NEWS: Prospect Park, Anthony Geary, Josh Duhamel, Cindy Crawford, Nicholas Rodriguez

Prospect Park blames ABC lawsuit for its Chapter 7 bid
Production company Prospect Park Networks LLC has asked to convert its bankruptcy to Chapter 7 because it couldn't pay Jones Day's fees in a breach of contract suit against The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network over the soap opera One Life to Live. PPN, which tried to revive OLTL and All My Children online, said in a Delaware bankruptcy court filing that it had hoped selling its Connecticut tax credits to Apple Inc. would pay for Jones Day to represent it in its $95 million lawsuit against ABC, but the proceeds weren't enough to keep the firm on board or to find a suitable replacement.

"The best hope for a meaningful recovery to creditors is successful prosecution or settlement of the ABC litigation," the motion said. "The debtor and the debtor's counsel have done everything to keep the ABC litigation alive for the benefits of creditors."

Anthony Geary open to a General Hospital return
“If the story is interesting to me and it works out, I may come back to the show for six weeks or so,” Geary told EW.

Cindy Crawford developing NBC drama about 1980s modeling wars
The series, tentatively titled Icon, marks Crawford’s television producing debut. Anne Heche (Another World) and James Tupper will also serve as exec producers with Crawford and Robin Bissell, who will pen the project, hailing from Universal TV.

Icon, in very early development, revolves around the modeling wars in the ’80s that occurred between Ford Modeling Agency and Elite Model Management. The show is completely fictionalized, rather than a re-telling of Crawford’s own experiences. No actual names of models or figures from the time will be used.

One Life to Live alum Nicholas Rodriguez to lead all-Latino cast of Karen Zacarias' "Destiny of Desire" at Arena Stage
Rodriguez returns as part of an all-Latino ensemble playing Sebastian Jose Castillo, in a cast that includes Valenzuela's daughter and son, Esperanza America and Fidel Gomez, as Pilar Castillo and Dr. Diego Mendoza.

Former All My Children star Josh Duhamel joins Hulu's 11/22/63
Based on King's best-seller, 11/22/63 is described as a thriller in which high school English teacher Jake Epping (James Franco) travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald (played by Daniel Webber), falling in love and the past itself … which doesn’t want to be changed.

Duhamel will play Frank Dunning, the father of Jake's student Harry Dunning (played by youngster Jack Fulton and Leon Rippy), in 1960s Kentucky. Frank is the rakish town butcher, a ladies' man with an effortless smile that everyone welcomes — except Jake, the only man who knows the full violence of which Frank is capable.

The Factory Manchester £110m arts venue approved
It will be located in a new area, St John's, which includes the former Granada Studios site in Manchester city center. The former Coronation Street set, which has been hosting visitor tours since April 2014, will be removed in early 2016 before the site is returned to developer Allied London.

Cinemax will end Banshee after fourth season
Banshee's upcoming eight-episode fourth season will be the show’s last.

Langley Kirkwood, Tom Pelphrey, Meaghan Rath & Chaske Spencer Join BANSHEE Season 3

Langley Kirkwood has joined the cast of Cinemax drama BANSHEE as a series regular in Season 3. Tom Pelphrey, Meaghan Rath & Chaske Spencer have also been cast in recurring roles.

Kirkwood will play Colonel Douglas Stowe, a former commando now running an illegal business out of Banshee’s Camp Genoa. Rath will recur as Aimee King, the sole deputy in the corrupt Kinaho Reservation Police Department. Spencer will recur as Billy Raven. A former deputy in the Reservation Police Department, Billy is now considered an outcast by his own people. Pelphrey (GUIDING LIGHT) will recur as Kurt Bunker, a former skinhead who applies to be a deputy at the Banshee Sheriff’s Department.

BANSHEE "Ways to Bury a Man" Preview

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Season 2 of BANSHEE continues with a new episode ("Ways to Bury a Man") on Friday, February 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Cinemax.

In an effort to bring down Proctor, an enraged Lucas looks for trees to shake. After rattling the regulars and strippers at the Savoy, Lucas and his deputies rough up Sharp (Joseph Sikora), a junkyard skinhead, for info on Proctor's ecstasy operation. A family crisis brings Carrie, Deva and Gordon together; Alex (Anthony Ruivivar) faces a vote of no-confidence at the tribal council; Job (Hoon Lee) shows off his explosive side.

Watch a sneak peek video below:

BANSHEE Returns for Second Season January 10 on Cinemax

BANSHEE returns for its ten-episode second season FRIDAY, JAN. 10 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on Cinemax. The Emmy-winning series is executive produced by Jonathan Tropper, David Schickler, Peter Macdissi, Alan Ball and Greg Yaitanes.

The series stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. Other returning cast regulars include Ivana Milicevic as Carrie Hopewell, a notorious jewel thief who now lives in Banshee under an assumed identity with her new family, who knows nothing of her past; Ulrich Thomsen as Kai Proctor, an intimidating, wealthy businessman who believes he is above the law; Frankie Faison as Sugar Bates, a powerful and wise former boxer and ex-con who is now the owner of the local watering hole; and Hoon Lee as Job, a dangerous transvestite computer hacker who assists Lucas in his criminal enterprises.

BANSHEE Returns for Second Season, January 10 on Cinemax

Lucas Hood stars in BANSHEE.

BANSHEE returns for its ten-episode second season on Friday, January 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, it was announced today by Cinemax. The Emmy-winning series is executive produced by Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi, Jonathan Tropper, David Schickler and Greg Yaitanes.

The series stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. Other returning cast regulars include Ivana Milicevic as Carrie Hopewell, a notorious jewel thief who now lives in Banshee under an assumed identity with her new family, who knows nothing of her past; Ulrich Thomsen as Kai Proctor, an intimidating, wealthy businessman who believes he is above the law; and Frankie Faison as Sugar Bates, a powerful and wise former boxer and ex-con who is now the owner of the local watering hole.

BANSHEE Becomes First TV Series To Premiere As A GIF

This week, BANSHEE will be the first ever TV show to premiere its entire first episode as a GIF through a creative partnership between Cinemax and Buzzfeed. In addition, Cinemax has also launched a Tumblr site dedicated to BANSHEE GIFs which lets viewers experience a variety of cinematic short-form sequences from the show that offer a taste of what’s to come in the action-packed series.

On the Tumblr “GIF Shop,” created by New York agency Campfire, the online hub of shareable animated GIFs will give fans of suspense and edge-of-your-seat dramas access to the most intriguing and provocative moments from the new series – from brawls and fights to narrow escapes and looks and reactions. A great way to introduce viewers to the fun and fast-paced show, the site also allows for all 80+ GIFs to be captioned and made ready to “GIF to a friend” via social media.

NEWS ROUNDUP: Big Ratings For Live EMMERDALE; Susan Lucci: 'Almost Impossible For Me To Say ALL MY CHILDREN And Erica Kane In The Past Tense'

EMMERDALE's 40th anniversary live episodes nets big ratings
The heady promise of a live, double-length episode, featuring two births, the aftermath of a double wedding and the murder of a key character, was enough to secure EMMERDALE its biggest viewing figures since January 2010.

An average of 9.2 million (with a peak of 10.2 million), a 42% audience share, tuned in to the rural soap across ITV1, +1 and HD between 7pm and 8pm last night to see Carl King meet his maker, courtesy of Chas, Cameron and a polystyrene brick.