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CBS Talk Show with Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne to replace ATWT!

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CBS has picked the replacement for departing daytime soap As the World Turns: a daily panel talk show hosted by Sara Gilbert, on whose idea the show is based, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne and Leah Remini that focuses on topical events through the eyes of moms.
This item was broken exclusively by Nellie Adreeva at Deadline Hollywood. According to the post, “The pilot, executive produced by Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), John Redmann (The Tyra Banks Show) and Gilbert, was one of several CBS ordered for the ATWT timeslot, along with a Pyramid reboot hosted by Andy Richter and a cooking game show starring Emeril Lagasse. The View-type female-oriented talk show screened very well at the network and had been the clear frontrunner.” The new talkfest has a tentative October launch. The talk show will be filmed in Los Angeles where Chen also co-hosts CBS’ Early Show year-round as well as the network’s reality series Big Brother in the summer.
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ATWT Alum Martha Byrne Pays Tribute to Eileen Fulton: “The Original Soap Star Who Paved the Way for the Likes of a Susan Lucci or Andrea Evans”
Tributes and remembrances are pouring in for the the late Eileen Fulton, who passed away on July 14th at the age of 91. Fulton broke the soap opera mold back in the early 60’s when she was cast to play Lisa Miller on As the World Turns, who would turn out to be the first villiainess, vixen, and homewrecker of daytime television.
Fans of the soap loved to love to hate her for how she destroyed many lives in her quests to nab a husband; especially one she had set her sights set on. In fact, Lisa was married 8 times during the history of the show. Fulton was with ATWT on and off until the final year of the show in 2010.
Martha Byrne, who has been Fulton’s castmate for a time (Bryne played Lily Snyder from 1985 to 1989 and then again from 1993-2008 where she also played Rose D’Angelo), took to her account on x to share her thoughts on what Eileen meant to the genre, and also spoke on how Fulton handled not being as front and center on the soap operas as the years went by.

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“What can I say about Eileen Fulton. The original soap star who paved the road for the likes of a Susan Lucci or Andrea Evans,” began Bryne. “Since Eileen started on ATWT when the show was live, there aren’t enough pieces of history for us to truly grasp the enormity of her stardom and presence in the entertainment business. I remember being so impressed that she was a writer. The best part was she would use real stories from behind the scenes and change the names. Maybe that was her way of giving the audience a wink to include them even more.”

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Bryne went to share, “She (Eileen) loved her fans and she had many. I went to her one woman shows and the place was always packed. As the years went on and her role wasn’t as prominent as it had been she took it with class. I never heard her complain as many did who were frustrated they didn’t have a storyline. She was always a class act and a true pro who knew a storyline or another opportunity was only around the corner. She knew her value and was secure in herself. A national treasure who shaped the entire industry. Thank you Eileen. I’m sure there was a pink feather boa waiting for you just inside the pearly gates.”
So, what did you think about the sentiments shared by Martha on the legendary Eileen Fulton? Would you agree, as we have previously noted, that Lisa as played by Eileen, was really the prototype for all soap opera “bad girls” to follow? Did you appreciate the fact that while having a more diminished role over the last few decades of ATWT, Eileen took it in stride? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
What can I say about Eileen Fulton. The original soap star who paved the road for the likes of a Susan Lucci or Andrea Evans. Since Eileen started on ATWT when the show was live there aren’t enough pieces of history for us to truly grasp the enormity of her stardom and presence… pic.twitter.com/bN3skb2Rws
— Martha Byrne (@MarthaByrne10) July 20, 2025
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‘As the World Turns’ Legendary Eileen Fulton Passes Away at 91
The iconic Eileen Fulton, who was daytime’s first bad girl as Lisa Miller on As the World Turns, has died at the age of 91. According to the obituary on her passing, Fulton died earlier this week on July 14th in Asheville, North Carolina, after a period of declining health.
Fulton was born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty in Asheville on September 13, 1933. After studying acting in New York City, she changed her name to Eileen Fulton, when in 1960 she was cast in the film, Girl of the Night, co-starring with Anne Francis.
Eileen would change the face of daytime drama when in 1960 she was cast as the disruptor to the family dynamic, Lisa Miller, on the CBS soap opera. Throughout her ATWT run, the character of Lisa would eventually be married eight times to: Bob Hughes (1960–1964), John Eldridge (1965–1967), Michael Shea (1969–1970), Grant Coleman (1975–1979) ,Whit McColl (1982–1984), Earl Mitchell (1986–1987), Eduardo Grimaldi (1994–1995), and Martin Chedwyn (1996).

