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The 49th annual Daytime Emmys returned to a live event at the venue on Friday night, and the news of the day – the fall of Roe v. Wade and the attack on women’s rights by a renegade Supreme Court – threatened to overshadow the event. But the two-hour show, hosted for the first time by Entertainment Tonight hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner, got off to a smooth start at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Overall, CBS’s “The Young and the Restless” received the most Daytime Emmy nominations that year with 18, closely followed by ABC’s “General Hospital” with 17. Among outlets, syndicated fares earned the highest scoring with 48 nominations from various programming distributors , followed by two networks that top the list: ABC and CBS, both at 31. (Netflix followed at 27.)
Other notable highlights from this year include: The daytime drama category – which has shrunk since broadcasters scaled back series production – has grown to five nominees for the first time since 2014, thanks to the addition of the spin-off Days of Our Lives. . “Beyond Salem.”
Prior to this, the 49th Annual Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards were held on June 18th at the Pasadena Convention Center. “Kelly Clarkson” received five awards, while “Penguin Town” followed with three awards. Aside from syndication (with 10), Netflix was the big single-network winner, amassing nine total, spread across Penguin Town, Cat People, Headspace: Guide to Meditation, and You vs. Wild: Out Cold. Next was CBS and PBS with three each.
Also of note is that the final season of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” received a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing Team for a daytime nonfiction program during the Creative Arts Emmys. And in the first season, Judge Judy Sheindlin’s new series “Judy Justice” won IMDbTV (now Amazon Freevee) for legal/court broadcasts. (It also repeated the very first Daytime Emmy for IMDbTV/Freevee.).
Check out last week’s awards winners here.
Receives a lifetime achievement during the show: soap opera icon John Aniston (“Days of Our Lives”). And here are this year’s Daytime Emmys winners in 15 key categories, which aired Friday night:
OUTSTANDING DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES
“Beyond Salem” (Peacock)
“The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
“General Hospital” (ABC)
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
(Last year’s winner: “General Hospital”)
OUTSTANDING STAR ACTOR IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: ACTRESS
Marci Miller as Abigail DiMera
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
Mishael Morgan as Amanda Sinclair
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
Cynthia Watros as Nina Reeves
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Arianne Zucker as Nicole Walker
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
(Last Year’s Winner: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Steffy Forrester, “The Bold and the Beautiful”)
OUTSTANDING LEADER PERFORMANCE IN A DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES: ACTORS
Peter Bergman as Jack Abbott
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
Eric Martsolf as Brady Black
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
WINNER: John McCook as Eric Forrester
“The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
James Reynolds as Abe Carver
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
Jason Thompson as Billy Abbott
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
(Last year’s winner: Maurice Benard as Sonny Corinthos, “General Hospital”)
OUTSTANDING SIDE PERFORMANCE IN A DRAMA SERIES: ACTRESS
Kimberlin Brown as Sheila Carter
“The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
Nancy Lee Grahn as Alexis Davis
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Stacy Haiduk as Kristen DiMera
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
Melissa Ordway as Abby Newman
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
WINNER: Kelly Thiebaud as Dr. Brit Westbourne
“General Hospital” (ABC)
(Last Year’s Winner: Marla Adams as Dina Mergeron, “The Young and the Restless”)
OUTSTANDING SIDE PERFORMANCE IN A DRAMA SERIES: ACTORS
Bryton James as Devon Hamilton
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
WINNER: Jeff Kober as Cyrus Renault
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Aaron D Spears as Justin Barber
“The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
James Patrick Stuart as Valentin Cassadine
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Jordi Vilasuso as Rey Rosales
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
(Last year’s winner: Max Gail as Mike Corbin, “General Hospital”)
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A DRAMA SERIES
Lindsay Arnold as Allie Horton
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
WINNER: Nicholas Chavez as Spencer Cassadine
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Alyvia Alyn Lind as Faith Newman
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
William Lipton as Cameron Webber
“General Hospital” (ABC)
Sydney Mikayla as Trina Robinson
“General Hospital” (ABC)
(Last Year’s Winner: Victoria Konefal as Ciara Brady, “Days of Our Lives”)
OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW
“Family Feud” (SYNDICATED)
WINNER: “Danger!” (SYNDICATED)
“Let’s Make a Deal” (CBS)
“The Price is Right” (CBS)
“Wheel of Fortune” (SYNDICATED)
(Last year’s winner: “Jeopardy”)
OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW MODER
Wayne Brady
“Let’s Make a Deal” (CBS)
WINNER: Steve Harvey
“Family Feud” (SYNDICATED)
Leah Remini
People Puzzler (Game Show Network)
Pat Sajak
“Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” (ABC)
Pat Sajak
“Wheel of Fortune” (SYNDICATED)
(Last year’s winner: Alex Trebek, “Jeopardy!”)
