The Young and the Restless’ Tatyana Ali and All My Children’s Emerson Brooks took home Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Actor awards at the 2012 NAACP Image Awards on February 17. It was also a big night for The Help, which won Outstanding Motion Picture and earned awards for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actress respectively. 

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Tyler Perry’s House of Paynewon in the drama and comedy categories. Oprah’s Lifeclass beat out the competition for Outstanding Talk Series. For the full list of 2012 NAACP Image Award winners visit Zap2it. See more photos from the award show after the jump!

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Remember Oprah’s 2009 interview with Whitney Houston? The former talk show host and cable network head plans to rebroadcast it as part of a two-hour special on OWN, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The special, called Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Interview, will air on Thursday, February 16 at 9 P.M.

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How many television executives does it take to obliterate a daypart? In this case, the answer would be two — former ABC Daytime Chief Brian Frons, who micromanged the Mouse House daytime soaps into the ratings basement with his sexist, ageist agenda (firing actresses over 40; putting stripper poles on sets), and practice of employing incompetent friends (Chuck Pratt, Julie Hanan Caruthers); and his ex-boss Anne Sweeney, who made the rash decision to get rid of said soaps all in one fell swoop (GH would already be toast if it was up to her, according to my sources), instead of bringing in a more savvy, capable executive to try and salvage entertainment vehicles that have made ABC hundred of millions of dollars (if not billions) over the decades.

What's sad is, no one in the mainstream entertainment media is covering this story, save for Marc Berman of TV Media Insights. According to Berman's latest report, The Revolution, the slung together, weight loss/makeover hour that replaced One Life to Live amid a lengthy ratings surge for that sudser, was watched by only 1.44 million people the week of Jan. 30. That's half the audience OLTL averaged in the same timeslot one year ago with 2.85 million viewers.  
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The Talk’s Sheryl Underwood will appear as a guest on The Young and the Restless on February 10. TV Guide’s Michael Logan caught up with the talk show host and asked about her love for soaps and her upcoming Y&R debut.

TV Guide Magazine: How far back do you go with Y&R?

Underwood: Waaay back, baby. Back to when David Hasselhoff was Snapper and Mrs. Chancellor was the baddest bitch on TV. She was doing fight scenes long before Alexis and Crystal on Dynasty. Oooh! Remember when John fell in love with Mamie, his black housekeeper, but it was too scandalous so she was given a million dollars and sent away on an ocean cruise? Remember when Drucilla was doped up on cough medicine and Malcolm had sex with her?  Love! This! Show! I love The Bold and the Beautiful. I love John McCook. I love Susan Flannery.  I love everybody on every soap. I love SoapNet. I'm a fanatic!

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It looks like Marie Osmond is returning to daytime. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Osmond is finalizing a deal for a talk show to fill the spot left by Martha Stewart's cancelled The Martha Stewart Show on the Hallmark Channel.

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It looks like reality TV star Bethenny Frankel may be getting her talk show after all. This summer Fox TV and Warner Bros will release a six-week preview of Bethenny,  produced by both Frankel and Ellen DeGeneres. Check the press release after the jump! READ MORE