Great news soapheads! We've already got two big names confirmed to return to the online revival of AMC! Debbi Morgan and Vincent Irizarry have already confirmed via Twitter that they will indeed be reprising their old AMC roles for the online revival of the show. I was hoping we'd see some familiar faces. No comment from either Susan Lucci or Erika Slezak as of yet, but Cameron Mathison expressed his desire to return if he can get things scheduled correctly. As of now, there's no formal confirmation for his return.
Many of the AMC and OLTL'ers are on Twitter, so I know they must be getting harassed like crazy by fans wanting to know if they'll be part of the new project. I'm dreading the first confirmed 'no' answers; I know there will be some, it's just a matter of who they'll be coming from. This is a little light in the dark for now, so I'll take it. I'll keep updating this post with more returns or denials. What do you guys think, do these early confirmations make you more excited to see the show again?
In other news, CBS confirmed that Steve Burton (ex-Jason Morgan, GH) will indeed be joining Y&R in the newly created role of Dylan McAvoy. There have been whisperings for awhile after his decision to leave GH that he'd probably be jumping ship to another network and I guess those whispers turned out to be true. I haven't watched GH in a long time but he's one of the reasons why I stayed as long as I did, and yes some of it was for shallow purposes. Idgaf what role he's in, dude is yummy. So I stayed to look and I have no shame admitting it either. Maybe it was time for a change, I don't know. Any opinion on Steve Burton jumping ship to Y&R? His first air date is the 29th of this month, will any of you be tuning in?
*update 1/9* Genie Francis is on her way back to GH for the 50th anniversary! The actress recently finished up her work on Y&R as Genevieve and is now free to return to the role many soapheads love her for, GH's Laura Spencer.
*All return info is via Huffington Post. All Steve Burton news is from Soapcentral.com, all Genie Francis news from Entertainment Tonight.
*update 1/13* Jordi Vilasuso (Griffin, AMC) has confirmed that he and Lindsay Hartley (Cara, AMC) will both be returning to AMC when production officially begins next month. The first OLTL return has been announced as well; Jerry verDorn has confirmed that he is headed back to Llanview, but we have yet to hear much else on that side of things.
*update 1/19* Erika Slezak (Viki, OLTL) and Robert S. Woods (Bo, OLTL) are close to signing on to return to PP's reboot of the show---awesome news! Robin Strasser (Dorian, OLTL) confirmed her return via Twitter this past week as well.
*update 1/21* Soapcentral just got news that Prospect Park has released its first few casting calls for OLTL and....they are for 2 recasts! Ready? Matthew and Destiny are the first two characters that we know for sure are going to have new faces once the soap reboots later this year. How do you feel about that, soapheads? We've had little Eddie Alderson in that role for years! Of course with both Eddie and Kristen out in LA now, that opens up an entirely new can of worms that I'll save for when we have more info. lol But for now, these are the first recasts the show has publicized. Keep you updated!
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