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ATWT historians know that Lisa’s full name by the time the series went off the air in 2010 was: Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn. Fulton played the role with only brief interruptions until the show was cancelled that year making her one of the longest-running tenured soap opera actors in US history. Other performers who took on the role of Lisa in Fulton’s absence included: Jane Powell, Maeve McGuire, Pamela King, Betsy Von Furstenberg, Lynn Rogers and Carmen Duncan.
Throughout her time on ATWT, it was Fulton’s eagerness to play Lisa as a villainess that contributed to the character’s popularity and therefore its longevity. She was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and was awarded a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. In addition, in 1988, Fulton received her first-ever Daytime Emmy Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series.
The legendary star was also infamous for the grandmother clause she inserted into her contract that guaranteed she would never have to play a grandmother on the soap. In an interview with the LA Times in 2000 she shared, “At that time, grandmothers had no romance at all – and I wasn’t about to let that happen to me.” At some point, this all changed and she became OK with the idea of grandmother-hood. At one point, ATWT fans were so angry at the manipulative villainess played by Fulton that she had to employ a bodyguard to protect her.

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When Futon stepped away from the show, at one point, she left to star in ATWT”s 1965 spinoff Our Private World, which aired Wednesday and Friday nights on CBS. In the story, Lisa had fled Oakdale after dumping Bob to move to Chicago, where she wed the wealthy John Eldridge (Nicolas Coster, who later would play Eduardo Grimaldi). Our Private World was canceled after four months on the air, and Fulton went back to As the World Turns in 1966.
When Eileen received her Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, she was part of a group of actors who also received the honor that year including: her ATWT co-stars, Don Hastings and Helen Wagner, plus Ruth Warrick, Frances Reid, John Clarke, Ray MacDonnell, Don Hastings, Jeanne Cooper, and Rachel Ames.

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For a time early in her career, Fulton not only was appearing in As The World Turns, which at that time was broadcast live, she was simultaneously appearing on Broadway in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and off-Broadway in the long-running musical The Fantasticks.
Fulton performed her cabaret act for many years in venues around New York and Los Angeles. In 1970, she co-authored her first autobiography, How My World Turns. In 1995 she co-authored a second autobiography, As My World Still Turns, to celebrate her 35th anniversary on As the World Turns. She also authored a series of mystery novels. In 2019, Eileen retired from show business and moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina.

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She is survived by her brother, Charles Furman McLarty (Karen) of Black Mountain; niece Katherine Morris (David) and their children, Everly Ann Morris and Easton Lane Morris of Fort Mill, S.C.; and sister-in-law Chris Page McLarty of Camden, Maine. She was pre-deceased by her parents and her brother, James Fulton McLarty.
Share your remembrances and condolences for Eileen Fulton via the comment section below, but first check out this classic early scene from ATWT featuring Fulton as Lisa, and the 2004 Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award presentation.
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ATWT Alum Tala Ashe Scores Tony Award Nomination; OLTL Alum Jonathan Groff and ‘Glee’ Favorite Darren Criss Also Receive Nods
Nominations for the 78th annual Tony Awards were announced Thursday morning honoring the best in the recent Broadway season.
The awards will be presented on June 8th live from Radio City Music Hall live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, a Tony winner for The Color Purple, hosting the show.
While musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Maybe Happy Ending and Death Becomes Her topped the nominations with 10 each, the list of Hollywood names and former soap opera alums who will be part of Broadway’s bigges makes it interesting drama for Broadway’s biggest nights.

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In addition, there were big time snubs including: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Kieran Culkin, who failed to make the nominations list, while other big names including: George Clooney are in the running.
Soap fans should take note that Tala Ashe (ex-Ameera Ali-Aziz, As the World Turns – 2007) scored her first-ever Tony nomination in the Best Featured Actress in a play category for her performance in English. The play takes place in an Iranian classroom where four adult students and their teacher leapfrog through a linguistic playground, this is a funny, stunning triumph about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication.

