SOAPnet renews Being Erica, Announces New Shows

Brian Frons, President, Daytime, Disney ABC Television Group, announced the new series recently picked up by SOAPnet and the return of the critically acclaimed BEING ERICA.

HOLIDATE, originally a one-hour special, has now being expanded to a 10 episode series. Each hour-long episode features two women who switch lives and date men in each other's towns. The women will communicate with each other as they hunt for true love. Series premieres July 29.

BANK OF MOM AND DAD, based on a BBC series, shows what happens when mom and dad move in with their twenty-something and thirty-something daughters who are in financial hell. Financial expert Farnoosh Torabi helps each woman plan a road map for the future. Ten episode series premieres Sept. 30.

The second season of BEING ERICA,starring Erin Karpluck (pictured above)returns in early 2010.

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SOAPnet Honor's Father's Day With A Y & R Billy vs Cane Daddy War Marathon

SOAPnet plans to look at Father's Day in traditional soap opera fashion when it airs a five hour marathon of Young & The Restless. The episodes will follow Genoa City residents Billy (Billy Miller), Cane (Daniel Goddard), Chloe (Elizabeth Hendrickson) and Lily (Christel Khalil)as they re-live the saga of who's the daddy and who gets custody of baby Delia.

Episodes air on Saturday, June 20th, starting at 4PM!

(JPI photo of Elizabeth Hendrickson and Billy Miller as Y & R's Chloe and Billy Abbott)

SOAPnet Is Having A Mothers Day With a One Life To Live Marathon

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SOAPnet is honoring Mother's Day with a marathon featuring One Life To Live's Blair Kramer(Kassie DePaiva) and her daughter Starr Manning(Kristen Anderson).
A marathon of One Life To Live's Best episodes air from 3pm to 6pm on May 10th.
Visit SOAPnet.com for more information. MOTHER'S DAY MARATHON

SOAPNet To Air Three Original Series

Soapnet's series pickups include a 13-episode order for drama "Being Erica," from Temple Street Prods. and Canuck net CBC. Series stars newcomer Erin Karpluk as a 32-year-old woman who revisits moments in her life through shrink sessions with her mysterious therapist. It's set to bow in the spring.

"Southern Belles," from Endemol USA and ABC Media Prods., is described as a docu-soap following the lives of five twentysomething, single women in Louisville, Ky. Cabler has ordered 10 segs for debut next year.

"Greg Behrendt's Wake-Up Call" is a six-episode nonscripted skein from Avalon Television that is set to bow Jan. 8 at 11 p.m. as part of Soapnet's Valentine's Day-themed programming slate. Behrendt, co-author of the femme dating self-help hit "He's Just Not That Into You," will counsel one couple in each seg on their relationship troubles.

All My Children: A Tornado Sweeps Pine Valley

The much advertized tornado swept through fictional Pine Valley, PA on Thursday October 16th and will continue through the next week. The dramatic storyline will kill off the character of Babe Carey Chandler and reintroduce popular characters, Erica Kane's youngest child Bianca Montgomery and Dr. David Hayward.

October 16th also marked All My Children's the taping of it's 10,000 episode which will air on November 12th. The soap's creator Agnes Nixon will appear in the episode as a ghost who will help the town deal with the tornado aftermath.
All My Children airs weekdays on ABC and weeknight on SOAPNet.

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