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BREAKING NEWS: Daytime Emmy Awards to be Televised on HLN!
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Fantastic news soapers! Finally, after some back and force, NATAS and HLN have reached a deal and the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards have found a broadcast home and will be televised for the first time on a cable network!
Variety had this report just a little awhile ago! “The 39th edition of the event, which had spent the past two years on CBS, will air live at 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific, with encore broadcasts to follow on HLN, which reaches approximately 95 million homes domestically. A host has not been finalized but is expected to be announced within the next two weeks.
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences chairman Malachy Wienges told Variety that the daytime community was “unhappy” with the previous two shows. The organization went to several producers looking for a fresher take. “After the last show, the daytime community approached NATAS and said that if we have to do the show in 2012 the exact same as in 2010 and 2011, we would rather have an un-televised event and just have a sit-down dinner and honor ourselves in Beverly Hills.” Wienges said. The new approach will focus on a celebration of daytime TV at a time of transition for the industry, which has seen such defining dramas as All My Children and One Life to Live leave the air in the past year.
“This has to be as much a tribute to daytime television as an awards show,” said Gabriel Gornell who along with Colleen Seldin will produce this years telecast. That being said, Gornell asserted that the awards themselves — which spread across a number of genres that include animation, game shows, talk, culinary and children’s programming — wouldn’t be marginalized. “While we pay tribute to television, it’s the awards that are going to get us there. This show is probably going to have more awards than previous years and is probably going to have fewer song-and-dance numbers than previous years.”
Word of HLN’s interest in the Daytime Emmys emerged in early May. HLN exec veep and general manager Scot Safon said that from the first moment the cabler was approached in March as a potential television partner, there was a natural fit.
“HLN focuses on news stories and information and things that our audience wants to talk about,” Safon said. “That includes the celebrations like the Emmy awards. If there’s a fanbase there, which for daytime television is an enormous fanbase, and the show was really going to delight that fanbase, then we were interested in presenting that — because that’s a news event to them.”
HLN and parent company Turner, which also provides the annual home for the Screen Actors Guild awards on TNT and TBS, are developing a number of promos to draw attention to the kudocast. “From the very beginning, it really came down to finding the right broadcast television partner that understood what we we’re trying to accomplish,” Gornell said, “not only creatively but from a messaging standpoint, that also had the platform resources to get behind it.”
The Daytime Emmys will now hopefully get the break they needed and we can truly honor daytime that way it should be for the hard work and performances and series, the fans around the world love every day. So, soapers, what do you think of the news? Let us know!
I wish I could catch HLN 🙁
This is great news! Everybody who has basic cable should get HLN (Headline News)! If you get CNN, you should get it since it’s owned by the same company. At least something is finally going right for the soaps!
Lipstickcat, Good Grief, I have been all over here trying to find a place I can post back to you, Yes I still have soapnet, for how long I don’t know. I have direct tv. So yes I get to still watch the soaps in the evening, direct tv, They have a poll to see how many people watch the soaps and which soaps I watch and would want back sure would be nice if they took one life to live and put it on.
This is wonderful news!!!!!! Thank you HLN and those that brought this to fruition. I am also glad to hear that this broadcast will focus more on the awards (which in turn means those nominated for them), rather than song and dance numbers. Last year ‘s broadcast was more like an ad for Vegas than a tribute to the work of those in Daytime TV, so I am truly looking forward to this refreshing change. I also look forward to a much well deserved tribute to AMC and OLTL, and big wins for GH, AMC and OLTL. I cannot wait for the broadcast!!!! If done well, and it sounds like it will be, this can also garner new fans to the soap genre – fingers crossed. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!
I think it’s great!
This is amazing!!! Do you know if we can purchase tickets to the awards show?
Very good news. All of us with cable will be able to watch on Saturday evening June 23. CNN Headline News is available for most cable subscriptions.
Hey HLN, Are you interested in airing two great soaps?
great idea, but I gotta say, what is HLN? never heard of them. I suppose it’s a cable station. What does HLN stand for… well, If I can’t get it by digital tuner I hope they sell a DVD of the presentation.
Headline news, cnn owns it.
wonderful news i am so happy that we can watch the daytime emmys. thank you so much hln. you made my day and other soap fans as well. maybe there is hope that one life to love can come back to hln. you never know. i know its a long shot.
