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Pluto TV Launches Soap Channel with B&B and Y&R Dedicated Episodes
Great news soap fans, you have another place to catch your favorite CBS daytime dramas. On Tuesday, ViacomCBS’ free streaming television service, Pluto TV, launched its soap channel with past episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless.
Pluto TV’s soap channel launched with the log line: “Soap operas aren’t just for daytime. They’re for anytime. Get your fix of melodrama 24/7 on Pluto TV Soaps.”
In terms of what years and episodes are available, viewers can now enjoy from the CBS sister soaps, season 47 and 48 of Y&R, which is partially from when Mal Young was EP and head writer, and then into the current regime of Anthony Morina and Josh Griffith. For The Bold and the Beautiful, the episodes start back from September of 2018.
To watch Live or OnDemand, go to the Pluto TV Soaps channel website, or download the Pluto TV app via the App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store or Roku etc. You can also click here for your preferred device.
Newer episodes from B&B and Y&R will be available on Pluto TVs OnDemand service and can be viewed from Smart Televisions, Apple TV, Playstation, Tivo Roku, Xfinity, and Chromecast. You can also watch via the company’s website without registering.
So, do you hope Pluto TV’s soap channel, builds itself out and includes more soaps from the past, and those that ran on CBS? What season of Y&R and B&B would you like to see added to the service? Share your thoughts below.
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I will definitely sign up if they add more soaps. Start at ABC with their off the air soaps. I’d also love to see ATWT and AW.
It’s free. And it’s owned by Viacom who owns CBS. I doubt you’ll see ABC soaps…
The CBS soaps have never aired in Hell, but I think this is a great idea! And I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Days of Our Lives in a similar streaming setup, as NBC has the Peacock streaming service available for online distribution.
It’s the General Hospital fans who are going to lose out here. Because even if they streamed older episodes of GH (or the other long gone ABC soaps, for that matter, it would either be on the pay only Hulu, or the “completely useless if you don’t have an overpriced cable tv subscription” ABC.com
I checked it out– not for me.
It’s a commercial mill–
20mins per episois of comerchials-
But– that’s why it’s free..
Current episodes are a week behind.
So- for me that makes it runs.
To others that may enjoy it, have fun.
20 minutes of commercials is LESS than what you get if you watch the soaps on Live TV now. It’s an “hour” long show, with 36 minutes of actual content.
Thankfully less than that, if you watch Days on Peacock. Slightly less for GH on Hulu, though abc.com is still horrible with their LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ad breaks. Don’t have Paramount Plus here in Hell yet, so not sure how many ads they put into the CBS soaps on their streams, but I’m guessing it’s comparable.
I use a VPN and watch Y&R from Canada–
Try a VPN and Canada–
The soaps have an overkill of commercials.
There should be a law limiting commercials..
A 60-minute program with 20 minutes of commercials is criminal LOL !
That’s commercials every 7 minutes-
How can one even follow a train of thought interpreted every 7 minutes-
that totally kills the excitement/mood.
They’re gonna start rerunning the much-derided (tho Emmy winning…:-/) Mal Young years on Y&R? That’s like beginning Star Wars movies with The Phantom Menace! Or let’s reboot Guiding Light with the Ellen Wheeler years in 2007 when everything was dying. This is terrible.
First of all…NO. If you’re gonna launch a soap channel it needs to be retro…end of. And to Delonjo, the Wheeler years were some of the best. She had the right idea but the wrong network bigwigs to make it successful. All that annoying background music shouldn’t have stayed. The realistic Springfield was intriguing but CBS wouldn’t let that soap expand into territory that would’ve changed daytime drama for the better. And that’s end of.
And it was a cheaper but more visual production model re: Guiding Light.
Thanks for the new Soap channel! I would love to see episodes of both of these soaps from when they first aired years ago.
Pluto is free but I would pay for any service that ran soap episodes from the 80s, particularly Santa Barbara & Days of our Lives. But even CBS shows, which I didn’t really get into, I would PAY to support any streamer that actually brought back the golden era (1981 thru 1986), for those execs who have no clue. SoapNet really dropped the ball here. Let’s hope streamers like Pluto will pick it up and run with it!!
