Stephen Amell Cast as Green Arrow!

Actor Stephen Amell has been cast in the title role of Green Arrow for the CW's upcoming pilot Arrow. Amell is known for his guest appearances on various programs such as Hung, Private Practice, and Vampire Diaries.

The character was last portrayed on Smallville by former Passions star Justin Hartley.

While I cannot say I am happy about the news (I was REALLY looking forward to seeing Hartley front burner in his own show), I will give the pilot a view when it becomes available and will try and keep an open mind while doing so.

Are you guys excited for Arrow? Are you disappointed Hartley isn't going to be participating? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

TVFIX's Top 10 Craziest Soap Opera Plots

Ha! This is hilarious - take a trip down memory lane by having a look at TVFIX's Top 10 Craziest Soap Opera Plots - it's a bit Aussie-centric with soaps such as Home and Away, Neighbours and Sons and Daughters featuring heavily, but Dallas, Passions, EastEnders and Days of Our Lives also rates in the countdown. Check it out here then let us know whether you agree with the Top 10 or not!

Days of our Passions? An Analysis of the New Head Writers at Days of our Lives

As we all now know Days of our Lives has two new head writers: Marlene McPherson & Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr., and both come from the former NBC sudser Passions, but what does that really mean for the state of the Days? As the resident Passions guru (only second to our pal @peter_adams) I was given the task of analyzing this news.

So let's talk about the good first - Dena H is GONE!

These head writers have been a part of some amazing stories. Passions was really well known for it's big sweeping summer stories aka Vendetta, Red, Stalker, etc. All of them were big umbrella stories and had a lot of good going on within the show and made it must see tv while it was on.

The bad-
Where do I start? The supernatural aspect of the show was awesome in the early years when they were committed to it, but became an after thought at the end. The show did stupid things such as the revelation that the stalker was really Vincent who was a hermapherdite...ugh now I will say that the original story with it being 2 stalkers and one being Beth made a lot more sense but hey who cares.

Also in the end there was a lot of bad dialog and stories. I mean the whole Theresa hiding in disguise as some mob queen tried to kill her was just foolishness and awful. But I really believe that was more JER recycling stories than anything else.

So at the end I am really optimistic, there is a lot of potential here for good things (Stefano = Alister Crane?) and now they can bring Arianna back from the dead and keep my girl Lindsay Hartley employed!

What are your thoughts on this news? Are you dreading their arrival or are you at least a little bit more optimistic than before with Dena in control? Let me know in the comments below or on twitter @soapwikijohn

Hermaphrodite plot scratched for 'Hollyoaks'?

Is Hollyoaks the new Passions? Digitalspy just reported that a purposed hermaphrodite plot that was supposed to 'improve' ratings was just scrapped due to the actor chosen for the role refusing to play it.

Now, I am not one to say "Hermaphrodite" storylines are what the industry really needs, but an actor who is selected for that role, should have to play out the role correct? I just get a strange Chris Egine feeling from this story.

Anyways would you have been interested in this story? Or are you glad they axed it?