The Young and the Restless Dominates the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Nominations

Good Morning America's Sam Champion took charge announcing the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy nominations this morning around 9 am (EST).  Champion was a natural, and hilarious proving this shows dominance within the morning show realm, and helping GMA grab a bunch of Emmy nominations this morning as well.

Today's nominations were interesting all five eligible dramas received a nomination, including the returning One Life to Live.  Most of the acting categories only had four nominees, and most of the nominees in those categories came from The Young and the Restless.  An interesting twist since most prognosticators thought General Hospital would dominate. Y&R had 11 of the 25 acting nominations, almost half!

The best news on the acting front is that after 26 years on The Bold and the Beautiful Katherine Kelly Lang finally received an acting nomination for playing Brooke Logan.  Props to Robin Roberts for knowing the history of Lang being snubbed.  Another actress who is often snubbed finally received a nomination, Kristen Alderson, but for General Hospital.  Alderson has played Starr Maning for 15 years (since she was 7).

The weirdest category anomaly is the Outstanding Talk Show Categories and Outstanding Talk Show Host, only one line up Dr. Oz.  I am not sure if people did not submit themselves, but no pair, or series of hosts was nominated, and Katie Couric missed out on a nomination as well.

Below is a list of the bigger awards

Best Drama
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless

Best Actor in a Drama Series
Peter Bergman-The Young and the Restless
Doug Davidson-The Young and the Restless
Michael Muhney-The Young and the Restless
Jason Thompson-General Hospital

Best Actress
Susan Flannery-The Bold and the Beautiful
Peggy McCay-Days of Our Lives
Michelle Stafford-The Young and the Restless
Heather Tom-The Bold and the Beautiful

Best Supporting Actor
Bradford Anderson-General Hospital
Jeff Branson-The Young and the Restless
Scott Clifton-The Bold and the Beautiful
Billy Miller-The Young and the Restless

Best Supporting Actress
Julie Marie Berman-General Hospital
Jessica Collins-The Young and the Restless
Melissa Claire Egan-The Young and the Restless
Katherine Kelly Lange-The Bold and the Beautiful
Arienne Zucker-Days of Our Lives

Best Younger Actor
Max Ehrich-The Young and the Restless
Bryton James-The Young and the Restless
Chandler Massey-Days of Our Lives
Freddy Smith-Days of Our Lives

Best Younger Actress
Kristin Alderson-General Hospital
Hunter King-The Young and the Restless
Jacqueline Macinnes Wood-The Bold and the Beautiful
Lindsey Morgan-General Hospital

Best Directing

The Bold and the Beautiful

Days of Our Lives

General Hospital 

The Young and the Restless

Best Writing 

The Bold and the Beautiful

General Hospital 

One Life to Live 

The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Talk Show (Entertainment)
The Ellen Show
Live with Kelly and Michael
The Talk
The View

Outstanding Talk Show (Informative)
The Doctors
Dr. Oz Show
Katie

Outstanding Talk Show host
Anderson Cooper-Anderson Live
Steve Harvey-The Steve Harvey Show
Dr. Mehmet Oz-The Dr. Oz Show
Ricki Lake-The Ricki Lake Show
Rachel Ray-Rachel Ray

Outstanding Game Show
Cash Cab
Family Feud
Jeopardy
Let's Make a Deal
The Price is Right
Who Wants to be a Millionaire

Best Game Show Host
Ben Bailey-Cash Cab
Bill Eichner-Funny or Die Ben Eicher's on the Street
Steve Harvey-Family Feud
Alex Trebek-Jeopardy

Daytime Emmy Predictions

Yep, with only four shows on traditional networks now (One Life to Live is still eligible) the Daytime Emmy nominations are happening tomorrow, here is how I think they will go:

Best Drama
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless

Tough call, B&B was snubbed last year after a series of wins.  This year they said goodbye to Stephanie, which created some good television.  General Hospital has the most wins (ever) it will score a nomination.  The third and last spot is between Y&R, OLTL, and DOOL.  I personally think DOOL gets in, they had their second nomination after many years of never being nominated.  Yet DOOL had some creative bumps in the road.  OLTL has been off the air for a while, but is back (may be off people's mind too much.  I think the safe bet is another perenial favorite over Y&R.

