HOT STORIES: Franco, Cricket, Angie, Steffy, GTST, FNL

From Angie to Cricket, from Steffy to Francophrenia, there are a number of hot stories on the soaps right now. Here's a sample of some of the hottest below.

MAD WORLD: Jason, Dante and Lulu were all in Los Angeles this week chasing Franco on GENERAL HOSPITAL. The first clip features the dramatic climax of their story at the MoCA. But there was plenty of drama back in Port Charles as well, and a brilliantly sad moment as Shirley (Michael Learned) passed away in the middle of multiple hospital dramas.


CRICKET AND THE LONG LOST SON: Cricket is back in Genoa City and seems to know an awful lot about Ronan. Is he Nina's son kidnapped by Rose DeVille in the 1980s? Meanwhile, Chance fessed up to Chloe about sleeping with Heather.


ANGIE'S GOING BLIND, DEBBI'S BUIDLING HER EMMY REEL: Debbi Morgan continued to wow on ALL MY CHILDREN this week as Angie broke down in Jake's arms. Elsewhere, Bianca moved in with Caleb and Ryan battled for his life.


A NEW TWIST FOR RIDGE: When the truth about Brooke sleeping with Oliver was revealed to Ridge, he actually had an amazingly refreshing reaction. Ridge stood by Brooke and forced Steffy to apologize and create a tribute to her stepmother. But things didn't go as planned when the truth shockingly came out at a public event on Friday's BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL.


In case you missed the recent season finale of Dutch soap Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden, catch up on the drama involving Sjors, Lorena, Jack, Bing and Danny below.


NBC aired another brilliant episode of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS this week. Matt finally called Julie, Vince got in way over his head and Tami was accused of encouraging a student to have an abortion. Watch it below.