News Brief

Tony Dovolani on ALL MY CHILDREN
In the ballroom, actress Susan Lucci is used to taking direction from her DANCING WITH THE STARS partner, Tony Dovolani.

But on Thursday it was Lucci giving Dovolani a few tips when he guest starred with her in a scene on ALL MY CHILDREN.

In the episode, which will air the week of October 27, Lucci’s character, Erica Kane is injured in a deadly tornado that hits Pine Valley. She is trapped in a tunnel, then rescued and taken to a local emergency room. Dovolani plays a fellow ER patient who suffered a broken leg in the tornado.

DWTS Misty May-Treanor Hurt
DANCING WITH THE STARS may be out another contestant before the show even airs tonight.

Olympic gold-medalist Misty May-Treanor was injured on Friday during rehearsal, ABC confirmed to Us Magazine.

"Misty May-Treanor sustained an injury on Friday and received immediate medical attention," the network said in a statement. "Despite previous reports, she did not break her ankle. She is resting comfortably at home. Doctors will reevaluate her condition on Monday and determine the outcome of her participation on the show."

Update on Rowell's engagement party
A fall engagement party for actress/author Victoria Rowell and her artist fiancé Radcliffe Bailey will take place Oct. 11 in Atlanta at the residence of Coca Cola Executive Vicki Palmer and her businessman husband John Palmer. Rowell, former star of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, was introduced to Bailey through actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson last year at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta. Bailey is a celebrated artist represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery of New York and collected by over 25 museums. Their nuptials will take place next summer in New Hampshire.

Derry Area employee leads soap opera kind of life
The story of a GUIDING LIGHT fan, Tracey Smeltzer, who is the director of media services at Derry Area High School.

Shannen Doherty sants to star on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Shannen Doherty wants to star in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVE -- because she is addicted to watching the show.

The BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 star, 37, says she would save so many hours of the day if she appeared on the hit show because then she would not have to watch it on television.

Doherty explains, "I would love to be on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVE. That is a great show, I love it and I am addicted to it. It would be a dream come true."

ARMY WIVES: It's like your life, only better
Andy Asensio writes: "Most television works in the same way. It's not the life you have; it's the life you wish you had. But none of this is exactly breaking news. So why is the Army Wives audience so turned off by this kind of storytelling, when it seems to be the normal course of action everywhere else on TV? It's my belief that the answer lies in the fact that ARMY WIVES is a unique show in that its core audience is the same population as the people it depicts. Perhaps no other show on TV has that type of symbiosis where the characters depicted on the show reflect the core constituency watching the show."

AT&T U-Verse Unveils Cutting Edge DVR
The increasingly competitive battle for your in home entertainment dollar ramps up today, as AT&T unveils its long awaited 'Total Home DVR,' as a part of its' U-verse package.

"You can record content at any DVR in your house, and you can watch that content on any other connected TV in hour home, up to eight TVs," AT&T South Texas General Manager Nicole Rafferty said.

The product uses AT&T's proprietary Internet Protocol technology to wire up televisions, and internet connections to disperse the signal across the home. The Total Home DVR records and disperses standard definition and high definition programming, and stores up to 37 hours of HD content and up to 133 hours of SD content.

Rafferty says Total Home DVR is in response to the needs of today's fast moving families.

She points out that a mother and a daughter, who both record the daytime soap opera THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, and get home at different times can watch the soap on their own schedules.

"Say the daughter gets home at 4:20, she turns on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS in the living room, the mom gets home at 5PM, she wants to watch "The Young and the Restless." She can go into the bedroom and pull up that same content, and she can watch it and control it independently."

"The Nuke Fancast" - Passanante/Palin
This week's epsiode of "The Nuke Fancast" was focused on fan fiction. But don't miss the first 15 minutes which features last week's recap and an interview with "Jean Passanante" doing her best Sarah Palin impression, talking about platforms and events.