NEWS: AMC's Last Day, Florencia Lozano, Idina Menzel

Real Daytime Drama: On the Set of ALL MY CHILDREN's Last Day in New York
Last Thursday, reports New York Magazine's Tripp Whetsell, on one of ALL MY CHILDREN's sets in its ABC Upper West Side studios, things were proceeding in the same vein they have for nearly 40 years: Greenlee Smythe (played by Rebecca Budig) was confronting Dr. David Hayward (Vincent Irizarry) about his rendezvous with her archenemy that happened while Greenlee was lying in a coma, paralyzed. But across the soundstage from this simulated sadness, the soap was going through its own drama: Half of the other life-size dollhouse sets (Erica Kane’s penthouse, Adam Chandler’s study, the Valley Inn, the Pine Cone Motel) were being dismantled.

The next day, after 10,307 episodes, Susan Lucci and most of the New York–based cast would pack up and move to Los Angeles, the show’s new home. In the soaps' sudsier era, the seventies and eighties, out of the dozen-plus different daytime dramas on the air at any one time, more than half of them were based in New York; the genre was such a cash cow that it subsidized Broadway. Now there is only one left: ONE LIFE TO LIVE, which will move onto ALL MY CHILDREN's vacated stage.

ADverse: Xfinity and Beyond—A Guide to Comcast's New "TV Everywhere" Service
Last week Comcast unveiled Fancast Xfinity TV, the nation's first "TV Everywhere" service, which aims to preserve the cable business model by enabling cable subscribers to access premium programming online by "authenticating" that they are indeed cable subscribers. B&C's Claire Atkinson gives a thumbnail guide to the new service.

INTERVIEW: OLTL's Florencia Lozano (Téa)
"I am different, and am happy to say that. I have learned a few things over the years and feel more grounded, and more appreciative, and more comfortable with myself. I am enjoying myself more than I did before."

GLEE's Ryan Murphy not sure what he's doing with Idina Menzel yet
“I don’t know what I’m doing with Idina yet,” show creator Ryan Murphy told PEOPLE at a Hollywood Radio and Television Society panel on Wednesday. “I just met with her once. It sort of got leaked, but I haven’t plotted it out yet.”

GLEE Hair Club for Men: 5 new looks for Mark Salling's Puck
Five possible new looks for Puck including "The Pattinson" and "The Lambert".

SUDS REPORT: Nichols, Seganti, Rowell
Headlines include: Why did Y&R recast Tucker with Stephen Nichols? ATWT's Paolo Seganti quitting?! Zack Conroy on B&B! That was fast: VENICE makes money! Plus: New eppy tonight! Why OLTL's studio move has been delayed! Is Victoria Rowell joining REAL HOUSEWIVES?

INTERVIEW: B&B executive producer/head writer Brad Bell
Brad Bell previews B&B in the new year for Deanna Barnert on MSN TV: "Going into 2010, there are going to be major things that happen with Eric and Donna, and also with Ridge and Brooke." He also talks about the state of the soap world following ATWT's cancellation: "It's all about streamlining. If we can make these shows more cost-effective, we can sell them less expensively, and we can survive."