Several General Hospital stars will be on hand to tape a segment of Jennifer Hudson’s eponymous talk show this Wednesday (January 29).
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Booked to appear are Maurice Benard (Sonny), Tanisha Harper (Jordan), Finola Hughes (Anna), Cameron Mathison (Drew), Donnell Turner (Curtis) and Laura Wright (Carly).
For tickets to the show (tapped at a Burbank-based studio), click HERE. An airdate has yet to be announced.
Daily Drama News Nuggets
* The latest installment of the Hannah Swensen murder-mystery franchise — headlined, executive produced, and sometimes directed and written by Days of our Lives fave Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady) — titled Reality Bites, is set to premiere Thursday, February 6 at 8PM EST / 7PM CST. Former soapers Victor Webster (ex-Nicholas Alamain, DAYS) and Barbara Niven (ex-Liz Coleman Reynolds, One Life to Live; ex-Brenda Dickerson, The Bold and the Beautiful) also star.
Get a sneak peek of the flick via the embed below:
* CBS has dropped an extended trailer for its soon-to-air daytime soap Beyond The Gates:
* With Colleen Zenk seemingly finished as diabolical Aunt Jordan (though this isn’t the first time she’s downed a supposedly fatal cocktail), The Young and the Restless‘ steward, Josh Griffith, has bid the “amazing” actress thank you for “the incredible work” that she displayed.
* Days of our Lives grad Jaime Martin Mann (ex-Tate Black) will be making his Broadway debut in Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The hit West End spectacular serves as a prequel to the Netflix coming-of-age chiller Stranger Things, detailing the * SPOILER ALERT * transformation of Henry Creel into the villainous Vecna, the sovereign of The Upside Down.
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Mann will succeed the UK’s Gilles Geary in the role of Ted Wheeler, while Louis McCartney will reprise his role as Henry. The talented roster also includes Rosie Benton, Alex Breaux, T.R. Knight, Gabrielle Nevaeh, and Juan Carlos.
* Rome Flynn (ex-Zende Forrester Dominguez, The Bold and the Beautiful) has been tapped to portray real-life drug kingpin Frank Lucas (whose life story formed the basis of the Denzel Washington starrer American Gangster) in the fourth season of MGM+’s Godfather of Harlem.
Flynn previewed his alter-ego’s trajectory to Deadline, who was the first to break the story, thusly: [Frank’s] a country boy from North Carolina” who finds “initial friction with gangster Bumpy Johnson” (played by Forest Whitaker) but “eventually rises to become Bumpy’s fierce defender and right-hand man.”
Per the Godfather of Harlem‘s fourth season synopsis: Bumpy continues his bloody war for control of Harlem against New York’s Mafia families, while contending with the emergence of a potential rival in newly arrived Black gangster Frank Lucas. After Malcolm X’s (Jason Alan Carvell) tragic death, Bumpy must also grapple with his daughter Elise’s (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy) involvement with the Black Panthers.
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