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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Would you like to see Dante and Lulu back together?

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Daytime veteran/interior designer Linda Dano (ex-Rae, GENERAL HOSPITAL/ALL MY CHILDREN/ONE LIFE TO LIVE) has some exciting new pieces in her Linda Dano Home Collection for QVC that she will be unveiling on the shopping channel on Tuesday, May 28!

The 2013 spring collection features Dano's signature storage trunks, a show-stopping animal print chest and throw pillows, versatile bamboo rugs and easel, richly colored linens, and other stylish accessories including the return of her beveled mirror centerpieces in new sizes. "As hard as it is to believe that I'm celebrating 20 years with QVC, it's been the perfect way for me to reach so many more people than I could have imagined," she says. "It is a collaboration that allows me to be passionate about good taste, style, versatility and craftsmanship and for me to show them how each piece works in any style home decor: traditional, modern or eclectic."

Let Dano help you make your home a sanctuary! Tune in to QVC on Tuesday, May 28, from 3-4 p.m. EST. The pieces (as well as others from her collection) will also be available on-line at www.qvc.com.

Now that the online versions of ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE have been airing for a month, The OnLine Network has created an easy way for new viewers to get caught up on what's been going on in Pine Valley and Llanview since the soaps made their historic online debuts.

Newly produced three-week recap shows are now available on Hulu.com for both AMC and OLTL for any fans who don't want to watch all of the separate episodes (or those who want to relive the excitement). In addition, the first online episodes of both soaps are now available commercial-free on The OnLine Network's YouTube Channel. You might also want to click that link and subscribe because they'll be offering up various behind-the-scenes clips and other fun videos featuring the actors from both soaps in the future, and you probably won't want to miss a single one!

If you're looking to snag a gorgeous, exotic, worldly mate, who better to point you in the right direction than GENERAL HOSPITAL's Antonio Sabáto Jr. (ex-Jagger)? He is currently teaming up with International dating Web site AnastasiaDate.com as their celebrity spokesperson to discuss new trends in dating that will help people find and maintain love in a cross-cultural digital world. "AnastasiaDate's mission to connect men and women from all over the world resonates with my own personal belief that everyone should expand their understanding of love, dating and relationships across any borders," says Sabáto. "Working with AnastasiaDate, I get to help drive attention to how on-line dating is bringing people together who never would have met otherwise.

The dating service was founded by a Russian-American couple whose mission is to help others find love from around the world. "The girls are in South America, Russia, Southeast Asia... it's worldwide," says Sabáto. "You meet in a small gathering after a long process of speaking to them and getting to know them [through the service]. It's really well done."

For more information, visit www.AnastasiaDate.com!

Last week's news that ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE would be adjusting their schedule so that both shows only air two episodes a week has meant that Canadian soap fans can no longer watch them on FX Canada.

"The terms of the F/X Canada deal stipulated a five day run," a rep for Prospect Park told Soaps In Depth. "Now that the shows have been reduced, the agreement is no longer valid. However, the great news is that Canadian viewers can now access the shows via iTunes Canada."

With the new schedule, new episodes of AMC will be uploaded to iTunes on Mondays and Wednesdays while new OLTL episodes will be uploaded Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fridays will see a combination AMC/OLTL behind-the-scenes MORE show.

GENERAL HOSPITAL's Nikolas meant well and the gesture to have his mother and Scotty get married at Wyndemere was a fine attempt to show his support. But considering all the murder and mayhem "Hotel Gothica" had seen through the years, Laura would have been safer politely turning down his wedding gift and, instead, suggesting a gravy boat. "I just hope that we'll be able to hear our vows with all the screaming of the souls that are trapped in the walls," Scotty joked. Many a truth is told in jest. Monday we'll know if the ceremony was interrupted by an ex-husband, a cranky in-law, an amnesiac offspring, someone assumed dead, someone really dead... or if it goes without a hitch. As if.

Congress must have been getting along, the Middle East must have been calm, and the stock market must have stabilized because it was a really slow news day for "Hellish Relish" to be a front page story. Then again, its apparent perpetrator, Roger Howarth's "mysterious man" does have a devilish grin, so maybe that hell reference wasn't so far off. The perfectly coiffed, newly blonde, scar-free, stubble-faced Howarth is arriving in Port Charles Monday, and that can't be good news for somebody.

Dante is one sly dog, taking Lulu to the Haunted Star to retrieve (and recreate!) her memory of their first kiss. And it almost worked! Their lips were millimeters apart when she was hit with a disturbing flashback of being dragged off. Not exactly a daydream to put ya in the mood!

This week, a much-anticipated wedding gets under way, the "mysterious man" has another scheme up his sleeve, and horrifying messages reach Sonny and Carly! Don't forget: 2:00 ET and 1:00 PST/CT on ABC. Be there!

Thursday's episode of GENERAL HOSPITAL found Laura having to deal with some pretty strenuous objections about her upcoming wedding to Scott... and for once, it wasn't Luke raising a ruckus! Instead, her mom, Lesley, was the one objecting because of the circumstances surrounding the death of her late ex-hubby, Rick Webber. Need a refresher on the history being discussed? Glad to help!

