Helena Gets a New Boy-Toy! Other SOAPIE fun

Branton Box is coming to GH To stand in as Helena's BOY TOY! Who remembers Landon Wine as the great Andreas? This guy is A LOOKER! woo...his name will be (ready?) THOR. ahahhahaaa.  He could be Jax's brother, couldn't he? Good news for Helena lovers as it means she'll be on longer!! MORE NEW SPOILERS are up!

There is a HILARIOUS Viral video going around that's a MUST SEE. It was posted on SoapZone and even though I know how it was done, it's still awesome!! Take a GANDER. It takes a bit to load but so worth it.  

BYE to Scott Clifton on OLTL. SUCKS...sucks, sucks!! The ONLY way Frons can make it up to me is by hiring him to be on GH! 

The show today:  First of all, I ate too many Red Vines and I think I'm going to throw up so if I leave, that's why. Dang Red Vines. My Vice. ; /

Old Face Morgan walkin'!! His headmistress looks scary!!

Sonny gets his sexy dimples in Claire's face! I so don't want them together...I don't like her. Too milktoastie.

Maya Ward meets Lizzy...you'd think she'd take a day off after coming back from Shadybrook. Or work parttime just doing bedpans? LOL. 

YEAH Tracy and Carly! Nice.

Er...Ethan needed to wash his face. Gross.  LUKE CALLED DANTE A PIG!! wow!! When Luke gets mad, watch the hey out!!

Great acting week for everyone on canvas..eh? Nancy Lee Grahn especially. Loved her the whole way through. 

OMG, Ronnie taking Morgan like that is totally illegal! I don't care if they DO have a social worker there. Uh, can't happen. Diane is totally right on this. And can Sonny really approach the prosecutor like that? LOL 

I do think Dante was sitting on some animal print chair at the PCPD today!?

OMG --:LULU and Luke are PRICELESS-- "family"?? take "Family" out of those quotes. She brings up Lucky being a cop, he says he's only a cop to piss him off.  Heh. Loved Tracy's face after Luke yelled at her. JMB can hold her own with TG, that's for sure.

Did I tell you I just found out Franco is in DATE NIGHT? ;/ grrr. Glad I found out first before I started throwing stuff at the screen! LOL. he's HAUNTING ME!!

Kelly Monaco attended the premire of Skateland in TX with Heath Freeman. 

He tweeted all about it!  She looks faboosh.

WOOT! New Subpranos video on youtube. Chrissie Fit (Mercedes) is hilarious. Please take a gander!.
See you later this weekend. I should do another NuFace Wub if the spirit moves. I am also going to Daytime Confidential's' podcast! I'll record this weekend and let you know when you can listen to me!! DON'T forget that ALberta WUBS is on the ROCK the Soap Cruise, so I'll be getting her photos up when they come in!!

Blog Coalition Thursday, Alberta WUBS on Rock the SOAP Cruise!

Alberta the Lobster is on her way to the Rock the Soap Cruise with wubbers Chrissy and GWaddie. Follow her on twitter @albertawubs or FB: Search Alberta Wubs (fanpage). That's her packin'! She's flying to LA today to join the GHers going. Who WILL she meet??! There's a lobster night on the ship, here's hoping she doesn't get eaten!!

Flat Megan continues her adventures. She visited friends for cake and got a haircut. Flat Megan obviously gets around and needs to convince TPTB that Megan Ward get back on GH full time!! WRITE! Send a postcard. It takes 2 seconds.

SPOILERS are up!! Keifer's Dad will take to the internet to smear the Davis family...Sonny is one step closer to Pentonville--will he share a cell with Anthony Z? I started a rumor on twitter about JMB being PG. I don't know that--I saw the big purse yesterday and could have sworn I read she was somewhere. She was married in 2008-- but I do NOT know if she is having a baby or not. Sorry. My bad.

OLTL: I love that they show people eating in a KITCHEN on this show. Langston is SO in deep with the Bad Boy older Man Great Sex Syndrome. heh. I love that Nora kept her coat on during Bo's whole thing--that's realistic. It's the little things with me. Speaking of..way to show a teen mom, huh? Hope has to be the best most invisible baby ever!

GH: Diane hears the truth! This will be over sooner rather than later, I can only hope. Jason figures it out with his spidey-sense. LOL
HA...Spencer is all dressed to the 9's to play in the sandbox, but we see him! Robin and Nik, nice touch. Remember when he'd read to her on the couch at Wyndemere?
 Loved Cam running all over the place. MAYHEM!
I think I love Carolyn Hennesy and Nancy Lee Grahn more than anyother soap duo. They are simply perfection. Too bad they didn't make them cousins. Diane would have made a hell of a Cassadine.
Jackie Z! Told you Krissy would be in group therapy!! I love how they used Bobbie as a VET WITH HISTORY in this story. JZ might look a bit..er...nip/tucked but she's still OUR BOBBIE and we love her. Damn it. Get the Brownstone open. People were saying JZ looks like Octomom with the black hair! LOL. I love her a red-head.

