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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Crackle.com's juggernaut web drama The Bannen Way is continuing to dominate the Internet content awards circuit. The addictive serial has been nominated for two Webby Awards, Best Drama and Best Editing. See, I told y'all this show was the bomb! Literally...lots of explosions in this one, I bet Vanessa Marcil thought she was on the set of Mobster General Hospital again playing sexy-as-hell supermodel/music exec, Brenda Barrett, as opposed to sexy-as-hell thief/Bannen bed buddy, Madison. Congrats to uber talented creators Mark Gantt (who also stars in the title role) and Jesse Warren. Now can someone put this show on network TV already? NBC oughta be on bended knees begging Sony for this show!

A major shout out to the peeps behind Crackle.com's game changing web series The Bannen Way. The sexy, serialized drama about Neil Bannen (Mark Gantt), a thief caught between the mob, the cops and a hard on, cleaned up at the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards Sunday night!

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Won't you take me to, Happy Town? I just watched the first 14 minutes of ABC's upcoming drama Happy Town, and while I am bummed this series will be taking Ugly Betty's timeslot, let's just say I am still intrigued by the mystery sudser. Happy Town revolves around a series of unsolved kidnappings in the sleepy village of Haplin, Minnesota.Think Twin Peaks meets Everwood.The series stars Steven Weber (Wings, Brothers & Sisters), Geoff Stults (7th Heaven) Ben Schnetzer (son of Cass Winthrop himself, Another World's Stephen Schnetzer) and Lauren German.

Happy Town was created by Josh Appelbaum (Life on Mars, October Road), Andrew Nemec (October Road) and Scott Rosenberg (High Fidelity). The series premiere airs Wed. April 28, 2010. Check out the first act of the premiere episode after the jump.

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Kudos to Zach Arnold, who took home an award at yesterday's Streamys Craft Awards for Best Editing in a Web Series. Arnold netted the accolade for his work on the insanely hot, well-written, directed and acted Crackle.com web series The Bannen Way. This is no doubt the first of many Streamys Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren's breakthrough web serial— which costarred three of my fav-o-rite sudser alums, One Life to Live's Brynn Thayer, General Hospital's Vanessa Marcil and The O.C.'s Autumn Reeser— will take home this Streamys Weekend, as the soap opera for boys is nominated for seven awards! (Pick up your Video On Demand copy of The Bannen Way here.) READ MORE

A not so beautiful day in the neighborhood. The onscreen drama of ABC's Desperate Housewives appears not to hold a candle to the hit soap opera/comedy's behind-the-scenes shenanigans, that is, if you believe the shocking claims of one former series regular. Nicollette Sheridan, who for five seasons stole husbands and scenes on Wisteria Lane as maneater Edie Britt, is suing DH creator Marc Cherry for a cool $20 million, claiming assault and battery, gender violence and wrongful termination. TMZ broke the story on Monday.

According to the website's report, Sheridan— who shot to fame as Paige Mathison on the long-running CBS primetime sudser Knots Landing (She also brought my all-time favorite fiction heroine, Lucky Santangelo to life in the 1990 NBC minseries Lucky Chances!)— says the former Golden Girls scribe struck her across the head and face on set when she asked about a line in the script. Five will get you 10 he never tried that business with Bea Arthur! READ MORE

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

Sam fans better get a clicking because General Hospital's Kelly Monaco has a chance to return to ABC's Dancing with The Stars! The dance show is allowing fans to "design their own dance" by selecting their favorite dancers, dance, and song!

This week viewers get to choose the female dancer, and Kelly is one of the nominees! So why are you still reading when you could be voting? Click here to get started. Results will be announced on March 30th.