'The Young and the Restless' Spoilers (May 16-20, 2016)

According to the new Y&R, promo, "All of the threats, lies, and secrets
are about to explode."

Check out the day-to-day spoilers and a sneak peek video below to find out what's happening on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless during the week of May 16-20, 2016.

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Monday, May 16
Adam and Chelsea's vow renewal; Nikki seeks support from an old friend; Phyllis finds herself in a difficult situation.

'The Young and the Restless' Spoilers (May 9-13, 2016)

"I am going to take what is mine," Billy tells Jack.

Check out the day-to-day spoilers and a sneak peek video below to find out what's happening on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless during the week of May 9-13, 2016.

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Monday, May 9
Devon wants Hilary to confess; Ashley sees Max from a different perspective; Cane puts Neil in a difficult situation.

'The Young and the Restless' Spoilers (May 2-6, 2016)

According to the new CBS promo for Y&R, a family is haunted by
sorrow, obsession, and secrets.

Check out the day-to-day spoilers and a sneak peek video below to find out what's happening on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless during the week of May 2-6, 2016.

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Monday, May 2
Adam gets an enigmatic message; Luca plans his next move; Sharon tries to deal with the truth about Christian; Victoria, Noah and Summer try to comfort Nick, who later uses a crowbar to let out his devastation and anger.

'The Young and the Restless' Spoilers (April 25-29, 2016)

Sage leaves Sharon's determined to tell Nick his son is alive. But will
she make it?

Check out the day-to-day spoilers and a sneak peek video below to find out what's happening on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless during the week of April 25-29, 2016.

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Monday, April 25
Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) asks Victor (Eric Braeden) for forgiveness; Mariah (Camryn Grimes) wants to know what happened to her friendship with Kevin (Greg Rikaart); Sharon (Sharon Case) turns to Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk) for answers, and is shocked when Patty reveals Sharon wasn't pregnant when she was locked up.

Alicia Coppola Joins 'The Young and the Restless' as Dr. Meredith Gates

Alicia Coppola

Alicia Coppola has joined the cast of CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Dr. Meredith Gates, according to Soap Opera Digest.

"They explained a little bit about it and who I would be working with and sent me some material,” Coppola tells the magazine. "In those 10 pages that I read, it was a really fully fleshed-out female character. I haven’t really read something like that in a long time, something that was so dynamic and interesting that I automatically saw a backstory. She reminds me of Lorna. She feels things very deeply, and I just think there’s a lot more going on than what’s on the surface. I like that.”

Coppola is scheduled to debut on Y&R in the April 13th episode. Daytime fans will remember her as the original Lorna Devon on NBC's Another World from 1991-1994.

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This week on Days, Chad and Serena's night takes an unpleasant turn.

Melissa Archer exits Days of our Lives this week
“I completely understood and somewhere, expected it,” Archer tells Soap Opera Digest about her leaving Days. “It was a very positive experience. I joke about it like, ‘Getting fired, it didn’t really feel like it.’ It was the most pleasant ‘getting fired’ conversation I’ve ever had. There was laughter. It was great, actually.” As for her overall Salem experience, she says, “Honestly, it was amazing. I’m not just saying this: I very wholeheartedly mean it that from the top to the bottom, I loved everybody. I thought that the sets were very relaxed. Professional and relaxed.” SPOILER ALERT: Serena is murdered this week on Days.

Greg Vaughan signs new contract with Days of our Lives and books Hallmark movie
Vaughan tweeted the news on Friday: "Great day today! Official contract extension @DaysofourLives & new movie @hallmarkchannel Truly Blessed!"

Without America’s soap operas, we would never have gotten Mad Men
General Hospital, and soap operas overall, are usually not considered especially innovative. On the contrary, they’re thought of as melodramatic and cliched. And yet, it’s likely longform television dramas like The Wire wouldn’t exist if soap operas hadn’t paved the way.

James Franco Recreates Friends, Breaking Bad and more
The Oscar-nominated actor and General Hospital alum turns his attention to television for Season 2 of Making a Scene With James Franco.

