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As much as I LOATHE Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) in the corporate storyline, I sorta don't mind her (a ringing endorsement I know) as a foil for Oliver (Zack Conroy) and Hope (Kimberly Matula). Watch The Bold and the Beautiful promo after the jump.

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A traffic jam,
When you're already late,
A no smoking sign,
On your cigarette break.

"Ironic" —Alanis Morrissette

Congratulations to One Life to Live, which tonight took home the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Daily Drama Series, the same week the show's executive producer Frank Valentini decided to stop "advancing story" for the groundbreaking couple that helped them achieve the nomination in the first place. Sorry, still bitter. Kudos to OLTL's head writer Ron Carlvati, Scott Evans (Fish), Brett Claywell (Kyle), Nicholas Rodriguez (Nick), Robin Strasser (Dorian) and everyone else involved in this amazing, if not "mainstream", story.

This week in Daytime,

I called bullshit! One Life to Live's ratings decline was blamed on the gays because the storyline reportedly doesn't "resonate with the mainstream audience." Which loyal and core audience does ABC Daytime think helped make Grey's Anatomy the No. 1 show in all of primetime? Who do they think tunes into ABC's Sunday night scripted lineup of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters? Who do they think made the Bravo network a smash success? Who do they think tuned in to Ugly Betty for four seasons? Fans of soapy storytelling and gays, that's who. The same "mainstream" audiences who enjoy the gay storylines at nighttime and on cable are the very ones who watch in the daytime.

The Kish storyline and its lead characters are far better than any gay storyline Desperate Housewives has given us. Kyle (Brett Claywell) and Fish's (Scott Evans) relationship has been more organic than anything the soaptastic Shonda Rhimes has penned for her lesbian characters on Grey's Anatomy. I would put Kyle and Fish up against Brothers & Sisters' Kevin (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty (Luke Macfarlane) any day. To ABC's rationale I say bullshit!

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Bridget/Nick/Agnes: Agnes almost spills Bridget's sheet shimmy with Owen to Nick. Lucky for Mrs. Marone, Nick's touching words has her keeping mum for now. Later, Agnes starts dropping clues to Nick that Bridget is not who he thinks she is. Bridget, meanwhile starts to think of coming clean about her affair with Owen.

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Network television might not be the safest place for daily serialzed dramas—or their fans— anymore, but it looks like our dreams of cable stepping up to the plate to save our suds may finally be starting to come true. New York Daily News is reporting TeenNick will be trying out the telenovela format for the upcoming 10th season of Degrassi: The Next Generation.

The network will air half-hour versions of the teen drama 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday for six weeks, Nickelodeon President Cyma Zarghami told the Daily News Thursday.

"We're making additional episodes, a little more in the telenovela format, a little bit faster, cheaper and more efficient," Zarghami said. "It will be, I think, a big success."

Score another one for Betty White! Michael Ausiello is reporting White has signed on to guest-star on The Middle's season finale as Brick's school librarian.

Betty White Photo by PR Photos | The Middle Photo Credit: ABC

Awww shucky ducky now! My favorite soap magazine, Soaps In Depth has the inside scoop on the EXPLOSIVE baby battle brewing between Ashley (Eileen Davidson) and Sharon (Sharon Case) over Faith on The Young and the Restless!

The shocking truth is out about The Young and the Restless' baby Faith, but that doesn’t mean that Ashley is going to willingly hand the tot over to biological mom Sharon! As the baby battle heats up between the two women, Ashley’s next move could have devastating consequences for both her and Sharon!

Only Soaps In Depth has the inside scoop on one mother’s desperate desire to keep her child and another’s longing to be with the baby she gave birth to, so be sure to pick up the new CBS issue today!

Lord, I hope this doesn't make my Ashley Abbott go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs again! Run out and pick up your copy of CBS Soaps in Depth today; I know I am.

Outraged fans across the web are springing up to do whatever they can to prevent One Life to Live executive producer Frank Valentini from scrapping what many (including myself) feel has been the most authentic and successful gay love story daytime has ever told, that of Oliver Fish (Scott Evans) and Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell). The best effort I've spied so far is the "Don't Put Kish In The Closet"  Post Card Campaign.

I haven't said much about all of this up until now, because my old J-School prof used to advise me to wait for 24 to 36 hours to write about something that really gets me fired up. Now if you read me here on this site, or follow me on Twitter, you know I rarely follow that advice, but for something this sensitive, this imperative, this game-changing for OLTL and, in my opinion, the entire industry, I decided to take a breather for a couple of days.

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In anticipation of The Bold and the Beautiful’s 23rd anniversary—it first aired on March 23, 1987— Brad Bell talked to Soaps In Depth about a possible end to the interminable Taylor/Ridge/Brooke triangle, and what the future holds for B&B.

SID: How many times can Ridge bounce back and forth between Taylor and Brooke before the audience gets fed up of his indecisiveness?

Brad Bell: With the last wedding of Ridge and Taylor – or wedding interruptus as we call it around here – we went with a little bit of humor. It was meant to be campy and fun. It was unique. And then Ridge picked Brooke and it was, I think, the last time. Of course, I have to be careful when I say that regarding these three!

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