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On As the World Turns, Ashe’s Ameera became involved with Luke and Noah, after she fled Iraq when her mother died, after her protector, Noah’s father, the Colonel, was reassigned and imprisoned. Once in Oakdale, when he heard her sad story, Noah (Jake Silbermann) agreed to a marriage of convenience, upsetting then boyfriend Luke Snyder (Van Hansis).
Once again, Tony Award winner, Jonathan Groff (ex-Henry Mackler, One Life to Live -2007) had scored another nomination. This year for his star turn as Bobby Darin in the new musical, Just in Time. Groff is competing in the category alongside former Glee star, Darren Criss, who is nominated for his work as a retired robot in Maybe Happy Ending.

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Interestingly enough, Jeb Brown who is nominated in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Dead Outlaw, was formerly the bandmate of Beyond the Gates and General Hospital star, Jon Lindstrom.
Audra McDonald made Tony history scoring her record-setting 11th overall nomination, this year for her starring role in the musical revival of Gypsy. However, she will face-off with former Pussycat Dolls singer, Nicole Scherzinger, who plays Norma Desmond in the latest adaption of Sunset Boulevard, where she is getting all the raves this Broadway season.

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You can check out the full 78th annual Tony Award nominations here.
So, remember Tala from ATWT as Ameera? Jonathan from OLTL as Henry? Who do you think should take home a Tony Award next month in the Big Apple? Comment below.
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YAWN!
This is gonna be a big bomb!
Rob, thank you brotha (I’m black by the way). I flat out agree with you. Can you believe that Sara Gilbert actually pitched this idea to CBS? She’s already on HawthoRNe and she still gets paid for Roseanne when it’s in syndication. These ladies already make enough money for what they do. Good Lord. They rejected Pyramid and an Emeril Lagasse-hosted game show. What da matter, Les Moonves? Too chicken to get a game show on the block? (clucks like a chicken) Geez, man.
Atwt was special, realy was the best soap on air. The Talk dont we have the view.
Cudos to ya’ll! Julie, what is going on with your wardrobe? Seriously why are you allowing this. You are an incredibly beautiful woman whom always looks amazingly beautiful and you are coming on this show dressing like my mother. Whom ever dressed you for BB, should be your wardrobe girl or guy for The Talk!
Ya’ll should listen to Sharon O. as she is spot on. Our kids grow up inspite of us. Learned that the hard way, but Sharon is right. Keeps thoses babies loved and fed, keep them close to you even in bed. It brings comfort and joy ans security to them and you.
When all the kids were coming in, before I would go to sleep I would lay down thick duets and pillows and blackets and as they got older, like 4,5, etc. they come in and sleep in our room on the make shift bed. It will keep them close to you and that bond it brings, not to mention trust.
Leah has it right too!!!! Sara, hate to brerak this to you but with all your great intentions, your kids will go off to school and come home being people you won’t reconize. I sent 3 sweet little angels to kindergarden and when these sweet angels came home each day, they shared with me things and words that schocked even me. I lived under the code of hhhmmmm where did i go wrong, then a close friend of mine said to me, ” This too shall pass “….and it did……my advice is to hold on tight and enjoy the ride. Yes, I said enjoy the ride even if you don’t like it. I learned to late to just sit back and watch, but when i did. It was all ok. really ok. and like Sharon I have 3 amazingly loving, secure and kind and sucessful adult children. This I am so greatful for., and blessed.
Holly lighten up, You teach the kids well, give them all the tools they need for life then stand back and watch them work. Ten or so yrs. from now they will be your best friends. You always seem so worried about them. One day not so long from now you and hubby will be patting eachother on the backs saying what a great job ya’ll did in raising them. Ok, he will take all the credit, but that’s life. We will all know it was you;-)
Your show is great, but PLEASE JULIE, please no more Brenchel, had way more then enough of them playing for the camera. It’s become sickening!
Julie, please push for a winter season of BB. 1x a year of bb is just not enough!
Good luck ladies ya’ll are great and the show, well could be better. I watched only because of Julie. Then I liked all ya”ll. Leah, never change you are amazing! Sharon teach these ladies, you are a hero in life, in general. A major inspriation and a saint, as Ozzie is one of a kind as is my husband. They could be brothers with different parents.
Life is easy, we tend to make it hard.
