74th Golden Globe Awards Nominees Include Bryan Cranston, Gina Rodriguez, Christian Slater, Felicity Huffman

Sistine Stallone, Sophia Stallone, President of the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association Lorenzo Soria, actors Anna Kendrick, Laura Dern, Don
Cheadle, EVP of Television for Dick Clark Productions Barry Adelman
and Scarlet Stallone attend The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Nominations at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills,
California, on December 12, 2016.

The nominees for the 2017 Golden Globe Awards have been revealed.  Former winners Don Cheadle and Laura Dern and nominee Anna Kendrick announced the film and TV contenders Monday morning from The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, the site of the annual awards show.

The 74th Golden Globe Awards, which are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will be hosted by Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and will air live on both coasts Sunday, January 8, 2017 on NBC.

The ceremony is set to honor Meryl Streep with the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The actress, who has won eight Golden Globes and has been nominated 29 times, most recently starred with Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins.

Below is a complete list of nominees.

Best Television Series – Drama:
The Crown
Game of Thrones
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy:
Atlanta
Black-ish
Mozart in the Jungle
Transparent
Veep

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama:
Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys – The Americans
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
Billy Bob Thornton – Goliath

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama:
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
Claire Foy – The Crown
Keri Russell – The Americans
Winona Ryder – Stranger Things
Evan Rachel Wood – Westworld

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy:
Anthony Anderson – Black-ish
Gael García Bernal – Mozart in the Jungle
Donald Glover – Atlanta
Nick Nolte – Graves
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy:
Rachel Bloom – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
Sarah Jessica Parker – Divorce
Issa Rae – Insecure
Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin
Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:
American Crime
The Dresser
The Night Manager
The Night Of
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:
Riz Ahmed – The Night Of
Bryan Cranston – All The Way
Tom Hiddleston – The Night Manager
John Turturro – The Night Of
Courtney B. Vance – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:
Felicity Huffman – American Crime
Riley Keough – The Girlfriend Experience
Sarah Paulson – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Charlotte Rampling – London Spy
Thandie Newton – Westworld

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:
Olivia Colman – The Night Manager
Lena Headey – Game Of Thrones
Chrissy Metz – This Is Us
Mandy Moore – This Is Us
Kerry Washington – Confirmation

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:
Sterling K. Brown – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Hugh Laurie – The Night Manager
John Lithgow – The Crown
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot
John Travolta – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Motion Picture – Drama:
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy:
20th Century Women
Deadpool
La La Land
Florence Foster Jenkins
Sing Street

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama:
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton – Loving
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington – Fences

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama:
Amy Adams – Arrival
Jessica Chastain – Miss Sloane
Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Ruth Negga – Loving
Natalie Portman – Jackie

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy:
Colin Farrell – The Lobster
Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill – War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy:
Annette Bening – 20th Century Women
Lily Collins – Rules Don’t Apply
Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen
Emma Stone – La La Land
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture:
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Simon Helberg – Florence Foster Jenkins
Dev Patel – Lion
Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Nocturnal Animals

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture:
Viola Davis – Fences
Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Nicole Kidman – Lion
Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

Best Director – Motion Picture:
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea

Best Screenplay:
La La Land
Nocturnal Animals
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Hell or High Water

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language:
Divines – France
Elle – France
Neruda – Chile
The Salesman – Iran/France
Toni Erdmann – Germany

Best Motion Picture – Animated:
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
Sing
Zootopia

Best Original Score – Motion Picture:
Nicholas Britell– Moonlight
Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
Johann Johannsson – Arrival
Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka – Lion
Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Benjamin Wallfisch – Hidden Figures

Best Original Song – Motion Picture:
“Can’t Stop the Feeling” – Trolls
“City of Stars” – La La Land
“Faith” – Sing
“Gold” – Gold
“How Far I’ll Go” – Moana

NEWS: Jensen Buchanan, Justin Hartley, Eric Braeden, Victoria Rowell, Bryan Cranston, Pablo Azar, Jeff Bezos

Jensen Buchanan, photo via Santa Maria Times.