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIVE TALKSHOW
“GMA3: What You Need to Know” (ABC)
“Peace of Mind with Taraji” (Facebook Watch)
Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)
“Red Table Talk: The Estefans” (Facebook Watch)
“Tamron Hall” (SYNDICATED)
WINNER: “Turn the Tables with Robin Roberts” (Disney+)
(Last Winner: “Red Table Talk”)
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL TALKSHOW HOST
Gloria Estefan, Emily Estefan, Lili Estefan
“Red Table Talk: The Estefans” (Facebook Watch)
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Meghan McCain
“The View” (ABC)
WINNER: Tamron Hall
“Tamron Hall” (SYNDICATED)
Taraji P. Henson, Tracie Jade
“Peace of Mind with Taraji” (Facebook Watch)
RobinRoberts
“Turn the tables with Robin Roberts” (Disney+)
(Last year’s winner: Larry King, “Larry King Now”)
OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT TALKSHOW
“The Drew Barrymore Show” (SYNDICATED)
“Hot” (Complex Networks)
WINNER: “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (SYNDICATED)
“Live with Kelly and Ryan” (SYNDICATED)
“Today Show with Hoda & Jenna” (NBC)
(Last year’s winner: “The Kelly Clarkson Show”)
OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT TALKSHOW HOST
Drew Barrymore
“The Drew Barrymore Show” (SYNDICATED)
WINNER: Kelly Clarkson
“The Kelly Clarkson Show” (SYNDICATED)
Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush-Hager
“Today Show with Hoda & Jenna” (NBC)
Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest
“Live with Kelly and Ryan” (SYNDICATED)
(Last year’s winner: Kelly Clarkson, “The Kelly Clarkson Show”)
OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS SERIES
“Access to Hollywood” (SYNDICATED)
WINNER: “Entertainment Tonight” (SYNDICATED)
“Extra” (SYNDICATED)
“Inside Edition” (SYNDICATED)
(Last year’s winner: “Entertainment Tonight”)
OUTSTANDING WRITING TEAM FOR A DRAMA SERIES
“Beyond Salem” (Peacock)
WINNER: “Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
“General Hospital” (ABC)
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
(Last year’s winner: “The Young and the Restless”)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTIVE TEAM FOR A DRAMA SERIES
“Beyond Salem” (Peacock)
“Days of Our Lives” (NBC)
WINNER: “General Hospital” (ABC)
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
(Last year’s winner: “General Hospital”)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 show was virtual and filmed at the homes of the host, presenters and winners. Last year, a pre-taped, scaled-down event was held in Burbank.
Meanwhile, this marks the first year under the agreement between the two major TV academies, in which several categories have been realigned to focus on genre rather than segments of the day, to improve eligibility between primetime (managed by the LA based TV Academy) and Daytime Emmys (administered by New York-based NATAS). It is also the first year that the children’s and family programming categories have been removed from both shows and moved to a new Children’s & Family Emmy Awards competition and ceremony, the first new Emmy show since 1979. (This event will be held at held in December.)
