Daytime Soap Opera Ratings For The Week of August 8-12, 2011Despite a slight loss in total viewers last week, ONE LIFE TO LIVE is up an astronomical 641,000 viewers compared to the same week last year. The show also tied THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL for second place with a 2.1 household rating. GENERAL HOPSITAL, ALL MY CHILDREN and DAYS OF OUR LIVES were all up in total viewers last week.
Nielsen Developing Way To Measure iPad Apps For TIme Warner Cable & Cablevision
The effort is still in "an R&D stage," Matt O'Grady, Nielsen's executive vice president of media audience measurement, cautioned. "Right now, iPad streaming is not having an impact on ratings," O'Grady said. "But we're taking [the project] dead seriously because our clients need to know what the viewing is on tablet and smart phone platforms."
Tognoni, Degnan and Williams say goodbye to OLTLGina Tognoni (Kelly) and Tom Degnan (Joey) will make their final ONE LIFE TO LIVE appearances the week of August 22 when their alter egos leave Llanview to relocate to London in order to be closer to her son, Zane.
And daytime newcomer Nafessa Williams (Deanna) is also gone from the Llanview canvas; her final scenes aired when, after starring in Rick's porno, she left town to search for her birth mother.
Barret Helms leaving OLTL too
Helms is confirming his imminent departure from ONE LIFE TO LIVE as Baz. "I guess the news broke that Baz is leaving Llanview soon. Just when I was making headway with Starr! Haha. Had a blast, thx for the love!!" he tweeted.
Heather Tom is engaged!Tom (Katie, B&B) is set to wed her long-time boyfriend James Achor next month. This will be the first marriage for the actress.
Katherine Kelly Lang reveals she is nothing like her THE BOLD AND TEH BEAUTIFUL character Brooke Logan Forrester
"I love her. She's a good girl and tends to get herself into trouble by doing the wrong things, but she doesn't mean to."
Joel Gretsch joins THE PLAYBOY CLUB
Gretsch will be recurring, playing a major competitor to lead guy Nick Dalton (Eddie Cibrian).
Jessica Hecht joins DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
She will play a love interest for Tom in the show's final season.
Why do they call the Emmy Award “Emmy”?“It’s a feminization of ‘Immy,’ which is short for the image orthicon tube,” explains John Leverence, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences svp awards. The image orthicon, which revolutionized TV, was originally built to guide flying explosive weapons in World War II. “The objective was the guided torpedo, but it ended up being used in television,” said RCA engineer Paul Wymer. The 4,000 “Emmys,” as engineers fondly called the devices, didn’t win the war, because the weapons they were used in weren't quite reliable, but the orthicon later made TV feasible. It was called “the atomic bomb of television.”
Emmys auction off bleacher seats: $300
Are you dying to get into the HBO party after the Emmys ceremony on Sept. 18? The TV Academy Foundation is auctioning off two tickets at a starting bid of $2,500. Winner gets car service thrown into the deal.
Or are you dying to grab ringside seats along the Emmys' red carpet? Guaranteed price for two bleacher seats is $300, but you can join the bidding over two exclusive front-row seats (starter price $250).
Navy SEALs Drama From Bruckheimer TV Lands At ABC With Put Pilot Commitment
The untitled project, from LIFE creator/executive producer Rand Ravich, is based on the lives of Navy SEALs and their families.
Shonda Rhimes tweets about all boys episode of GREY'S ANATOMY
She also tweeted that there would be 24 episodes next season.
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Season 3 Scoop: Vicki Is at Odds with Anna, Tries to Reconnect with Matt
"Vicki has a master plan and it's trying to be stopped by Anna," Kayla Ewell, who plays Vicki Donovan, tells TVGuide.com. "A lot of what Anna says is, 'Beware of Vicki, be careful.'"
VIDEO: VAMPIRE DIARIES cast defies gravity in sexy photo shoot
"We've been doing a photo shoot that's unlike any that we've done before," says TVD star Nina Dobrev while on the set of a sexy photo spread for the latest issue of Rolling Stone.
GLEE shoots first Rachel and Finn kiss of the year per a Lea Michele tweet
"First Rachel and Finn kiss of Season 3...So cute!!! Except @CoryMonteith did you have to eat the peanut butter sandwich?? :)"
SONS OF ANARCHY creator Karl Sutter has even more to say
"Let me begin by saying that there is a bigger issue at hand regarding all this Twitter bullshit. It's a separate blog, but in short, main stream media is going to kill Twitter by using it as a source of on-the-record documentation. When you have douchebags like Brent Lang at The Warp taking my three tweets and building a story around them, you have news that ends up being ten percent fact, and ninety percent subjective conjecture."
Soap Opera Digest Confronts the End of TV Soaps
As that content indicates, these days, the greatest splash soaps have made in some time is with their cancellation. Stephanie Sloane, editorial director of American Media publication Soap Opera Digest, said, “It’s harder to get a new audience, now, but there is the potential to get the last viewer back. When they have a baby and were at home they would watch the shows on [cable channel] SOAPnet. Since the characters stay the same, that audience is likely to come back.”
But SOAPnet, part of the Walt Disney Company’s TV holdings alongside ABC, is going off the air in 2012. Is there a future for the soap? “I feel confident,” said Ms. Sloane, “that the people who read this magazine are just as confident as the people who watch these shows.” And is there a future for Soap Opera Digest?
A heretofore silent publicist jumped into the phone call. “We’re going to have to hang up now.”
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