Jensen Buchanan pleads not guilty to DUI crash charges
Buchanan, charged with felony DUI in a head-on collision just outside Buellton in May, pleaded not guilty in Santa Maria Superior Court on October 14.

Buchanan (Vicky on Another World, Sarah on One Life to Live, et al) appeared with defense attorney Meryl Chambers, who entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of her client. Deputy District Attorney Tiffany Dix is prosecuting the case.

Judge Patricia Kelly ordered the actress to remain at the sober living facility and continue wearing the SCRAM (electronic monitoring) bracelet on her ankle until further review next month.

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos watched Days of our Lives as a kid
Before he was a tech titan worth $70 billion, Bezos said he spent his childhood summers on a ranch with his grandfather watching the soap opera Days of our Lives.

Eric Braeden offers The Young and the Restless brass input on his character, Victor Newman
“To be frank with you, I think that over the last few years, the scales tipped toward [Victor] being a bad guy,” Braeden tells Soap Opera Digest. “And, I have asked them to kindly not pull back on it but to remember that Victor always justifies his actions because something preceded it.”

Victoria Rowell speaks out about her discrimination lawsuit against CBS and Sony
“Here in Hollywood, I have long championed diversity,” says Rowell, who played Drucilla Barber Winters for years on The Young and the Restless. “Not only for African-Americans, but for all minorities, for gender bias, et cetera.”

The upcoming trial is set to take place on April 17, 2017, and Rowell is confident that she’ll be pleased with the outcome.

“I believe that I will prevail,” she says.

Justin Hartley on Ellen.

This Is Us star Justin Hartley Strips Out of His Shirt for a Good Cause
In partnership with Ulta, Ellen DeGeneres asked the recent Young and the Restless alum up to get hit with water balloons during Thursday's episode of her daytime talk show, all in the name of breast cancer research.

The objective was simple—Hartley sat tight in a chair while DeGeneres and her other guest, Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams, took turns pulling sticks from a Jenga-styled contraption. As they pulled out the sticks, the balloons began dropping on the Hollywood hunk's head.

Watch Hartley's appearance on Ellen below.

Former daytime writer Suzanne Johnson shares experiences at Oswego State
Johnson, a story lead for Pocket Gems’ Episode Interactive mobile gaming app, spoke to students about her career on October 10.

During her career, Johnson worked her way up from an assistant to the vice president of programming and talent development for ABC Daytime for almost 20 years. She wrote for All My Children and oversaw One Life to Live.

General Hospital awkwardly works in mention of Marvel Comics movie Doctor Strange
Product placement has been popularized in the entertainment industry these days to boost promotion. This often happens between shows or films under the same mother company to help endorse a certain product. As for the unexpected Doctor Strange mention on General Hospital recently, viewers slammed the crossover for being totally irrelevant and obvious.

In a conversation of Ned Ashton (Wally Kurth) and Olivia Falconeri (Lisa LoCicero) where the former expressed his sweet talk to the latter saying "I missed you," Olivia blurted out, "Well, Dr. Strange is about to hit theaters pretty soon." The conversation went on with Ned saying, "You may be surprised to hear this, but if I can't see that movie with you, I won't see it." The scene ended with Olivia kissing Ned.

GH airs on ABC, which is owned by Disney, which owns Marvel, which is distributing Doctor Strange.

Y&R alum Darius McCrary cast in Lee Daniels' Star
McCrary (formerly Malcolm on Y&R) has booked a recurring role opposite Queen Latifah in new Fox series Star, created/executive produced by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy. Set in Atlanta, Star revolves around three talented young singers (Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O’Grady) who navigate the cutthroat music business on their road to success. McCrary will play Otis Leecan, a nasty piece of work who’s obsessed with his foster daughter Simone (O’Grady). He will do everything in his power to drag her back from Atlanta after she runs away. He’s clever, manipulative and dangerous. But he’s met his match in Simone and her sister Star (Demorest).

