Daytime Emmys: B&B And Y&R Dominate, GH's Ex-Lulu Wins, Days Is Named Best Drama
The 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were held Sunday night in Beverly Hills, hosted by Sam Champion (Good Morning America) and HLN personalities Robin Meade and A.J. Hammer.
CBS' The Bold and the Beautiful boasted the biggest haul, translating its 15 nominations into nine total Emmys, including for Writing, lead actress Heather Tom and five Creative Arts trophies collected on Saturday.
Sister sudser The Young and the Restless — which went into this year's awards with the most nominations, 23 — wound up with seven wins, including for Lead Actor/first-time gold-grabber Doug Davidson.
Days of Our Lives was named best drama. One Life to Live earned one Emmy, tying General Hospital for Multiple Camera Editing on Saturday night.
On the "interesting" side, GH's former Lulu, Julie Marie Berman, nonetheless won for Supporting Actress, while Kristen Alderson earned her first Emmy,
in the Younger Actress race, for playing Starr — a character that has since been yanked away from her by the One Life to Live reboot/legal flapdoodle.
Among the telecast's highlights, and there were so few: Corbin Bernsen dropping the S-word and an F-bomb while imagining what his late mother, Y&R legend Jeanne Cooper, must be thinking about this year's ceremony (namely, her being a part of the In Memoriam tribute); and Carrie Fisher dropping acid... jokes before getting to hand an Emmy to her onetime Star Wars boss, George Lucas (accepting for The Clone Wars).
Here now are the winners in the categories announced on Sunday:
LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Doug Davidson (Paul, Y&R)
GAME SHOW
The Price Is Right (CBS)
GAME SHOW HOST
Ben Bailey, Cash Cab
TALK SHOW | INFORMATIVEThe Dr. Oz Show
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA (TIE)
Scott Clifton (Liam, B&B)
Billy Miller (Billy, Y&R)
DRAMA WRITING TEAMThe Bold and the BeautifulLIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Game show host Monty Hall
Producer Bob Stewart
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Julie Marie Berman (ex-Lulu, GH)
CULINARY PROGRAM (TIE)
Best Thing I Ever Made (Food Network)
Trisha's Southern Kitchen (Food Network)
CULINARY HOST
Lidia Bastianich (Lidia's Italy)
LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Heather Tom (Katie, B&B)
TALK SHOW | ENTERTAINMENTThe Ellen DeGeneres ShowDRAMA DIRECTING TEAM
The Bold and the Beautiful
SPECIAL CLASS | ANIMATED PROGRAMStar Wars: The Clone WarsYOUNGER ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Chandler Massey (Will, Days)
MORNING PROGRAMCBS Sunday MorningYOUNGER ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Kristen Alderson (as Starr, GH)
ORIGINAL SONG
"Good Afternoon," Good Morning America
TALK SHOW HOST
Ricki Lake (The Ricki Lake Show)
OUTSTANDING DAYTIME DRAMADays of Our Lives
Also, here are select non-soap opera winners in the aforementioned Creative Arts categories, which were handed out on Saturday evening (Deadline has a full list):
CHILDREN'S ANIMATED PROGRAM
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Nickelodeon)
PERFORMER IN AN ANIMATED PROGRAM
David Tennant (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
WRITING IN ANIMATION
WordGirl (PBS)
CHILDREN'S SERIES
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour The Series (HUB Network)
PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN'S SERIES
Sesame Street (PBS)
PERFORMER IN A CHILDREN'S SERIES
Kevin Clash (Elmo, Sesame Street)
WRITING IN A CHILDREN'S SERIES
Sesame Street (PBS)