Guiding Light please AND some original material would be great!
Phil,
GL was my favorite as long as we don’t have to see Annie Dutton AKA as Nina on GH.
YES! Definitely add more soaps from the past! OLTL, AMC, GL, and The Edge of Night would all be great!
Guiding Light aired on CBS, but I’m not sure who owns the rights to the show. The others you mentioned were all ABC shows, so there’s zero chance that Pluto would stream them. Though as I said previously, they could easily end up on ABC.com or Hulu. Maybe ABC.com would even stream those for free without a subscription to an overpriced cable tv package required, since they are not current programs.
I believe Proctor & Gamble still holds the rights to GL (as well as ATWT, AW….and I believe Edge of Night as well. I don’t know why they refuse to sell the rights. Soon all the people who would pay to watch them will be dead.
I read somewhere that streamimng or broadcasting those classic P&G episodes is problematic because no one anticipated the streaming/ multiple platform revolution and there are no agreements as to soap residual’s in place. Most likely Pluto is adding some of the forgotten nighttime soaps like Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road, Executive Street.
I would watch all of those
Darn it!!!!! I was jumping for joy until the article mentioned season s 47 & 48. Now I’m sad again. I was hoping to stream all the 1990’s episodes
I think the ptb wont show any golden era 80s, 90s years because it will remind viewers what utter trash y n r has turned into! No imagination, no oppurtunity for new characters to enrich the canvas without whiny viewers bitching because they prefer to see stale Jack being sappy or Pyhliss screaching her lines. In the 80s outside the Abbotts and Newmans we got a break from the incest with the Williams and the Winters and later even the Baldwins and for a brief time the Dennisons.
On that note Mal Young had the balls to bring in the Rosales to mix up some new blood( however to quickly) until Rasict viewers flipped out. I ll take Youngs version over this nothing happening maddening Griffith crapola where we see Jack moping around, Phick 4.0 and Abby and Devon who should a sleepaid app
I think they should include one life to live and all my childrrn
I would like to see GH aired cuz my wife loves that show and she’s kind of got me into it. Young and the Restless is great but GH I believe is better! Please take this and you consideration cuz it’s still a great watch show and not everybody has antennas or digital antennas or streaming services, thank you for your time and have a blessed day.
It looks like the current run of Lucas Adams (Noah) and Tamara Braun (Sienna) on The Young and the Restless is coming to an end, after the Monday, August 3 edition of the CBS daytime drama revealed that Noah and Sienna are leaving Genoa City and heading back to Los Angeles.
In the storyline, Noah informed his mother, Sharon (Sharon Case) and half-sister Mariah (Camryn Grimes) that he and Sienna made the decision to move back to the West Coast to put distance between themselves and Matt Clark (Roger Howarth). Although Noah did not say it was a permanent move, he did assure his mom that once Matt is hopefully gone from Genoa City they could return.
However, as previewed already on the video teaser for this week’s episodes of Y&R (see below), it appears Noah left Genoa City’s The Shadow Room to be run by a returning Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian). So with that, coupled with today’s episode, it would appear the move could wind up being more permanent.
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COMINGS AND GOINGS
Adams made his Y&R debut on November 4, 2025 as the successor to Rory Gibson who last played Noah on-screen in April of 2023. Earlier in 2025, Gibson took over the role of Michael Corinthos on Genera Hospital replacing Chad Duell, who stepped away from the part after 15 years.
Braun who played Adam’s mother on Days of Our Lives when she was Ava Vitali and he was Tripp Dalton, first appeared on Y&R back on October 14, 2025, where we soon learned she had become Noah’s lover as the new character, Sienna Bacall. It should be noted, Adams was on contract with the number #1 soap, while Braun has been on recurring status.
With Josh Griffith now exited as head writer of The Young and the Restless, and the newly announced co-head writing team of Jamey Giddens and Dan O’Connor having taken his place and starting their new tenure this week, it will be interesting to see how the duo resets the show, and if a Noah and Sienna return is in the cards for the future or not.
So, what do you think about the seeming departures of Lucas Adams and Tamara Braun from The Young and the Restless? Weigh-in via the comment section. But first, check out our recent live chat with Tamara and Lucas on the Michael Fairman Channel.