Empire is giving Gabourey Sidibe a love interest
Mo McRae will romance Becky as part of a three-episode arc in Season 2.

Beverly Hills, 90210 stars Shannen Doherty reveals she's battling breast cancer
"Yes, I have breast cancer, and I am currently undergoing treatment," Doherty, 44, told People magazine. "I am continuing to eat right, exercise and stay very positive about my life. I am thankful to my family, friends and doctors for their support and, of course, my fans who have stood by me."

Lighter Fare, High-Concept Comedies, Soaps & More Remakes On Networks’ Development Menus
The success of two breakout midseason Fox series — drama Empire and comedy The Last Man On Earth — is having a ripple effect early in the selling season, with big, broad, soapy dramas sought after, along with high-concept comedies.

NBC puts Shaun Cassidy and Jeff Kwatinetz family soap in development
NBC is reassembling the team behind its 2012 Western drama pilot Frontier. The network has put in development Talent, a drama with elements of music, from Frontier creator Shaun Cassidy and Jeff Kwatinetz’s newly relaunched company The Firm, whose predecessor Prospect Park produced the 2012 pilot (as well as the online versions of All My Children and One Life to Live).

Written by Cassidy, Talent is described as a family soap that centers around a music prodigy who has a unique way of dealing with the murder of his one true love.

Another World alum Alicia Coppola finds it difficult to find schools for her gifted children
"There are very few schools that focus solely on the highly/profoundly gifted students in our country. Those that do exist are private and very expensive, if you are fortunate enough to even live in a city where one exists."

Presenting a TV Channel Guide from the future
In Five years, will we have Vox, New York Times and BuzzFeed channels?

Grey’s Anatomy is giving Alex and Jo more to do next season
Says Shonda Rhimes: “We had a lot of stories we wanted to tell with them last season, and I promised the fans, ‘We’re going to tell all these Alex and Jo stories.’”

NBC becomes the second network to order a Kentucky bourbon drama
The Bourbon Kings, like Fox’s untitled Kentucky bourbon project, deals with a bourbon empire.

Is there too much good TV?
"Binge-watching,” says Mary McNamara, "isn't just the new sex — it's the new workout, the new book club, the new cocktail hour. Where once most new shows premiered in the fall, now they drop all the time, some in complete seasons.” But how do viewers cope? “The trick,” says McNamara, "is not to panic. Television viewing is not a competition or a test. No matter what appears to be occurring on social media, no law requires you, the average viewer, to be able to analyze the use of color in Mad Men or explain why the second season of True Detective was so terrible.”

Behind The Curtain Of The Night, A Life-After-Death Movie Stars Brendan Fraser, Marcia Cross
Talk about art imitating life. A writer/director who was pronounced clinically dead twice in his life and experienced an unusual phenomenon when he was “dead,” has written a semi-autobiographical film about his experience with Brendan Fraser playing a key role and Marcia Cross playing a character called ‘The Boss’ which is really God.

Ben McKenzie: What Gotham got wrong in Season 1
McKenzie says Season 2 of the Fox series will be closer to what fans want. “I think we made a mistake relatively early on in trying to introduce a villain and take care of that villain in one episode: catch them, send them to Arkham, do whatever,”

Another World alum Morgan Freeman to guest-star on Madam Secretary
Freeman, who serves as an executive producer and director on the CBS drama, will make a cameo in the drama’s premiere episode in October.

ABC Orders Marvel Pilot Starring Adrianne Palicki & Nick Blood
The proposed Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff is back on. ABC has given a pilot order to Marvel’s Most Wanted, a drama project starring Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. standouts Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood and revolving around their respective characters Barbara “Bobbi” Morse, aka Mockingbird, and Lance Hunter.

Six Feet Under: The Oral History of HBO's Beloved Landmark Series
Ten years after its devastating finale, the show's creator and cast eulogize the life-after-death drama.

