Time After Time/Soap World

With the cancellation of One Life to Live I feel more compelled to write about the phenomenal cast than ever. Hillary B Smith is one of those Jewels in the 'OLTL' crown.

She has been with the show since 1992 playing Llanview District Attorney Nora Buchanan.

She began  her daytime acting career in the role of Kit McCormick on the Doctors.Then originated the role of Margo Montgomery Hughes on As The World Turns. She was in this role  for seven years from 1983 through 1990....

Recap? How can one recap Excellence and Brilliance and put into words a Tour De Force performance?

Well I cannot and will not but will tell you what I saw. Ms. Slezak played three characters today. Victoria Lord, Niki Smith and Jean Randolph. She filmed this phenomenal performance in two days. She transferred from Viki to Niki to Jean with expert precision, smooth and real. Tell me what soap has a performer as great as OLTL's Erika Slezak?

As you know Niki had taken over after the...

Word on the streetin an interview with TV Guide's Michael Logan Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini (Headwriter and Exective Prouder at One Life To Live) dish on their new contracts and the future of OLTL.  Here is an excerpt from that interview:

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Word on the street according to The Library of American Broadcasting my all time favorite head writer and soap creator Agnes Nixon was named as one of their "Giants of Media" during an event at the Grand Hyatt in New York on Oct. 6.  To her credit Aggie wrote for: 

Besides the addition of Kim Zimmer to OLTL , a welcome addition that will bring Viki and Charlie  back into a  real storyline TPTB are bringing Back  Kevin Buchanan(Dan Gautier) and recasting Joey Buchanan with soap newcomer Josh Kelly.Kelly has appeared on numerous prime time shows.

OLTL has always been a family oriented soap , but the last few years ...

Word on the street in a piece done by the Denver Post in a discussion about the downturn of daytime, although there is an admittance that not everything is dire yet.  But a cause for pause is needed.  Here are a few excerpts from that interview:

On the demographic ...

As I am writing this blog I am finishing up on a couple episodes I missed this week but I have a lot of rage...

Just a reminder of Kristen Alderson's Fan Event:

Our wonderful Starr manning from OLTL Kristen Alderson will be joining other stars from OLTL on:

October 10 · 10:00am - 12:30pm

Location Johnny Utahs

25 W 51st Street (Btw 5th & 6th)

Word on the street in an interview with TV Guide's Michael Logan Kim Zimmer dishes on her role as Echo on One Life To Live. Here is an exerpt from that interview:

TV Guide Magazine: You got a new look for OLTL?

Zimmer: Well it's not the look I had at the en...

Where to begin?  Oh yea the towns people had a party during David's funeral.  I know that most of them are tacky as hell but that was the worst show of poor taste I ever saw.  They had the nerve to think David was a worse person than they ...

Some times there are things that must be said that just don't.  I am not quite sure why but I...

I have to know how manyothers are disappointed at the way Eli turned out?

I am upset for a number of reasons starting with now that Tea is gone too that puts Todd and Blair rightback in each others orbit for the infinite time and I do not want them to have any more tries at it.  Also because Eli dragged Greg into it.  Sure Iam just happy that we at least...

I called it and I am glad I did.  I am not psychic but I knew Emmy-winner and soap royalty Kim Zimmer was going to return to "One Life to Live" as Echo DiSavoy, a role she played in ...

I cannot believe how "One Life to Live" replaced Michael Lowry with soap opera royalty and legend Billy Warlock as Ross Rayburn.  I felt this way until I read on Soap Central ...

It was no surprise that Tika Sumpter wasn't going to be on "One Life to Live" on contract past 2010.  I thought she would've been long gone.  I was surprised she was given a new ...

Actress Janet Hubert, who is best-known to prime-time audiences as Vivian "Aunt Viv" Banks on the hit classic sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", returned to "One Life to Live" this summer as Lisa Wi...

Carl Gordon, a successful character actor on television and the stage, died on Tuesday at his home in Jetersville, Va. He was 78.

To television viewers, Mr. Gordon was best known as the patriarch on “Roc,” a situation comedy about a working-class black family in Baltimore, broadcast on the Fox network but to soa...

I have read my fellow blogger Donald Peebles blog on his fear of  the cancellation One Life To Live and as I have said for over a year I was also afraid of this. I also agree with him about the influx of teens and the complete boredom thay bring to the...

I couldn't believe when I read in SOD how actress Sabine Singh was returning to daytime television on One Life to Live in the recurring role of Wendy, o...

Will ABC/Disney cancel One Life To Live? I've been hearing rumors of this for a year or two.  I would hope not but it seems like daytime soap ope...