Great news. I wonder if HLN would ever consider bringing back “One Life To Live” once they see how many viewer it could bring.
Don’t think that will happen Brian, Its a news channel. That’s why I am surprised their going to have the emmys on. Good for them.
I know… but let’s hope that they want to expand and get in to the daytime drama business…
It would be nice. I would love to see our soaps come back.
It would be great if Erika Slezak (Vicki OLTL) was asked to host! Such a classy actress!
Too lazy to google it . . . what is HLN???
It used to be CNN headline news. ps… google is a very quick search engine.
Its a Part of cnn but it is called Headline news They do a lot of the murder trials, Keeping us in touch with missing people and children watch a few of their shows Issues, nancy grace show, Vinney, Cant remember his last name, I am surprised they will be showing the emmys on a Saturday night they usually have stories of murders that have been solved, I am glad they will be showing the emmys, Its different for them, Good for them, However, We don’t want a three ring circus or any las vegas crap., Lets stick with the soaps and game shows could care less who wins the best talk crap award as far as I am concerned they talk to much.
What channel is Headlines News on???????????? I have Bright House Cable (Fl.)…………………………………………………………….
What are they all about???????? HLN??????????????Do you think thet would pick up OLTL & AMC?????????????????
Love HLN’s decision. So happy that it sounds like they’ll dispense with the “Vegas Show” type of broadcast, and focus back on the Daytime shows, the performers, and the fan base.
WONDERFUL NEWS! Looking forward to the telecast…..what HAPPENED in Vegas should definitely stay there. Thank you, HLN!
That’s wonderful news maybe they will consider bringing back OLTL and maybe even AMC to their network. That would answer all our prays and make alot of people very happy. and also give alot of people back their jobs.
You said it all………………………I agree with you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great! Sounds like it won’t be an travemercial this year. I’d like to see clips from the nominees. Yes, fewer song and dance numbers and ads as part of the show would be very nice.
I get why it was that way previously, but it was insulting to daytime and viewers.
I also think it’s great that it will have multiple airings. Looking forward to a good show. Hope they get a good host. Either someone who works in daytime (soap hopefully) or worked in daytime or is a fan and knowledgeable about the genre.
MO,Sounds like all good Ideas to me. And I am looking forward to seeing who will win.
Great news!!! Nice that HLN sees this as a newsworthy event and will carry the broadcast.
Good news but NOT good for me since I don’t have that channel!!!!!
Hope they also decide to show the award show ONLINE!!!!!
I’m so happy that the Daytime Emmys will be broadcast next month on HLN! Many thanks to them. I like what I’m hearing about plans to concentrate more on the awards themselves and the tributes to AMC and OLTL. How wonderful would it be if those two beloved shows were resurrected on one of the Turner networks? They would be getting a built-in and very loyal fan base, that’s for sure!
I found you, you said that Anna devaine and David hayward weren’t married, my computer is messed up I would send you the link, If you go to, she knows, and wikipedia put up anna devaines name you will see the story of anna and her twin sister on all my children, Her sister found anna and brought her back to pine valley where she stayed, David and Anna were married and had a daughter leora that died, also Robin came to visit anna at one time, not for long because someone was gunning for anna thats how Gillian got shot in the head and died, david did a few questionable things and that caused anna to get a divorce and she left Pine valley.At wikipedia the whole story of her stay in port charles is there.
Many thanks to HLN!!! Looking forward to seeing this and hoping they do it right this year.
comcast cable just drop soapnet network last night and i am pissed. all the children network and all the sports network are still there and the one network the women watch when the men take over the sports stations and the children take over the children stations one stations for us to catch up with our soaps on week nights and week ends and you take that away from us???? i hate it!!
I will support any venue regarding my beloved soaps.
Sadly my Soaps have gone away….ALL OF THEM. So Daytime Emmy’s on a cable News network, makes no sense to me…but more power to them!
GO SEASAME STREET!!!!
I say we all start a REVOLUTION and have The TALK and The VIEW get stuck in a blender on CHEW and then gert sued and sent to Judge (Fill In The Blank)!
#brringbackmyfamilies!
Morticia, I am sad for you, I still have two soaps left so I will cheer them on with big bird, But I must say I love how you want to get rid of the revolution, the talk,and the view, and have them all get eaten up on the chew, Maybe by Judge Judy, Shes good nothing gets by her, can we throw katie in the blender to? How afternoons have changed they will never be the same.
