Review: 'Queens of Drama' Is Must-Watch Soapy Goodness

Left to Right: Vanessa Marcil, Donna Mills, Hunter Tylo, Chrystee Pharris, Joan Collins, Lindsay Hartley and Crystal Hunt star in Queens of Drama. Photo Credit: Pop

Queens of Drama premieres Sunday, April 26, at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on Pop, immediately following the network's exclusive live broadcast of the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Queens of Drama is a 10 episode series that features six former daytime and primetime soap stars taking control of their careers to produce and star in a new serialized drama.

The all-star cast includes Lindsay Hartley (All My Children, Days Of Our Lives), Crystal Hunt (Guiding Light, One Life To Live), Vanessa Marcil (Las Vegas, General Hospital), Chrystee Pharris (Passions, General Hospital) and Hunter Tylo (The Bold and The Beautiful), with special appearances by Donna Mills (Knots Landing, Melrose Place). Joan Collins (Dynasty, Guiding Light) guest stars.

Based on the first three episodes, Queens of Drama is entertaining, absorbing, and offers plenty of drama to live up to the show's title. Each member of the cast is playing a version of themselves so perfectly drawn in this soft-scripted reality series that it's easy to follow the story, invest in the "characters" and instantly care about whether or not these women will be able to put together a show of their own. And who will lead them.

'Queens of Drama' Premieres Sunday, April 26 After Daytime Emmys on Pop

Chrystee Pharris, Donna Mills, Crystal Hunt and Lindsay Hartley. Photo Credit: Pop

Girl power reigns supreme as six former daytime and primetime soap stars take control of their careers to produce and star in a new serialized drama, in the series premiere of Queens of Drama on Pop, Sunday, April 26, at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, immediately following the network’s exclusive live broadcast of the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Following its premiere, Queens of Drama will begin airing in its regularly scheduled time slot on Wednesdays, (8:00-8:30 p.m. ET/PT) starting April 29.

“Queens of Drama features a powerful, all-star cast of soap’s leading ladies, while tapping into the sensibility of female empowerment, taking charge and having it all,” said Paul Adler, Senior Vice President, Programming, Pop. “We’re excited to give fans a new perspective of these women with a reality series that debuts immediately following Pop’s exclusive live broadcast of the Daytime Emmys.”

Joan Collins Joins 'Fashion Police' Tonight on E!

Tune-in to an all-new Fashion Police tonight at 9 p.m. ET on E! when Hollywood royalty graces the set.

On last week's episode, Kathy Griffin channeled her Dynasty fan girl and crowned the great Dame Joan Collins (The Royals, Dynasty) as "Best Dressed" after she made jaws drop at the 2015 SAG Awards. Tonight, Collins guest hosts.

While appearing on Fashion Police, Collins stunned in a dress that she designed herself. She paired her eye-catching dress with nude Jimmy Choo heels with jewelry by XIV Karats and Loree Rodkin, plus had the finishing touches of her makeup done by Timeless Beauty.

On tonight's show you can expect a lot of laughs from Collins' commentary on the Super Bowl, her "upside-down pear" shape, her causal chats with the Queen of England, the number one celebrity that is always copying her and much more! She even plays along to a new segment called, "Dynasty Do or Dynasty Don't."

You don't want to miss this hilarious, diva-filled Fashion Police. Tune-in to find out whose hat Joan refers to as looking "a little bit like a squashed raccoon."

Joan Collins Books Guest Starring Role in 'The Royals'

Legendary actress Joan Collins will guest star in E!'s first scripted drama, The Royals.

The Royals, which is set to premiere next year and hails from One Tree Hill team Mark Schwahn, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola, will star Elizabeth Hurley as Queen Helena in a story of a modern-day British royal family.

Collins will play Helena's mother, the Grand Duchess of Oxford, who's allegedly the only woman in the world more formidable and imposing than Helena, and comes onto the scene with an entourage and an agenda.

Collins is best known for her starring role as Alexis Carrington Colby in ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty.

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