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TV Guide   is reporting that Laura Benanti, who played Elsa Schrader on NBC's "The Sound of Music LIVE" will be joining the cast of Nashville for its third season. She'll be playing the part of Sadie Stone, a musician friend of Rayna's. Nashville returns Wednesday, September 24th at 10/9c!  

Time to announce the winners of this week's Broken at Love  caption contest. We also included another screen cap from the web series  Dating in the Middle Ages . Here are the results: Broken at Love Winning Caption Caption by Take 2 Radio We have a tie in the Dating in the Middle Ages contest! Winner #1 is... Caption by Sandy Nouragas Caption by Take 2 Radio Congrats to the winners! Stop by the  Facebook   page tomorrow for Caption This! Thursday! General Hospital! And if you haven't already be sure to check out these great web series! 

Time to announce the results of this week's General Hospital caption contest with a bonus contest for Y&R! We have a 3-way tie for the General Hospital contest & here are the winning captions: Winner #1 is… Caption by Nicholas Tudor Winner #2 is... Caption by Sandy Nouragas Winner #3 is... Caption by Take 2 Radio And the winning caption in the Y&R contest is… Caption by Sandy Nouragas

Here are the results for this week's Broken at Love  caption contest, with a bonus caption for  Super Knocked Up ! Broken at Love - 3-way tie!  Caption by Ida Sivas Caption by Take 2 Radio  Caption by Sandy Nouragas Super Knocked Up Winner Caption by Ida Sivas

Were you one of the viewers wondering why Lucy, Rafe's cousin wasn't present at his deathbed? According to  Soap Opera Digest , head writer Ron Carlivati said "there was so much story going on at the hospital, with Molly and Rafe, with Alice [that it] just became too big and too complicated." Ed. note: I understand, far more important that we have TJ and Nina in there instead of Lucy. To read the rest of Carlivati's statement go to  soapoperadigest.com Here's what's coming up on General Hospital:

More casting news for the upcoming series Weight! Actor Bradley White will be joining the cast as Claire's (Martha Byrne) husband Ben. And actress Dee Freeman will be playing Claire's trainer! Bradley White Dee Freeman Earlier, on twitter, Weight made the announcement that Trent Dawson (Henry, ATWT) will also be joining the cast! Trent Dawson Martha Byrne's (ex-Lily/Rose, ATWT, ex-Andrea, GH) upcoming web series "Weight" is shaping up to have quite a remarkable cast. Martha Byrne Aside from Byrne, the show has announced that actress Allison Smith (Mallory, The West Wing) will be joining the show as Byrne's sister, Melanie. Allison Smith Peyton Ella In addition, Peyton Ella (Gretl Von Trapp, TV's LIVE Sound of Music) will play Byrne's youngest daughter Jane. Scott DeFrietas and Maura West with daughter Kate Kate West (daughter of Maura West and Sc...

In case you missed it on the  Facebook  page, here's the winning caption for this week's GH caption contest: Caption by Sandy Nouragas

For Tuesday's Caption This! we included the web series  Dating in the Middle Ages   along with  Broken at Love . Here are the results: Broken at Love - 3-way tie Caption by Ida Sivas Caption by Take 2 Radio Caption by Karolina Sivas Dating in the Middle Ages - Tie Caption by Ida Sivas Caption by Take 2 Radio Be sure to check out both of these great shows by clicking on their respective titles at the top of this post! And to participate in our weekly caption contests be sure sure to join my  Facebook   page!

As the World Turns/Young and the Restless Alum and General Hospital star Maura West (Ava) may be coming to a theater near you! She's in a new movie called "Come Back to Me," which, according to  Soaps in Depth , was written and directed by Paul Leyden (ex-Simon, ATWT). The film is set to premiere July 25th in theaters, iTunes, and OnDemand. Check out the trailer below:

We had a little caption contest combo fun this week on the facebook  page with General Hospital and Young and the Restless! Here are the results! Caption provided by Sandy Nouragas Caption provided by Sandy Nouragas Caption provided by Ida Sivas

Normally on Tuesdays we play Caption This! on the  Facebook  page using screen caps from the hit web series  Broken at Love , but this week we added a screen cap from another successful web series  Super Knocked Up  since their season 2 finale debuted this week. Here are the results! Broken at Love caption provided by Ida Sivas Super Knocked Up caption provided by Karolina Sivas

At long last the season 2 finale of the web series Super Knocked Up will be released tomorrow, so I thought I would post the interviews I conducted with the cast in case anyone missed them or just wanted to see them again! :) (Please ignore the quality of some of these videos, I had technical difficulties with Skype, but finally wised up and switched to Google Hangout - those are much better! ) Catherine Mancuso aka Cheery Villain Daniela Malave aka Darcy Danger  Jeff Burns - creator/writer Mark Pezzula aka Captain Amazing Jourdan Gibson aka Darkstar Yvonne Perry aka Mom

Unfortunately we had some problems sharing the Emmy videos, but I finally figured out what the problem is so next time should go much more smoothly!