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As Drew Cain on General Hospital, Cameron Mathison is going through a host of challenges as the newly-elected politician is embroiled in a scandalous love affair with Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), the wife of his nephew Michael (Chad Duell). Off-screen, Drew’s situation arguably pales in comparison to his portrayer’s. As Mathison’s social media followers are well aware, it’s as if the Daytime Emmy acting nominee’s tumultuous real-life is being written from that great soap in the sky by the late James E. Reilly (Passions) on crack cocaine. Despite his recent tragedies, including his house burning down, the actor showed up to present at the 32nd Annual Movieguide Awards that taped on Friday night at the Avalon Theatre in Hollywood. The show, which honors faith-based programming, is set to pay tribute to the First Responders of the Los Angeles Fires when it airs next month on Gac...

Passions spoilers and updates tease with the exciting news that All My Children might be making a comeback as a holiday film on Lifetime, other shows may as well. Soap Hub recently reached out to the former cast of Passions to see what they thought of the idea of their show doing the same!

Passions Spoilers: The History Of The Show

Passions made its debut on NBC on July 5, 1999, created by James E. Reilly, a writer known for his work on Days of our Lives.

This soap opera stood out for its intriguing blend of supernatural themes and classic soap opera drama, focusing on the lives of the residents in the fictional New England town of Harmony.

The show featured typical soap opera elements such as family feuds and forbidden love, but it was the supernatural aspects that truly distinguished Passions.

Characters like the witch Tabitha Lenox, (Juliet Mills), and her doll-turned-son Timmy Lenox,...

In light of the news that All My Children is potentially being rebooted as a holiday movie on Lifetime, SoapHub reached out to a few of your favorite Passions alums to see their thoughts about the potential to bring their show back.

History

Passions debuted on NBC on July 5, 1999, and was the brainchild of James E. Reilly, who had previously written for Days of our Lives. Known for its unique mix of supernatural elements and traditional soap opera drama, Passions centered around the residents of Harmony, a fictional New England town. Storylines featured family rivalries, forbidden romances, and other soap staples, but it was the supernatural twists that set Passions apart. Characters like the witch Tabitha Lennox and her doll-turned-son Timmy added an eccentric flair, captivating audiences with spells, curses, and strange occurrences.

Despite its unique approach, Passions struggled with ratings, but its devoted fanbase kept it going for almost a decade.

Days of Our Lives (Dool) spoilers indicate fans haven’t seen Tony Dimera in a long while, and actor Thaao Penghlis recently announced after four decades, he’s officially departed with the soap. He was last on the daytime drama in June 2023.

He recently talked with Soaps.com about some backstage drama with James E. Reilly, former Dool head writer.

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers – Thaao Penghlis’s Rocky Relationship With James E. Reilly

During the interview, Penghlis notes that he and Reilly weren’t always on the same page. Thaao notes, “Well, James Reilly was not a very nice guy. He liked me a lot for the first year. And then there was a bit of a sabotage that went on [behind the scenes] because I was popular on the show. There was another actor and an actress who wanted to see me go.”

Thaao didn’t reveal the names of the...

Thaao Penghlis has opened up about what it is like to be on the set of Days Of Our Lives. The long-time soap opera star was on daytime TV for 40 years before announcing his departure earlier this month. Viewers last saw him on Days in June 2023 and Penghlis confirmed that will be the last time they see his character Tony. However, it’s not the last you’ll hear from him. Keep reading to see what he’s up to and what Thaao Penghlis revealed about the former Days Of Our Lives head writer.

Thaao Penghlis Opens Up About Drama On Days Of Our Lives

She Knows Soaps sat down with Thaao Penghlis and talked with him about his experience on the set of Days Of Our Lives. More importantly, they spoke about his relationship with the former head writer for the soap opera, James E. Reilly.

Reilly and Penghlis didn’t always get along,...

Happy Dr. Marlena Evans Day to all who celebrate.

Friday’s Days of Our Lives, now streaming on Peacock, marks the 5,000th episode for series staple Deidre Hall, who still remembers exactly how she felt arriving in Salem for the first time.

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“It was like putting on a new robe,” Hall tells TVLine of her 1976 debut. “I knew that my body would warm...

Here's why Mary Elizabeth Winstead left soap opera Passions after only a year. Much of Mary Elizabeth Winstead's early movie work consisted of horror movies or action, including a lead role in Final Destination 3, trashy remake Black Christmas or 2007's Live Free Or Die Hard. Her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World proved to be something of a breakout, which she soon followed with lead roles in movies like 2011's The Thing, drama Smashed or 10 Cloverfield Lane (which Fear The Walking Dead once recreated).

Like many young actors, Winstead got his start on a soap opera. Passions debuted on NBC in 1999, with the show being created by soap veteran James E. Reilly. The series focused on the town of Harmony, and in addition to the regular soap opera storylines of affairs and love triangles, Passions also included supernatural elements like witches and a living doll named Timmy.

Lisa de Cazotte, an Emmy Award-winning daytime television producer died Saturday, December 7, after a long illness, Deadline has learned. She was 58.

Born Lisa Smith in Westchester, New York in 1961, she graduated from Fordham University and began her television career as an intern on ABC’s One Life to Live. She quickly moved up the ranks to associate, then coordinating producer.

Later positions included working as a producer then supervising producer on NBC’s Santa Barbara and ABC’s All My Children before she was named supervising producer of Aaron Spelling’s Sunset Beach.

