CBS’ “Young and the Restless” and ABC’s “General Hospital” lead the list of nominees for this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards, which will not be airing on TV for the second time in the past three years.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has nixed plans for a telecast of the ceremony because of the cost. Last year NATAS set a two-year deal with Pop, the CBS and Lionsgate-owned cabler, for telecast of the show after a debacle in 2014 when the ceremony aired as a live webcast.
But NATAS decided that the six-figure cost of producing the ceremony for TV was too high even with the license fee offered by Pop. The New York-based academy is believed to be in discussions for another webcast partner.
Low ratings have taken a toll on the Daytime Emmy Awards’ fortunes. The ceremony bounced around from CBS to ABC to CW to CNN sibling HLN during the past decade before falling off of TV entirely in 2014. The Pop pact in 2015 was billed as a comeback for the kudos that honor soap operas, game shows, children’s programs and other non-prime-time fare. Tyra Banks hosted last year’s ceremony.
“After months of negotiations to find show sponsorship, the NATAS executive board has decided that the current climate for awards shows prohibits the possibility of a telecast this year,” said NATAS president Bob Mauro. “With that said, we will be putting on a world-class awards celebration honoring the best and brightest of Daytime television and look forward to an exciting show. All efforts regarding returning the annual gala to television in 2017 are under way.”
The ceremony is set for May 1 at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The Creative Arts kudos will be handed out April 29 at the Bonaventure.
“Young and the Restless” once again lead the field of nominees with a total of 27 bids. ABC’s “General Hospital” was No. 2 with 24 noms, followed by CBS’ “Bold and the Beautiful” (23) and NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” (16). Those four sudsers are all nommed for best drama series.
The increased competition among CBS’ “The Talk” and ABC’s “The View” is spilling over into the kudos arena, with both shows up for entertainment talk show and for hosts. “The View’s” host nominees include some of those who were axed from the show at the end of last season.
Up for entertainment talk show: CBS’ “The Talk,” ABC’s “The View” and the syndicated “Wendy Williams Show,” “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “The Real.”
Contenders for entertainment talk show host: Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan for the syndicated “Live With Kelly and Michael,” Adrienne Bailon, Loni Love, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Jeannie Mai and Tamar Braxton for “The Real”; Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood for “The Talk”; Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Candace Cameron-Bure, Paula Faris, Raven Symone, Nicolle Wallace, Rosie Perez and Michelle Collins for “The View”; and Wendy Williams for the syndicated “Wendy Williams Show.”
Full list of nominations:
Outstanding Drama Series
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Culinary Program
America’s Test Kitchen
Cook’s Country
Giada In Italy
Mexico One Plate At A Time
Pati’s Mexican Table
Patricia Heaton Parties
Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program
Divorce Court
Hot Bench
Judge Judy
Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court
The People’s Court
Outstanding Game Show
Jeopardy
Let’s Make A Deal
Monopoly Millionaires’ Club
The Price Is Right
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Outstanding Morning Program
CBS Sunday Morning
CBS This Morning
Good Morning America
Today
Outstanding Morning Program in Spanish
Café CNN
Despierta America
Un Nuevo Dia
Outstanding Talk Show/Informative
The Chew
The Dr. Oz Show
Larry King Now
The Doctors
The Kitchen
Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Real
The View
The Wendy Williams Show
The Talk
Outstanding Entertainment News Program
Access Hollywood
Extra
Entertainment Tonight
The Insider
TMZ
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Tracey Bregman
Kassie de Pavia
Mary Beth Evans
Finola Hughes
Maura West
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Tyler Christopher
Anthony Geary
Justin Hartley
Christian LeBlanc
Kristoff St. John
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Lauralee Bell
Jessica Collins
Linsey Godfrey
Peggy McCay
Melissa Reeves
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Bryton James
Shawn Blakemore
Steve Burton
Jacob Young
Dominic Zamprogna
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Reign Edwards
Hunter King
True O’Brien
Ashlyn Pearce
Brooklyn Rae Silzer
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Nicholas Bechtel
Bryan Craig
Max Erich
Pierson Fode
Tequan Richmond
Outstanding Game Show Host
Craig Ferguson
Steve Harvey
Wayne Brady
Billy Gardell
Brooke Burns
Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host
Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan
The Real co-hosts
The View co-hosts
Wendy Williams
The Talk co-hosts
Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host
The Chew co-hosts
Dr. Oz
Larry King
Peter Salgo
Steve Harvey
Outstanding Musical Performance in a Talk Show/Morning Program
Jeff Lynne’s elo
Bruno Mars feat. Mark Ronson
Rachel Platten
Adele
Annie Lennox
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days Of Our Lives
General Hospital
Outstanding Guest Performer In Drama Series
Anna Maria Horsford
Obba Babatunde
Adam Leadbeater
Dee Wallace
Frank Runyeon
Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series
East Los High
EastSiders
The Bay The Series
Vanity
Winterthorne
Outstanding Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series
Mary Beth Evans
Kathleen Gati
Elizabeth Hubbard
Lilly Melgar
Patsy Pease
Outstanding Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series
Kristos Andrews
Van Hansis
Rick Hearst
JD Pardo
Kevin Spirtas
It is such a shame that awards for daytime programming doesn’t rate to be on TV. There are so many viewers of daytime that I’m sure if you scheduled properly and advertised like other award shows you would get more ratings. It’s TV for goodness sake it needs to be on TV not streamed. It’s like saying they really don’t count. Even if you can stream there is nothing being said on TV as to what time or when. Shame on them for not airing on TV.
Y r they not being aired on tv?
Its a shame daytime gets snubbed!! As for outstanding game host…why is Craig Ferguson ahead of Steve Harvey? So disrespectful to Steve!!! I realized its a list of names but give some respect!!
Let’s just say the daytime emmys have become irrelevant and some of the categories have become ridiculous. They should pare down to about 10 categories and fold it back into the primetime emmys.
Aren’t there only four soaps on TV now? Or is it five?
It’s 4 soaps. Y&R, B&B, GH, and DAYS.
If this is the full list, where are the children’s programs? Just curious.
It’s not the full list, there are 86 categories. This is apparently the full list of categories that Variety cares about.