Evening News

SOAPnet announces Daytime Emmy red carpet show hosts
Rebecca Budig (Greenlee, AMC), Ricky Paull Goldin (Jake, AMC), Finola Hughes (Anna, GH) and Lawrence Zarian (TV Guide Channel) have been named correspondents for SOAPnet's 2008 LIVE FROM THE DAYTIME EMMYS, which airs from 6-8 p.m. on SOAPnet on Friday, June 20. Budig and Goldin will juggle red carpet arrival interviews while Hughes and Zarian keep the focus on fashion.

David Canary: Football star to soap star
David Canary, former football standout for the University of Cincinnati, still knows how to double-team the opposition. After 25 years spent juggling the roles of twins Adam and Stuart Chandler on ABC’s ALL MY CHILDREN he’s won five Daytime Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama. He'll go for No. 6 next Friday.

"People see Adam and Stuart in those split-screen scenes and they say ‘wow, what an actor," he said. "But it’s not as hard as it looks."

Checking in with Cameron Mathison
"I've always found, frankly, that my best work as an actor is when I can bring more of myself to a role. These newer opportunities let me bring my personality and my goofiness and my high energy, so I feel very comfortable with these things, actually."

BLOG UPDATE: Sara A. Bibel
Interviews with DAYS, B&B and GH stars from Monday night's Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) bash in honor of this year’s Daytime Emmy Nominees.

Night Music Concerts, with Ebersole and Raines, Presented June 12-14
Grey Gardens Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole (RYAN'S HOPE; ONE LIFE TO LIVE) plays Desiree Armfeldt in the June 12-14 concert peformances of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music at Boston's Symphony Hall. The three concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall also feature GUIDING LIGHT star Ron Raines as Fredrik Egerman and Bobbie Steinbach as Madame Armfeldt as well as the Boston Pops orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart.

Mark Pinter in the theater and on the couch in new play
"I’ve been in the business for 33 years," Mr. Pinter said. "When I started, I wanted a career in theater, but went down the daytime TV path for 20 years while raising a family. I find it extraordinary that I can go back to the theater. I find it very exciting. I am also finding a wealth of roles for me. That I am the right age to play. And fortunately, with regional theater, someone is always doing a play I’d like to do."