Color me confused, yet  cautiously optimistic CBS, the channel that  cancelled two sudsers in one year, has decided to air the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards! Check out the press release below: READ MORE

Hey Guiding Light lovers and country music fans, here's your chance to win a free, autographed copy of Laura Bell Bundy's (ex-Marah Lewis) chart-busting CD Achin' and Shakin'. The teen soap starlet-turned-Broadway stand out-turned country music phenom's sultry, fun double disc made it's debut at Number 5 on the Billboard Country Album's chart!

I tell you what, It's hard for me to pick which addictive track is my favorite. Right now I'm leaning towards the uptempo smash "Giddy On Up", but the powerful "I Curse The Bed" definitely tugs on the old heartstrings. (Check back this weekend for a full review!) So without further ado, here's how you can win the CD. The first person who emails (tips @ daytimeconfidential .com) the correct answers to the five questions below, will cause me to truck on over to my post office and mail them a copy of Achin' and Shakin', with a booklet signed by the multi-talented star herself! The first four runners-up will also get a free copy of the CD, but, sorry, it won't have LBB's jane hancock on it. Check out the questions, and a clip from LBB's stint as the best Marah GL ever had, after the jump! READ MORE

The company that, along with late former radio actress-turned-writer Irna Phillips, invented the genre is ready to call time of death on the traditional daytime soap opera. In an interview with Cincinnati.com,  Procter and Gamble's Global Marketing Officer Marc Pritchard is finally admitting what many of us in the online soap journalism community have been saying for years— P&G is done with daytime dramas.

While moving into movies, the Cincinnati-based consumer giant also is listening to pitches for new TV projects, including miniseries. But the company which invented the "soap opera" in 1933 is not looking for new daytime dramas.

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Now see, this is why I am too through begging daytime soaps for diverse stories. Why waste my time when I can find them on the web? Lenox Avenue ,from the people who brought us Atom.com and Comedy Central's Johnny B Homeless ,is being described as "a male Sex in the City that follows three men in different stages of relationships in Harlem, NYC." Uh, SOLD!  The trailer for Lenox Avenue (available after the jump) harkens back to those classic, sultry, big screen dramas of the 90's like Waiting to Exhale, Love Jones and Soul Food. First Buppies, now Lenox Avenue! I don't know about y'all, but I am gonna start paying my Internet bill before my cable each month! Okay... I actually have them in a bundle, but I needed an over-the-top ending. READ MORE

Network television might not be the safest place for daily serialzed dramas—or their fans— anymore, but it looks like our dreams of cable stepping up to the plate to save our suds may finally be starting to come true. New York Daily News is reporting TeenNick will be trying out the telenovela format for the upcoming 10th season of Degrassi: The Next Generation.

The network will air half-hour versions of the teen drama 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday for six weeks, Nickelodeon President Cyma Zarghami told the Daily News Thursday.

"We're making additional episodes, a little more in the telenovela format, a little bit faster, cheaper and more efficient," Zarghami said. "It will be, I think, a big success."

Score another one for Betty White! Michael Ausiello is reporting White has signed on to guest-star on The Middle's season finale as Brick's school librarian.

Betty White Photo by PR Photos | The Middle Photo Credit: ABC

Hollywood's biggest night gifted America's Sweetheart Sandra Bullock and comedian Mo'Nique with the coveted Oscar for their roles inThe Blind Side and Precious. The two evening's eventual winners were joined on the red carpet by some of film's newest starlets Kristen Stewart, Amanda Seyfried and Miley Cyrus and veterans Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Demi Moore. See more photos from the 82nd Annual Academy Awards after the jump and check out Mel's Oscars Live Blog for anything you may have missed!

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Shout out to All My Children's Debbi Morgan and Cornelius Smith, Jr. who took home NAACP Image Awards this past Friday. Morgan and Smith, Jr. were in the company of Gabourey Sidibe who won Best Lead Actress for Precious and Shonda Rimes, who won for Best Writing in Drama Series for Grey's Anatomy. See more pics from the event after the jump.

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Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello is reporting Saturday Night Live is "thisclose" to landing Betty White as host, but with a catch.

White would not be hosting alone. Rather, I hear SNL is putting together a “Women of Comedy” episode that would team the former Rose Nylund with several of her younger contemporaries. Ex-SNL MVP Molly Shannon is on board, I hear, and feelers have also been put out to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. (An NBC spokesperson insists no one has been confirmed at this time.)

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The forbidden love of Christian and Olli, from German sudser Verbotene Liebe is coming to America. According to The Hollywood Reporter,  former HBO vice-president Sam Martin has secured the rights to the storyline revolving around a gay couple in Dusseldorf. Martin plans to Americanize Christian and Olli  with a setting in Portland, Oregon. READ MORE