Michael, I read something on the web Concerning OLTL being nominated forTop drama series along with Gh.AMC &B&b(cbs)…We know OLTL didn’t get nominated for top drama series.. But I clicked onto Live Emmy’s (soap operas). And I red this article by David Hinckley from the daily news this was posted May 9, 2012………..Is his article on the up & up or not?????????????? One more thing it said:Daytime Emmy’s nominated go to cancelled soaps(OLTL, AMC. ) For Top drama Series…Is this article accurate??????? Can you please let me know… I would appreciate it… I am a die hard OLTL fan…
Michael thank you for your quick response………………This article came from The New York Daily News……………………….Well this article is false………This article is very mis-leading……………………..I know OLTL wasn’t nominated..This article struck me as odd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why would they print something like that?????????? When we know it isn’t so????????
Alan Dysert, who played Sean Cudahy on ABC’s All My Children has died. He was 75-years-old. The news of his passing came from his wife Michele who shared via a Facebook post that Dysert died back on October 23.
“My heart is broken as I share that my beloved husband, Alan, passed away on October 23, 2026. While I am struggling to imagine life without him, I am forever grateful to have experienced what so many people spend their lives searching for — the love of a lifetime,” Michele expressed.
While a cause of death was not made public at this time, Michele admitted that Alan, “faced more than his share of health challenges over the years, yet he continued to approach life with determination, humor, and gratitude.”
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Dysert wrote about his battle with a rare, aggressive and incurable cancer in his 2023 autobiography, Lights, Camera, Cancer! He spoke of having undergone four major cancer-related surgeries, and many rounds of chemotherapy and CT scans.
SEAN CUDAHY WAS ‘BAD GUY’ PERSONFIED
On All My Children, Dysert played Sean Cudahy, the con man villain to his brother, good guy, Tom Cudahy played by Richard Shoberg. Dysert played the role between 1980 and 1990 returning for multiple story arcs, which included being revealed to be the murderer of Sybil Thorne. He was also involved in several affairs including with the impressionable Devon McFadden (Tricia Pursley).
THE LIVES HE TOUCHED
Alan’s longtime agent Melinda Eisnagule told PEOPLE his death is a “loss to our community and to the acting community at large. He touched so many lives and made the industry and the world a better place every day with his positive energy and kindness.”
Dysert leaves behind his wife, Michele and his two sons Cody and Cooper and will be remembered by those who knew him for a career that spanned the theatre, film, TV and performance coaching, and of course being a part of the legacy of All My Children.
Share your remembrances and condolences on the passing of Alan Dysert, All My Children’s Sean Cudahy, via the comment section below.
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Mark Consuelos Celebrates Kelly Ripa’s 56th Birthday on ‘Live,’ But Remember When Wendy Williams Outed the Couple as Married Before Anyone at ‘All My Children’ Knew?
On the Friday, October 2 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the morning talk show marked the 56th birthday of Kelly Ripa (ex-Hayley Vaughan Santos, All My Children).
During the opening segment, Mark Consuelos (ex-Mateo Santos, All My Children) humorously comparing his wife to both Gandhi and Groucho Marx, reflecting on both her comedic ability and peaceful ways.
Later, they went on to discuss the origins of her name and the most popular picks to name babies back in the year she was born, 1970. They were Kimberly, Lisa, and Jennifer for girls and Michael, David, and James for the boys.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Ripa recalled that she learned she was almost named Kim. However, their neighbors at the time had two daughters Kelly and Kim, which is what her parents wanted to call them, but they settled on Kelly and and her younger sister, Linda.
At the conclusion of the episode, Mark rolled out a huge cake for his wife. It was, “Happy birthday from all of us here at Live and at home.” Next, he cut the cake, and Ripa grabbed his face and gave him a “thank you” kiss.
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KELLY AND MARK TRIED TO KEEP THEIR VEGAS WEDDING ON THE DOWN LOW
All of this brings back memories of how Kelly and Mark’s Las Vegas wedding ceremony went public in 1996 while the two were still on All My Children playing Mateo Santos and Hayley Vaughan. In essence, they were outed by then radio host Wendy Williams! They discussed it on the talk show back in 2024.
In fact, the duo hid their marriage from their All My Children castmates for months, until they found out Williams got wind of the nuptials and spread the intel on the airwaves.