Bryan Cranston reflects on his soap opera start on Loving
"There was something that happened when I turned 25, and I got a job in New York on that soap opera [Loving]. It wasn’t necessarily the soap opera that did it for me, it was the timing. I felt like I crossed a threshold. I felt like I belonged, that I wasn’t fooling anybody and deserved to be there. Even though that’s the Joe Stuart period where [the Loving producer] fired me unceremoniously. But even then, as you saw, I was licking my wounds, and I went to Central Park and saw the marathon and felt, I’m going to do this next year. And I did."

Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon get dramatic for Tonight Show soap opera sketch
Called In the Dust of Night, Hamm and Fallon played two friends and business partners who always find themselves in dramatic situations – usually ones that involve a cheating scandal with Fallon’s girlfriend. What truly separates this from other soap operas, though, is the turtle riding around the set in a toy car during takes.

Nutri-Brex prices surge in China following appearance on soap opera Ode to Joy
Weet-Bix, which is known as Nutri-Brex in China and U.K., is a cereal in the form of a biscuit. The cereal, which is highly popular in Australia and New Zealand, has been on the shelves in China for eight years.

It was only with its appearance on the popular Chinese soap opera Ode to Joy earlier this year, however, that millions more discovered the brand, spurring demand that emptied local supermarket shelves.

"We were doing okay then but then along came this opportunity and we just saw this huge spike in sales," Mark Roper, international business manager at Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing, which produces Weet-Bix, told CNBC's Street Signs on Wednesday.

Mary Boylan was Plattsburgh’s little known treasure
Boylan's credits included two daytime soap operas: The Secret Storm (playing Katie Logan) and As the World Turns.

He Stars in a Spanish-Language Soap. Why Is He Driving for Uber?
Pablo Azar, the green-eyed Mexican telenovela star, stepped out of a limousine and walked down the red carpet at an awards show here last year amid the usual celebrity mayhem. Cameras flashed. Fans shouted. Azar, 34, smiled broadly and walked inside.

But after the awards show, Azar did something his army of admirers would never have imagined: He changed out of his suit, climbed behind the wheel of his car and started his shift as an Uber driver, a job he relies on when he’s between acting gigs to pay his bills.

Azar's credits include Reina de corazones and Marido En Alquiler.

Netflix breaks up with Mexico’s Televisa in the most soap-opera way possible
The beginning of a recent Netflix Latin America ad explained to viewers that the streaming content company has just parted ways with Mexico’s main television station, Televisa. The video showed a preppy-looking young man with slicked-back hair, buttoned-up shirt and a high-pitched voice. He looks devastated. A young woman walks into the room.

— What is it, my love? Why the long face?

— Netflix took off my favorites series...

Netflix is making fun of what was some of its own most-watched content. The break-up means that Netflix no longer offers the content that Televisa was supplying, mostly soap operas. And it has chosen to tell viewers about it in the funniest way possible. The message is clear: “We are eliminating the soaps, but leaving you other much more interesting series.”

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As the World Turns alums Jake Weary and Daniella Alonso star in TNT's Animal Kingdom
Weary (ATWT's Luke Snyder) stars as Deran Cody in the series inspired by the award-winning feature film. The story centers around a teenager who moves in with his relatives at their beachfront home after his mother dies of an overdose. The family is run by matriarch Janine, played by Emmy winner Ellen Barkin, and the teen is drawn into their life of indulgence and excess, but soon discovers the dark truth behind their dangerous world. Weary plays the troubled and suspicious youngest Cody son. Fellow ATWT alum Daniella Alonso (Pilar) plays Catherine, the wife of Baz, played by Scott Speedman.