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Anthony Geary on how General Hospital grew into a cultural phenomenon
"It’s amazing in retrospect. At the time we were working so hard, I don’t think we really realized the impact that the show was having, or that the marriage of Luke and Laura was having, on its audience. Genie Francis and I were working five days a week, sometimes as much as 70 pages of dialogue a day, so we would finish our work, go home, learn the next day’s work and come back and do it for months at a time. And it really took leaving the studio and going out of L.A. – either making a personal appearance or going to my parents’ home in Utah – for me to realize that the show and this character was having the impact it was having."

ABC buys family drama Black Heart from Prospect Park
In a competitive situation, with two networks interested, ABC has bought Black Heart, a sprawling family drama from playwright/screenwriter Kelly Masterson (Killing Kennedy) and Prospect Park. Prospect Park’s CEO Jeff Kwatinetz and TV partner Josh Barry executive produce with Masterson.

Alicia Coppola, Brianna Brown join ABC Family pilot Stay
Coppola (ex-Lorna, Another World), Brianna Brown (Taylor, Devious Maids) and Leonard Earl Howze have booked series regular roles in ABC Family drama pilot Stay. Described as an edge-of-your-seat thriller, Stay centers on a recently widowed police detective and his two daughters who are stranded at a foreboding hotel during a storm and must unravel the hotel’s mysteries to escape. Coppola plays Alison, Jake’s mother and the wife of the conservative, emotionally withdrawn Frank, whom she fears. A steady diet of antidepressants help block out her crumbling marriage and keeps her sane. Brown is Eva, another guest at the Grayfield Hotel, who’s seeking shelter from the storm. A con artist, Eva went down the wrong path in life, let her actions get out of control and is on a journey to right these wrongs.

Former General Hospital star John Stamos out of rehab
Stamos tweeted the update: "I'm back! Took a month to take care of things. Healthy. Feeling grateful for the love & support of family & friends."

Hulk Hogan apologizes for 'unacceptable' racist rant as he is scrubbed from WWE Hall of Fame
Hulk Hogan is speaking out about a just-released audio transcript that features him making racist slurs about his daughter Brooke's love life.

"Eight years ago I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language; there is no excuse for it; and I apologize for having done it," Hogan said in a statement exclusively to PEOPLE. The transcript featuring that conversation was published online by the National Enquirer.

"This is not who I am. I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise," Hogan told People. "I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs."

How to Get Away with Murder to reveal Rebecca's killer sooner than expected
After waiting most of season 1 to discover who killed Sam (Tom Verica) and sorority girl Lila Stangard (Megan West) — the puppy Wes (Alfred Enoch) axed the former, the bulldog Frank (Charlie Weber) the latter — How to Get Away with Murder is preparing to buck expectations when it comes to the mystery surrounding the death of Rebecca (Katie Findlay). In the season finale, Wes’ angsty emo girlfriend was found dead in the basement by Frank and Annalise (Viola Davis), who both swore they played no part in her untimely demise. Viewers will find out who killed Rebecca in the season premiere on Thursday, September 24.

Nashville promotes Aubrey Peeples to series regular in Season 4
Peeples' Nashville promotion comes as Layla tests the waters as a Highway 65 artist and figures out her relationship with manager/kinda boyfriend Jeff (played by Oliver Hudson, whose status with the show has changed from series regular to recurring).

Questlove will serve as musical diretor for A+E's new version of Roots
Roots is an adaptation of late author Alex Haley’s 1976 novel about Kunta Kinte, an 18th century African-born man who was captured and sold into U.S. slavery. A TV adaptation aired in 1977 on ABC. This production will air in 2016 and be simulcast on A&E, Lifetime and History.

Baron Blitzkrieg joins Arrow as Baron Reiter, better known in DC Comics lore as Baron Blitzkrieg
Already for Season 4 (premiering October 7), Arrow has cast Neal McDonough (Agent Carter) as Damien Darhk, Echo Kellum (as tech whiz Mr. Terrific) and Alexander Calvert (as the villain Anarky).

