Nominations for NAACP Image Awards Announced; Daytime Actors Not Included For First Time Since At Least 1994

Since leaving NBC’s “Days of our Lives” earlier this year, actor James Scott (ex-EJ DiMera) reteamed with singer Roxanna for her music video “Here with Me,” following their 2012 collaboration, “Unforgotten,” and now the actor is one of several cast members in Audible’s free 1 hour and 13 minute long audio dramatization that vividly imagines and reenacts the famous, impromptu World War I Christmas Eve truce declared by rank-and-file British and German soldiers in 1914. The release commemorates the 100th anniversary of said truce.

Ratings Report for the Week of December 8-12, 2014

This time last year the stars of CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” were celebrating a milestone as the daytime drama series officially marked its 25th consecutive year as the most watched in daytime, as noted in the images above.  Now a year later, the soap opera is celebrating 26 consecutive years at numero uno!

On Thursday, December 25 and Thursday, January 1, CBS is handing fans of “The Young and the Restless” a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s present in the form of original episodes of the daytime drama series, the network recently announced.

She portrayed Heather Stevens on CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” for three seasons (2007-2010), but these days actress Vail Bloom is living it up as a reality star in Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules.”

ABC Family has given a series order to “Recovery Road,” a scripted drama that follows a teenage party girl named Maddie who doesn’t think she has a problem until one day she’s confronted by her guidance counselor, who forces her to choose between expulsion and rehab as the best way for her to deal with her addiction problems. The series is based on the young adult novel of the same name written by author Blake Nelson.

On the Tuesday, December 16 edition of NBCUniversal’s syndicated daytime talker, “The Steve Harvey Show,” former “Days of our Lives” actress Alison Sweeney (ex-Sami Brady) sits down with Steve Harvey to talk about her two-decade long run on “DAYS,” her hosting duties on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” and her novel, “Scared Scriptless.” In your first look clip, Sweeney reveals that it was hard to leave the daytime soap she called home since she was a teenager and that she’s kept in touch with her former colleagues via social media. Sweeney also revealed that she’s been back to direct several episodes of the daytime drama series since completing filming last May as Sami.

NBC recently announced premiere dates for its upcoming midseason dramas “Allegiance, “A.D.,” “The Slap” and “Odyssey,” while also slotting the second season of summer hit “Night Shift” and comedies “One Big Happy” and “Undateable,” which also aired in the summer and is returning for a second season. “The Blacklist,” starring James Spader, will move from Mondays to Thursdays, where it will anchor an all-drama block on the network for the first time in decades. The lineup will compete against ABC’s all-drama lineup consisting of “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder,” which have all helped the network win the Thursday crown in the key Adults 18-49 sales demo so far this season.

On Thursday, February 19, “Two and a Half Men,” one of television’s longest running and most successful comedies, will conclude its 12th and final season with a special one-hour series finale, CBS recently announced. In addition to “Men,” CBS also announced that “The Odd Couple” remake, starring Matthew Perry as endearing slob Oscar Madison and Thomas Lennon as uptight neat freak Felix Unger, will precede the “Men” finale when the series premieres following a brand new episode of “The Big Bang Theory” on the same night. Repeats of “The Big Bang Theory” will replace “Men” beginning Thursday, February 26. It will lead into “Mom,” which moves to 9:30 PM, ET/PT.

If you’re a fan of dramas “Homeland,” “The Affair,” “Shameless,” “Ray Donovan,” “Penny Dreadful” or uber popular “Dexter,” and you also happen to have an Xbox One in your household, you’re in luck: Showtime Networks announced that Showtime Anytime is now available on the next generation console from Microsoft.

Former “All My Children” star Adam Mayfield (ex-Scott Chandler) has joined the cast of NBC’s “Days of our Lives” in an as yet to be revealed role, the actor’s website reports.

Ratings Report for the Week of December 1-5, 2014