On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, TV icon Susan Lucci will join super soap fan Andy Cohen (EP of the Housewives franchise) in a celebration of All My Children’s emerald anniversary.

Daily Drama News: In Celebration Of All My Children

Titled, appropriately enough, ‘Susan Lucci in Conversation with Andy Cohen: All My Children at 55’, the gala event will be held on the Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall/92nd Street Y in New York City at 3:00PM EST. Tickets start at $25 for online viewing, while in-person runs between $50 and $70, depending on the choice of seating.

Kelly Ripa (ex-Hayley Vaughan Santos), Eva LaRue (ex-Maria Santos; Natalia Ramirez, General Hospital), Jill Larson (Opal Cortlandt), Eden Riegel (Bianca Montgomery), casting director Judy Blye Wilson, and Lorraine Broderick, AMC much lauded and much-awarded headwriter will also take part in the discussion.

For further information (including a full itinerary of the day’s events) and/or to purchase your ticket(s) please click HERE.

Daily Drama News Nuggets

* Crew Morrow made his daytime TV debut on The Bold and the Beautiful earlier this year, but if his real-life pops had his way, art would have imitated life. Said The Young and the Restless‘ Joshua Morrow (Nicholas Newman) during a recent sit-down with Michael Fairman:

“I was pressing Josh Griffith [Y&R’ EP and headwriter) to age Christian [Adam and Sage’s son whom Nicholas has raised since birth] with Crew. Josh was like, ‘Maybe, but we’re not ready for that.’ I’m like, ‘Well, somebody else is going to hire him.’ Then, B&B snatched him up.’

* Diane Delano, a jobbing thespian, character actress par excellence, probably best known for her turns as state trooper Barbara Semanski in Northern Exposure and Roberta “Bobbi” Glass in Popular passed away on Friday, December 13.

The news was confirmed by Delano’s close friend, Hart to Hart star Stepfanie Kramer who said in a statement to Deadline: “She was big and bold and brought her sharp wit and perfect comic timing to every role. Her earthy and raucous presence enabled her to always own the room. She was one of a kind.”

Delano’s plethora of credits includes roles in feature films such as The Wicker Man and The Ladykillers, and a whole host of guest and recurring spots in TV series like Falcon Crest, Mom, Mike & Molly, Everwood, Desperate Housewives, Six Feet Under, and Monk. To Days of our Lives fans, she’ll be remembered for playing Hilda Van Beno, an FBI agent tasked with protecting Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney).

* On Monday, Get After It Media announced that they have partnered with FAST Channels TV to launch a channel dedicated NBC’s medico-soap The Doctors, whose reruns have long been a staple of RetroTV’s line-up.

The new channel is available via Watchie TV Roku , Android and Android TV , Amazon FIRE , ios and Apple TV , and more. Twelve episodes will be stripped daily, making for six full hours of soapie goodness).

Joel Wertman, president of Get After It Media enthused in a statement: “Since Retro TV originally brought The Doctors back to the airwaves in 2014, its dedicated fan base has been begging for us to air even more episodes. We’re so pleased to partner with FAST Channels TV to answer that call, allowing soap fanatics to binge such a historic series to their hearts’ content.”

* Pierson Fodé (ex-Thomas Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful) has joined the ensemble of Netflix’s rom-com A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson, Jameela Jamil, and Sabrina‘s Melissa Joan Hart also star.

In the Holly Hester penned flick, ” a recently separated couple attempts to have one last Christmas with their kids before the wife sells the family home to move and start fresh. But complications arise when the husband brings his amazing new girlfriend into the holiday mix.”

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* Some eight months since announcing his break from acting and shutting down all socials save for his Instagram account, Ryan Paevey (ex-Nathan West, General Hospital) has provided fans an update. He wrote in part:

“I get asked sometimes if I miss it… the way my life used to be,” he wrote. “Not really, no. Hollywood paid pretty well, but it was pretty taxing on the heart, mind, and soul….

“Who knows, I may yet dabble in film and TV stuff… if I can even get a job anymore (Hollywood isn’t often welcoming of has-beens aiming for a return). But for now, it’s a good life I’ve chosen, if a touch lonely, and I feel lucky. Fortunate Wanderer, indeed.”

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