Showbiz411 takes issue General Hospital star Michelle Stafford "sneaking" Scientology into Nickelodeon
Writes Roger Friedman: "Scientology may have been outed on HBO’s Going Clear but it’s going strong at Nickelodeon. The children network’s Nickmom.com website is currently featuring short films from Michelle Stafford, the extremely mannered actress who jumped from one soap opera, The Young and the Restless [as Phyllis], to another, General Hospital [as Nina], last year. Stafford is an avowed member of Scientology. So is her production: everyone involved with her Secret Mind of a Single Mom is from Scientology. Just about the entire credit list, from actors to crew, are members of the cult."

Kurth & Taylor release new music
Days of our Lives star Wally Kurth (Justin Kiriakis) and Christian Taylor have released their first new song in five years. “It’s about my home state of Montana,” Kurth tells Soap Opera Digest. The song, “Big Sky Country,” features the band’s trademark harmonies over a bed of electric and acoustic guitars. The tagline of the chorus, “The Last Best Place You Can Find,” is Montana’s state tourism slogan. The song is available as a digital download on iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby.

The group has also posted a lyric video on youtube, featuring historical concert footage of the band’s more than 20 years of live performances as well as footage of Kurth shot in Montana. Watch it below:

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Estately ranked each state using eight separate metrics and then averaged those to create the final rankings. Couch potatoes are found in the greatest abundance in Ohio, while Hawaii is home to the fewest. West Virginia residents have the TV on the most, with an average of 3 hours, 37 minutes per day.

Lifetime orders The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story
Following in the footsteps of 2014's Saved By the Bell pic and the upcoming Full House movie, the project will show the roller coaster ride of the teen soap's first four seasons, particularly the drama between cast members and producers both on and off-set. The movie will also shed light on the show's several near-cancelations and its subsequent rise to ratings hit and pop culture phenomenon.

Martin Henderson joins Grey's Anatomy as new series regular
He is expected to play a new surgeon at Seattle Grace.

10 Episodes Is the New 13 (Was the New 22)
Long after cable networks trained viewers to live with just 13 episodes of their favorite shows, both cable and broadcast outlets are now adapting their business models to produce even fewer installments per season. The biggest broadcast hits of 2014 (How to Get Away With Murder) and 2015 (Empire) debuted with just 15 and 12 episodes, respectively.

Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford clears the air regarding her custody drama
"I was charmed. I fell in love and also it was the fact that I was ready for marriage and children. It was a combination of things coming at the right time. And he’s very good at what he does which is charming people. I thought we were both in love with each other and that our son would bring us even closer together."

Brendan Coughlin leave Days of our Lives?

@Bren_Coughlin sadly I think my time in Salem has run out but every time I run into a days fan it makes me miss it that much more!!!

— Brendan Coughlin (@Bren_Coughlin) June 13, 2015

TV's alleged 'rape glut' may just be a more reflective reality
Certainly there are instances in which rape is handled badly or used to push ratings, just as there are examples of violence against children being handled badly or to push ratings. But there are also plenty of examples of rape being used to explore the precarious role of women in certain societies and/or their ability to overcome hardship.

Former Another World star Alicia Coppola revisits her character's rape storyline
Alicia Coppola played Lorna Devon on Another World from April 25, 1991 to January 14, 1994.

"Linda [Dano] was unbelievable in these scenes. She did not know what I was going to do, how I was going to play this moment. We were both utterly in the moment. Linda, being the extreme empath that she is, felt everything I was feeling and then some. I think in those moments, our bond as mother/daughter was born, and has never been broken. Linda took care of me in those scenes. Her gentility and sensitivity safely guided me. Linda gave me courage."

Alicia Coppola To Guest Star in 'Sons of Anarchy'

Former Another World actress Alicia Coppola will guest star in the seventh and final season of FX drama Sons of Anarchy.

Coppola will play Mildred Treal, the Principal at the preschool where Jax and Wendy’s son, Abel, is a student.

In addition to Sons of Anarchy, Coppola can also be seen in the fourth episode of Criminal Minds' upcoming 10th season.