“Days of Our Lives” Wins Top Prize at Daytime Emmys
Published at(BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.) — Days of Our Lives earned a rare win at the Daytime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday night.
For only the second time in the ceremony’s history, the NBC soap opera received the top prize, outstanding drama series. Its only other victory in the category came nearly four decades ago.
The Price Is Right was named top game show; The Dr. Oz Show took the informative talk show category; and The Ellen DeGeneres Show won the award for entertainment talk show.
The Daytime Emmys presented lifetime achievement awards to Let’s Make a Deal host Monty Hall and the late game show creator Bob Stewart.
There were a couple of surprises during the HLN broadcast, aside from the announcement of the winners. The presenters of the informative talk show category, the co-hosts of The Talk, were handed an envelope containing the winner of another category. They were eventually given the correct envelope.
And Corbin Bernsen cursed on the air while saluting his late mother, The Young and the Restless star Jeanne Cooper, and introducing the “in memoriam” segment.
At the Daytime Emmys’ creative arts ceremony on Friday, former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash won three awards. He resigned from Sesame Street last fall amid underage sex allegations.
You can browse a full list of winners at EmmyOnline.org. Here’s a look at the major categories from Sunday’s ceremony:
Drama Series
Days of Our Lives
Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Heather Tom, The Bold and the Beautiful
Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Doug Davidson, The Young and the Restless
Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Julie Marie Berman, General Hospital
Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
(tie) Scott Clifton, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Billy Miller, The Young and the Restless
Game Show
The Price is Right
Informative Talk Show
The Dr. Oz Show
Entertainment Talk Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Culinary Program
(tie) Best Thing I Ever Made and Trisha’s Southern Kitchen
Culinary Host
Linda Bastianich, Lidia’s Italy
Morning Program
CBS Sunday Morning
Original Song
“Good Afternoon” from Good Morning America
Special Class Animated Program
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Entertainment Talk Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Talk-Show Host
Ricki Lake, The Ricki Lake Show
Game-Show Host
Ben Bailey, Cash Cab
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