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UPDATED: 37th Daytime Emmy Nominations announced!
This morning on CBS”s The Early Show nominees were announced in major categories for the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Nominations. On-Air On-Soaps has posted the complete list of all soap related categories. This year’s ceremonies, as previously announced will be held for the first time in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Hilton, and telecast live on CBS on Sunday June 27th.
The Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards which honors the craft behind many of the daytime shows will be handed out in Los Angeles on June 25, 2010.
General Hospital led all nominees in all categories with 18, followed by The Young and the Restless with 16, As the World Turns with 13, One Life to Live with 13, The Bold and the Beautiful with 11 and Days of our Lives with 9. Guiding Light picked up 3 nominations all in acting categories.
Here are the daytime drama nominees in all categories:
Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Crystal Chappell (Guiding Light), Michelle Stafford (The Young and the Restless), Maura West (As the World Turns), Sarah Brown (General Hospital), Bobbie Eakes (All My Children)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Peter Bergman (The Young and the Restless) Jon Linstrom (As the World Turns) Doug Davidson (The Young and the Restless), Michael Park (As the World Turns), James Scott (Days of our Lives)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Julie Pinson (As the World Turns), Bree Williamson (One Life to Live), Arianne Zuker (Days of our Lives), Carolyn Hennesy (General Hospital), Beth Chamberlin (Guiding Light)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Ricky Paull Goldin (All My Children), Jonathan Jackson (General Hospital), Bradford Anderson (General Hospital), Brian Kerwin (One Life to Live), Billy Miller (The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Molly Burnett (Days of our Lives), Shelly Hennig (Days of our Lives), Marnie Schulenburg (As the World Turns), Julie Marie Berman (General Hospital), Christel Khalil (The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Drew Tyler Bell, (The Bold and the Beautiful,) Dylan Patton, (Days of our Lives), Drew Garrett, (General Hospital), Zack Conroy, (Guiding Light), Scott Clifton, (One Life to Live)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
All My Children, As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team
All My Children, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, One Life to Live
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Drama Series
As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, One Life to Live
Outstanding Achievement for Casting for a Drama Series
All My Children, General Hospital, Days of our Lives, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama Series
All My Children, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Drama Series
All My Children, As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, the Young and the Restless
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration for a Drama Series
As the World Turns, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless,
Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing Drama Series
As the World Turns, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Achievement in Live & Direct To Tape Sound Mixing Drama Series
As the World Turns, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control for A Drama Series
All My Children, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Direction in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series
General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Original Song For a Drama Series
“Captured” Days of our Lives, “Y.O.U” The Bold and the Beautiful, “An Angel’s Lullaby” T he Young and the Restless
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction for a Drama Series
All My Children, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless
Beyond the Gates
‘Beyond the Gates’ Emmy Winner Ambyr Michelle Wants to Compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’: ‘Pick Me’ (Exclusive)
Soap opera fans are always clamoring for when Dancing with the Stars reveals their cast each season, that they would include a familiar face from daytime drama, but it rarely happens, if ever, anymore.
Over the last several years, the series has leaned heavily into casting celebrities with massive TikTok or Instagram followers, which in turn, have helped this season and last have their best ratings numbers in years.
But, how about for next season’s cast of Dancing with the Stars, that it could include newly-awarded Daytime Emmy winner, Ambyr Michelle (Eva Thomas) of Beyond the Gates?
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LOVE OF DANCE TO LOVE OF ACTING
Michael Fairman TV spoke to Michelle about her dance background and if she would love a shot at lifting the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy during Wednesday’s November 11, livestream chat on the Michael Fairman Channel.
Ambyr explained to fans (who joined in on the live chat), how she began her show business career. “I started off as a dancer, first and foremost. Acting wasn’t really something I wanted to go after. I did plays when I was younger, but it was just something we did in school, but I really wanted to be a dancer. I moved out to LA to dance, and I fell out of love with dance, which was so weird.”
