Tom Wesley and Albert Alarr (“All My Children”) as director. Other daytime veterans onscreen and behind the scenes include Scott Bryce (“As the World Turns”) as Sen. To watch them bring their A game … suddenly, it brings all different aspects of the script you didn’t see yourself.” They are predominately from a daytime background. “These are hardworking friends of Crystal and mine’s. “The cast is really phenomenal,” said Smith between takes last week. “I told Crystal, think ‘Dallas’ meets the ‘West Wing,’” Casavant said of “Beacon Hill.” She pitched Chappell the new project after watching the actresses’ daytime Emmy-winning online soap “Venice: The Series.” “It was an awful time in my life,” Casavant told the Herald.
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Writer Jessica Casavant of Grafton, who is married to Linda Hill, CEO of Bella Books, was accused of plagiarism a decade ago for a series of novels in the gay and lesbian genre. The series also comes with a dramatic backstory of its own. The story is centered on feuding blue-blood clans, the Prestons and the Wesleys, as they battle each other for power on the local and national political scene. Smith (“One Life to Live”) serves as supervising producer. “We have such incredible freedom to tell the story we want to tell.”Ĭhappell’s company, Open Book Productions, has partnered with Bella Books Productions, which specializes in gay and lesbian fiction, to create the political melodrama “Beacon Hill.” Boston native Hillary B. “I’m totally in love with it,” Chappell told the Herald during a break in filming on location in Lincoln last week.
Soap stars Crystal Chappell (“Guiding Light, “Days of Our Lives”), Ricky Paull Goldin (“All My Children,” “The Young and the Restless”) and Sarah Brown (“General Hospital”) were among the stars filming scenes last week for the original online series set to debut next spring. Familiar TV faces will be walking “Beacon Hill.”