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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Who said Procter and Gamble was out of the scripted TV game? NBC is relaunching its Family Movie Night with Wal-Mart and TeleNext Media's (P&G's Production arm) Secrets of the Mountain, starring Days of our Lives' Shawn Christian, Paige Turco (ex-Dinah Marler, Guiding Light; ex-Melanie Cortlandt, All My Children) and Barry Bostwick. The flick, which was initially rumored to be a backdoor pilot, tells the story of the James family in an "edge-of-the seat thriller that reminds us that when times are tough, families don’t run away from problems – they run back to each other." Check out the trailer after the jump.
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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."

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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Tonight is the big night. Alison Sweeney drops by NBC's primetime drama Mercy to guest star in the "I Did Kill You, Didn't I?" episode. Watch Sweeney's interview about the role after the jump.

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TV Guide Network announced today that Vivica A. Fox is joining their red carpet Oscar team at this year's show.  She will join Carrie Anna Inaba, Chris Harrison and Lawrence Zarian for this Sunday's telecast of Live at the Academy Awards with Carrie Anne and Chris. It airs at 6 PM EST/3PM PST.

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