Star-Kidz

Nov 1st
2026

Sunset Shores is back with brand new episodes over on youtube. Head on over to see what Samantha Gomez (The Young and The Restless – Student) and her friends are up to this season.



Oct 27th
2026

Catherine Ashmore Bradley, best known for playing Luan Loud in Nickelodeon and Paramount+’s The Really Loud House, will star as Sara in the psychological horror feature Dollkeeper.

Cameron Crovetti (The Boys, Goodnight Mommy) will star as her older brother Dylan. Additional casting is in process. Principal photography is set to begin in the coming weeks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the team says the psychological horror “follows a teenage girl confronting a terrifying figure connected to her family’s past”. Writer-director is Jay Henric.

Read full article over at Deadline



Oct 26th
2026

The Young and The Restless’ Mckenna Grace (Faith Newman) made an appearance on The Today Show this morning with her fellow cast mates talking about how they landed their roles in the highly anticipated prequel movie, “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.”



Oct 26th
2026

Coven Academy has conjured up another season. The supernatural teen drama series has been renewed for a second season at Disney+/Hulu.

The renewal announcement Monday comes amid strong viewership stats a little over three weeks following its Season 1 premiere. The first season has racked up 20.3 million global hours in its first three weeks on Disney+ and Hulu, according to Disney, with an additional 30M+ views after the first chapter was made available on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

Season 1 follows three teenage witches and their dangerously charming warlock peers at an elite magic boarding school where power is currency, secrets are lethal and attraction is a liability. Caught between ancient supernatural wars and forbidden love interests, the coven must decide how far they’re willing to go to protect their city—and themselves.

The series stars Malina Pauli Weissman as Briar, Malachi Barton as Jake; Jordan Leftwich as Sasha; Ora Duplass as Tegan; Louis Thresher as Ollie; and Tiffani Thiessen as Miss Graves with Devon Sawa guest-starring as Mr. Cole.

Read the full article on Deadline



Oct 22nd
2026

It was a busy start of the summer over on The Young and The Restless in June of 2024. Harrison (Redding Munsell) spent some time at home with Claire before heading out with her and his dad Kyle to the park for ice cream. Later that month Johnny (Paxton Mishkind) and Katie (Sienna Mercuri) returned from boarding school to meet their newly found older sister Claire. Connor (Judah Mackey) went to a hotel to visit with his parents before getting placed in an inpatient program for his OCD.



Oct 17th
2026

Billy (Jason Thompson) and Sally’s (Courtney Hope) wedding on The Young and the Restless brings two special guests home to Genoa City: Billy’s son, Johnny, and daughter, Katie, played by Paxton Mishkind and Sienna Mercuri, respectively. And Thompson couldn’t be happier to have them back.

Jason Thompson on Johnny and Katie Attending Billy’s Wedding

“It’s always great to work with them,” enthuses Thompson of Mishkind and Mercuri. The young actors appear during the two-day ceremony, which begins on Friday, October 16 and concludes on Monday, October 19. “They’re really sweet kids and they were excited to show up.”

Mercuri was cast as Katie on The Young and the Restless in 2016, two years after the character was born to Billy and his ex-wife, Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle). In 2020, Mishkind took over the role of Johnny, the biological son of Billy and Chelsea Lawson (Melissa Claire Egan), who was born in 2012 and adopted by Victoria. Prior to the wedding, they were last seen on-screen in Genoa City in December 2025.

Johnny and Katie’s absence was explained in February 2026, when Victoria decided to send the kids to boarding school amid rising tension between Billy and her father, Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), over control of Newman Enterprises.

“I know how much it means to a young actor to get the call that you’re coming back,” Thompson says. “It’s exciting for them to get to tell the story and, of course, it’s great to be around everyone. When we do weddings like this and the whole cast gets together, it’s really, really fun.”

Read the full article at Soap Opera Digest



Oct 10th
2026

The first annual New England Halloween Fest is taking place October 17th-18th in Uncasville, CT and this is your chance to meet Isaac Ordonez (Student, The Young and the Restless) who will be appearing both days. Tickets and more information about the event can be found here.



Oct 5th
2026

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for Benjamin Mackey, brother of The Young and the Restless’ Judah Mackey (Connor Newman) as he appears as Timmy Talhoon in tonight’s episode on FX at 9pm EST, streaming on Hulu.



Oct 1st
2026

If you’re looking for a brand new show to dive into this year check out The Young and The Restless’ Malachi Barton (Riley Newman) in the new Disney series Coven Academy, which premiere tonight on Freeform.



Sep 26th
2026

The Young and The Restless’ Bianca & Chiara D’Ambrosio (ex-Summer Newman) attended the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards.



Sep 25th
2026

The Young and the Restless’ Mckenna Grace (ex-Faith Newman) has released a music video for her new single Bones and All. Per her Instagram, Mckenna shares the inspiration for the song, stating:

I wanted to write a song that felt totally head over heels obsessed. For yearning! For feeling so deeply you can only pray that someone feels the same way you do, even though you know it’s absolutely impossible. For when you’re totally obsessed with someone whether you’re with them or not. Although to me, the metaphor of Bones and All meant loving someone entirely to their core…bones and all. To see every piece of who someone is and to show even the parts of yourself you think are awful and to still have love. That’s a scary vulnerability, but beautiful to experience. Just to know someone and to be known. Basically what I’m saying is I watched Bones and All and some more gothic romance movies and got super emotional so I wanted to write a song for intense yearning



Sep 23rd
2026

The Young and the Restless’ Samantha Bailey (ex-Summer Newman) will be appearing at GeekFest Film Festival in Los Angeles running October 30th to November 1st. You can visit their website for ticket information as well as an update on Samantha’s dates and times for attendance.



Sep 20th
2026

If anyone’s been watching hulu’s new hit series The Shards you may have spotted a familiar face. The Young and The Restless Redding Munsell (Harrison Abbott) and Caleb Dolden (GH – additional) made an appearance in an episode.



Sep 15th
2026

The Young and the Restless’ Mckenna Grace (ex-Faith Newman) stars in the film The Last Kiss, releasing exclusively on digital platforms today.



Sep 5th
2026

Malachi Barton (Riley Newman – YR) has made his rounds on youtube during the Camp Rock press tour. Check out the video below and head on over to youtube to check out more of what he and the rest of the cast have to say about the newest Disney hit film.



Aug 9th
2026

Welcome back to Star-Kidz, your source for the young actors of daytime drama. We’ve been busy behind the scenes these last few months re-branding after the loss of our previous hosting for the website, and we are back with a fresh look, and a new set up. Work continues to get all pages refreshed, so you may continue to notice missing images, broken links, etc. but we wanted to get back online as a lot has been happening in the daytime world. Please note the following changes to Star-Kidz going forward:

Coverage
We have made the difficult decision to focus strictly on the daytime soaps. This means there are no longer sections for primetime shows previously covered, and going forward all news and updates will be focusing back on current and past soaps.

Gallery
You will notice we no longer have a full gallery. Unfortunately the space required to keep up the gallery comes with a cost that is not financially possible each month the keep it going. We will be adding a small gallery back in the near future featuring episode stills and official set images from the shows, keep checking back for its launch.

Additionally, as pages are refreshed each page where possible will include a collection of images with headshots, work images, etc.

Posts
Our main page will now consist of a variety of updates from casting news, external interviews, embedded clips, and more. We also hope to be able to get back to providing exclusive content in the near future.

With all that said, welcome back, and we hope you check back often, and thank you to the amazing Kaci for our new look!