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The Cookie Monster takes a bite out of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Sesame Street for its 40th anniversary at the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards - Source: Reuters -
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Rachael Ray and The Tyra Banks Show won the talk show categories
at the Daytime Emmy Awards for the second consecutive year, while
the women of The View ended Ellen DeGeneres' four-year reign as
best talk show host.
Cristina's Court, now in its third season on Fox, beat out veterans
Judge Judy and The People's Court, among other nominees, to claim
the prize for best legal/courtroom program also for a second
year.
Rachael Ray took home the entertainment talk show prize, while Tyra
Banks won the informative prize.
Both shows are syndicated. The talk show category was split into
two for the first time last year.
Both Ray and DeGeneres were nominated for best talk show host,
alongside Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa of Live with Regis and
Kelly, but they lost to ABC's The View and co-hosts Whoopi
Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and
Barbara Walters.
But The View was a surprise absentee from the entertainment talk
show category.
Meanwhile, CBS' The Bold and The Beautiful was named best drama,
beating out ABC's All My Children and NBC's Days of Our Lives.
But the soap won just two prizes overall.
The top acting prizes were shared among the soaps, with Christian
LeBlanc winning for his lead role in CBS' The Young and the
Restless and Susan Haskell taking the corresponding prize for ABC's
One Life To Live.
Supporting honours went to Tamara Braun for Days of Our Lives,
while Vincent Irizarry of All My Children tied with Jeff Branson of
CBS' Guiding Light.
In all, One Life to Live and All My Children led the field with
five Emmys each, while PBS' Sesame Street, The View, The Ellen
DeGeneres Show and El Tigre won four each.
All My Children went into the event with a leading 19 nominations.
Long time children's entertainment show Sesame Street received a lifetime achievement award.
The characters and actors from the show, including the Cookie
Monster, Elmo and Big Bird took the stage to receive the
award.
ABC was the top network, with 17 awards, followed by public
broadcaster PBS with 16.
ABC had led the field with 50 nominations.
The 36th annual awards, hosted by Ugly Betty co-star Vanessa
Williams, were held at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles,
a sign of the event's diminishing prestige.
It used to be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, home of the Oscars, and broadcast on a major network.
But after last year's show hit a record low of 5.4 million
viewers, ABC declined to renew its contract, and this year's show
ended up on the CW, a niche channel that targets young women.
ABC is a unit of Walt Disney Co. Fox is a unit of News Corp. NBC is
a unit of General Electric Co. CBS is a unit of CBS Corp.
