Evening News

DAYS OF OUR LIVES has youngest audience in daytime
Steve Sternberg, the executive vice president for audience analysis at Magna, found that the audiences for NBC, ABC and CBS during the daytime had all grown progressively older over the past five seasons. On NBC, the average age went to 49 from 43; on ABC, to 53 from 49; on CBS, to 59 from 56.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES has the youngest average audience (49) and the CBS game show THE PRICE IS RIGHT has the oldest average audience (64).

Restless Days Ahead: Bell/Scott Interview
Nelson Branco of TV Guide Canada has a very insightful interview Y&R Co-Headwriter Maria Arena Bell and DAYS Co-Executive Producer Ed Scott.

OUT: Vincent Irizarry leaving Y&R
Per his official MySpace site, Vincent Irizarry is out at THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. It was disclosed on today's show that his character, David, is responsible for Ji Min's still-unsolved death.

BLOG UPDATE: SOW's Mala Bhattacharjee
"Forget Patrick's baby daddy issues, can we talk Carly's mommy issues on GENERAL HOSPITAL? If she is SO determined to keep from having Sonny's child that she'd force poor Jason not just to pretend he's the daddy (again!) but to READ her pregnancy test (ew!), why doesn't she just...stop these annual romps with her ex? Shocker, right? Stop. Sleeping. With. Him. It's that simple."

PREVIEW: Cyndi Lauper on AS THE WORLD TURNS


Actors, producers at standoff after contract expires
Hollywood actors represented by the Screen Actors Guild and the major movie and TV studios find themselves at a standoff Tuesday after SAG's latest contract expired at midnight, leaving a film industry wary of a possible strike sitting in limbo.

The two sides have agreed to resume talks on a new deal Wednesday, but SAG is still resistant to what producers called their "final offer," which would offer no residuals for new-media productions.

In a statement Monday night, Doug Allen, the Screen Actors Guild national executive director and chief negotiator, said that the loss of payment for content made for the Web, cell phones or other new technologies is "incalculable and would mean the beginning of the end for residuals."