Fresh from his stint on the now-defunct Fox series The Mob Doctor, Jesse Lee Soffer continues his foray into primetime. The As The World Turns alum is set to star in Lifetime's miniseries Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret on June 22. READ MORE

Former As the World Turns star Jesse Lee Soffer has landed the role of Travis Alexander in Lifetime’s upcoming TV movie Dirty Little Secret: The Jodie Arias Story, according to HLN. The cable news network also reports Lost alum Tania Raymonde is in final negotiations to play Jodi Arias.

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Former As The World Turns actor Jesse Lee Soffer isn't letting FOX's cancellation ofThe Mob Doctor get him down. Soffer has landed the lead role in NBC’s pilot Hatfields & McCoys.

Per Deadline, Soffer will play Patrick McCoy, a young man who returns home and is swept up into his family’s battle against the Hatfields following his father's murder. The show, executive produced by Charlize Theron, is a modern day take on the historical feud between the warring families.

The Young and the Restless heartthrob Michael Graziadei's lack of storyline in Genoa City, is primetime TV's gain. TV Line is reporting Graz will appear on Fox's The Mob Doctor. READ MORE

Before I get to today’s stunning episode of As the World Turns, in which Dr. Reid Oliver dies and donates his heart to his professional nemesis/colleague Dr. Chris Hughes, I have a few thoughts about not only the serial's final days on the air, but also —in a broader sense—fan perceptions about what a soap's last days should be like, themes that will be carried forward as we look toward ATWT's final hours.

First, with less than two weeks to go before its final fade to black, ATWT is ending its 54 year history in perhaps better dramatic shape than almost any serial since the cancellation of NBC's Texas in 1982, a specific observation I will expand upon in a few days. Of course, there is lots to gripe and nitpick about the woulda-coulda-shoulda’s of how the show might have wrapped things up. Many of those ideas are quite good and some are downright ludicrous, but in the final turn of events, all of that stuff is moot. The last scenes were shot, the sets have been struck, and the actors all went along different paths weeks ago. READ MORE

Today’s episode was a typical “treading water” day in the life of a daytime drama winding up its final days. With tons of exposition and repetition, the news of Vienna’s pregnancy deception and other shenanigans, Henry’s relationship with and long overdue publicly admitted love for Barbara, and Katie’s attempts to make right her role in the whole fiasco rocketed through Oakdale faster than tweets about Sarah Palin’s hilariously absurd forays into neologism.

Henry confronted Vienna about Barbara’s whereabouts. Katie told Margo, Will and Gwen about Vienna and Barbara and Henry. Will confronted Henry about Barbara. Alison told Casey about Vienna. Folks ran around in various combinations telling each other the same information several times throughout the episode. Perhaps the best reaction of learning of Vienna’s pregnancy scam came from a genuinely shocked, appalled, and disappointed Kim, who laced into a semi-penitent/self-justifying Chris about his role in the cover-up and its consequences. Of course, one must ask if anyone in Oakdale has heard of texting, Facebook, or Twitter in this day and age, but then this kind of “shocking news spreads through town like wildfire” episode is the kind of thing that soaps used to do so well. 

This brings me to a point about Henry (Trent Dawson) and Barbara’s (Colleen Zenk Pinter, who has been extraordinary) love being thwarted by the “evil” machinations of Vienna (Ewa de Cruz): I like it. Correction. I love it! READ MORE