NOMINATIONS: 43rd Annual NAACP Image Awards

The nominees for THE 43RD NAACP IMAGE AWARDS were announced today during a live press conference from the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA. Vanessa Williams, Tracee Ellis Ross and Craig Robinson announced the categories and nominees. GREY'S ANATOMY and THE GAME picked up six nominations each in the TV categories. The film The Help garnered the most noms overall with eight. THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS received five.

Below are the soap-related categories:

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
Aaron D. Spears, The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
Bryton James, The Young and the Restless, CBS
Emerson Brooks, All My Children, ABC
James Reynolds, Days of Our Lives, NBC
Texas Battle, The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS

NEWS ROUNDUP: ARMY WIVES 23 Episode Season, Chandler Massey Talks Coming Out Plot, Preteen TV Viewers Up

TV Draws More Preteens This Fall
So far this TV season through Nov. 20, an average of 5.8 million children between the ages of two and 11 have been watching television at any given minute, including broadcast and cable and live and recorded TV, Nielsen says. That is 1.7% higher than a year earlier.

Lifetime orders 10 more ARMY WIVES episodes
By not branding the pickup as a new season, Lifetime can have all original cast members locked in. The actresses don’t have deals beyond Season 6 but their contracts requires them to do all episodes produced, which would include a 23-episode 6th season.