Well, I'm going. Have a great one. Check out the Blogs!!

Daytime Confidential's Luke and Jamey visit with All My Children's Walt Willey about his return to Pine Valley and his upcoming sketch comedy performance at ACME Comedy Theater on Friday, April 9. (Daytime Confidential)
One Life to Live new cast video interviews with Melissa Archer, David Fumero, Mark Lawson and Eddie Alderson are featured, as we begin to wind down Michael Fairman On-Air On-Soaps month long feature with Llanview's favorite residents. (Michael Fairman Soaps)
Why is cop a dirty word on General Hospital, unless it's part of the phrase "cop out"? In a related story, Alexis ran over Kiefer, and the Serial Drama girls have opinions. Loud, all-caps, bitter opinions. (Serial Drama
Soap Opera Examiner's hot topic of the day in Port Charles - A broken and bruised Kristina tells the truth. (Soap Opera Examiner)
The Wubqueen has an ode to soap fans..the best people on the planet (and in cyberspace). It's time TPTB stood up and took notice. (Wubs)

General Hospital I Need Tums.

OLTL Broke my heart!!  Poor Sky!! Roxy was so good with him. I was wishing Starr would punch the sheeze out of Ford. She needed to go all Todd on his ass...The montage at the end was great.

GH: Sets are dark this week, Derk C reminded me. Lexi Ainsworth was in Canada snow boarding and Laura Wright was on vacation too (after shipping out a ton of her Standing Sun wine!) Carolyn Hennesy was gardening and vacuuming her ATTIC..(yes, weird, but can't you totally see her doing it?!)

THE SHOW: What is up with Ethan not telling about the Maya accident? She could help him. uhhhh. Hmmm.
"Jason doesn't run people over, he just makes them disappear"-- says Sage Molly. Kristina's therapy is going to be interesting. She still thinks Keifer was ok to do this. Wasn't the MOM on there great? Nice acting...NLG was fab as always. ALL of the Davis girls were amazing!

Johnny at his tire-joint, with a guy that looks JUST like DA FONZ, trying to steal Sonny's biz. LOL.
JJY and NLG were great. They are neighbors in real life!! Did you kow that?

Keifer's parents doing a press conference 2 minutes after he's dead??! AND FIVE Million??! Heck! I'd turn in my own grandma for that lettuce!! LOL.
LOVE the Lulu abortion thing, nice they are revisiting that a bit. Usually abortion is just swept away...or not dealt with at all.
And did that PIZZA look disgusting? that's no NY pizza! And no self-respecting Sicilian would make a round one..sooooo, hmmmmm. (being picky)

Now comes the NEVERENDING "who hit Keifer" story. zzzzzzzz.

Ronnie Marmo (Ronnie) is starring in a one man show at the Theater 68 about Lenny Bruce. It's directed by Robert Guza!! Goodness. For those of you too young to know, Lenny was a stand up in the '60's who got arrested for swearing and disorderly conduct several times. Ronnie looks a LO like him in that photo!

OMG, Big BROTHER is auditioning tomorrow at the mall!! should the WUBQUEEN go? I was thinking of taking my stuffed lobster and waiting in line. I could pull in a whole new demographic! LOL. Nah, couldn't live without the net, GH and twitter that long!!

It's RUMOR time!! General Hosptial: What have YOU heard?

People coming, going...characters being killed off. Hmmm, must be the May Sweeps in the air!! First of all, the rumors about Nancy Lee Grahn appear to be FALSE FALSE FALSE.  Jason Cook? He's filming a flick right now, but is supposed to have a story in May. Many are afraid it will be his swan song. Who knows? GH has screwed with his character so much, I'm not even going to predict. I haven't gotten May break-downs or my super-secret stuff yet so I am not saying anything until I do. Just being honest.
Screen Cap thx to Wubber Chrissy:

I'm still figuring out why Robin C is back..like I said I LOVE her but of all the characters there were to bring back..hmmmm. Maybe Ted King is following? See, I personally think that Kate/Connie Falconeri should be having some story as well. Just sayin'. Olivia would have a sounding board..she's family. There's the Sonny history. That's just GH though, bring people on, chuck people off, nilly willy.

