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Joshua Morrow (Nick) of The Young & the Restless and his wife Tobe Morrow have a new baby son name Cash Joshua Morrow. Mother and son are doing fine. This is the couples third son.

The Young & the Restless was recently honored by the Writer’s Guild of America for Best Writing For a Daytime Serial. Y&R beat out All My Children, As the World Turns, and General Hospital. Congratulations to Y&R.

It looks like the writer’s strike is finally coming to an end after three months. During the strike the soap operas continue to produce new shows. With the strike ending I guess some of the striking writers will return to writing for their soaps now. I believe that both The Young & the Restless and Guiding Light have both improved since the writer’s strike, so it will be interesting to see if now that the writers might be back will these shows continue on that improvement or will they go on a downward spiral. Only time will tell.

Join your favorite Y&R hunks for some fun!

WHO: Daniel Goddard (Cane), Christian LeBlanc (Michael) & Thad Luckinbill (JT)
WHERE: Marriott Dallas Suites Dallas Center
WHEN: Saturday May 31, 1-4 for lunch ($95 per ticket)
Sunday June 1, 9-1 for breakfast ($75 per ticket)

There is a room block set at the Marriott Dallas Suites Dallas Center for $109 per night, single or double occupancy for both Friday May 30 & Sat May 31.

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A few weeks ago the Writer’s Guild announce their nominations for best writing on television. The daytime shows that were nominated were All My Children, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and The Young & the Restless.

The Young & the Restless’ Joshua Morrow (Nick Newman) and his wife Tobe are expecting another child in the spring. They are expecting another boy. Morrow already has two sons. Congratulations to Morrow and his wife.

Since November is almost over, I will give my opinion on November Sweeps for Guiding Light, The Bold & the Beautiful, and The Young & the Restless.

This November Guiding Light bought back some old favorites by bringing back the characters of Edmund and Bill Lewis. Some of the storylines have been fairly interesting. Like that Harley might possibly be attracted to Cyrus, while he is dating her niece Marina, Reva and Jeffrey, and why are Edmund and Bill back in town. I am still not feeling Rev. Josh and his new bride Cassie, and I probably never will. All in all this November for Guiding Light has been o.k., but not great.

The Bold & the Beautiful has ended the sweeps month with a mystery. The big mystery is who shot Stephanie. Since Stephanie has many enemies this mystery could take a while to solve. They also have the story about Brooke being the mother of Taylor’s new born son. This story is kind of crazy but, The Bold & the Beautiful are known for doing crazy storylines, so why should this one be any different. At least now it seems that B&B is using more of their cast instead of just two or three characters. Though there is still things that The Bold & the Beautiful could improve on, this November they seem to be headed in the right direction.

On The Young & the Restless the main storyline for November sweeps has been the aftermath of the Out of the Ashes saga. Victoria has been in a coma for the whole month and her family has been fighting to save her life or her unborn babies life. Phyllis is now free from jail, Jack is once again feeling the heat, and Gloria is up to her old tricks. I have to say that for the most part The Young & the Restless has been boring and that is not good for a sweep months or any other month. The most interesting thing is the possible romance between Cane and Lily. Lets hope that Y&R can get back on track and start living up to its number one rating again.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday there will be no soap operas on CBS Thursday November 22, 2007. Instead there will be football and other special programs during that time. Also on Friday November 23, 2007 there will also be no soaps on CBS, except an encore episode of The Young & the Restless. I believe they may be showing highlights of the recent Out of the Ashes story. So, take the next few days and enjoy them with your family and friends. The soaps will be returning with new episodes on Monday. Have a great holiday.

Shemar Moore has been named one of People Magazine Sexiest stars. Moore joins a list that includes Matt Damon, who was voted The Sexiest Man Alive, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and several other celebrities. I for one, absolutely believe Moore should be on this list and still miss him gracing my screen on a daily basis on The Young & the Restless. You can now catch Moore on primetime on the hit CBS show Criminal Minds.

For all of you who enjoy soap operas there are several sites on the web you may be interested in checking out.
One of the better websites is soapcentral.com. Soap Central has recaps of all the soaps, spoilers, message boards, and an archive section on characters and old storylines. Soaps.com is also a pretty good site. They basically offer the same thing as Soap Central, but it still worth checking out. Soapnet’s website offers the same thing as the other two sites but they also offer video clips. Since this blog is dedicated to CBS soaps, a good site to check out would be cbs.com/daytime. Soaps fans these are definitely sites you check out.

According to Variety, some soap writers may cross the line and continue writing for their soaps. There are also some soap writers who refuse to cross the line. I guess we will see in the up coming weeks if our soaps will continue to air if the writer’s strike is still going on. Also if the soaps decide to use scab writers, we will have to see how this will effect up coming storylines. These next few months could get very interesting.

Mykel Shannon Jenkins, the first winner of Soapnet’s reality show I Wanna Be Soap Star will be joining the cast of The Bold & the Beautiful. Jenkins will play the role of detective Charlie Baker, son of police detective Lt. Baker. After winning Soap Star in 2005, Jenkins had a recurring role on General Hospital. Since then, Jenkins has had guest roles on CSI and Ugly Betty. Jenkins role should bring some much needed diversity to The Bold & the Beautiful.

How will writer’s strike effect our favorite daytime dramas. Soap operas usually tape 4 to 6 weeks in advance, so it will be at least a month before soaps will be effected. If the writer’s strike is still going on after that time period, it may mean that we will not be seeing our soap operas for awhile. With soap opera ratings already being pretty low, they cannot afford to be off the air for too long. We saw the effects that the O.J. Simpson case had on soap operas had back in the 90s. Back then, with the soap operas being off the air for months, viewers found other things to do with their time, and quite a few of them did not return to viewing their soaps when they return from hiatus. There is a good chance that could happen again with this writer’s strike. Here is hoping that the writers and the studios are able to work out their differences.

For those of you who are unable to catch your favorite CBS soap operas doing the day due to work, school, or other activities, now there are multiple ways to catch a missed episodes. There always the VCR or TIVO, but now you can also catch The Young & the Restless, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light with same day episodes on CBS.com. They don’t have The Bold & the Beautiful on there yet. Usually you can watch same day episodes around 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. eastern standard time. Some days the site works great, but at other times the site does a lot of buffing and sometimes it skips over certain parts of the show. Hopefully, in the future CBS.com will work on this problem. You can also catch episodes on MSN.com, though they may be a day later. They also don’t carry The Bold & the Beautiful, but there is always Youtube to catch good clips of that soap.

This week Latin hunk Enrique Iglesias will be performing on the soap opera, The Young & the Restless. Iglesias will be performing at Neil Winter’s nightclub Indigo. Iglesias will sing his new song “Somebody’s Me” from his new CD, Insomniac. Also Tatyana Ali will be returning to the soap as Roxanne. The former star of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was last seen on the soap as a date to Devon Hamilton’s character.