The first annual PADDIES award ("Saint Patrick’s awful dreadful, dire, Irish entertainment scene") has been awarded to ONE LIFE TO LIVE. The episode was titled "How are things in Glocca Llanview?"
"The way they wrote the characters, too, they really matured them, they really caught the gist of what their relationship had been as opposed to what it is now. Wally and I kept marveling at how wonderful the writing is. And true to form, true to life, true to the characters. So it's really been wonderful. I'm very lucky. Very blessed!"
"I did it already. I did it, we shot it, I don’t know when it airs. They asked me to come back because they’re going off the air. It was nice to be able to go back and they’re people that I cared about on that show and to say hello and - goodbye. It was nice to see them."
Arab world's first web drama, SHANKABOOT
"We are trying to tell a story young people can identify through a medium they can identify with," Amin Dora, the director of SHANKABOOT told The Media Line. "You can't reach these people through TV. The young generation are much more web-based, with only 20% of their lives on TV. We saw the trend towards web-based series in the West," he said. "So our goal was to make the first Arabic web series. Of course if a TV station wants to buy it, there will be no problem and maybe another category of people will watch it, you know 45-year-olds and above, but 16 to 35-year-olds are the people who are watching this on the web."
Barbara suggests EASTENDERS musical
"I wouldn't like to be the star of the musical. I would want to be second lead, leave it to someone else to take all the crap!"