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.

"I think they've run their course," he says. READ MORE

YES! YES! YES! The announcement for honorees and nominees at the upcoming 14th Annual Webby Awards went out today, and a MAJOR shout out to the brazilliant peeps behind BET.com's smash hit web series Buppies, which is being honored at the webcast. Buppies creator Julian Breece and producer Aaliyah Williams did the damn thang with this amazing, mocha, web soap opera, along with the talented cast (led byTatyana Ali as Black Carrie Bradshaw, Quinci), and crew. Over 10,000 web series submitted themselves to be honored by the Webbys, but only the cream of the crop made the cut. I cannot WAIT to see what Breece and Williams' shingle Game Theory Productions does next! SO proud to see Buppies get the recognition it deserves.

Other web dramas to be honored are included after the jump. READ MORE

Crystal Chappell

Tatyana Ali

Rachael Hip-Flores

Sophie Tilson

Rachael Hip-Flores

Great Bill Bell's ghost. Former The Young and the Restless superstar Brenda Dickson has released "Welcome to My Press Conference" where she details "the incredible story of organized crime in the state court of Honolulu, Hawaii, where the organized crime is in Brenda Dickson's life."
 
I am listening to one of the audio interviews right now and it is a HOT MESS.  Dickson is talking about being sedated while some "organized courtroom criminals", "Judge Choy and his Band of Bandits" (What you talking 'bout, Willis?) or somebody did...something really, really bad during her divorce. I honestly don't have a clue what is going on, but I do know it's better than anything on Y&R right now! Click here for more.

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Mercury News.com caught up with former The Young and the Restless star Shemar Moore, who was on a location shoot for Criminal Minds, his hit CBS crime drama, and asked about his time on soaps.  He responded,

I've had a lot of success in 16 years, but in some ways it still feels brand-new because there's still so much I haven't done," he says. "I treat my career like school. The soap opera days were like high school. I got my diploma and graduated.

"Now I'm in college, and hopefully I'll go to grad school (feature films) and catch the bus with Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith and the others."
 

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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

You can't have a conversation about how to make a web series successful without mentioning the monster hits Lonelygirl15 and its spinoff serials KateModern and LG15: The Resistance. Jackson Davis appeared in all three shows as Jonas, even taking center stage in the latter. Now the talented, drop dead gorgeous actor is living the life he could only dream about while growing up in rural Pennsylvania, thanks to his breakout success on the web.

Tonight, however, it's old school TV where you can find Davis, appearing on an episode of the much-watched CBS crime procedural CSI, as a dirty, sexy drug dealer who causes trouble for the crime scene investigators. I caught up with Davis, who revealed why he left the Navy to pursue his dreams of becoming an actor, and how the website Amazon.com played a part in that development. We also talked about his upcoming web series Trauma Team, costarring an actress some of you might be familiar with. Her name is Eden Riegel.

Daytime Confidential:  Tell me a little bit about the character you're playing on tonight's CSI.

Jackson Davis: Well, he is a drug dealer and drug maker, and he and his partner are being kept under surveillance by the CSI team. The title of the episode is "The Panty Sniffer."

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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."