The two recalled their secret wedding on a 2024 episode of Live! “We’d eloped. It’d been a few months at that point. We’d been married for three months, nobody at All My Children knew we were even dating, much less married to each other. We’re brushing our teeth and we’ve got Wendy Williams’ radio show on. We’re listening, and she’s like, ‘I’ve got celebrity dish!”
EYEWITNESS
Next Ripa continued, “The celebrities,’ I guess they had a broad use of the term back then, was the fact that ‘two soap stars from All My Children, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos eloped in Las Vegas.’ There was this eyewitness that worked in the Clark County courthouse that said we eloped, and the news broke, and we had to tell everybody we were married.”
Live With Kelly and Mark airs weekdays in syndication. Check your local listings for times in your area.
Share your birthday wishes for Kelly in the comment section, and let us know your thoughts on how Wendy Williams broadcast the news, unbeknownst to the All My Children newlyweds, that they tied the knot in Vegas? Check out Mark and the ‘Live’ studio audience singing ‘happy birthday’ to Kelly in the post below.
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‘All My Children’ Movie Writers for Lifetime Revealed: Ron Carlivati, Jamey Giddens and Leo Richardson
This week began and as reported with a spotlight article on Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos and how their production entity, Milojo, has been teeing up the All My Children reboot with Lifetime.
The L.A. Times featured the married couple, co-hosts of Live with Kelly and Mark, and former All My Children cast members (where they met and fell in love) about their plans to bring two All My Children movies to Lifetime and how they are working with the Agnes Nixon estate to make it come to fruition,
On Wednesday, it was revealed by Daytime Confidential, that All My Children reboot producer, Andrew Stearn handpicked none other than Ron Carlivati (ex-head writer, One Life to Live, General Hospital and Days of our Lives) and Jamey Giddens (who is the new co-head writer of The Young and the Restless, following his tenures on the writing teams of Beyond the Gates and Days of Our Lives), as the two scribes who will bring the first of two of Kelly and Mark’s All My Children movies to the page.
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RON CARLIVATI AND JAMEY GIDDENS CONFIRM THEIR BOARDING THE ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE PROJECT
The second installment is said to be written by primetime writer Leo Richardson whose credits include: Star, Katy Keene and more recently the Penn Badgley (ex-Phillip Chancellor IV, The Young and the Restless) starring series, You.
Richardson also wrote for three years on the U.K.’s long-running soap, EastEnders. All My Children revival fans will recall Richardson’s name was attached as the writer for the first incarnation of the All My Children movies, entitled, Pine Valley.
Ron Carlivati took to X and confirmed he is indeed boarding the All My Children movie project. Carlivati shared, “So excited to share this news! Thanks to Andrew Stearn, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini and the Agnes Nixon estate for entrusting Jamey Giddens and me with the first of two planned All My Children movies for Lifetime! Stay tuned!”
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Jamey Giddens confirmed DC’s announcement by taking to his account on X and expressing, “I’ve been booked and busy in 2026. Thanks to Andrew Stearn, the Agnes Nixon estate, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos for entrusting Ron Carlivati, and me with the first of two planned All My Children movies for Lifetime!”
Some fans seemed to question how Giddens could be writing for the first All My Children movie at Lifetime, when he is the new co-head writer at The Young and the Restless with Dan O’Connor. Jamey answered that head on via X and explained, “We turned in our All My Children script months ago. My sole focus as of this past Monday, is Genoa City, Wisconsin! #YR”
ERICA KANE, MARIA SANTOS AND HAYLEY AND MATEO SANTOS TO APPEAR IN THE ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE REVIVAL?
In the planned stories, Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane and Eva LaRue’s Maria Santos will be two characters whose lives we will get to see for the first time since the series was canceled by ABC back in 2011 after 41 years on the air. As well, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos confirmed they will make brief appearances on-screen; one could assume as Hayley and Mateo Santos.
“It’d be wonderful to give the fans something that they’ve been yearning for so many years,” shared Mark Consuelos to the LA Times. “All My Children gave me my family. I met my wife there. It gave me my start in the business. It gave us so much. It would be a dream to be able to give back.”
So, what do you think of Ron Carlivati and Jamey Giddens getting nod to write the All My Children movie #1 script and Leo Richardson #2? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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