Days of our Lives star Jen Lilley launches clothing line for charity
Lilley (Theresa on Days) has designed a clothing line to raise money for her favorite charity, Childhelp. She tweeted, "BIG NEWS: I've teamed up with BeYourOwnYou and designed an exclusive clothing line to raise money for my favorite charity, childhelp! #childhelp#byou #clothingforacause Check it out and please SHARE this post!

Sam Behrens encouraged Shari Belafonte to take on the role of Janice on General Hospital
January 19 will mark Shari Belafonte's first GH appearance as the new Janice Lomax, mayor of Port Charles. "In truth, I had never thought about doing one," she says of making her soap debut. "But when my manager first asked me if I'd be interested in doing this, I thought, 'You know what? I bet you can teach this old dog a couple of new tricks!’ " Her husband, Sam Behrens, who played Jake Meyer on the show from 1983-1987, encouraged her to take the gig. "He was very much like, 'Oh, you're going to have a good time,' " Belafonte tells Soap Opera Digest.

UnREAL casts Being Mary Jane and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actor B.J. Britt as its next suitor
By featuring a black suitor on Everlasting, the Bachelor-esque show-within-a-show on UnREAL, the Lifetime series is going where ABC hasn’t yet dared: There has never been a black bachelor in 20 seasons, nor a black bachelorette in 11 seasons of The Bachelorette.

Loving alum Bryan Cranston scores his first Oscar nomination, for Trumbo
Will the multiple Emmy-winning Breaking Bad alum dominate the Academy Awards, too?

Jamie Foxx’s Darktown will explore race in 1940s Atlanta
Foxx is teaming with former Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal on a 1948 Atlanta-set drama about the city’s first black police officers, who are forced to lead segregated lives.

How to Get Away with Murder casts Adam Arkin, Roxanne Hart and Wilson Bethel
Bethel (ex-Ryder, The Young and the Restless) has landed the role of Charles Mahoney, the Ivy League-educated son of Arkin’s Wallace (a Warren Buffet type who’s quiet and observant, but knows how to command a room when he chooses) and Hart’s Sylvia (a tough yet distinguished and smart socialite).

Empire and Scream Queens renewed by FOX
Empire’s third season episode order has yet to be determined, while Scream Queens will head to a new location for Season 2.

Scream Queens familiar faces will return
Expect Jamie Lee Curtis to be back, along with Lea Michele.

Mariah Carey won't be coming to Empire after all
Despite Lee Daniels saying repeatedly that “Mariah is coming on,” there are currently no plans to have her on the show this season, according to Daniels' fellow co-creator Danny Strong. The same goes for Oprah Winfrey. Strong tells The Hollywood Reporter: "None of those people are going to actually be on the show so I can't control what names all of a sudden take off as being guest stars because they're not."

American Horror Story Season 6 will be "set in two time periods”
FX president John Landgraf says Season 6 will mostly be set in the present.

Quantico will make three-month time jump when it returns from hiatus
Viewers won’t immediately learn what happened after the midseason finale shocker.

FOX orders 24: Legacy pilot, featuring an “all-new cast of characters”
Kiefer Sutherland will still be listed as a producer on the new 24, which FOX says "will revolve around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back—compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.”

FOX orders Prison Break event series, with Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell returning
The original production team behind the 2005-2009 FOX drama will be back, including creator Paul T. Scheuring.

FOX orders female baseball drama pilot, Pitch
Under the Dome alum Kylie Bunbury will play a young female pitcher who makes it to the major leagues.

“Screech” begins his 4-month jail sentence
Saved by the Bell alum Dustin Diamond is now behind bars for stabbing a man at a Wisconsin bar.

NEWS: Peter Reckell, Disney Subscriber Losses, 'Empire' Online Store, Bryan Cranston

Peter Reckell on shooting the death of Bo Brady on Days of our Lives
“What’s keeping me from saying, ‘Killing Bo? That’s not a good idea,’ is … what I discovered over the past three years, and that is being a dad,” Reckell tells Soap Opera Digest. "And the important role I have in my daughter’s life…. As important and as wonderful and inspirational as being Bo Brady is, this job of being Loden’s dad is more important to me at this time.”

