Nick At Nite Orders 80-Episode Telenovela with JFP and Josh Griffith

[dc11786]

Cody Longo, who appeared last fall as Nicholas Alamain on "Days of our Lives," is appearing in the show as well as Melissa Ordway and Justin Wilcynski. They all appeared at Nickoldeon's upfront presentation today.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Ok now I have to watch! James Franco I really admire his work & his outlook on film/art. Also love that he doesn't just limit himself to acting in movies. Can't wait for details on his character in this show!

[EricMontreal22]

I like a lot of what Franco does (I think I was the only one who was in the theatre here for a showing of Howl which while greatly uneven was at least a worthy project), and I do appreciate him genre hopping, but his filming schedule really screwed with GH and his role--besides of course for the fact that it was poorly written and a general mess. Surely this is just some sort of cameo unless they're going to do once again the "film scenes for 2 weeks of episodes in five hours" route.

[Vee]

Maybe in primetime, working with teens, Jill will focus on the limited skill set she's good at, as opposed to practicing misogyny with middle-aged women and men.

I do think it's good news for the genre, but only because it is overtly a "telenovela" - the truth is that 70-90% of scripted programming today is soap in some form, from Game of Thrones to Smash.

[dc11786]

According to ABC SID, Cody Longo Anthony is playing Eddie, the rock star. Melissa Ordway is playing Chloe, Eddie's girlfriend.

[Ann_SS]

Where is the diversity in this cast?

[marceline]

Apparently, Shannon Kane is part of the series at least according to her latest Facebook post:

"Shannon Kane:

A little teaser of who will be joining the cast of my new show " Hollywood Heights"

James Franco Cast In Nick At Nite Soap 'Hollywood Heights'

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I can't find any official confirmation but I trust my girl on this. Yay Shannon!

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Yes!!

[~bl~]

Thanks for that information marceline. That's so great glad for Shannon.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

Grayson McCouch (Ex-Dusty ATWT) is also joining the cast.

This show looks better and better to me as time goes on. I am gonna watch!

[DRW50]

I hope he is at least going to bathe, as he's not bringing any acting to the table.

[frequentsoapfan]

JFP has friends galore appearing on this show. I really don't even like teen shwos but I might have to check it out for Carlos Ponce alone.

[DRW50]

I never thought of him as an FOJ, as he had crap all to do when she was on the show, but you may be right.

[frequentsoapfan]

TC had crap on GH but Jill was his friend and kept him on longer than he should've been.

[DRW50]

True, although Grayson abruptly vanished from AW towards the end of her run, after not having much to do.

I hope they get better casting than this and worthless Franco. When Langston is your best choice then I don't know what to say.