Soap World No. 309

What a month! Like me, B&B fans can never get enough of Hunter Tylo! Taylor ‘s return sends shockwaves in every direction, with repercussions for Bill , Steffy , Liam and Hope . Ridge and Brooke are also up in arms over their daughters’ love-lives, and good luck to Wyatt and Katie in their long-game bid to get the better of Dollar Bill! Congrats to all at Days of Our Lives for their sensational sweep of the Daytime Emmys – see P60. Speaking of warm wishes, B&…

ON THE WAY OUT? Nervy times for fans of high-profile US shows yet to be renewed – including Criminal Minds, seen on Seven. Sadly, it’s on 299 eps! Others whose fates are up in the air are struggling dramas Scorpion and Elementary, both on Ten. Everybody gets a soap! * OPRAH WINFREY’s TV network OWN has commissioned a new primetime soap opera, tentatively titled Ambitions. It’s being billed as a “multigenerational family saga centred around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalising her marriage, finds herself going head-to-head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city”. To be produced later this year, Ambitions is expected to air in 2019. Can’t wait…

“Hope happily flaunts her new engagement in her love rival’s face.” Once a staunch, loyal supporter of Steffy and Liam’s marriage, Hope is now desperate to ensure Liam gets rid of her – for good, this time! Boldly confessing her love for Liam, Hope urges him to remember the kind of man he was when they were together... and not to compromise his integrity because of Steffy’s sins. Hope (Annika Noelle) isn’t backward in confronting Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) with her true feelings either, bluntly telling her love rival that Liam (Scott Clifton) clearly deserves the best a woman can offer him. And a woman who gets down and dirty with her husband’s father isn’t that person! She also makes Steffy realise…

No sooner has Ridge been cleared of blasting Bill than his and Brooke’s hopes of blissfully resuming marital happiness are wrecked by events tearing apart their daughters’ love-lives! Not only is Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) still obsessed with Bill (Don Diamont) framing him for attempted murder, he’s also thunderstruck by Brooke’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) defence of her former husband. After all, someone shot Bill in the back and they’re still out there! Ridge couldn’t care less about his enemy, but the tension between him and his wife only worsens when she learns that he’s gone and brought Taylor (Hunter Tylo) back to support Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood)! She’s aghast to hear that Ridge has convinced Taylor that Bill raped Steffy, and tears into her spouse, unable to accept that Bill’s a…

* The best possible news for B&B’s Karla Mosley – expecting a little bundle of joy with boyfriend John Rogers – is also going to present a few challenges at work! As her character Maya is transgender the bump will be impossible to write into the storyline… plus she and Rick asked her sister Nicole to be their surrogate a while back. Cue some clever camera work and hiding behind props! Here, the glowing star shares her happiness… Congratulations! Was this something you guys had planned? I couldn’t be more excited to become a mum – it’s something that I’ve always known I’ve wanted. I don’t think there is ever really a “right” time to have kids. I had a feeling it would happen soon, but I still swing between…

“Colby’s head of the queue – after all, he pulled the trigger and killed her brother!” Revenge changes a person – for the worse. And it makes Ebony Easton such an extremely dangerous customer in Summer Bay. The dark-haired beauty’s a member of the spiteful Easton family, and so it’s guaranteed that sinister blood runs through her veins. In fact, this new Summer Bay villain is pure evil! Ebony (Cariba Heine) is the sister of the late Boyd Easton (Steve Le Marquand), the man Colby (Tim Franklin) shot and killed in the line of duty when the kidnapping of Ava (Grace Thomas Rose) ended up going so disastrously wrong. It was initially thought all she wanted was to get even with Colby for killing her brother. But, no, she has…