Being Mary Jane is redefining single womanhood
Creator Mara Brock Akil intentionally kept her title character single. "The working title of this was Single Black Female, because sometimes we’re reduced to those three words,” she says.

Jane the Virgin's is portraying a radically frank depiction of early motherhood
“The truly radical thing about this season of Jane the Virgin,” says Kathryn VanArendonk, "has been how much of these first episodes have been about the unavoidable, unglamorous, and absolutely life-consuming physical reality of new motherhood. Jane Villanueva uses a breast pump. Frequently. She worries about her milk supply. Her body does not bounce back instantly. She is exhausted, and her baby’s presence is a new constant in her life.”

NBC is developing a college sex scandal drama
Fated will revolve around a sex scandal connecting the university’s president and head football coach, who are brothers.

Robert Rorke complains that primetime's "high brow" dramas are turning into daytime soap operas
The New York Post writers says: "Bringing characters back from the dead? That’s the kind of plot device usually found on daytime drama to goose ratings and arouse sleepy fans. So when did shows such as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead become soap operas on par with Days of our Lives, which famously brought back notorious villain Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo) from the grave, or The Young and the Restless, which killed off Adam Newman and revived him — with another actor (Justin Hartley) playing the role?"

Disney Suffers Severe Cable Subscriber Losses
The Walt Disney Company has lost 7 million subscribers to its cable networks in the last two years, according to a regulatory filing posted by the company Wednesday. Among the networks posting losses is ESPN, which at 92 million subscribers is down from the 95 million reported in 2013. Disney Channel, Disney XD and ABC Family, all Disney-owned, each had 4-5 million lost subscribers over the two year period, according to the company’s annual 10K report.

FOX has launched the official Empire online store
The store, which boasts show-inspired apparel (like a skirt-and-crop-top outfit and colorful jersey dresses), show quote tops ("Porsha, get my damn shoe!"), and more items. To celebrate the opening, Fox is hosting a contest that includes a $1,000 shopping spree to shop the store. (For those who don't win, there's still good news: the store's currently running a sale, with items up to 40% off!)

Freak TV: Welcome to the Golden Age of Weird
From BoJack Horseman to Broad City, television programming has become more bizarre – and better – than ever.

Bryan Cranston Cries While Watching Emotional Breaking Bad Clip: "I Saw My Daughter's Face"
On Wednesday's Inside the Actors Studio, Bryan Cranston got emotional when explaining his thought process behind a pivotal Breaking Bad scene.

On the James Lipton-hosted Bravo show, Cranston watched a clip of his character, Walter White, choosing not to help save Jesse Pinkman's (Aaron Paul) girlfriend Jane (Krysten Ritter), instead letting her choke on her own vomit. According to Cranston, shooting the scene was surprisingly tough on him.

Watch below:

Bryan Cranston & Nelson Aspen Remember Louan Gideon

My fabulous friend of nearly three decades, Louan Gideon, passed away recently after a recurrence of cancer. I've written about our friendship "then and now" here on WLS, but just as she remains present in my everyday life as a "guardian angel," so does she stay with me in many tangible ways. Many of her predictions and convictions pertaining to my life have started newly manifesting themselves and she even became part of my recent interview with award winning superstar Bryan Cranston.

Bryan and Louan became pals around the same time I first met her: the early 1980s when we lived in NYC, chasing acting work. We all chalked up Soap Opera credits, but I wouldn't meet Bryan until all of us had relocated to Los Angeles and he was enjoying Prime Time success as the Dad on Malcolm in the Middle. I was a Hollywood correspondent for a show called TV Guide Television and Louan was working one of her myriad sidelines as a "Feng Shui" expert. I suggested we film a segment getting her to work her magic on a celebrity home and she immediately enlisted Bryan to be our guinea pig.

