NEWS: B&B Hires Homeless, Brooks on Reid, CORRIE Move

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL hires the homeless
B&B went down to L.A.'s Skid Row and hired some 25 real-life homeless people to tell their life stories on camera. The sequences, airing October 28-29, are part of a plot that has Beverly Hills matron Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) battling stage 4 lung cancer and using what time she has left to help those who have nothing.

Thursday Nights Are No Longer 'Must-See TV'
Over the first four Thursday nights of the TV season, an average of 48.5 million people between the ages of 18 and 49 years old were watching prime-time on any channel, broadcast or cable, recorded or live, according to Nielsen Co. estimates. That is down 2.2 million, or 4.3%, from a year earlier. Among all viewers, Thursday-night TV usage is down 1%.

ITV mulling CORONATION STREET move
ITV is reportedly considering moving production of the long-running soap opera and other hit shows from its historic central Manchester studios to a new broadcasting complex in Salford. The broadcaster is thought to be close to concluding talks with property group Peel Holdings about a move from the Quay Street offices to the MediaCityUK complex.

Darin Brooks shares a memory of Frances Reid
"She was such a sweetheart and a pro, too. I remember the episode that I shot with everyone for the fourth of July, at the barbecue we had, and she was there with the Jeremy character who was dating the Stephanie character. Jeremy was a Horton essentially and I remember just sort of standing offstage when it was their part of the scene and I was watching Frances doing her thing. And she was still quick. She'd be reading the lines off the cue cards but every little undertone and underpinning of what she was saying to the Jeremy Horton character was there."

Parents Television Council losing steam
The PTC apparently has internal strife, including dwindling donations (in 2009, it earned $2.9 million, a 26 percent drop from last year -- and cut its staff by 38 percent over the last two years to make up for it), and controversy surrounding its direct-mail campaign.