Best Actor in a Drama
Peter Bergman-The Young and the Restless
Maurice Bernard-General Hospital
Doug Davidson-The Young and the Restless
John McCook-The Bold and the Beautiful
Jason Thompson-General Hospital

I think four of these men are locks, Bergman's spot is the wild card, which could go to Howarth for GH, or another younger Y&R guy Michael Muhney, but I think Bergman is a safe bet.

Best Actress in a Drama
Susan Flannery-The Bold and the Beautiful
Finoula Hughes-General Hospital
Peggy McCay-Days of Our Lives
Heather Tom-The Bold and the Beautiful
Laura Wright-General Hospital

The only limb I am going out on is for McCay, her story was incredible, and she has never been nominated, and I think this is something voters go for, and I would like to see her on this list.  Jeanne Cooper being sick could help with a sentimental vote.  I think she is the spoiler

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama
Bradford Anderson-General Hospital
Scott Clifton-The Bold and the Beautiful
Billy Miller-The Young and the Restless
James Reynolds-Days of Our Lives
Greg Rikaart-The Young and the Restless

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama
Julie Marie Berman-General Hospital
Melissa Claire Egan-The Young and the Restless
Nancy Lee Grahn-General Hospital
Rebecca Herbst-General Hospital
Katherine Kelly Lange-The Bold and the Beautiful

Best Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Chad Duell-General Hospital
Max Ehrich-The Young and the Restless
Bryton James-The Young and the Restless
Chandler Massey-Days of Our Lives

Best Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Kristin Alderson-General Hospital
Kim Matula-The Bold and the Beautiful
Haley Pullos-General Hospital
Jacqueline Macinnes Wood-The Bold and the Beautiful

Best Directing
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital

Best Writing
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
One Life to Live

General Hospital Dominates the Daytime Emmy Awards within a Slightly Better, but Boring Ceremony

The show started with a song from one of my favorite Sesame Street characters Oscar the Grouch singing and bantering with Anderson Cooper was cute and straight to the point, but isn’t there more to Daytime than Luke and Laura?

The first award was presented by the four nominees for Outstanding Younger in a Drama Series announcing the winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.  Anthony Geary who plays Luke on General Hospital was the victor, and is now the most honored acting winner at the Daytime Emmy Awards with 7 trophies with 30 years of nominations, his first being 1982 when Luke married Laura.  This started the award show train for General Hospital on Saturday night.

I liked the concept between the way they present this award, but showing no scenes was in poor taste.  Yet Geary was a consument professional, and stated it was “a great way to start an evening” and proving that Daytime Dramas are still relevant, and that cancelling GH for “a boob job bonanza” would be a mistake.

Why Daytime?  A producer talking about Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune proves how important this genre is.  Then the women of The Talk poking fun at the confusion between of their show while presenting Outstanding Game Show was terrific.  The eventual winner was Todd Newton from Family Game Night.  I have never seen the show, but his genuine speech made me happy for former E! fame.   The ladies then presented Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show went to Jeopardy.

The show then went on to show people who weren’t just actors, but the costume designer from All My Children, and this theme throughout the night was great, and truly honored the brilliance of what Daytime means.  In a bit of a surprising twist Days of Our Lives won for Outstanding Writing in a drama series, the show has not won the prize since 1976.  Quickly followed Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama series where Jonathan Jackson won for the second year in a row. 

Days of Our Lives was nipping at General Hospital’s heals when Chandler Massey won the award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series.  Barbara Wlaters then presented Bill Geddie with the Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor he deserves with his producing.  I like that they took the time to honor him even with the show feeling rushed.  Dr. Drew took the stage soon after to announce the Outstanding Morning Show Award, which went to The Today Show.

In the same style as Outstanding Lead Actor, the four Younger Actress nominees presented the Outstanding Lead Actress Award to Heather Tom; she is the first person in Daytime to win in every single acting category..  This made two big record breaking moments in the lead categories.

Like the actual award show I am going to speed up the commentary and go right to the point.  The show should have skipped a few of the awards, and honored two of of the Daytime Dramas that left the air All My Children, and One Life to Live better.  Susan Lucci’s tribute was sweet, but was not enough.  Inviting Cameron Matheson along with Lucci is a slap to the history of All My Children, although I was glad they asked Erika Slezak to help honor leading the tribute.  These three just talking about recently cancelled shows was just not enough.  I am mad that the Emmys did these shows wrong like this.