Julie, please do something about bb being aired 2x a yr. PLEASE.
Good luck with The Talk, Just a bit of revamping and this show will be amazing.
I am sorry for all the peaople who lost their favorite show, but give this show a chance. They actually do alot of great things for people. Just needs some revamping is all.
Happy and Healthy Holidays,
Mandie
P.S. Have I mentioned that we want to have 2 seasons of BB every year?
God Bless you all…….
You know Julie BB13 fan page asked if we want a winter season as well to hit the like button. BB12 is over and gone, maybe it’s time to blend those to fan pages and more info. will come out and a larger fan base. more people to hit the like button….
Thanks, and good luck.
One last thing, Please don’t insult Julie . She is amazing and if she wasn’t right for this show then her husband would not have gone with it. Nothing is what it seems. Besides the fact that CBS just cancelled my favorite show Medium. I loved that show, so please stop with the awful things being said.
Julie and each one of these ladies are great and the 5 together are wonderful. Just try to watch it with an open mind. Just saying is all.
i love their show never watched a talk show before,.i think julie is a wonderful host. the italian singers they had on today were great did not get their names. the show was on 02028-11 they were wonderful. would like to know when theiralbum is coming out. they are all intresting. love them all thank you
See it pays to sleep with the boss, show #3 for Julie Chen. I said the people over at ATWT should of put her on a contract role & they (Moonves) wouldn’t of canceled the show.
I totally agree with you. How pathetic. I even read an article where Les Moonves said that ATWT wasn’t special enough to be saved. Well I can tell you that his wife’s show “The Talk” is not going to be special enough to be saved either. I will not watch even one episode. To CBS, P&G and anyone else involved with cancelling ATWT I will be through with your shows and products as of Sept. 17. You definitely didn’t give a d**n about the true and loyal fans. 🙁
I’m not liking that he said ATWT wasn’t special enough to be saved! It was special enough to last 54 years….Let’s see if this talk show lasts 54 days! I seriously doubt it!
Aftfter CBS and P&G taking away my beloved ATWT (and the best characters, Luke and Reid), you couldn’t pay me to watch this talk show.I’m so disgusted and still so heartbroken,i don’t know if I will ever stop missing ATWT…
Hey Ladies I enjoyed your show some people need to get a life the are just
jealous of you Julie, Holly, Leah, Sara, Sharon, I loved ATWT to but it’s hisory I love
this new show it deals with real life so do worry about what the haters say about you
remember they are just jealous because they are not walking in your shoe someone
wrote a poem and it said if your haven’t walked in my shoes been where i’ve been indured what I’ve unitl you have been there done that you dont have a thing to say
so stop hateing I love you Ladies alot keep your head up high
where is Holly and Leah..I enjoyed it more when they were on there
I’m sorry about the type err I made in my comments I was trying to hurry so let me try again I enjoy your show there are haters that just can’t stand to see someone else to do something inportant as this is they are jealous you Julie, Holly, Leah, Sara, Sharon,
all of you have alot to offer as women as mothers as sisters I want to encourage you Julie, Holly, Leah, Sara, Sharon. a preacher once preached about issue in our life and I thank God for you Ladies because you are dealing with issue in al of our lifes so Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Julie, Iwatch your new show a couple ot the girls could tone it down a bit LOve to see Brittney Hayes on there she was so witty and pretty oops a little ryme any way that is my opinionm. i just watched an interview she just did and she used the [i ask my self wwjd ] you must still be on her mind. Good luck you are all beautiful and bright one more thing dont ley it become ghetto I no longer watch Oprah the last year or so when she decided to talk as if she was an uneducated street person and I am sure its not only me that feels like that . Why build a school if you are going to set that type of an example sorry I am aware that I run on sheila house
The comment about covering her arms for TV was useful and may not be entirely bad: It shows others that they can make progress, too, it gives hope. Like an alcoholic with years of sobriety is encouraging to newcomers to AA. It can be done, I’m here with you for this journey is the message
Don’t care for the choice of women on this show. Holly Robinson Peete can’t even sit like a lady on the couch! Please give her lessons on how to sit like a lady. And Sharon Osborne, give me a break, enough is enough of her. Bottom line…not impressed.