In 1999, de Cazotte partnered with writer James E. Reilly and was named Ep of NBC Studio’s Passions. She served as Ep for the run of the show until 2008; then went on to executive produce General Hospital: Night Shift, a primetime spinoff of Gh that ran on cable, before returning to All My Children. In 2012, de Cazotte...

1976: Ryan's Hope's Delia talked her way around Frank's suspicions.

1999: Passions premiered on NBC.

2001: As the World Turns' Simon found Katie on an island.

2002: Stephanie Gatschet debuted as Tammy on Guiding Light."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1966: On The Guiding Light, Bert Bauer (Charita Bauer) met Leslie Jackson (Lynne Adams).

1966: New head writer William J. Bell's first Days of our Lives script aired. By this point NBC had canceled Ted Corday's other two daytime soaps launched in 1965, Morning Star and Paradise Bay,...

1953: Valiant Lady premiered on CBS.

1979: As the World Turns' Lisa was spooked

1981: David Canary debuted on Another World as Steve Frame.

1993: Days of our Lives' Jack Deveraux left Salem."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1950: NBC aired the final primetime episode of Hawkins Falls, one of network television's first successful soap operas. The show premiered in June 1950 as an hour-long weekly nighttime drama in a summer replacement slot but was cut back to a half-hour in August until the end of its run. Hawkins Falls returned to the air in April 1951 as a fifteen-minute weekday soap for NBC.

1976: Ryan's Hope's Delia talked her way around Frank's suspicions.

1999: Passions premiered on NBC.

2001: As the World Turns' Simon found Katie on an island.

2002: Stephanie Gatschet debuted as Tammy on Guiding Light."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1966: On The Guiding Light, Bert Bauer (Charita Bauer) met Leslie Jackson (Lynne Adams).

1966: New head writer William J. Bell's first Days of our Lives script aired.

On this date in...

1925: Future soap opera star Philip Carey was born. He died on February 6, 2009, but not before leaving his mark as Asa Buchanan on One Life To Live for many years.

1948: Future soap writer James E. Reilly was born. He died October 12, 2008, after an award-winning run at soaps Guiding Light, Days Of Our Lives and Passions, among others.

1949: John Haggart's A Woman To Remember, an early television soap opera on the DuMont Television Network, aired its final episode.

1968: Agnes Nixon creation One Life To Live premiered on ABC.  The original planned title for the show was Between Heaven And Hell.  This was still the plan as of late April, and Don Wallace was expected to be the executive producer.

1977: Soap opera spoof All That Glitters from Norman Lear, aired its last of 65 episodes. Linda Gray, Gary Sandy and Louise Shaffer were among the stars.

In Part 1 of our interview with writer Sheri Anderson, the Emmy Award winner revealed how the new trilogy of Days Of Our Lives novels came about, and shared her thoughts on web series and how soap operas can be informative and still entertaining.

In Part 2 below, Anderson discusses her last stint at Days, not cheating the audience, and making a living as a writer.

We Love Soaps TV: How much fun was it to write these novels without having to think about sets or actors?

Sheri Anderson: I developed an animated show at one point and it was the same thing where you'd say, "Wow, I can go anywhere!" I had some of The Powers That Be say after the first novel, "This would make a great movie. We should make this a movie." It has 600 foot yachts in the south of France, superstars, Maseratis and Aston Martins crashing.

General Hospital head writer Bob Guza is out according to ABC Soaps In Depth and other tweets on Twitter Thursday afternoon.

Ingo Rademacher tweeted: "Bob Guza is done as head writer of Gh. Thanks for a great 15 yrs Bob. Good luck to u in the future."

Jason Thompson added: "Well its official. Bob Guza is no longer our Gh head writer. Welcome Garin Wolf! Pretty crazy."

Garin Wolf will take over as head writer of the show. He previously worked at As The World Turns and wrote for Night Shift before joining Gh and winning three Emmys as part of the show's writing team.

In 2008, the WGA published a list of writers who resigned from the guild during the strike by filing for financial core status. Wolk was on the list, as were Maria Arena, Marlene Poulter Clark, John F. Cosgrove, Cwikly, Esensten, Jeanne M. Grunwell, Dena Higley, Mark Christopher Higley,...

Yesterday, NBC announced that its long-running—and sometimes possessed-character featuring—soap opera Days of Our Lives had been renewed for two more years, with an option for an additional third year. The new contract ensures that the daytime drama will be on the air through at least September 2013. And no surprise, the news corresponded with a milestone for the show—its rather amazing 45th anniversary of being on the air. That’s a feat, when you consider that major soaps have been killed off both this year and last. (R.I.P., As the World Turns and Guiding Light.)

To celebrate the moment,...

The peacock network is announcing today that the eight-year-old soap Passions has been cancelled. This comes as a shock to some but the writing has been on the wall for awhile. Still, things may not be as grim as they may seem.

Passions debuted on July 5, 1999 and was created by Jim Reilly, a writer from Days of Our Lives. Reilly is the head writer on the soap and is an executive producer with Lisa de Cazotte. The supernatural sudser takes place in fictional New England town Harmony and replaced the long-running Another World. Now it looks like Passions will be replaced itself.

The soap has been in danger for quite some time. When NBC renewed the series in May 2006, the network renewed it only for one year and required significant budget cuts. As a result, $4-5 million was slashed from the yearly budget and caused several crewmembers and performers to be let go.