The night ended with General Hospital helping sweep the evening with a win in the best Drama Series category.  The show was better than most recent years, but the quick pacing, and lack of attention to this past year's cancelled shows makes it worse. See the full list of winners below.

Complete List of Winners (Major Categories)

Outstanding Drama Series

General Hospital

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Anthony Geary as Luke Spencer on General Hospital

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Heather Tom as Katie Spencer in The Bold and the Beautiful

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Jonathan Jackson as Lucky Spencer on General Hospital

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Nancy Lee Grahn as Alexis Davis on General Hospital

Outstanding Young Actor in a Drama Series

Chandler Massey as Will Horton on Days of Our Lives

Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series

Cristal Khalil as Lily Winters on The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

General Hospital

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

Days of our Lives

Outstanding Talk Shoe (Entertainment)

Live with Regis and Kelly

Outstanding Talk Show (Informative)

The Dr. Oz Show

Outstanding Talk Show Host

Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa-Live with Regis and Kelly

Outstanding Game Show

Jeopardy

Outstanding Game Show Host

Todd Newton-Family Game Night

Daytime Emmy Nominees Announced-General Hospital leads with 23 Nominations

As the years pass the attention this award show gets becomes smaller and smaller.  This year the Daytime Drama General Hospital had the most nominations 23, while The Young and the Restless received 16, Days of Our Lives 15, and the two cancelled shows All My Children and One Life to Live garnered 11 nominations.  Listed below is a full list of the nominees.  General Hospital was also in danger of cancellation, but hopefully this helps save the show.

Best Drama Series
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless


Best Actor 
Maurice Bernad as Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital 
Tony Geary as Luke Spencer-General Hospital
John McCook as Eric Forrester-The Bold and the Beautiful
Darnell Williams as Jesse Hubbard-All My Children
Robert S. Woods as Bo Buchannon-One Life to Live 


Best Actress
Crystal Chappelle as Dr. Carly Manning-Days of Our Lives
Debbie Morgan as Dr. Angie Martin-All My Children
Erika Slezak as Victoria Lord- One Life to Live
Heather Tom as Katie Logan Spencer-The Bold and the Beautiful
Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos Jax-General Hospital


Best Supporting Actor 
Bradford Anderson as Damien Spinelli, "General Hospital 
Matthew Ashford as Jack Deveraux, "Days of Our Lives
Sean Blakemore as Shawn Butler General Hospital
Jonathan Jackson as Lucky Spencer, "General Hospital
Jason Thompson as Patrick Drake, "General Hospital


Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Claire Egan as Annie Chandler-All My Children
Genie Francis as Genevieve Atkinson-The Young and the Restless
Nancy Lee Grahn as Alexis Davis-General Hospital
Elizabeth Henderickson as Chloe Mitchell-The Young and the Restless
Rebecca Herbst as Elizabeth Webber-General Hospital


Best Younger Actor 
Eddie Alderson as Matthew Buchanan-One Life To Live
Chad Duell as Michael Corinthos-General Hospital
Chandler Massey as Will Horton-Days of Our Lives
Nathan Parsons as Ethan Lovett-General Hospital


Best Younger Actress
Molly Burnett as Melanie Layton-Days of Our Lives
Shelley Hennig as Stephanie Johnson-Days of Our Lives
Christel Khalil as Lily Winters-The Young and the Restless
Jacque Macinnes Wood as Steffy Forrester-The Bold and the Beautiful


Best Directing Team
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless


Best Writing Team
All My Children
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless 


Best Talk Show (Entertainment)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Live with Regis and Kelly
The Talk
The View


Best Talk Show (Informative)
Anderson
The Dr. Oz Show
The Doctors


Best Talk Show Host
Anderson Cooper-Anderson
Dr. Mehmet Oz,-The Dr. Oz Show
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa-Live with Regis and Kelly
Rachael Ray-Rachael Ray
Dr. Lisa Masterson, Jillian Michaels, Dr. Andrew Ordon, Dr. Jim Sears, Dr. Travis Stork, Wendy Walsh, The Doctors