Laura's troubles began as she was planning her 2002 wedding to Luke. One gigantic black hole in time was centered around the garage attic of the Jones house, where she spent her youth with her parents, Rick and Lesley. Bad dreams that she realized were actually memories had both her and Luke determined to unravel the secret from her past that only her subconscious mind was aware of.

As memories slowly returned, she knew that whatever happened in that attic, Scotty also knew. He, however, wasn't going to tell her. When she finally had full recollection of the woman's face from her memories, Laura had Liz sketch it. Lesley remembered that woman as a nurse at GH named Theresa. Flooded with flashbacks, Laura came to believe that her stepfather, Rick, was involved in the woman's murder.

The night of Luke and Laura's wedding, the bride returned to the attic and was soon joined by her father. She accused him of murdering Theresa in that very room, but he denied it. Trying to calm her, he approached her with a syringe. Believing that Rick was indeed a murderer now out to silence his own daughter, Laura picked up a heavy candlestick and struck him in the head, killing him.

Stumbling upon Luke, a catatonic Laura and a dead Rick, Scotty finally told Luke about the events in that attic all those years earlier: A teenaged Laura had walked in on Rick and a romantically obsessed Theresa in a heated discussion about him refusing to leave Lesley. Freaked out, Laura grabbed a camera and hit Theresa over the head, killing her. Laura's fragile state concerned Rick, who sedated her. He then called Scotty, who helped him bury Theresa's body in the Jones' backyard to protect Laura from being charged with murder.

Fans were shocked to learn that starting Monday, May 20, ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE, which had been airing via Hulu.com four days a week, would now be airing twice a week. (AMC will air Monday and Wednesday, with OLTL filling the Tuesday and Thursday slot.) We went to Prospect Park head honcho Jeff Kwatinetz for details on what led to the surprising move.

Soaps In Depth: What does this mean for the future?

Jeff Kwatinetz: It's good. We've been getting millions of views. We're off to a great start. The data is pretty clear. People aren't watching like they watched it before. We should have expected this. We thought it'd be a lot...I don't know why, but our initial instinct was that people were going to watch them like they watched them on ABC. But the truth is they're watching them more like they watch shows on-line, and people are just falling behind. They think that there are too many episodes, and they don't like missing shows or getting behind. [Another factor has been the fast paced-nature of the episodes themselves.] We don't want to slow them down so people feel like it is okay to miss a show. People are telling us - and you have your own experiences - that if they miss one of our shows they feel like they have to go back, they can't just pick up.

In Depth: How does switching to two days a week impact the pacing of shows that are already taped? If you had a Tuesday show that's now a Wednesday show -- and you're not getting another one till next Monday -- how does that affect the viewers? What about cliffhangers and holiday shows, themes that were going on?

Kwatinetz: That's a really good question. Luckily, our stories weren't dependent on things like holidays or times of year. But that's part of why, once we saw that people were watching the shows more like they do other on-line shows, we realized we needed to do something quicker and [not] end up with the kind of issues you're talking about.

In Depth: Once you've gotten a chance to see how this new schedule does, might you consider going back to a four-episode week down the line?

Kwatinetz: Of course! We always said that we're going to adjust to the audience. This give us more time to work with you guys about marketing the show and making the show its own event. The last thing we wanted to do is slow down the pacing because everyone loves the shows themselves. I have not been involved with TV that has gotten such great reviews. We don't want to screw around with the content. We just wanted to make sure that people can keep up.

The OnLine Network has made a huge announcement regarding ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE: Starting Monday, May 20, they are scaling back on the scheduling model and two new episodes of each show will be made available each week. New AMC shows will post on Mondays and Wednesdays, and OLTL will now run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The behind-the-scenes series, MORE, will stream as a single show on Fridays.

In a statement released to subscribers of TOLN's newsletters, Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz explain, "This allows us to introduce a new episode of quality television every Monday through Friday and gives the audience a chance to catch up as we continue to build awareness and excitement around these new shows. Because Hulu agrees with our findings, for the meantime they will keep all of our episodes on Hulu.com for free to give viewers the opportunity to find us and catch up."

The decision was made after collecting viewing data which showed that the shows were primarily being watched by "binge viewing" on-demand and that while the soaps once had a shared ABC audience, the majority of viewers are only watching one of the rebooted shows, not both. The execs also state that "our viewers seem to primarily start with the first episode then continue forward... yet starting from the beginning with the amount of episodes we are releasing is asking too much for viewers who need to catch up."

Frank and Kwatinetz promise that this new schedule will not impact the production of AMC and OLTL. "We will be filming new episodes through mid-June, continue editing throughout July and until we go back into production in August. It's a frenetic schedule but all of us are up for the challenge and excited to continue to deliver great shows.

"As a new venture we felt obligated to address the needs of our viewers head on and to make adjustments that we think will work for our viewers. And as always, we thank you for your continued support and encouragement."

The full statement can be read here.

ONE LIFE TO LIVE alum Jonathan Groff (ex-Henry) is headed back to television! The actor, who also starred in GLEE, will headline an untitled HBO dramedy about a trio of gay friends living in San Francisco. The eight-episode series will also star GUIDING LIGHT alum Murray Bartlett (Cyrus) and SMASH's Frankie J. Alvarez. Production is scheduled to begin this fall in Frisco, with the series hitting the air next year.