It sounds super exciting Michael! When is this going to air? Sounds very much like another Erica Kane! She will make the show perfect. Will be a delight to watch. To bad it’s on ABC. They don’t deserve her!

Yeah, chewing the scenery. Perfect for her.

She will great for this role, she is great in anything she does. I’am looking forward to this show even though ABC has not brought backAMC. I’m still hope one day AMC and OLTL will be back but, until then I will still look forward to seeing Susan on this new show.

I happy for Susan and for Brianna Brown, but what I wouldn’t give to see Erika Slezak or Florencia Lozano! How can people ignore the talent of OLTL just because it was between AMC and GH?

Same ole Erica Kane role.
I know the guy and woman on this site I defended her against is going to post the same thing. It’s ALWAYS: rich and powerful men; men chasing/swarning over her; appealing to her Erica Kane ego; seducing men; she’s always wealthy; and having servants/ staff bow to her. Yawning…. It’s the same ole Erica Kane character.
Let me see her play a lawyer, or someone trying to figure out the bad guy, or a complicated case, a detective, investigator, or a victim that rescues herself without the need of a man. We ALL know Susan Lucci is beautiful, she was born that way. We don’t need to be reminded in everything she does INCLUDING Gloria Estefans video. I defend this woman like nobodies business and right on this site, and Gee…, ALL my life really being such a fan. But at some point, (and after 40 years on AMC and outside projects over the years playing rich and beautiful swarned by men) one would think she should want to DISPLAY some other range in her acting chops & abilities (ESPECIALLY with AMC having ended ) in THIS next phase of her career. Of course I will support, BUT for all of you that have shut ABC down (other than GH) will you?

I’m happy for Susan.

She stayed with AMC, it got canceled, sadly, but another door was opened for her. She deserves it!!

Unfortunately I have an everything-but-GH boycott on ABC and I in light of ABC/Disney’s recent shenanigans with the whole Tivo thing, I don’t see that changing any time soon. I won’t be watching.

wow, sounds like a stereo typical /racist show, four maids, all hispanic, really? marc cherry, sounds like maybe Nicolette Sheridan is right about you.

Though I haven’t followed closely Susan’s career as I don’t watch AMC, I will say this sounds like a nice promotion for her career. I wish her the best!

Bravo for Lucci , tv, fans and entertainment. Yes, sad she is typecast and that’s life. Erica Kane is iconic and when you hire Lucci sadly people want Erica Kane. We know she can act if you have seen some of her movies but still the world knows her as Erica Kane and people who hire her hire that cachet. Come on, who really knows Erika Sleazak as great as she is an actress? But they know Erica Kane or the woman who took for ever to win an Emmy. Marc Cherry like Discovery, Army Wives and Hot In Cleveland hire Lucci to be Erica Kane – it is rare someone is that identifiable through a character. Note, even HIC writes Susan Lucci as Erica Kane but those who know Lucci know she isn’t close to Erica Kane – hence showing she can act. Too bad she is just a co star; wouldn’t it have been great to see her as a lead. But ageism does seem to exist. Hopefully some of those other out of work actors from the soaps will get jobs but there is a lot of competition out there. And ageism exists to this day sadly.

I only watch GH……because of the Mannings. I will never tune into ABC again…..nor will anyone in my house…..nor will I see a Disney movie…..or any of it’s other studios….nor will Disney gifts be purchased ever again for any of the children in my family. I think they are run by disgusting greedy misers without any respect for their loyal viewers. I stopped watching the View, Modern Family, and Castle. I never started Revenge…..nor will I watch any future drivel from the creative minds at ABC. It would take Erica Slezak being cast as the one of the wives for me to bend on this issue.

-Oprah will interview Bobby Christian on OWN tomorrow night, Sunday 3/11
-Finale of the Bachelor Monday night, heard he picked Courtney. 3/12

I won’t boycott ABC and still watch shows there. Yes I miss my AMC and OLTL alot but I also love other ABC shows. I wish Susan Luck on her new show and I will watch it. I may even record Army Wives just to see her next week.

I think for Susan Lucci to be her age, an ethnic female, and known mainly only for her work in daytime nonetheless, to even be offered primetime roles is incredible. And even moreso, as a lead! No matter what we may think of her versitility as a character, her range shouldn’t be questioned. As Erika, I believed she was genuinely disgraced and disgusted when her youngest daughter came out. I believed she hated her oldest daughter for showing back up in her life and reminding her of a past she’d rather have forgotten. Yet, in the end, you couldn’t convince me that there’s nothing she wouldn’t do for those two. She played weak damsel one scene, and jungle lion next. She gave you strung out during her intervention with her brother Mark, Jackson, and children. She could make you feel apart of a scene with that million dollar smile, or make you feel like she was coming after you with that angry glare. She gave you a over-bearing little girl from nowhere, and showed you what her life was like and how she turned out 40 years later. Good choices, bad choices, in both business and personal. She pulled off background, supporting, lead, comedy, drama……..the list goes on. Fact of the matter is, she became the póster child for the soap world. Soaps had been dying long before last years cancellations. And why? Because of “us”. The people who didn’t take the time to túne in. Or stopped watching simply because they’re favorite characters weren’t featured enough. Or because theyve didn’t like the writing at the time. Then, the ratings declined. And kept declining. Til finally some jerk felt like they didn’t matter anymore, and started cutting soaps left and right. And it’s only going to continúe if we keep up this ‘ I deserve what I’VE come to expect in just MY head and I want EXACTLY what I want, ALL the time’ kind of attitudes. Instead of actually just being TRUE FANS of not just the soaps, but the amazing actors who’ve made us love, hate, cry, bitch, and every other emotion or reaction caused by a classic soap scene. Marc Cherry has proven himself a soap fan. Look how many former soaps stars are/were/have been on Desperate Housewives. Or in cases like Tuc, were given the chance to do primetime as well as daytime at once, and shine a little light back on daytime soaps. AND also keep in mind, his characters are not always what they appear to be. To look at Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria, two former soap stars, (one even being from ABC at one point), their characters have gone leaps and bounds from the cliché characters they were defined as before the show ever premiered. So, I say bravo Lucci for still standing tall in the game. Bravo Cherry for casting more former soap stars and not the same old faces from other cancelled primetime shows. Or even the big thing now,… Read more »

Hollywood is always casting minority women as maids. No thank you, I will not watch this show. Hollywood is racist and will never change.

It is amazing how people have such differing opinions. Also, the dedicaton to AMC and OLTL is amazing. I know I cna’t convince people but I have seen Susan Lucci in Army wies and she was great in a non Erica role. In fact, she was great in a non erica role in The Secret of Anastasia miniseries. Still people wanted Erica Kane and thus her movie roles and probably Devious Maids. I do blame the writers for not giving Lucci more range. We have seen she can do it but they rarely wrote for her – it’s llike relied on Lucci to make crap look like gold. I think Lucci has great comedic timing; she has th emain problem that Erica kane is such an inconic role and she is identified with this role. You can’t say too many people are so identifaible with one role. Man of us cannot name Streep’s many characters sbut Lucci is Erica Kane though all reports are she isn’t Erica Kane in real life – which is a testament to her acting. Seh is needs casting agents to give her non Erica roles which she is more than capable ofhandling but I do think the world would have trouble of her playing an old grandmother fending for her children or fight some disease after seeing Hotel Nationel video. She looked like an amazing sultry cougar.

I have not watched ABC or Disney since the last day of AMC. Them giving Susan Lucci this role will not change that, death to ABC!