Speaking of...they really REALLY should have shown more of Keifer's family/homelife before he got hit. That's the core of what makes me NUTS about GH. Put people in there for 2 seconds, leave a hole..bring them back (maybe, don't ask Billy Dee Willliams though). Not the way to weave the tale, imo.

Yesterday's GH was a good one. I agree that Laura Wright's hair looked funky.  The accident was done really well.

Kudos to all the actors on the show surrounding the beating story.

Keifer's Dad was on today...sigh. :eyeroll: whatever. They should have been on long before this. People are saying he was on Friday (I didn't watch it). I would have LOVED to have seen more of Keifer's homelife, maybe got a bit attached to him other than him being a beater.  Just sayin'.

Very strange cut today to the Haunted Star when they were first at the Q mansion?

Remember when Sam was plowed down by Monica (rewritten from Liz?) Didn't Helena mow down Chloe?

GREAT Dante scenes on the roof top! Wow...he really laid into Sonny. That city backdrop is part downtown Rochester. They should make the lights blink to be believable though. It's all purple too.

Scott Reeves (Steven Lars) was tweeting today from Nashville during the show. It was a bit bizarre.

OLTL today: BIG GIANT MIDDLE FINGER to the writers for THE SCHYLER STORY!! :/ I love Scott Clifton and his acting. You could have made him Rex's twin brother and KEPT HIM ON! :stomping foot: Plus they are making me hate Rex in the process. Clifton played it perfectly.

Let's all watch HAPPY TOWN together! It starts April 28th... it looks like a Harper's Island, Twin Peaks thing. I think I'm going to tweet during it!

Keifer Buys the Dirt!

OLTL pisses me off to no end with the whole "Sky" write off. :/ idiots!! AND just when we find out who he is!! Scott Clifton did a great job-- but that's a given. Just get him back on GH asap!!

GH: Big day! You'd think Maxie could have Skyped her testimony in-- it IS 2010. And she finally finds out about Michael being the killer o' Claudia.

Sonny: " Frankly, I don't think he could have pulled it off"....refering to Lucky trying to take over the mob. LOL. Carly and Sonny's talk, I guess was just to reinforce their "bond" correct?

Alexis hitting Keifer. She had a bit of a psychotic break there, didn't she? BUH-BYE! BOOM! It will be a psychotic break, you wait. And Lucky and Dante just stand there. :whistling:

Edward Q needs a bratty grandkid, one that appreciates bribes and money. LOL. Maya is just Emily all over again.
New stuff should be coming soon as far as spoilers go. This weekend is Rock the Soap Cruise. Lucky ALBERTA WUBs is going!! Not me though boo.

Anyone get the iPad?  Geesh, I heard more about that thing than I ever want to.

Daytime TV Fans: Nothin' Like 'Em...

Morning! On this fine Saturday I thought I'd write a little bit about the Soap Fan base and how different we are than most fans out there and why the execs should pay attention.

Loyalty: Has there ever been a group of people that has lasted (as a unit) for over 40-50 years? Newbies are added all the time, but many of us loyalists remain. You may not even watch for a number of years, but then one day you pick the show back up. I still say one of the reasons Kelly Monaco won DWTS is because of all of us GH fans. That was a new show, it wasn't a ratings hit yet--but we, the daytime peeps tuned in to see one of our own on the dance floor. We follow our actors LONG after they leave the show. If you're a fan, you are a fan for life. Even if they go on to movies or writing books. We're there. We don't forget.

Passion: Not one fan base out there can claim our passion. I don't care if you're dressing up to go to the Star Trek convention every year. Can't come close. As a group, we've written more letters, had more petitions, arguments and attened more events than anyone. If a show is canned, we get behind each other (even if you never watched the show) and try to save it. Just read some message boards when it comes to couples, you'll see what I mean about passion!

Spending: Ah...spending. Isn't that every media outlet's dream?? Who buys more t-shirts? We have over 50 events around the country to chooose from. They are usually filled. Daytime Stars could do WAY more, and we'd still come! One of the reasons Super Soap Weekend was canceled at Disney was that the size of the crowds were becoming too large. There are soap cruises. A fan club weekend for GH is sold out every  year. We buy those silly things in the ABC shop because we saw our faves wear them on the show. CD's...DVDs..you name it. Daytime still has THREE print magazines. Uh..I think that says something in this day in age.

Ratings: Sorry, I don't buy the numbers that are out there. SoapNet is it's own channel for godsakes. How many peeps DVR or watch their shows later in the day/week? Do they even count online viewing? I think the problem is no one has come close to really counting our numbers. If they did, I do believe they'd be impressed.