This year’s Emerging Talent in a Daytime Drama Series winner, added, “I was like, ‘What is going on?’ I moved all the way out here for dance. I found I was forcing myself to go to dance class, and I just didn’t have the passion for it. I was working at this restaurant at the time, and one of my coworker was like, ‘What about taking an acting class out here?'”
Next, Ambyr took the coworker up on the idea. “So, I took an acting class and I fell in love with it that day,” shared Michelle. “I was like, ‘I want to do this for the rest of my life.’ I thought, I would love to book a role, of course, as a dancer, but I think acting has a little bit more longevity.”
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A SHOT AT THE LEN GOODMAN MIRRORBALL TROPHY
When the talked turned to if Ambyr would consider or be interested in appearing on the ballroom dance competition series, she piped up with, “I would love to do Dancing with the Stars! Pick me!”
As those in the live chat rallied around this idea, it made us think, Ambyr could be the first contestant from Beyond the Gates, and someone representing the soaps. It checks off so many boxes! To which Ambyr replied, “That would be beautiful.”
You can check out the full conversation with Ambyr below.
So, what do you think soap fans? Can we make sure Ambyr’s name gets in front of the producers and casting director for next season’s Dancing with the Stars? Would you like to see her in the competition? If so, who would be your dream pro professional dance partner for her? Let us know in the comment section.
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Antonio Sabáto Jr., the former Jagger Cates of General Hospital and GH: Night Shift, and the former Dante Damiano of The Bold and the Beautiful has issued his first public statement since the incident involving his son, Jack’s arrest in Alaska for a fatal hit-and-run.
Jack is the son of Sabáto Jr. and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and according to court documents obtained by KTUU Jack, was allegedly driving a white Chevy Tahoe when he hit and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, near an intersection in Anchorage around 5:35 a.m. on Monday, November 9.
The reports indicated that Jack fled the scene — but later decided to called the cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing.”
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Now, Antonio has taken to his Instagram breaking his silence on the situation, sharing, “At this time, my family and I are navigating an extremely sensitive and deeply personal matter.”
He added, “As a father, my love for my children remains unconditional, and my priority is the well-being of my family. We ask that the public and members of the media honor our privacy during this difficult time and keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.”
The soap alum concluded, “I also wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the gentleman who tragically lost his life. My thoughts and prayers are with them as well. We sincerely appreciate your compassion, understanding, and respect for the privacy of everyone affected.”
Jack Sabáto was arraigned in court on Tuesday, November 10 with bail set at $5,000, and a no-driving order and the potential of $5,000 penalty fees if he fails to attend future court appearances.
Antonio is the father to Jack, 34, daughter, Mina Sabato, 24 and son, Antonio Sabáto III, 15.
This is a developing story. You can check out Antonio’s official statement below.
So, let us know your thoughts on this tragic hit-and-run, which claimed the life of another man, and Antonio’s statement, via the comment section below.
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So disapointing:
1) Stacy Haiduk is not nominated
2) Guiding Light at its worst was light years ahead of All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful
3) Tina Sloane had a great year on GL and deserved a supporting actress nod
4) Drew Tyler Bell?!?!? Really? How about Mick Hazen who can actually act!
5) Bergman can thank Haiduk for his nomination
What I Like:
1) Beth Chamberlin getting a nomination even though she had much better years
2)Crystal Chapelle and Mara West, love em both but I think Chapelle has the edge
3)Michael Park deserves a win
4) Billy Miller better find a place to put that statue!
Unfortunately some of my faves, like Grant Aleksander, didnt even submitthemselves, but this is a horse and pony show. This isnt a true reflection of the talent on daytime.
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Rob, I agree. This isn’t a true assessment of talent.
When people like Christian Leblanc, peter Bergman, Adrienne Frantz, Justin torkildsen, Ron Carlivati and Brad bell are prior Emmy winners, then it’s a joke.
