Catching Up With ATWT's Billy Magnussen

Nelson Branco's weekly "Suds Report" Shocker: OLTL’s Erin Torpey returns! Antonio Sabato Jr. works the NIGHT SHIFT! Pre-Emmy party gossip! GL hires four head writers! DAYS brave social-issue story! Michael Tylo speaks on son’s tragic death! Stop the presses: Dylan Bruce is Canadian! Duffy back to B&B DALLAS vet Patrick Duffy (ex-Bobby) returns as THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL patriarch Stephen Logan on June 20. Tweaked OLTL Tale Adds "Original" Jess Michael Logan at TV Guide reports: What the Tuck? There's already a hitch in those fantastic One Life to Live 40th anniversary plans I revealed earlier this week. Fan fave Jessica Tuck, who was supposed to be seen in a Heaven sequence as her late, great character Megan, had to bow out of the gig yesterday due to a scheduling conflict. (Souces say the conflict is High School Musical 3, but I have no confirmation of that). This is not just a big disappointment for us Tuck-anistas, it's a big headache for the show because her appearance was no mere cameo. OLTL head writer Ron Carlivati had wanted Megan to serve as a celestial guide for her mama Viki (Erika Slezak), who will visit the Great Beyond after dying in a car crash — a major two-day plot twist (airing July 21-22) that riffs on one of the soap's most famous stories from the 1980s. The scenes shoot this coming Monday. The clock is ticking. What to do? Carlivati, who is quite the brain-stormer, quickly picked a different dead Megan to be Viki's guide — that would be Megan's namesake (and Viki's granddaughter), baby Megan, who died by miscarriage in 1999 when her mom, Jessica, was the victim of a hit-and-run. Back then, Jessica was played by another fan sensation, the much-missed Erin Torpey — and that's who's gonna come back to the show and play baby Megan in Heaven! Granted, it's a little weird, but it's certainly a creative way to solve a casting crisis! BLOG UPDATE: Marlena DeLacroix "Introducing Soap Shrink, a column by a real life practicing therapist, Damon L. Jacobs, that diagnoses and analyzes our favorite characters. Damon has an M.A. in psychology and is a New York-licensed marriage and family therapist. What is going to make this fun is that Damon is also real life longtime soap fan, one of Marlena’s Thinking Fans who looks at soaps from the same sophisticated and humorous perspective you and I do. Each week Damon will pick a character and analyzes him or her." On the Soap Shrink’s Couch: General Hospital’s Carly Corinthos Jacks WORLD: Eyeballs stuck to same TV shows including B&B According to ratings firm Eurodata TV Worldwide, which listed highest ratings worldwide for 2007, CSI, about a team of forensic experts, drew 83.9 million viewers, beating out sequel show CSI: MIAMI and HOUSE as the globe's most popular TV drama series. In the TV comedy category, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES attracted 61.5 million viewers, beating MONK and UGLY BETTY. THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL with 26.2 million viewers was the most popular soap, against two Mexican telenovelas DESTILANDO AMOR and MARINA. In 2007, Eurodata listed the same three programs as the world's most popular for 2006. The figures, based on ratings in 51 countries with a potential 1.6 billion viewers, were released today by the Monte-Carlo Television Festival and Eurodata. DJ Mills wins soap roles Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills has reportedly scooped roles in THE BILL and HOLLYOAKS. Speaking to The Sun, Mills admitted: "I loved my part in The Bill very much, although I would like to catch some actual criminals next time.