Complete List of Winners at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards

The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards were announded on Sunday in Beverly Hills by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Two former daytime soap opera actors—Bryan Cranston (LOVING) and Robin Wright (SANTA BARBARA)—took home top actor honors in a Drama Series. Below is a complete list of Golden Globe winners:

TELEVISION

— Series, Drama: BREAKING BAD

— Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston, BREAKING BAD

— Actress, Drama: Robin Wright, HOUSE OF CARDS

NEWS: Corbin Bleu To Dance Shirtless; Bryan Cranston Will Play LBJ on Broadway; Fall TV Time Slots Trump Buzz; Sexiest Woman Alive

Corbin Bleu's DANCING WITH THE STARS Blog: Going Shirtless For The Paso Doble!
"This dance will also be the first time I'm going shirtless! I usually go to the gym on top of dance rehearsals, but this week my trainer Chad Landers really cracked the whip to get me ready! I’m proud to say working out is a huge part of my lifestyle. I’ve been training with him since I was 18 and over the years, my body has truly transformed. The stamina alone is really helping me get through this rigorous dancing schedule."

Bryan Cranston to Make Broadway Debut as LBJ in 'All the Way'
The BREAKING BAD star will reprise the role of the 36th U.S. president, which he is currently performing in Cambridge, Mass., when the play transfers to New York this winter.

Jim Doti: Pushing limits on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Chapman University President Jim Doti writes" "Just when I thought my budding career as a soap opera star had come to an end, I got my callback from Casey. My role as Mr. Chapman, CFO, on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL wasn't dead. Mr. Chapman would return."

GENERAL HOSPITAL: The Ugly Denouement of the Baby Connie True Parentage Plot
Marlena De Lacroix writes: "What made this ugly sequence memorable at all was the acting. Dominic Zamprogna’s Dante was fierce and Emme Rylan’s Lulu practically breathed fire as she found out how her best friend Maxie had betrayed her by passing off her biological daughter as Lulu and Dante’s own. But the most winning of all — as has been so this entire dreadful plot — was the acting of Bradford Anderson as Spinelli. The loss and pain of the situation have been continuously written on Anderson’s face and in his tears."

RUMOR: Former ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ONE LIFE TO LIVE star Ilene Kristen taping at GENERAL HOSPITAL?
Rumor has it Kristen taped on Friday, October 4th.

Fox picks up Diablo Cody, Josh Schwartz teen drama pilot
PRODIGY focuses on a 16-year-old home schooled genius who decides to take a shot at the high school experience before heading to college. It works and then backfires when she takes up with a wild crowd.

BREAKING BAD Series Finale Preview

Emmy Award winning BREAKING BAD, the series that has been hailed as "Genius" (Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter) and "One of the greatest shows ever on TV" (David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle), will air its final episode on Sunday, September 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Check out a preview of the finale, titled "Felina," below:

BREAKING BAD "Granite State" Preview

The final season of BREAKING BAD continues on Sunday, September 22nd at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.

In "Granite State," events set in motion long ago move toward a conclusion.

Check out a sneak peek below:

BREAKING BAD "Ozymandias" Preview

The final season of BREAKING BAD continues on Sunday, September 15th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.

In "Ozymandias," everyone copes with radically changed circumstances.

Check out a sneak peek below:

More Presenters Announced for the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

Executive Producer Ken Ehrlich has revealed the next round of star-studded presenters for the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 22 (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT) on CBS.

With a total of 49 nominations and 10 Emmy Award wins among them, the following presenters make up some of the most honored names in television:

· Two-time winner and 15-time nominee Alec Baldwin, who is nominated for his role in NBC's 30 ROCK

BREAKING BAD "To’hajiilee" Preview

The final season of BREAKING BAD continues on Sunday, September 8th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.

In "To’hajiilee," things heat up for Walt (Bryan Cranston) in unexpected ways.

Check out a sneak peek below:

BREAKING BAD "Rabid Dog" Preview

The final season of BREAKING BAD continues on Sunday, September 1st at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.

