Friday, February 12, 2010

NEWS: Easton, Lynch, ABC.com, Baldwin, Moore, P&G

ABC.com is the No. 1 Online Broadcast Site for January 2010, Growing 46% Over the Previous Month
THE DEEP END had the second most plays, GREY'S ANAMOTY was fifth, ALL MY CHILDREN was eighth with 706,000 unique viewers, and GENERAL HOSPITAL was tenth with 563,000 unique viewers at ABC.com.

GENERAL HOSPITAL was streamed a total of 8.5 million times in January, and AALL MY CHILDREN 6.4 million.

DAYS timeslot shuffling due to Winter Olympics
Starting Feb. 17 in St. Louis, DAYS OF OUR LIVES will air on KSDK at 4 a.m. CT through the end of the Winter Olympics.

Kathy Najimy cast in historic UGLY BETTY role
The funny lady has been tapped to play the orthodontist tasked with removing Betty’s trademark braces

NBC Is So Desperate They Need Wal-Mart To Produce TV Shows Now?
"For over five decades, P&G Productions has produced nearly 50 movies of the week, 35 years of 'People's Choice Awards,' 20 soap operas and a number of beauty pageants and variety shows."

Midview grad Jared Lynch an NYC soap insider
Lynch was part of a production team that recently won Directors Guild of America “Outstanding Directorial Achievement” honors for AS THE WORLD TURNS. A 2002 Midview High graduate, Lynch landed an internship with the show five days after graduating from the University of Cincinnati in 2006 with a degree in electronic media. Lynch soon moved into a production coordinator’s job, which he described as a “low-level office worker” who distributed scripts and worked each day with actors and producers. That gig led to digital production coordinator, a position in which Lynch moved his camera from studio soundstages to location shoots on New York’s busy streets.

Julianne Moore takes home SBIFF's Montecito Award
Moore received the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Montecito Award last night at the Arlington Theatre.

OLTL's Michael Easton joins C2E2 lineup
Officials at C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo), which is set to debut in April 2010, have announced another round of guest appearances, further adding to a burgeoning guest list that now includes top talent from all areas of artistic and creative expression in the pop culture world. The most recent guest announcement focuses on preeminent writers including ONE LIFE TO LIVE actor Michael Easton.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES casts Heidi Klum and Paulina Porzikova
They'll play themselves in a March episode.

Alec Baldwin attacks photographer after release from hospital"This guy! This guy!," the 30 ROCK and former THE DOCTORS star yelled as he grabbed a New York Post photographer by the neck.

Stripper: I'm not pregnant with Josh Duhamel's baby
The stripper who reportedly said she was pregnant with Josh Duhamel's baby is lashing out against the reports -- claiming there's definitely no bun in her oven.

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