February 2008 News Archive (Page 13)

David Chisum joined the cast of One Life to Live last year. Before that, daytime television wasn't exactly on his schedule.

“I never watched soap operas,” the actor said to eyeonsoaps.com. “Probably because I wasn't home during the days and no one in my family watched the soaps. I began to study them when I started auditioning for the soaps.”

Chisum took on the role of Miles Laurence last February and become a valuable member of the show's core since then, playing major roles in story lines such as the death of Marty Saybrooke (Christina Chambers).

“After Marty's death any hope of impressing Marty and perhaps having some kind of understanding between them has gone,” Chisum said. “I believe Miles really loved Marty and wanted to be a good husband to her but was terribly ill equipped. I think Miles has been slowly redeemed and needs to shed the guilt while moving forward with his life.”

Moving forward, Chisum is interested in what One Life to Live fans have to say about where they want his character to go.

“Miles is a unique character in that he is limitless in the potential storylines,” he said. “The beauty in playing the character is that he can be unpredictable and naïve. I would like to know what Miles fans and [One Life to Live viewers] want from Miles. I'm interested to know what fans are interested in seeing Miles experience.”

You heard the star, fans: What do you want to become of Miles?

Here's what fans of General Hospital: Night Shift can look forward to on the season one DVD of that series. It's available low.

• Actors: Steve Burton, Kimberly McCullough and Jason Thompson
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Number of discs: 3
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: February 12, 2008
• Run Time: 530 minutes

The headline above pretty much sums it up.

Check out All My Children hunk Aiden Turner now, sans a shirt...

He's the new Casey Hughes.

But what do we really know about actor Billy Magnussen? CBS.com was determined to find out...

CBS.com: Tell us a little about yourself.
Billy Magnussen: I was born in Queens then I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. I lived there for 10 years. I went to college at the wonderful and amazing North Carolina School of the Arts. I have two little, awesome brothers. My parents are amazing and really supportive of what I do. Let's see what else. I was a jock growing up--football, lacrosse, soccer, basketball.

My brother is unstoppable right now as a heavyweight. He's amazing and only in high school. I also play the guitar and I'm in a band. We are just playing around here but we want to go out. We totally rock out!

CBS.com: How did the role on As the World Turns come about?
Billy Magnussen: Actually when I was in college, I had auditioned through my agent and I had put myself on tape and then they were interested so I came up to audition. Long story short, I didn't get the character that I was auditioning for. But, then the recast of Casey opened up and they remembered me so I was brought back in to test. I tested with Marnie Schulenburg (Alison).

Read the full interview with the actor now.

Terri Colombino and Austin Peck are the hottest non-couple on daytime TV.

The As the World Turns co-stars recently spoke with Soap Opera Digest about their relationship, characters and other topics:

Digest: Was there chemistry right away?
Peck: I thought so. I tried to give her permission to be the way she needed to be with me as the character and really hit my feet off the table or really come at me. I don't even know if I said anything, but even after we started working, any time it was in the script for her to be physical with me, I said, "Push me! Really go for it! Just do it!" It was giving her permission to be how she needs to be as Katie to Brad and that just gives me what I need.
Colombino: He still does that.

Peck: But as far as the screen test was concerned, I saw the character and I felt like I saw what they wanted and I saw the traps that most actors or that I myself might have made. I knew that I was going to go for the fun. Katie is trying to grow up and take her life seriously. Here comes this guy who doesn't take much of anything serious, but he is inside. And I thought that was the fun thing about him that he was challenging her.

Read the full interview now.

Another exciting week of daytime drama is underway. The Soap Dispenser has all the action covered with its Monday, February 11 soap opera recaps:

• Days of Our Lives
• General Hospital
• The Young and the Restless
• All My Children
• Guiding Light
• As the World Turns
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• One Life to Live

Thank you for visiting The Soap Dispenser for soap opera news and spoilers from The Bold and the Beautiful to All My Children, General Hospital and all the rest. Thanks for making The Soap Dispenser the #1 soap opera site online!

Previous reports had indicated Mary J. Blige would perform on One Life to Live for back-to-back episodes airing this Thursday and Friday. Now, however, it appears as though the award-winning singer will appear on February 15 and February 18 instead.

Either way, she's excited to make a return to Llanview

"It's absolutely amazing to be integrated into a soap opera I've watched since I was a little girl," said Blige. "I performed on the show two years ago and had a ball, and I am beyond thrilled to be welcomed back again."

Brian Frons, Daytime President of Disney ABC-Television Group is equally psyched.

"Mary J. Blige represents another of today's top recording artists who sees the power of ABC Daytime as a promotional platform to reach the highly engaged, passionate audience of women 18-49," he said. "Music is an important component to daytime storytelling -- it is relevant, contemporary and builds emotional intensity."

Blige will perform on One Life to Live as part of Starr Manning's 16th birthday party. We simply went bowling for our 16th birthday celebration.

On an upcoming episode of All My Children, Angie is reunited with Jesse.

And, well, she reacts pretty much like anyone would upon seeing her one true love... who has been presumed dead for several years:

We can't wait for this All My Children reunion!

On General Hospital, Sam is known for being unlucky in love. Maybe that's because she often chooses bad boys such as Sonny and Jason.

But even a romance with one of the town's finer citizens, Lucky, didn't work out too well. Why not? Kelly Monaco explains as much to Soap Opera Weekly.

Soap Opera Weekly: Were you surprised that so many viewers were really enjoying the Sam/Lucky coupling?
Kelly Monaco: I'm always surprised by the reaction to any relationship. You never know how the audience is going to take to it. The only gauge I have is from Super Soap Weekend. Fans seemed to be split. Half the people are Jason and Sam fans. Half are on the bandwagon to this pairing. So half of them hate one or the other [couple].

Weekly: Do you like the Sam/Lucky story?
Monaco: Sam and Lucky's romance was nice. It was sweet. It was friendly. It was innocent. I mean, gosh, Sam did do a lot of manipulating and crap [to land Lucky], but he was teaching her a lot.

Read the full interview with Monaco now.

Stop now if you don't wish to read this Days of Our Lives spoiler - but Frank Parker will be exiting the show he's appeared on since 1983.

Parker's departure will tie in with Patsy Pease's (Kimberly Brady Donovan) brief return on Wednesday, February 27, as she comes back to attend Grandpa Shawn's funeral.

The veteran actor also starred on The Young and the Restless in 1972 and went on to portray Paddy Kelly in 1980 on General Hospital. He's enjoyed a great run on Days.