In the episode, "Rabid Dog," an unusual strategy starts to bear fruit, while plans are set in motion that could change everything.

Check out a sneak peek below:

BREAKING BAD "Confessions" Preview

Photo Credit: AMC

The final season of BREAKING BAD continues on Sunday, August 25th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.

In the episode, "Confessions," Jesse (Aaron Paul) decides to make a change.

Meanwhile, while Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Skyler (Anna Gunn) try to deal with an unexpected demand.

Check out a sneak peek below:

BREAKING BAD "Buried" Preview

Photo Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC

The final season of BREAKING BAD continues on Sunday, August 18th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.

In the episode, titled "Buried," Skyler's (Anna Gunn) past catches up with her while Walt (Bryan Cranston) needs to cover his own tracks.

Jesse (Aaron Paul) continues to struggle with guilt.

"Buried" was written by Thomas Schnauz and directed by Michelle MacLaren.

Check out a sneak peek below:

BREAKING BAD Kicks Off the Beginning of the Epic End

Photo Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC

Sunday AMC premiered the first episode ("Blood Money") of the second half of the final season of BREAKING BAD. After a year of waiting on a nail-biting cliffhanger, fans were finally able to continue their journey with high school chemistry teacher turned drug lord, Walter White. The premiere was the third episode directed by lead actor Bryan Cranston.

The intense beginning of the end opened in the future sometime around Walter’s 52nd birthday, two years after the Season 5 pilot episode takes place. Walter enters his old home which has been abandoned and covered in graffiti that reads “Heisenberg.” In the back yard, the White’s pool is empty and being used by skateboarders. Walter walks into his former bedroom and retrieves the ricin he hid behind an outlet. He then looks at himself in a broken mirror, realizing how terrible things have gone. Outside, Walter is recognized by a former neighbor. Walter says, “Hello, Carol” and the woman drops her bag of produce in horror.

BREAKING BAD "Blood Money" Preview: Returns For Final Eight Episodes

Photo Credit: AMC

BREAKING BAD returns on Sunday, August 11th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC Network.  The show's fifth season continues with the first of the final eight episodes.

In the episode, titled "Blood Money," as Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) adjust to life out of the business.

Meanwhile, Hank (Dean Norris) grapples with a troubling lead.

Check out a sneak peek below:

WINNERS: 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

DOWNTON ABBEY won for Outstanding Performance by an
Ensemble in a Drama Series

SAG-AFTRA presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2012 at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held Sunday, January 27, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

Honored with individual awards were Daniel Day-Lewis, Anne Hathaway, Tommy Lee Jones and Jennifer Lawrence for performances in motion pictures and Alec Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, Kevin Costner, Claire Danes, Tina Fey and Julianne Moore for performances in television.

NEWS ROUNDUP: Sped Up Stories On TV, Bryan Cranston, Liz & Dick, Can NASHVILLE Survive?

SPED UP STORIES: Is Speed the New Suspense on TV?
When Carrie confronted Brody for being a terrorist on HOMELAND; when Quinn Perkins' identity was revealed on SCANDAL; when Lori died on THE WALKING DEAD; when AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLYUM revealed who Bloody Face was: All of these things happened within the first five episodes of each of these series this season. Suffice it to say, the fall TV season has been full-steam ahead, with series diving straight into some of their biggest mysteries at such a breakneck speed, it has left fans wondering — and anticipating -- how the shows will top these events for the remainder of the season. Does this make speed the new suspense on television?

Bryan Cranston Talks Hayden Panettiere Connections On LIVE!

BREAKING BAD star Bryan Cranston has more than one connection to NASHVILLE actress Hayden Panettiere – he was married to her mom when they were both in LOVING and he once hired the young actress for an episode of MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE.

During a Thursday appearance on LIVE! WITH KELLY & MICHAEL, the actor mentioned Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, played Doug Donovan's wife (Edy Lester) on LOVING in 1984, and years later he later cast her daughter.