I love your show, always tape it so i don’t miss it. it beats “the view” I don’t see the logic in some of the answers you have but Sharon is the best! today on marriage, I don’t know why yall find it hard to maintain a good marriage. We just celebrated our 53rd yr. anniversary. I was 18 when we married, had a very hard life as self employed people. I never worked outside the home till my last was in highschool and then I went back to school got a job, worked ten yrs and then we started a new life involving travel. I had a misscarriage, had a daughter loose an arm in an accident at nine yrs old. have six living children and 17 grandchildren and seven great grands. oh ya, on the sub. of sex, my hubby is 76 and still can’t get enough and I have never said “no I have a headache! ” I do not want my name mentioned if you do talk about this, other than that I don’t mind. Life is good, don’t see why there are so many divorces, I think it is because of living together befor marraige and no we did not have sex befor we said I do, thats important.
I love the talk and every lady on it, They r all different people that bring different opinions too the show. They keep me and my mom laughing and crying which ever emotion is appropriate at that time. So keep up the good works moms. Oh yeah love how yall dress from sexy to conservative.
its funny the ladies of the talk are talking about sacrficing for your chrildren, because my daughter in college in another state( which has a lot of snow and is freezing now) broke her hand and im am flying out on thuresday at the last minute to be with her for surgery. Im leaving 80 degree weather to FREEZING thats sacifice.
Re school districts and educational quality, there has been public national attention re our Wake Cty (Raleigh area)schools. Bussing to provide quality education re neighborhood schools has brought in a retired military man as Bd of Ed chmn. How can we help the Ohio woman who is really being persecuted! When bussing stops here it means resegregation..I am 85 and glad to be old! We made the national comic shows with this dilema! Your opinion?
I just want to say what happens when you lose your job because of down size because they went to India for the job you use to do. I feel so depress
i will be in the LA area visiting my daughter who I havent seen in over a year. How can we get tickets to your show for May 15, 16 or 17th?
Please Help!
LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR SHOW!
REGINA & JANEEN KIESCHE
Have been watching your show and enjoy it every day–except today — I was greatly disappointed when you gave Obama all the credit regarding the raid on Bin Ladin, It was not a one man show, the past President played a very large part . But most of all Our Military did what was needed so Please don’t make it sound like Obama rode over on a white horse and took care of America- Your Show is Great the way it is, It’s Light and Fun with some real heart felt subjects- Please don’t taint it with Politics..We get plenty of that….
Please ladies. I read one ladies comment about ATWT being on air for 54 years and how she would not watch an episode of Let’s Talk. Well lady all I have to say is “GET A LIFE!” . 54 years of a soap is way to much. That is all fantasy and for some reason you all buy into it as if it were reality. I find it ridiculous that as a grown women you would not have enough of a life to move the heck on. BTW! Anything with Sharon Osborne is great. She is a lady of class and is well respected which is a lot more than I can say for the bubble gum actors in the soaps if actor is a word that can be used for them. UGH!
Really people. You are complaining that the View Already exists so why another talk show like it? Well I can say the same about boring soaps! There are enough of them taking up the air waves. Please. “Will Luke and Laura ever die!” UGH! Who cares? Change is a good thing.
I mis s Holly and Leah, when will they return
Tell those ladies to go back to California with all the other phonies.
How dare they ridicule a baseball signed by the only Hero in America today Our Derek Jeter. You fools.
This show needs to be cancelled regardless of trying to raise ratings by bringing on high visibility celebrity’s
The mediocrity of the hosts is prevelant and the show is boring. I watched it the first season and I really thought it should have been cancelled then. It has gone from mediocrity to down right hopeless. Please take it ff the air unless you get rid of all the host and start over again.
The black lady [cheryl],I feel she is totaly wrong on what she stands for.The Mexican in Florida'[Get the whole story insted of guilty out of the shoot! The basket ball player with elboe vilation its was on t v not black and white but color!!!!!
this show SUCKS without Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete. They were the BEST and FUNNIEST people on the show. I used to love to watch it every day.
havent’ not watched it once..since Holly and Leah were rudely kicked off. what is wrong with CBS. oh, and Ms. Chen, YOU ARE A BORE. You are also not a very nice person.