Charity: I challenge any prime-time show to match our charity donations across the board. The actors on Daytime are forever giving, appearing and appealing for causes ranging from MS (Brandon Barash), Lung Cancer (Nancy Lee Grahn) to Deaf Awareness (Kassie DePaiva). There are just too many to list here. Broadway Cares is an AIDS movement...the stars walk in LA and NYC's AIDS marathons. Fans give MUCH money to stars' fave charities for birthdays and holidays. I keep waiting for a major news outlet to focus on Daytime's Giving. So far, hasn't happened. ALL the shows across ALL the networks are involved. Homegrown charity at it's best.

This brings me to something that is happening right now that I think is pretty cool. Drew Garrett's fans have started a movement to keep him on the show. Before you say 'oh, that's been done before'...this is a bit different in the attention it's been getting around the net. They've been on three podcasts so far. Now, Drew's hometown news has picked up on it and did an interview with him about  Facebook and Twitter (@keepdrewgarrett) . "Fans Fight for Local Soap Star" . Next up is the West Palm Beach news, which will have an column about it soon. That's rallying the troops!
We all know about  the popular couple "Kish" leaving OLTL so abruptly. They too have a huge following and the fans recently staged a rally at Good Morning America studios. Both stars have done interviews with many online and media outlets about their being let go.

POINT? It's about time the dang "Powers that Be" recognize us way more than they do now. By "us" I mean fans and online websites and bloggers that work tirelessly for their shows. Yes, the ratings have come way down in years but there are still millions of core, loyal viewers that tune in or DVR day in and day out. Advertisers know they have a built in base with us. You can replace the soaps with syndicated talk shows all you want, in the end I still think that's a bad idea. Daytime peeps are some of the most loyal, passionate and great fans out there. It's time they started recognizing that instead of patronizing us. Not showing the Daytime Emmys is one. Cheapening the genre is two. (remember when Franco came on? It was like he was "slumming" it or something.) We know our actors work ten times as hard as anyone else out there. We appreciate it. Do they? Not so sure.
We've taken to the net..look how many indy shows there are now. "Venice" "Gotham" "Imaginary Bitches" all boast a great following. My fave "The Subpranos" is a comedy by one of GH's extras Chrissie Fit. The soon to come "Reality Bytes" will star Tristan Rogers and many soap vets. Watch out TV land..we are biting at your heels.

So, you can cut our shows, reduce budgets, get rid of fan faves...ditch events and recognition like airing the daytime emmys but WE'LL STILL BE HERE. We always were, always will. Pay attention.

HAPPY 47th Anniversary General Hospital!!

 
Wow, GH is twice my age (heh). Here's to the Brownstone! Ruby's Chili, Floating Rib... Worm Farms, Jessie, Steve, Lucille....the old Webber Kitchen, and to the NURSE'S BALL!! Here's a clip of an interview about the show on ET.


SKYE and Tracy!! woot! Nice stuff, and Ethan was so cute with her. Skye doesn't have baby Lila with her, who is probably really 17 anyway. Luke "remains forever hopeful for messing with Skye" heh..and TRACY walks in with JAX! woot!

Did the Lucky/Maya CHEM test hit you between the eyes today? Geesh, waste NO time!
Coleman and Kate getting caught by the judge. Heh...Kate is all over Coleman. They could do SO MUCH MORE WITH HER CHARACTER than this??!! WTH?? What's going on with Crimson?

Alice loves being on the jury!! ;) she's beaming. The judge tells everyone that this 'is not a reality show, the one that causes the most trouble will not be voted off the island"...heh.

Lucky and Dante and the NEXT in line in the "It's Keifer" story. Everyone knows but Sonny/Alexis.
Helena looked SMASHING today.. love her suit. But er, using the Spencer baby to "destroy them"?? That baby better grow up quick!!


Carly, Olivia, Kate---yeah!! Wonderful stuff. All catty and nasty. Kate's warning Livvy that Sonny's going to come at her "full dimples" heh. Of course, Kate should have been around EONS AGO to talk about all this. GH is so terrible at this kind of thing. Like having Keifer's parents on once, not showing them again--until when? Ugh...IT'S CALLED BUILDING A STORY!! 

Robin is going to be on the witness stand and you know Claire is planning on using her own testimony against her...heh. 

My choice to play Claire? Julia Duffy ..and she'd be DIANE'S SISTER. :) This Claire does nothing for me. I have the BEST IDEAS!!


HAVE YOU SEEN THE GIANT NEWS? Bob Guza is OUT!! Read all about it HERE! There are also new SPOILERS up. And happy April 1st. Hit an ad you WUBBAHS!