CBS is kicking off 2015 with nothing but smiles on its face as the network touts in a new promo that its lineup consisting of “The Young and the Restless,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Price is Right,” “The Talk” and “Let’s Make a Deal” have helped it become daytime’s most watched network for 28 consecutive years.

CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful” will be welcoming back “Big Brother’s” Zach Rance, when the former houseguest appears again on the daytime drama series sometime in early February.

“The Bold and the Beautiful’s” Katherine Kelly Lang is returning to “The Bold and the Beautiful” in January 2015, and the Forrester family better watch out!

To kick off 2015 in style, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will air all-day marathons of several programs during the month of January including “Hart to Hart,” “Diagnosis Murder” and “Murder, She Wrote.” The network will also air marathons of its popular original mystery movies, including Kellie Martin‘s “Mystery Woman” series.

Late last month we released a new layout of our website that was to allow us to present our content in manner we’ve been working towards for some time. Unfortunately, the design came with some issues that needed to be cleaned up. That cleanup left the site virtually silent news and interview wise. That’s now over.

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

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.

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

On Tuesday, December 9, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced the nominees for the 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards. For the first time since at least 1994, when the category was first recognized, no actor or actress from a daytime drama series was nominated in the Outstanding Actor or Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series following the organizations decision not to include the categories this year. Representatives for the NAACP have yet to officially comment on the matter at press time.

The SAG-AFTRA National Board announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement with broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, among other producers, on terms for a successor agreement to the National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting (Network Television Code). The agreement, approved by a 93% vote by the board, covers dramas in first-run syndication, morning news shows, talk shows, serials (soap operas), variety, reality, contest, sports and promotional announcements.

Ratings Report for the Week of November 24-28, 2014 NOTE: Please do not copy and paste the entire ratings.  Thank…

Attention fans of CBS Daytime’s “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Young and the Restless,” “Let’s Make a Deal,” “The Talk,” and “The Price is Right”: If you live in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or the Sacramento television markets, you currently have no access to CBS programming if you subscribe to Dish Network. You are also missing out on The CW’s programming if you live in Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle. This is the result of a carriage dispute between CBS Corp. — owner of broadcaster CBS and co-owner of The CW — and Dish Network that was set to expire on Thursday, December 4. The two sides agreed to extend talks on a new carriage contract beyond the 4:00 PM, PT deadline yesterday. The satellite provider eventually dropped the stations from its programming lineup earlier today when the talks fell through. Also affected by the dispute are three independent stations in Dallas, Los Angeles and New York and two MyNetworkTV affiliates in Boston and Miami.

On the Thursday, December 4 broadcast of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert covered the ambassadorship of “The Bold and the Beautiful” producer Colleen Bell, wife of head writer and executive producer, Bradley P. Bell, with a hilarious take on the drama surrounding her confirmation following some lively comments from Senator John McCain, who strongly disagreed with President Obama’s choice of Bell for the position. “We’re about to vote on a totally unqualified individual to be ambassador to a nation which is very important to our national security interest. Her qualifications are as a producer of the television soap opera ‘The Bold and The Beautiful,’ contributed 800,000 [dollars] to Obama in the last election and bundled more than $2.1 million for President Obama’s re-election effort,” said McCain on the Senate floor on Tuesday, December 2, just before Bell was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary with a vote of 52-42.

On Wednesday, November 5, CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful” shocked the daytime world when it announced that Kim Matula would be departing the drama series after nearly five years portraying Hope Logan, but don’t fret, Hope will continue being part of the canvas, says head writer and executive producer, Bradley P. Bell.

Ann Marcus, who was the head writer of NBC’s “Days of our Lives” from 1977 to 1979, and received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her work on the soap, has died. Marcus died in her Sherman Oaks home at the age of 93 on Wednesday, December 3.

Actress Jacqueline MacIness Wood is returning to “The Bold and the Beautiful” next week to once again film scenes as Steffy Forrester on the CBS Daytime drama series. Wood, who remains on recurring status with the soap and last appeared in February of this year, will begin airing in late January 2015.

Actress Reign Edwards, who’s appeared in episodes of Nickelodeon’s “The Thundermans” and “Brain Surge,” is set to make her daytime debut in January when she joins the cast of CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful” in the contract role of Nicole Avant, Maya’s (Karla Mosley) younger sister.

In a story we’ve been following since its early beginning, Colleen Bell, a producer on “The Bold and the Beautiful” and the wife of Bradley P. Bell, the show’s head writer and executive producer, has officially been named the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, reports ABC News. Her confirmation didn’t go without a hitch, however, as Senator John McCain took a strong stand against her confirmation on the Senate floor earlier today.

Ratings Report for the Week of November 17-21, 2014

For the week of November 17-21, 2014, CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” hit a season high in total viewers with an average of 5.06 million viewers tuning in each day. “The Bold and the Beautiful” also attracted its second largest weekly audience of the season with 3.74 million viewers. Numbers are based on Nielsen Media Research Live+Same Day ratings data.