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Patricia Richardson is best known for her portrayal of Jill Taylor on the long-running series “Home Improvement” in which she co-starred with Tim Allen. For her work on the series she received nominations for four Emmys and two Golden Globes as “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.” While starring in “Home Improvement” she also co-hosted the Emmy Awards with Ellen DeGeneres

Richardson went on to star as Dr. Andy Campbell in “Strong Medicine” for three seasons and received a Commendation from the Prism Awards one year and was nominated for her work in an episode another year.

For the last two years of “West Wing,” Patricia had a recurring role as Sheila Brooks, Alan Alda’s Chief of Staff.

She also plays the hippie owner of a Northern California surf shop, the grandmother of Aimee Teegarden, and long-lost love of Vietnam Vet Lance Henriksen in “Beautiful Wave,” a feature that is currently in postproduction.

For her first leading role in a film, the much-acclaimed “Ulee’s Gold,” directed by Victor Nunez and co-starring Peter Fonda, Richardson was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

Jillian began her career at just 6 years old and has been fortunate to appear on both the big and small screen with numerous national commercials and films to her credit along with her double award winning portrayal of pre-teen 'Abby Deveraux' on NBC's Days Of Our Lives and a supporting role in the blockbuster Spider-Man. Her stage background includes hit musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, The Music Man, Meet Me in St. Louis, plus several original theater pieces, an extended run as 'Scout' in To Kill A Mockingbird and most recently in Eve Ensler's Bosnian masterpiece, Necessary Targets.

Besides acting, the ambitious sixteen year old is an avid singer and recording artist with songs on several CD's from her younger years, including Soap Sessions 8 Christmas with the Stars plus other ROCK and children’s albums. Jillian is currently learning to play the guitar, and writing lyrics with plans to record new original songs in the near future.

Aside from performing, Jillian lends her support to a variety of causes geared toward children and her four-legged friends, including her primary charity, APe Action. As the teen spokesperson for APe Action, Jillian is designing a program to educate school age children on the importance of moral and ethical values in regard to animals, people and the environment (APe). Jillian is a college freshman with a 4.0 GPA. She hopes to transfer to UCLA in 2011, majoring in her first love, theatre.

Look for Jillian starring soon in her new teen web series, Miss Behave, only on missbehave.tv

This past Sunday, June 27, 2010, CBS aired LIVE the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards from the LAS VEGAS HILTON! Host NaVell J. Lee had the pleasure of attending the festivities, dishing with some of the stars on the red carpet.

Now that the event has taken place, we want to hear YOUR thoughts on the telecast? Who wore it best? Who had on the worst outfit? Did your favorites win? What was your considered major upset? This is the time to vent out the frustrations and the joy for your favorites in daytime!

Gregory Smith ("Everwood"), who plays Dov Epstein on ABC's "Rookie Blue," will be making an appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio!

Gregory Smith is an accomplished actor who has starred in 25 feature films,

including "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson, "Small Soldiers" with Kirsten Dunst,

produced by Steven Spielberg, and "Nearing Grace," which opened the 2005 L.A. Film

Festival to critical acclaim. More recently he was seen in Reginald Harkema's

"Leslie, My Name is Evil," which made its world premiere at the 2009 Toronto

International Film Festival.

In addition to having worked in over 100 television episodes, most notably as the

protagonist Ephram Brown in the WB hit series "Everwood," Smith is also an

accomplished producer. In 2008 he developed and produced a comedy for Sony Screen

Gems that starred Kenan Thompson, Zach Levi and Fran Kranz, and he is currently in

development on several film and television projects, including the independent film

"On the Ice," a story about an Inuit hunter in the Arctic who becomes a witness to a

murder.

As an Internet entrepreneur, Smith co-founded TheU.net, an immersive student network

that releases high production video tours of the most popular colleges in the U.S.

He and his partner raised $1 million to develop and execute the concept and

structured a co-branding deal with AOL Time Warner subsidiary, The WB.

"Rookie Blue" stars Missy Peregrym as Andy McNally, Gregory Smith as Dov Epstein,

Charlotte Sullivan as Gail Peck, Enuka Okuma as Traci Nash, Travis Milne as Chris

Diaz, Ben Bass as Sam Swarek and Eric Johnson as Detective Luke Callaghan. Also

starring in the series are Melanie Nicholls-King as Noelle Williams, Matt Gordon as

Oliver Shaw, Noam Jenkins as Detective Jerry Barber and Lyriq Bent as Frank Best.

Kate Lang Johnson portrays Tori Fairchild, the privileged, pragmatic and manipulative daughter of an American ambassador, in NBC’s “Persons Unknown.”

Johnson’s television credits include a recurring role on “Days of Our Lives,” and appearances on “Ugly Betty;” “Life;” “ER;” “The Young and the Restless;” “Drake and Josh;” “Malcolm in the Middle;” “Summerland;” “CSI: Miami;” “Boston Public;” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”

Her film credits include “Echoboom”; “Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon”; “Tom 51”; “Berkeley”; and “Fired Up.”

From Academy Award-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie (“The Usual Suspects”), who is executive-producing with Heather McQuarrie, and executive producer Rémi Aubuchon, comes “Persons Unknown,” a one-hour mystery drama in which a group of seven strangers must come together to solve the puzzle of their lives. All of the seven strangers have been taken from their everyday lives and have arrived in a deserted town with no recollection of how they got there.

