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Here are the latest comings and goings casting news from all four daytime dramas: The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.

Soap Opera Casting For The Week of February 3, 2025

Find out if any of your favorite actors and actresses from yesteryear are returning to the shows you watch, if any newcomers have been cast in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, or if any popular performers are about to make their exit.

Days of our Lives

Kim Coles is bringing her crazed character, Whitley King, back to Days. However, it’s only for one episode. Coles played the obsessed nurse who abducted Abe (James Reynolds) and held him captive for months back in 2023. She appears on Wednesday, February 5 in powerful scenes with Reynolds and Jackee Harry’s Paulina.

Bruce Beatty gets more screen time as Seth Burns. The hospital administrator and...

Another week, another villain bids adieu to The Young and the Restless. Here’s the latest casting news from the CBS soap. Find out who’s out, as well as if any newcomers or popular stars from yesteryear are joining the show this week or in the near future in contract, recurring, or day-player roles.

The Week of February 3, 2025

It’s a wrap for Linden Ashby. The actor completed his latest run as the abusive Cameron Kirsten last week. Ashby, who originally played Cameron from 2003 to 2004, returned to the soap in 2023 and was eventually killed off. However, he began haunting Sharon (Sharon Case) in 2024.

The rarely seen Elizabeth Hendrickson gets some screen time as Chloe Mitchell. Look for the character to give Sally (Courtney Hope) a history lesson on Friday, February 7.

Valarie Pettiford pops back in as Amy Lewis on Tuesday, February 4, and Thursday, February 6. She’ll interact with Sean Dominic...

Remington Chase, a former film producer who was accused of swindling investors out of at least $234 million, has been reported dead in the United Kingdom.

Chase, 65, died of liver failure on July 31 at Victoria Hospital in Blackpool, according to a death certificate provided to Variety by the Blackpool Registration Service.

His death was also confirmed by his wife, Linda Biron of Marina del Rey, Calif., who said he was a “good person.”

“He got mixed up with some wrong people,” she said in an interview. “He was not out to hurt anybody. He was out to make good movies.”

Chase’s death leaves a long trail of litigation, with numerous parties accusing him of defrauding them out of investment funds, real estate and loan proceeds.

Base Media, a China-based animation and VFX studio, sued Chase and an associate, Kevin Robl, in 2022, accusing them of a massive fraud against the company’s investors.

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50 fabulous documentary films, covering hard politics through to music, money and films that never were...

Thanks to streaming services such as Netflix, we’ve never had better access to documentaries. A whole new audience can discover that these real life stories are just as thrilling, entertaining, and incredible as the latest big-budget blockbuster. What’s more, they’re all true too. But with a new found glut of them comes the ever more impossible choice, what’s worth your time? Below is my pick of the 50 best modern feature length documentaries.

I’ve defined modern as being from 2000 onwards, which means some of the greatest documentaries ever made will not feature here. I’m looking at you Hoop Dreams.

50. McConkey (2013)

d. Rob Bruce, Scott Gaffney, Murray Wais, Steve Winter, David Zieff

Shane McConkey was an extreme skier and Base jumper who lived life on the edge, and very much to the full.