“Actors” like Teri Columbino and have nominations, and “actors” like Farah Fath and Austin Peck get prenominations, so it’s a joke.
While hunter Tylo, Kimberlin Brown, Eileen Davidson (circa Days), MTS, Victoria Rowell and Bobbie Eakes have either never been nominated or have never won Emmys, then it’s a joke.
Drew Tyler bell’s nomination is a complete joke. One of B&B’s worst actors is its only nominee. At least the panel was smart enough not to nominate Kyle Lowder and Brandon Beemer! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
No nominations for Nelson Branco’s overpimped faves Stacy haiduk, Farah Fath, Ron Carlivati, Nadia Bjorlin, Brandon Beemer, Kyle Lowder and OLTL! YAY! The voters get that he’s pushing his faves while bashing those he personally dislikes! All his pimping did not garner them nominations! LOL!
CLB had the common courtesy not to submit his histrionic, OTT acting on Y&R! Now he won’t have a chance to deliver his usual awful ramblings that he calls a “speech”. Maurice Bernard’s snub is great also, since Sonny berating Claudia was OTT bellowing. It’s great that Stafford got a nomination. Stafford for the win!
I am happy to see that Bob Guza was not nominated for writing. I would be shocked and dissappointed if GH wins for best show. GH is a one note with no character developement and the same actors putting in the same performances day after day. I hope they can step up their game and make GH a hot show once again. Get rid of the mob stuff and leave the godfather theme behind, its so old and tired!
I am a fan of Bobbie E’s and Krystal— BUT REALLY– leading actress??? What scenes did they submitt??? I am usually bummed with Krystal lately- as I feel like no one knows what to do with her and how to make her shine. They transformed her from trailer park momma bear to Ruth Martin– which is a HUGE disappointment.
While I’m glad that BK, BW, and SC all got nods for OLTL, I’m very PO’D that the Kish actors got snubbed by the final emmy tally!!!!!! At least all the GH nods are very much deserved this year, not so much for the AMC nods, though.
Congrats, Crystal Chappell !!! So glad she received the Emmy nod for her outstanding work on GL. Crystal is such an amazing actress and a fabulous lady. Her love and dedication to her fans is unparalleled by any other.
Thank you, CC !!! You are the true goddess of daytime television.
…and the winner is … Crystal Chappell
A well deserved nomination for Crystal Chappell. No one brings it like CC does. Not only did she hit it out of the park with her performance as Olivia Spencer on GL, she also revived our interest in daytime drama at a time when it needs it most.
Congratulations Crystal ! You are the best !
As much as I love Billy Miller, I hope Jonathan Jackson takes it because he’s gem on GH. I’m surprised he even came back. I also want Drew Garrett to win and then I want the camera to pan over to the GH crew who decided to let him go. LOL!
Love these nominations especially for Y&R. I’m glad they bounced back after last year of not being nominated last year which was an outrage!!!!!!! Stacy Haiduk……………..um…….WHY THE HELL SHE’S NOT NOMINATED????? Hope Y&R wins Best Drama and Writing. Very happy for Y&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m happy for B&B for Drama, Directing and Writing but why is DTB nominated for Younger Actor when he hasn’t done anything? B&B could take Drama Series and if so, then GOOD; another win for Brad Bell!!!! I don’t think they’ll get Directing and I’m not too sure about Writing; the death of Betty White’s character was displayed pretty well but I honestly think it’s more Drama Series then Writing!!!! Sharon Case is another Stacy Haiduk…….WHY SHE DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST??????? ATWT did pretty good with MP & JL (Leading Actor), MW (Leading Actress), JP (Supporting Actress) and MS (Younger Actress). Only 4 acting nominations for DAYS, I was hoping it would get Best Drama but I guess I was wrong!!!!! JS (Leading Actor), AZ (Supporting Actress), MB & SH (Younger Actress).