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Holiday Episodes On the Soaps (Previews)
This week, get ready to celebrate the holiday season with your favorite soaps and your favorite soap families. Let’s take a quick look at what each daytime drama is serving up for Christmas.
Today on General Hospital it is the highly-anticipated “A Christmas Carol” episode featuring Michael Easton as Ebenezer Scrooge, and next, Jane Eliot makes her triumphant return in a guest arc as Tracy Quartermaine as she comes home for the holidays. But does Tracy have an agenda in the timing of her return, especially with the recent arrival of Brook Lynn back to the family fold?
On The Young and the Restless, families are re-united for the holidays when Fen comes home to Lauren and Michael, and Faith is back on the canvas to be with Sharon and Nick. Then, in a Christmas surprise, a mysterious little bundle of joy is left on the Newman ranch. What will Victor and Nikki do with said child and how will it effect the meaning of Christmas for them?
Over at The Bold and the Beautiful, looks like some holiday drama is set to ensue centering around everyone’s continued suspicion of Thomas Forrester and his intent with Hope Logan. Liam and Brooke are on to him, but will Thomas’ new plan to ingratiated himself to Hope work, or will he get another lump of coal from Santa?
Then on Days of our Lives, looks like just in time for Christmas, the annual Horton tree ornament hanging ritual will get underway and Julie could not be more thrilled. Meanwhile, Kayla sees Stevano in the disguise as Santa Clause when she is telling all about Christmas and the meaning of it, to the sick children at the hospital. Will she get a closer glimpse of him and find out what the hell has been going on?
Check out the promos for all four daytime dramas below. Then, let us know which soaps’ holiday moments are you most looking forward to via the comment section below.
I like Finn, just not with Anna. I love Violet. Not sure that I will watch the GH holiday episode. I would rather see “real” stories, than the drivel we have been subjected to. Please, oh please, get rid of Wes Ramsey. What a failure. Needs his mama bear to land him a job.
DMRR, I wonder if his other mama bear Anna, will help him get out of the very large hole, he’s dug for himself? After he’s gone, I hope Maxie doesn’t find herself pregnant. Oh yes, that little Violet is the cutest, isn’t she, and a good little actor.
I watched the gh episode. Wow, I was bored to death. I give them credit for trying something different, but please no more of this!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Even tho Valentin should had been Scrooge i still liked the episode but with a twist…at the end Scrooge/Finn is reunited with Belle/Anna…Scrooge isnt ever reunited in any of the classic movies with the woman he lost so i thought with an unexpected twist to the story here it does happen!!!
Christmas wish list ! Bill Bell Agnes Nixon Douglas Marland come back reincarnated in new writers bodies to simply save a dying genre! Merry Christmas I hope I get my Santa’s wish !
I loved the Christmas Day on Y&R especially with Summer and Mariah sharing their little sister’s return for the holidays.Faith is so pretty and growing up fast. I Would love to see more of her.
On a sour note. Is anyone as sick as I am seeing Phyllis sticking her face in everyone’s business, especially Adam and Chance? It’s obvious that neither man can stand her. It’s embarrassing to watch.
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George Cheeks, CBS President & CEO, on Timeline to Launch New Daytime Drama, ‘The Gates’: “We’re So Focused on Getting it Right”
March 2024 will be remembered in the TV and soap world when the news broke that CBS is prepping a brand new daytime drama. Many had thought a major network would never bring a new daytime soap into the world, given that the last time it was attempted was 25 years ago when the now defunct Passions bowed on NBC.
However, The Gates is definitely in development and moving forward with some major players associated with it including: Michele Val Jean as The Gates writer, showrunner and one of its executive producers, and Sheila Ducksworth from NAACP Venture
Now, for the first time since its announcement, George Cheeks, the president and CEO of CBS and chief content officer for news and sports at Paramount+, spoke on the project that will feature a Black family as its central focus who live in a wealthy gated community.
Speaking with Vulture, and when asked if The Gates is really something that truly has a chance of getting on the air, Cheeks clarified, “It’s super real. And just to give you a little bit of the backstory, when we hired Sheila Ducksworth to run the NAACP Venture, she and I had multiple meetings talking about what different genres she was going to lean into, and we talked a lot about daytime.”
Cheeks added, “One of the things that the data made very clear to both of us is that daytime soap operas over index with Black women, and yet when you look at soap operas, it’s usually sort of a white-led family with supporting characters that reflect more of our society. So we just thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to flip that and make the core anchor family a Black family, and then make the other characters reflect more the broader scope of society?”
The CEO gave props to Michele Val Jean, and how Ducksworth came to the table with the former B&B and GH writer. “She found this great writer, Michele Val Jean, who’s been in the soap opera space for 30 years. She came up with a pitch, and we loved it,” shares Cheeks. “We brought Procter & Gamble into it as well, because if there were going to be (product) integrations, we could do it more holistically and organically. All of that is to say, we did a lot of work on the front end to put this together. So while yes, it’s development, it’s accelerated development.”
When prodded on the timeline of when The Gates could come to full fruition, Gates related, “The actual timeline and when we’re going to do it is still uncertain, because we want to get this right. I mean, there hasn’t been a new soap opera launch since I can’t even begin to tell you when. But we have great success with Bold and the Beautiful and Young and the Restless, and so we think we’re the right folks to be launching a new soap. I wish I could tell you more about exact timing, but we’re so focused on getting it right, and that will dictate when we’re ready to launch it.”
The CBS exec also shared that whether The Gates will wind up an hour soap or half-hour is not yet determined, but that it is being developed as an hour show.
So, after reading what George Cheeks, the CBS President & CEO had to say about ‘The Gates’, are you even more excited for what looks to the first new network soap in 25 years? Comment below.
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51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards Announce Broadcast Date on CBS
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) revealed on Tuesday, that the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on Friday night, June 7th (8 – 10 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+*.
This year will mark the 18th time CBS has broadcast the Daytime Emmy Awards, which is more than any other network.
The 2024 Daytime Emmys will take place at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. Back in December of 2023, the delayed 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were also held at that venue. The June 7th date for the upcoming ceremony will be the first time in several years that the event is scheduled a few weeks earlier than normal; excluding last year’s revised date to the actors and writers strikes.
Lifetime Achievement honoree, nominations, host, and additional information will be announced in the coming weeks.
In a statement, Adam Sharp, President and CEO of NATAS noted, “We eagerly anticipate our return in June as we once again partner with CBS to recognize the exceptional and talented individuals who make daytime television great. We’re thrilled to kick off our second half-century of the Daytime Emmys.”
The Daytime Emmy Awards have recognized outstanding achievement in television programming and crafts since 1974, honoring work in a variety of categories, including daytime dramas, talk shows, instructional programming, hosting, culinary, and legal/courtroom programs. In 2021, NATAS and the Television Academy jointly announced plans to realign the Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards to be organized by content genre, as opposed to program airtime.
The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will once again be produced by NATAS and Associated Television International (ATI), which produced Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies on The CW in 2009 and on CBS in 2010, 2011, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Adam Sharp and Lisa Armstrong are executive producers from NATAS, while David McKenzie is executive producer from ATI.
So, glad to know that the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards honoring performance and shows in the 2023 calendar year, will be held in early June this year, and once again broadcast on CBS? Comment below.
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