By Michele Dargan Given the fact that Trevor St. John has brought so much to the role of Todd Manning over the past 8 years, I think it’s insulting that the One Life To Live writers have marginalized his contributions by A. Trying to make us believe that he was brainwashed to be Todd all this time And [...]

By Michele Dargan Good News for All My Children and One Life To Live fans! It appears that “ALL My Children” and “One Life To Live” will continue on after the shows air their final television episodes. Read the official press release from ABC/Disney below: ABC LICENSES ITS ICONIC SOAPS “ALL MY CHILDREN” AND “ONE [...]

By Silas Kain A CALL TO RALLY THE SOAP TROOPS IN A NEW MISSION… Hi there. It’s been along, strange week hasn’t it? So, let’s get down to business and have a serious, adult discussion. I’ve got a few ideas. Let me clarify, WE have a lot of ideas. Some are good. Others are subject [...]

By Michele Dargan Rumors have abounded for weeks….no make that months…that ABC was cancelling One Life To Live or All My Children or….maybe both! There have also been rumors that ABC will merge the two soaps together!! Crazy, eh? Maybe not so much. We’re not exactly sure WHAT’s going on. But we’ve heard through very [...]

By Silas Kain As a soap opera aficionado for the better part of my life I’ve seen many tales told over the years which I could take or leave. You know the drill. Stories get remade, retold, repeated or as I like to call them regurgitated. In the last decade it seems there’s been a [...]

By Silas Kain Happy New Year, SoapBox1 fans! I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve submitted an article and for that I apologize. Anyway, there are three pieces I have in various stages of development. One of the pieces is about James Franco and his return to General Hospital. The events of this week [...]

By Michele Dargan The KISS!! Yessireee! The best thing that’s happened on General Hospital in just about forever was Tuesday’s grand finale…. The IN-credibly IN-tense closing scene between Michael and Abby culminated in THAT KISS! It made me look so forward to Wednesday’s eppy…..only to be totally disappointed when there was no Michael and Abby [...]

By Michele Dargan When last we saw Aidan Devane on All My Children, he had been sent to jail for kidnapping charges after holding Kendall against her will. The whole obsessive love for Kendall gone awry had fans going – huh??? Many fans complained that the writers made Aidan do things that were totally out [...]

By Silas Kain Normally my column this week would be about something I like or dislike about one of the many controversial story lines we are experiencing across all three of ABC’s “stories”. But today I want to appeal to you about the genre of soaps in general. Let’s face it, you and I both [...]

By Silas Kain I was holding off writing about this because I had more concerns about One Life to Live. But after watching last week’s episodes of General Hospital I can’t hold back any longer. So, here goes. It’s not one of my more wordy pieces but it gets to the heart of my greatest [...]