As previously announced, the Daytime Emmy Awards are being pushed back till October of this year. Marking the first time the ceremony has been held in the fall. Usually, by April or May, the nominations are revealed, but due to the change this year, April is currently bringing about the entrants call for submissions to be considered for a nomination in their respective categories.
According to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, who administers and runs the annual competition, there is a revised timeline for this year’s 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
First, the call for entrant’s initial deadline was Thursday April 3, with the late entry deadline is set for next week on Thursday, April 17th. Judging will take place from Thursday May 22nd, through Monday June 9th. NATAS is targeting a full nominations announcement in June or early July with the date to be determined. Following that, there will be a several months wait to hand out the golden statuette until the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Creative Arts ceremony will be held in October (at a date to be determined) in Los Angeles.
Photo: NATAS
As of yet, there has been no broadcast partner announced for this year’s ceremony leaving fans to speculate the show will go back to streaming only. CBS previously aired the show on a Friday nights over the summer months from 2020-2024 and even extended their agreement through the 2024 ceremony making it the 18th time that the network broadcast daytime’s biggest night of the year.
Let’s take a look below at some other key elements in Emmy submission and voting for 2025:
Photo: JPI
ELIGIBLITY
Beyond the Gates is not eligible for contention at this year’s Daytime Emmys having premiered on February 24, 2025. The 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards consider eligibility to be from episodes, shows and performances that aired or streamed from January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024. It will be in 2026 that Beyond the Gates will first be able to participate in the competition.
NEW CATEGORIES
Previously, NATAS made the announcement that after getting rid of the Younger Performer in a Drama Series category last year, they have try to address the inherent issues with the category by coming up with a different slant on it. The new category for this year’s competition is Outstanding Emerging Talent in a Daytime Drama Series. Here are the guidelines to submit for this category:
-
- There is NO age restriction for this category.
- Performer has been on the Daytime Drama Program for two years or less, thereby limiting category eligibility for two years total per performer.
- Performer is on their first Daytime contract.
- Performer has no previous Daytime Emmy acting nominations; and Performer has never won this category – previous winners will be allowed to henceforth enter Guest, Supporting, or Lead as applicable.
- Performer must be onscreen in a speaking role with at least one multi-episode story arc.
In addition, the Culinary categories under the Daytime Emmys have been split into two – Culinary Instructional Series and Culinary Cultural Series and the same for Travel series. They have been split into Travel and Adventure Program, Nature and Science Program, plus Outstanding Regional Content in a Daytime Genre (this is not a competition category but a recognition one).
LENGH OF SUBMISSIONS
All categories requiring clip reels instead of full episodes are not to exceed 15 minutes in length. Meanwhile, the Single Camera Directing and Multiple Camera Directing categories have been adjusted to allow reels to feature full episodes, keeping in line with the Outstanding Directing for a Daytime Drama Series category. It should be noted that actors can choose to put in various scenes on their reel if they choose from different episodes or from a full episode as long as it stays within the parameters of submission duration.
Photo: JPI
WHO JUDGES?
New parameters for voting are being introduced as the Daytime Emmys move toward a stated goal of members-only judging come 2026.
NATAS is no longer utilizing a system of “parity” within the Drama acting categories, e.g. programs are no longer guaranteed equal representation on the acting panels. Instead, performers registering to judge will be assigned to three categories each within the following parameters:
-
- Actors are still NOT permitted to judge the category they are entered into.
- All actors will be assigned to two Drama acting categories and one Hosting category.
- Administration strongly encourages actors to participate in the Host category as these categories require on-screen talent as judges.
ACTING CATEGORIES
There has been a clarification to the rule prohibiting actors from entering twice for the same program. According to NATAS, “The spirit of this rule is to make sure that actors playing multiple roles on a single program simultaneously can only enter once, with all of their characters on the same reel. (An example would be Jon Lindstrom on General Hospital if playing twins: Kevin Collins and Ryan Chamberlain). However, this rule has been tweaked to allow for actors to enter multiple times for the same program if they exit as one character and return as a different character, and they are not playing both of those characters simultaneously. (An example would be Emily O’Brien on Days of our Lives when playing Theresa Donovan and Gwen Rizczech) In these cases, actors are permitted to enter twice and even if they don’t, they can only enter for the character(s) being played simultaneously on a singular reel.”
Fore more on the guidelines for this year’s 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards visit theemmys.tv/daytime/
So, what are your thoughts on the timeline, and some of the changes for this year’s upcoming 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards? Who would you like to see nominated for the work from performances in 2024? Let us know in the comment section.
