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50th Annual Daytime Emmys: Lead Actress Nominees Revealed

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On Tuesday evening, Entertainment Tonight helped jump start the reveal of the 50th annual Daytime Emmy Award nominations when it announced the names of the actresses going for gold in the coveted Lead Actress in a Drama Series category.

Nominated this year are: Sharon Case (Sharon, Y&R), Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea, Y&R), Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, Y&R), Finola Hughes (Anna, GH) and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Steffy, B&B).

Previously, Michelle Stafford had won twice, once in this category, Finola Hughes has won once, and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood has won twice. Sharon Case has also won a Daytime Emmy for Supporting Actress and win for Melissa Claire Egan would mark her first.

Tomorrow, look for the full list of nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and follow us here at Michael Fairman TV.

The 50th annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast on Friday night, June 16th live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

So, what do you think about the five lead actress nominees? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section and share your congrats to these leading ladies.

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Love Sharon Case! Aleays a solid performer … but she was not Lead Actress this past year. She was barely even supporting!!

I do not get why Jacqueline keeps getting nominated and winning this category. Crying and histrionics and Emmy bait type stories are wearing very thin. She just seems out of her league in this category every time. It could be worse … It could be Heather Tom. I am not trying to sound rude against these performers. But the writing on this show is SO inconsistent, so weak, and sometimes non-existent. They write a bunch of heavy, melodramatic crying scenes for these actresses, and taken out of context by Emmy voters, they win!

Melissa Claire was more Supporting and I thought she would have had a lock on that category!! I think she might take it though … As she had a high profile, important story about depression, and will no doubt have a killer reel!

Finola is always awesome. What betrays her sometimes is the writing. They need to write more high voltage, explosive scenes for her. Scenes like when she went head to head with Olivia Jerome years ago, or more stuff with Obrecht in the Robin story circa 10 years ago. She is just so good and makes it look so effortless, she is often overlooked for how good she really is.

Stafford had a good year with the Diane return. I think she has a solid chance. She has two under her belt. She never disappoints, even If the writing sometimes does … which is often!

Bottom Line – In a crowded category of past winners, I would like to see Melissa win for the first time! She has been regularly nominated for both All My Children and Young and Restless and did some amazing work.

If not her, I would like to see Finola take it. She is so consistent and versatile.

As much as I love Sharon, I just can’t for the life of me imagine what she is putting on her reel! She should have been nominated when she had breast cancer and when her husband Rey died!

She submitted her tape from the death of Rey which aired in April 2022 which was good Hopefully I hear she is getting a storyline I agree she has been back burned too long might add the most popular actress on the show according to polls I adore her and I hope they give her a storyline but if they don’t well shame on them. The awards are based on work in 2022 so she qualified

I feel a bit better since I have learned that Maura West didn’t submit (why Maura? You had the material to win in 2022!), but I still think that Cynthia Watros and Rebecca Herbst were much more deserving than Finola Hughes.

Happy to see Sharon Case FINALLY get another nomination but other than her brilliant work with Rey’s death Sharon was a supporting performer in 2022 with Sharon mostly just serving coffee.

I think Melissa Claire Egan will win. She has been nominated now 7 times without a win and her depression storyline was stellar work. I am honestly sick of CBS winning every single year in this category though.

JMW did great work too but she has two recent Emmys. Apparently Kimberlin Brown submitted in lead but didn’t get nominated.

Days getting shut out is a surprise – I don’t know which actresses submitted in lead though.

I don’t get Michelle Stafford’s nomination at all. MCE and Sharon Case (albeit I had her in the Supporting Actress category) were the only ones in my top 5. I had Cynthia Watros and Maura West as my two who should win for 2022.

Melissa did great work with her suicide story.

She was fantastic and deserves to win

Michelle Stafford indeed deserves the award

Congrats to the fabulous Finola Hughes, as always she’s great, as for the other actress in the category, I don’t get the Jacqueline Machines Wood nomination, she will most likely submit scenes of just crying and be rewarded for it. Crying is now acting I guest.

MCE deserves emmy for her extraordinary performance this year.

Melissa Claire Egan should win . She did a fantastic job..

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George Cheeks, CBS President & CEO, on Timeline to Launch New Daytime Drama, ‘The Gates’: “We’re So Focused on Getting it Right”

March 2024 will be remembered in the TV and soap world when the news broke that CBS is prepping a brand new daytime drama. Many had thought a major network would never bring a new daytime soap into the world, given that the last time it was attempted was 25 years ago when the now defunct Passions bowed on NBC.

However, The Gates is definitely in development and moving forward with some major players associated with it including: Michele Val Jean as The Gates writer, showrunner and one of its executive producers, and Sheila Ducksworth from NAACP Venture

Now, for the first time since its announcement, George Cheeks, the president and CEO of CBS and chief content officer for news and sports at Paramount+, spoke on the project that will feature a Black family as its central focus who live in a wealthy gated community.