While being held hostage, they are watched constantly by omnipresent “security” cameras with no idea who or what is behind them and every attempt to leave is thwarted by unforeseen circumstances, which seem to derive from mysterious forces. At every turn, these strangers-turned-comrades are threatened physically, psychologically and emotionally.

Their only option for survival is to rely on each other, but whom can they trust in this vulnerable state – either behind those cameras or amongst themselves? Their decisions will have moral and ethical consequences, as alliances are forged and relationships brokered.

It's that time of year again, soap fans! Not only are we going to dish about the Daytime Emmys, which will take place at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 27, 2010 airing on CBS, but we are also going to talk about all that is daytime dramas!

Joining us on our podcast will be SOAPS in DEPTH's editor Richard Simms. *I called him a GUIDO...he said something else. Figure it out!* I am heavily excited about our Emmy Pre-Pre Show...this is the first of 2 possible pre-Emmy shows. One which will take place here on the podcast, the second to take place in Vegas. Who did I have round up for that? Stay tuned...and you'll find out!

Who was snubbed? Who deserves to take it home? This is your chance to let your voices be heard with the rest of us! Guys, grab the kool-aid. Girls, don't shout into the phone! Our firsty Daytime Emmy pre-podcast gets underway!

Stacy Haiduk, who plays the dual roles of Patty Williams and Dr. Emily Peterson on CBS Daytime's The Young and the Restless, will be making her first appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio!

Haiduk first got recognition as playing Lana Lang in the Superboy series from 1988-1992. From then on out, she had smaller roles in television and film, until 2007 when she landed the role of Hannah Nichols on ABC Daytime's All My Children. Unfortunately, her character met her demise when she purposely fell over a cliff in 2008.

The following year, Haiduk made her way to Genoa City as the mysterious Mary Jane Benson, only to later be revealed as Patty Williams, Paul's (Doug Davidson) sister. Haiduk also took on the role of Dr. Emily Peterson.

So, what is now in store for Emily? Patty? Kitty? Oh wait...Kitty is dead, isn't he? This IS a soap, after all. No one stays dead and buried!

BuzzWorthy favorite, Alison Brie, returns to the show!

Alison Brie plays Annie, a high-strung perfectionist, on the new NBC comedy series “Community.”

Brie can currently be seen as "Trudy Campbell" on the award winning drama series, "Mad Men,” which returns in August 2009. She will also appear in a film titled “Montana Amazon” with Olympia Dukakis and Haley Joel Osment slated for release later this year.

Brie was born in Hollywood, CA and grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena. Interested in acting at an early age, she began her career performing in community theatre shows at the Jewish Community Center in Los Feliz. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Brie attended California Institute of the Arts where she received her BFA in Acting. While there, she was one of the original cast members in the world premiere of “The Peach Blossom Fan,” performed as the inaugural theatre production at Disney's REDCAT Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. Brie also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.

Since graduating, Brie has continued to work in all forms of media, including film, television, and theatre. She has performed in the Blank Theatre Company’s Young Playwright's festival and in shows at the Odyssey, Write-Act, and Rubicon Theatres, receiving an Indy Award for her haunting performance as Ophelia in the Rubicon's production of “Hamlet.” Brie guest starred on Comedy Central and Disney's “Hannah Montana” and landed leading roles in some independent films before her current role on “Community.”

Brie currently lives in South Pasadena.

There are three sure-fire phrases that will make any rock and roll fan wrinkle up his nose: “High School Musical,” “boy band” and “actor-turned-musician.” The last phrase in particular is among the ugliest terms in music journalism, and for good reason. Just look at the recent track record: From Russell Crowe to Lindsey Lohan ... well, let’s just say it hasn’t been a very pretty sight. Thanks to those people and others (We’re looking at you, Kevin Bacon), any actor who wants an honest shot at a career in music has a long, dark road ahead of him. Fortunately for all of us, “actor-turned-musician” Thomas Ian Nicholas has two weapons in his corner. First, he’s been playing music for over half his life and can write a pop song like nobody’s business. And second, that long road we were talking about? Doesn’t bother him one bit. Thom has been, is, and to some degree will always be known as Kevin from the “American Pie” movies. That’s right, he was that nice kid, that wholesome kid ... that kid who got to make out with Tara Reid. Whereas to most young men the idea of living with that identity is not such a bad proposition, Nicholas has the desire, not to mention the talent, to be so much more. Musically, Thom draws from a solid crop of influences – from Switchfoot to Springsteen – that have helped him learn the art of writing a pop song while keeping a foot in rock and roll. His music is polished enough to swagger right onto the radio, but raw enough to sound honest – and, it’s worth mentioning, is much more rock and roll than you’d ever expect from someone who’s had the dubious honor of being tagged Seventeen Magazine’s “It Boy.” For Nicholas, this time in his life isn’t about red carpets. He’s not worried about dating the “right girl” or answering questions about “who he’s wearing” at the Oscars. It’s more about connecting with fans – no, with people – at all costs!

ATI/World Wide Media President is returning to Buzzworthy to give the fans the details on what is in store for this year's Daytime Emmy Awards which are being held for the first time ever in "Sin City" Las Vegas, and televised on CBS.