By Michele Dargan Hey Gang! Last night, Silas Kain of Delibernation BlogTalkRadio Show – and a Soapbox1 contributor – launched his Surge on Soaps week. We all know that soaps are being cancelled right and left….As The World Turns will air its final show on CBS this Friday… Silas refuses to acknowledge that this will [...]

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 Michele Dargan It’s sad to see the soaps dying – one-by-one. Last year, Guiding Light. This year, As The World Turns. Ugh! For someone like me, who’s been watching soaps for more than 40 years, It’s just plain sad….sad to see what soaps have become. I look back on the old days of soap [...]

By Michele Dargan First of all, let me start out by saying I loved the tribute to Dick Clark and American Bandstand. So well-deserved! It was difficult watching Dick Clark sobbing at the end and I do think they could have taken the camera off of him sooner. I also am so happy that Agnes [...]

By Joshua More than a five year anniversary is EXTREMELY rare on soaps, but the Hughes family on ATWT has gotten a few long marriages under their belt. Original players Nancy and Chris had celebrated over fifty years together, which is AMAZING. They were the first (and last so far) soap couple to reach the [...]

By Joshua “Steamboat: Most Loved Soap. “Today’s Episode of Steamboat is Brought To You By Lactene for milky hair. It’s Not Silky, It’s Milky, With Lactene.” This is the phrase that ends episode one and begins every episode thereafter of the most talked about, new online soap “Steamboat”, which was created by Michael O’Leary (ex-Rick [...]

By Joshua Move over Nuke! Here comes Leid! Back in 2007, soap fans went nuts when CBS announced As The World Turns was bringing on Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann) as a love interest for Luke Snyder (Van Hansis). It would be the first male same sex couple on soaps. And at first, everybody loved them. [...]

By Joshua While As the World Turns comes to an end, I find it hard to say goodbye. It has been a tough year for soaps – first Guiding Light and now As the World Turns are cancelled. But there is one thing that keeps me happy. When Guiding Light ended, it was announced that [...]

By Joshua There is a romance brewing, and it’s a doozy. Janet (Julie Pinson) and Dusty (Grayson McCouch) on ATWT were never in the same circle. I don’t think they ever had a scene together until her sister Teri (Vanessa Ray) hit town and began working for him. But they are the kind of slow, [...]

By Joshua As anyone who watches As the World Turns would know, one of the major storylines is Liberty’s leukemia. A core character, Liberty is Brad’s lovechild with Janet and she is also Parker’s ex-wife. Liberty’s cancer was a rumor that began when her current portrayer, Meredith Hagner, announced that she was leaving the show [...]