NEWS AND INFORMATION!

OLTL last aired on ABC on January 13, 2012.

Life's Lessons in the Soap Suds Great article!

The Directors Guild of America nominated seven people in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Daytime Serials for 2011:  Larry Carpenter for OLTL; Mike Denney for Y&R; William Ludel for GH; Scott McKinsey for GH; Cynthia J. Popp for B&B, Casey Childs for AMC; and Angela Tessinari for AMC. The winner announced at the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on January 28, 2012, in Los Angeles, CA is GH's William Ludel for Luke's intervention episode.

Check out this fantastic video, created by former OLTL Associate Director and Editor Teresa Cicala, which features memorable OLTL clips from the last year of the show set to a rocking' dance-track rendition of "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life."

E!'s "Dirty Soap" has been canceled. Jenna Gering, wife of Days' Galen (Rafe), tweeted, "So the word is that Dirty Soap is NOT being picked up for another season. Thanks to all of u who watched. You all have been so supportive!!!"

Jill Farren Phelps (ex-Executive Producer of General Hospital & One Life to Live) will co-executive produce 80 episodes of the U.S. adaptation of the telenovela "Alcanzar una Estrella" for Nick At Nite. "Reach For A Star" is a single-camera, daily series that will follow Loren, an average high school senior whose life changes completely upon becoming a star and winning the love of her celebrity crush. Casting is currently underway, with production due to start in March. It will begin airing this summer.

For a special rate on next week's OLTL tribute e-book, "Between Heaven and Hell," head over to Paypal and submit a $6.99 CAD payment (originally $9.99) to soapuncensored@yahoo.com (Nelson Branco), and you'll receive the highly anticipated book first (with over 100K words of flashbacks, interviews, top-ten lists, and history!). Click on "Send Money" for "Friends/Family" and follow the instructions. If you have any problems or questions, please e-mail soapuncensored@yahoo.com.

OLTL's Terri Conn (Aubrey) and Austin Peck (Rick) were married on July 1, 2011. It is the second marriage for each actor, who met while playing husband and wife Brad and Katie on ATWT. Peck is the father to two boys, Aidan, almost 9, and Roman, 6, while Conn's daughter Julia is 7.

NEW! SOAPnetic is SOAPnet's exclusive online video service, in partnership with your Internet Service Provider, where you can view two weeks of full episodes of GH, OLTL, & AMC – all commercial free! Also available are full episodes of SOAPnet original series, such as “Bank of Mom & Dad” and "Being Erica," as well as SOAPnet original series from previous years, including "GH: Night Shift" and “MVP.” Plus exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the Daytime Emmys red carpet and SOAPnet events, like Soap Nation, and interviews with your favorite daytime stars.

"Playing Reva Shayne was so much more than just a job and a paycheck. It was the role of a lifetime." -Kim Zimmer, from I'm Just Sayin'
The landscape of daytime television will dramatically change next year when soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live go off the air, cancelled after more than forty years on television. No one knows what the demise of these shows will mean for television and for the affected actors better than Guiding Light veteran and one of daytime's favorites, Kim Zimmer. Her show was cancelled in 2009, ending one of television's longest-running success stories and leaving Zimmer without a job.
This August, New American Library is excited to publish Zimmer's new book, I'M JUST SAYIN'!: Three Deaths, Seven Husbands, and a Clone! My Life as a Daytime Diva (New American Library Hardcover; August 2, 2011; $26.95; ISBN: 978-0-451-23343-1).
Zimmer, a four-time Emmy Award-winning actress, is known around the world for her twenty-seven year portrayal of Reva Shayne on the popular daytime drama Guiding Light. While on the show, Zimmer played a vixen, a manic-depressive, an Amish woman, a time traveler, a Civil War belle, a talk show host, a cancer survivor, a loving mother, and a devoted wife. But now in her new memoir, Zimmer shares the story of the woman behind Reva-from her beginnings as a small-town Midwestern girl to landing one of the greatest roles in the history of daytime television and becoming a soap opera icon.
In I'M JUST SAYIN'!, Zimmer also talks about:
* Why soap operas are going off the air after decades of popularity
* Her struggles with alcohol and how it impacted her family and her career
* How she balanced being a busy working mother (her "greatest role") and a full-time career woman
* Her encounters with such celebrities as Kathleen Turner, Alec Baldwin, and Oprah Winfrey
* How she has managed to maintain a successful marriage for thirty years
* The difficulties of losing a job later in life, especially in a field that is youth and beauty focused, and how she continues to pursue her acting dreams
Blatantly honest and wildly entertaining, I'M JUST SAYIN'! takes readers on an insightful journey through the parallel lives of Reva Shayne and Kim Zimmer and chronicles the stories behind Guiding Light, the longest-running drama in television and radio history (72 years!).

Shenell Edmonds (Destiny) was nominated for the 2011 BET Young Stars Award, which were presented on Sunday, June 26.

Soap Cancellations Wash Out Thousands of Jobs

Soap opera fans protest at ABC's offices over cancellation of AMC & OLTL!  Read Patti G's report of the rally here.

Hoover pulls ads to protest cancellation of soaps

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No More Love in the Afternoon by Catherine Hickland (about ABC Daytime's Brian Frons)

Farley Granger (ex-Dr. Will Vernon; ex-Earl Mitchell, ATWT) passed away on March 27, 2011, at his home in Manhattan at the age of 85.

Roscoe Born (ex-Mitch, OLTL; ex-Tom, Y&R; ex-Jim, AMC) has a new tune on YouTube, "I Will Be Your Song."

ABC DAYTIME'S ONE LIFE TO LIVE RELEASED THE SOUND OF A KISS ON iTUNES FEBRUARY 8
Stars of ABC's "One Life to Live" perform a selection of love songs for a Valentine's CD entitled "The Sound of a Kiss." The seven-track CD was released on iTunes ($5.99) on FEBRUARY 8 with original songs performed by Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning), Kassie DePaiva (Blair Cramer), David Gregory (Robert Ford), Kelley Missal (Danielle Rayburn) and Brittany Underwood (Langston Wilde).

Jacqueline Courtney, best known as AW's Alice, passed away on December 20, 2010, of metastatic melanoma (skin cancer) at 64, according to her daughter Jennifer. She also played Diane on Loving, Pat on OLTL, and had roles on "The Edge of Night" and "The Doctors."

OLTL Scoops and Spoilers

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