Rosie O’Donnell revealed that she plans to head back to a seat at the table of ABC’s morning talk show The View.
The announcement came during Monday’s episode of The Tangle Podcast where she shared she will participate in “in whatever way they want” her or “just as a guest” for its upcoming 30th season.
The View’s season 30 will kick-off this fall in September. O’Donnell explained, “They’re bringing back all the hosts, I think. And, you know, I’m pretty proud of that show, what it’s become and how it really speaks to the people and to politics.”
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ROSIE ON HER PREVIOUS GO-ROUNDS ON THE VIEW
As fans of The View know, O’Donnell famously had two different one-year stints on the talk show in 2007 and again in 2014- 2015. She often feuded with then co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
However, during her discussion with host, Kyle Ridley on The Tangle Podcast, O’Donnell also noted she often had tense moments with longtime moderator and anchor, Whoopi Goldberg.
O’Donnell also expressed, “Many, many people got the short end of the stick there. It was, you know, it was a factory where people were being churned in and out and their tenuous security, nobody got to be calm. It also was a show at the time that was run by a man. A show created by a woman, for women, about women, and the man was deciding what we should talk about. And that didn’t sit right with me, you know.”
Back in 2023, Brooke Shields had asked Rosie on her podcast, Now What? with Brooke Shields, about how she felt on her two stints at The View and all the controversy that surrounded it. Rosie at that time, stated, “I know this, it’s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness. It was not something I’d ever do again.”
You can check out the clip with Rosie and Kyle Ridley discussing her return to The View in some form for its upcoming 30th season below.
Then weigh-in: Would you be excited to see Rosie, even for a one-day or a week guest stint on the upcoming celebratory season of The View, or not so much? Let us know via the comment section.
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General Hospital Fan Club Weekend brought out many of your favorites to the four day event; with the main cast gathering on Saturday, August 1. Fans near and far attended the weekend held this year at the Burbank Marriott Hotel. Whether it be the main cast event or the smaller more intimate events featuring two or three cast members a great time was had by all.
Some of the cast participating in the main cast event included: Cyrus Hobbi (Yuri), Gary James Fuller (James), Bradford Anderson (Spinelli), Viron Weaver (Wiley), Paige Herschell (Jacinda), Chris McKenna (Brennan), Josh Kelly (Cody), Kayden Brenna Tokarsi (Scout), Cassandra James (Terry), Laura Wright (Carly), Dominic Zamprogna (Dante), Carolyn Hennesy (Diane), Rick Hearst (Ric), Adrian Anchondo (ex-Marco), and Chloe Lanier (ex-Nelle).
In addition to, Van Hansis (Lucas), Cameron Mathison (Drew), Ryan Paevey (ex-Cassius), Easton Rocket Sweda (Leo), Maurice Benard (Sonny), Kristen Vaganos (Molly), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), Kate Mansi (ex-Kristina), Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth), Cynthia Watros (Nina), Kristina Wagner (Felicia) and more.
Take a look at some of the snaps from the main event arrivals below:
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GH’s Rick Hearst with on-screen daughter, Kristen Vaganos, plus Nancy Lee Grahn, and Kate Mansi.
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GH’s Maurice Benard on-hand to meet the fans.
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Jack Brennan in the house … Chris McKenna.
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Adrian Anchondo, Van Hansis and Anchondo’s boyfriend, Days of Our Lives, Colton Little.
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GH’s Josh Kelly and his gal, the former Nelle Benson of Port Charles, Chloe Lanier.
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Who is James’ father? Not Cassius or Spinelli, actually. Actors Gary James Fuller, Ryan Paevey and Bradford Anderson!
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One of General Hospital’s newest cast members, Kayden Brenna Tokarski attends her first GHFCW event.
Check out some more arrival images featuring: Laura Wright (Carly), Cassandra James (Terry), Carolyn Hennesy (Diane) and more in the gallery below.
Michael Fairman TV will be adding more images to this post in the day ahead.
So, were you glad to see so many of your GH favorites attending this year’s General Hospital Fan Club Weekend? Let us know via the comment section.
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