, viewers have been treated to seeing a little bit of what Passions often does the best— parodying the cliches of daytime television. While an embattled Theresa hopped on a jet and headed to Mexico to finish her family's battle with the nefarious Juanita, she still managed to...
Podcast: TV Series Finale News: Journeyman, Passions, Big Shots, The 4400, The Dead Zone, & more
Original at TV Series Finale
• Thu, Jan 3
Have you heard about what happened to The 4400 of The Dead Zone series on USA? Is there any hope for the survival of NBC's Journeyman show? Could the Passions soap opera possibly be cancelled twice in one year? What's going on with ABC's Big Shots? Is it cancelled? Will it be back? Plus news on...
Passions - Cruise With Passions: Updated
Original at Soap Opera News Room at Soaps.com
• Thu, Jan 3
Love the sun and the sea? Passionate about Passions? Always wanted to meet Eric Martsolf (Ethan Winthrop)? If you can answer "yes" to any of those questions, you're sure to be interested in this. A few of the stars of Passions will be taking guests on a special cruise this coming April the 1st...
Passions: Cancelled Twice in One Year?
Original at TV Series Finale
• Mon, Dec 10
This year has been a twisting and turning roller coaster ride for fans of Passions. Has it finally come to an unfortunate end? Just 11 months ago, NBC announced that the network was canceling eight-year-old Passions. The soap would leave the airwaves in Fall 2007 at least in part to make room...
Passions: DirecTV Soap Online -- But Not Free
Original at TV Series Finale
• Thu, Sep 27
Though the switch has been coming for months, lots of Passions fans were still in shock when the residents of Harmony left NBC after eight seasons. On September 17th, Passions began its ninth season on DirecTV's exclusive Channel 101. For a variety of reasons, not all of the fans could follo...
Soap finds new life on satellite TV - Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Wed, Aug 8
• 7 related articles
Soap finds new life on satellite TV subscription), MN - NBC's "Passions" becomes DirecTV's "Passions" this September when the satellite service rescues the daytime drama the peacock network is cutting loose. ...
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Passions recap 2007-04-26
Original at Paste Magazine
• Thu, Apr 26
Miguel asks Kay to forget about their dreams of a future together. He explains his circumstances have changed and Fox can provide for Kay and Maria in a way that he can’t. The half-man/half-woman has Theresa cornered in one of the secret passageways. Ethan tries to find her but the tortur...
Rosie to leave 'The View' while 'Passions' will continue to burn
Original at Knoxville News Sentinel
• Wed, Apr 25
By terry On another note ... DirecTV has plans to continue production of NBC's weird soap opera "Passions." Plans call for the show to air on DirecTV channel 101 as of this fall, with episodes airing Mondays through Thursdays. Earlier this year, NBC announced it would be dropping "Passions," and its la...
Passions recap 2007-04-03
Original at Paste Magazine
• Tue, Apr 3
Chad panics when Whitney pounds on the door of his motel bathroom, demanding he come out with his mistress. Vincent urges Chad to come clean to his wife. When Chad refuses, Vincent emerges and admits to Whitney that she caught him. Sheridan tries to convince Chris that she loves him more t...
Passions recap 2007-03-23
Original at Paste Magazine
• Fri, Mar 23
As Miguel begins to think he was wrong about Fox, Tabitha tries to steer the clueless hunk back onto the right track. Meanwhile, Kay assumes Fox took a little blue pill when she realizes he can perform sexually. In private, Fox is confused as to why he's experiencing some, but not all, of the si...
Passions recap 2007-03-09
Original at Paste Magazine
• Sat, Mar 10
Sheridan “accidentally” lets it slip to Luis that there was a serious incident between Fancy and her sister, Pretty, several years ago. She declines to say more to “protect” her niece. Sheridan bonds with Luis by reminiscing about their past. Meanwhile, Fancy realizes her aunt could ruin h...
Passions recap 2007-03-08
Original at Paste Magazine
• Fri, Mar 9
When Chad confesses his affair – or part of it – to Ethan, Ethan advises him to get rid of his mistress and hope she won’t tell. Chad freaks out when he finds out his wife is at the Seascape... and who she is with. Jared is thrown for a loop when Theresa says she wants to get married that night at the h...
Passions recap 2007-03-01
Original at Paste Magazine
• Thu, Mar 1
When Fox balks at receiving his treatments, Miguel declares it's proof he's faking his illness. Meanwhile, Julian bribes/blackmails Nurse Stevens into agreeing to give Fox placebos. Spike forces Jessica to meet with a new john at the seedy motel. While Jessica reluctantly disrobes...
SOAP OPERA REVIEW
Original at Aberdeen American News
• Sun, Feb 11
SD - Passions: Endora, who's a witch, zapped the Scissor Sisters into Tabitha's living room for a private concert. Tabitha warned Kay that someone in Harmony ...
Passions recap 2007-01-09
Original at Paste Magazine
• Tue, Jan 9
Ivy is stung when Sam rejects her. Kay gives Fox his ring back, saying she can’t marry him if he lied to her. Everyone is surprised when a world-renowned doctor shows up to vouch for Fox’s condition. Fancy searches for proof that she was attacked again. Paloma suggests the peeping tom t...
CW Throws Back Its 'Aquaman' Star
Original at Zap2it.com
• Wed, Feb 22
- Feb 22, 2006 Justin Hartley, who until recently was a regular on NBC's soap opera "Passions," will now play Arthur "AC" Curry in the show, which comes from "Smallville ...
Soap opera update
Original at Canton Repository
• Mon, Dec 12
OH - himself. PASSIONS: Noah helped Theresa kidnap a comatose Ethan from the hospital then drove the ambulance to the Crane cabin. Theresa ...
Sci Fi Channel revives NBC U's used 'Passions'
Original at Variety
• Mon, Dec 5
- TV Studio to bring old episodes of Peacock Peacock 's "Passions" to Sci ... Launched in 1999, ongoing soap opera soap opera stars a 300-year-old witch who meddles ...
Soap opera update
Original at Canton Repository
• Mon, Nov 28
OH - driver. PASSIONS: Eve broke up a catfight between Gwen and Theresa, then revealed Ethan’s latest tests show no improvement. Theresa ...