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Speaking with Vulture, and when asked if The Gates is really something that truly has a chance of getting on the air, Cheeks clarified, “It’s super real. And just to give you a little bit of the backstory,  when we hired Sheila Ducksworth to run the NAACP Venture, she and I had multiple meetings talking about what different genres she was going to lean into, and we talked a lot about daytime.”

Cheeks added, “One of the things that the data made very clear to both of us is that daytime soap operas over index with Black women, and yet when you look at soap operas, it’s usually sort of a white-led family with supporting characters that reflect more of our society. So we just thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to flip that and make the core anchor family a Black family, and then make the other characters reflect more the broader scope of society?”

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The CEO gave props to Michele Val Jean,  and how Ducksworth came to the table with the former B&B and GH writer. “She found this great writer, Michele Val Jean, who’s been in the soap opera space for 30 years. She came up with a pitch, and we loved it,” shares Cheeks. “We brought Procter & Gamble into it as well, because if there were going to be (product) integrations, we could do it more holistically and organically. All of that is to say, we did a lot of work on the front end to put this together. So while yes, it’s development, it’s accelerated development.”

When prodded on the timeline of when The Gates could come to full fruition, Gates related, “The actual timeline and when we’re going to do it is still uncertain, because we want to get this right. I mean, there hasn’t been a new soap opera launch since I can’t even begin to tell you when. But we have great success with Bold and the Beautiful and Young and the Restless, and so we think we’re the right folks to be launching a new soap. I wish I could tell you more about exact timing, but we’re so focused on getting it right, and that will dictate when we’re ready to launch it.”

The CBS exec also shared that whether The Gates will wind up an hour soap or half-hour is not yet determined, but that it is being developed as an hour show.

So, after reading what George Cheeks, the CBS President & CEO had to say about ‘The Gates’, are you even more excited for what looks to the first new network soap in 25 years? Comment below.

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Robyn Bernard, ‘General Hospital’s’ Terry Brock, Dead at 64

Former General Hospital star, Robyn Bernard, who played aspiring singer Terry Brock has died. She was 64-years-old.

Bernard’s body was found Tuesday in San Jacinto, California. A Riverside County Coroner told TMZ they identified the actress’ body using her fingerprints after deputies responded to a death investigation call on Tuesday March 12th.

Sources told the outlet that Bernard’s body was found in the wee hours of the morning. The cause of death has yet to be determined.

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Bernard joined General Hospital back in 1984 as Terry Brock, the daughter of the abusive D.L. Brock (played by David Groh). Robyn remained on the ABC soap opera for six years before making her exit in 1990. At one point, Terry’s stepmother would become Bobbie Spencer (the late Jackie Zeman) when the nurse married her father.

Terry was involved in the Laurelton Murders storyline and after first setting her sights on Frisco Jones, wound up with killer Kevin O’Connor. Later, Terry was blamed for several murders and in the end killed Kevin in self-defense. In addition, Terry had a relationship with Dusty Walker played by none other than Shaun Cassidy.  She eventually left Port Charles after landing her own recording contract.

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The last time GH Fans may have seen Bernard was in 2014, when she appeared at the GH Fan Club Weekend Past Cast event. Robyn is pictured below with the late Susan Brown (ex-Gail) at the fan gathering. She has been out of the limelight for several years.

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In addition to her role on GH, Bernard was featured throughout her TV career on primetime’s Simon & Simon, Tour of Duty and The Facts of Life.

Share your remembrances and condolences for GH alum Robyn Bernard and her loved ones via the comment section below.

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51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards Announce Broadcast Date on CBS

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) revealed on Tuesday, that the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on Friday night, June 7th (8 – 10 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+*.

This year will mark the 18th time CBS has broadcast the Daytime Emmy Awards, which is more than any other network.

The 2024 Daytime Emmys will take place at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. Back in December of 2023, the delayed 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were also held at that venue. The June 7th date for the upcoming ceremony will be the first time in several years that the event is scheduled a few weeks earlier than normal; excluding last year’s revised date to the actors and writers strikes.

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Lifetime Achievement honoree, nominations, host, and additional information will be announced in the coming weeks.

In a statement, Adam Sharp, President and CEO of NATAS noted, “We eagerly anticipate our return in June as we once again partner with CBS to recognize the exceptional and talented individuals who make daytime television great. We’re thrilled to kick off our second half-century of the Daytime Emmys.”

The Daytime Emmy Awards have recognized outstanding achievement in television programming and crafts since 1974, honoring work in a variety of categories, including daytime dramas, talk shows, instructional programming, hosting, culinary, and legal/courtroom programs. In 2021, NATAS and the Television Academy jointly announced plans to realign the Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards to be organized by content genre, as opposed to program airtime.

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The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will once again be produced by NATAS and Associated Television International (ATI), which produced Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies on The CW in 2009 and on CBS in 2010, 2011, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Adam Sharp and Lisa Armstrong are executive producers from NATAS, while David McKenzie is executive producer from ATI.

So, glad to know that the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards honoring performance and shows in the 2023 calendar year, will be held in early June this year, and once again broadcast on CBS? Comment below.

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