'Days of our Lives' Searches for Australian Star, Over 200 Have Applied So Far

Russell Queay, John-Paul Jory and Ben Jesinowski are taking part in a Foxtel competition to find an Aussie bloke to get a 13-week role on Days of our Lives. Photo Credit: Chris McKeen

Australia’s most popular daytime series Days of our Lives celebrates its 50th year anniversary on television this year. To mark the occasio, Foxtel's Arena channel and the producers of Days of our Lives, Corday Productions Inc. and distributor, Sony Pictures Television, will scour the country in search of an Australian actor to join the cast of this iconic series.

Arena and Corday Productions Inc. are offering the chance of a lifetime to an established or aspiring young actor to play the role of Finn, a handsome, rugged Australian doctor who arrives in Salem to do his residency, specifically to gain skills as a surgeon, working under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Jonas (Shawn Christian).

Flashback: Julian McMahon In 'Home And Away' And 'Another World'

Julian McMahon celebrated the 30th anniversary of Another World in 1994 with co-stars,
including Colleen Dion, Judi Evans, Barbara Berger, Robyn Griggs and Amy Carlson.

Golden Globe nominee Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck, Charmed) has been added to the cast of Syfy's upcoming six-hour miniseries Childhood's End. McMahon will portray Rupert Boyce, an enigmatic American entrepreneur.

McMahon is well known for his roles in Charmed and the hugely successful Nip/Tuck. But do you remember his time on the Australian soap opera Home And Away or his stint on the dearly departed Another World?

Below, check out his first appearance as Ben Lucini in Home And Away and see him in action as Ian Rain in Another World.

Watch 'Neighbours vs Zombies' Part 2: Toadie Reunites with Stingray

Australian soap opera Neighbours has released the second episode of the soap's Halloween-inspired web series Neighbours vs. Zombies.

Toadie Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney) face-to-face with his cousin Stingray Timmins (Ben Nicholas), who died in 2007.

Watch Neighbours vs. Zombies Part 2 below:

Watch 'Neighbours vs Zombies' Part 1: Zombies Invade Ramsay Street

Australian soap opera Neighbours has released the first episode of the soap's Halloween-inspired web series Neighbours vs. Zombies.

Ramsay Street joker Stingray Timmins (Ben Nicholas), Harold Bishop's son David (Kevin Harrington) and bad boy Robbo Slade (Aaron Jakubenko) are all seen back from the dead in the first installment of the mini-series.

The story begins when Mason Turner (Taylor Glockner) returns home to Erinsborough for a visit and is shocked to come face-to-face with Robbo.

Although Mason struggles to make his sister Amber (Jenna Rosenow) believe what he saw, he later meets Hope Gottlieb (Louna Maroun) and is surprised to hear that Robbo isn't the only face from the past who has made a shocking return from the dead.

Toadie and Sonya Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney and Eve Morey) also feature in the first episode and receive a spooky surprise of their own while at home.

Watch Neighbours vs. Zombis Part 1 below:

'Neighbours vs Zombies' Trailer Released: Ramsay Street Under Attack Starting October 27

Australian soap opera Neighbours has released an official trailer for Neighbours vs. Zombies, the show's five-part zombie web series launching Monday, October 27, just in time for Halloween.

Stingray Timmins (Ben Nicholas), Drew Kirk (Dan Paris), David Bishop (Kevin Harrington) and Robbo Slade (Aaron Jakubenko) are among the characters who will be rising from the dead in the online spinoff series.

In addition to a sneak peek at the webisodes, the trailer also showcases a reworked version of the Neighbours theme song with lyrics such as: "Neighbours, everybody eats their neighbours." Watch it below:

Elaine Lee Dead at 75

Elaine Lee, the 1970s-era sex symbol and star of the iconic soap opera Number 96, died on Friday. She was 75.

Though she was best known for her role as the flamboyant fashion designer Vera Collins in Number 96, Lee's stage, film and television career spanned four decades.

Her other credits included A Country Practice, Glenview High, and the critically acclaimed miniseries Anzacs.

More recently she was seen in another high school drama, Heartbreak High, the medical drama All Saints and Seven's long-running soap Home and Away.

She also appeared regularly on the stage and, for a time, starred in a one-woman show, "Turn on the Heat," which was loosely based on the last two hours of Marilyn Monroe's life.