NEWS: Nicholls, Landon, Branded Video, NY Tax Credit

Jennifer Landon back to ATWT, Jesse Soffer too?
CBS Soaps in Depth is reporting that Jesse Soffer and Jennifer Landon will be returning to AS THE WORLD TURNS this spring as Will and Gwen Munson.

Tax credit plan could draw post-production film work to New York
In a 2010-2011 Executive Budget laden with massive spending cuts for myriad programs is a proposed $7 million new tax credit for post-production film work that some lawmakers are hoping will help stimulate the state's economy and create jobs.

With Web Video on the Rise, Brands Are Increasingly Creating Their Own Digital-Entertainment Properties
Today, brands are increasingly seeking to develop proprietary content and in some cases are becoming media producers on their own. This innovation is taking place on the web, and the key players producing original branded content come largely from outside of Hollywood's circle of A-Listers.

Asbury Park Celebrates Bill Chinnock with a Benefit Concert
Bill Chinnock died in March of 2007 after a long battle with Lyme’s disease. He won an Emmy in 1986 for the theme song “Somewhere in the Night,” which was used as the theme song for the daytime soap SEARCH FOR TOMORROW.

INTERVIEW: CORRIE's Sue Nicholls (Audrey)
On her 30 years on the soap: "It's jolly nice, too - it's the best job to have, especially in this day and age when there are no jobs anyway. Everybody wants to be in it so it must have something going for it! I've been so lucky and if I think back over the years all the people have been lovely and the stories have been hot. Being with Amanda Barrie was lovely, and of course Brian Mosley who sadly died - and it's thanks to Brian or whoever - if they hadn't married Audrey off to Alf, who knows I might just have been another tart with a heart passing through."

DAYS actress Shelby Young in Facebook movie
Production has begun on The Social Network. Shelby Young recently finished shooting her supporting role in the film.

Bob Guiney comments on divorce from Rebecca Budig
"It's been a really rough couple weeks recently ... we're thankful to have our friendship."