To start on a positive note, it was great that we got to see the winners receive their awards via our tv sets than just read about it somewhere. For that, thanks goes to HLN. The music theme really didn’t get on my nerves and seemed lacking without the show themes. Like most everyone else, I’m really disappointed in the lack of tribute videos. I miss the days when we got to see a short montage of each show (at least those up for Drama of the year) and at least a short clip of the actor’s nomination videos. It also seemed that the presenters were lacking energy and at times made it rather boring in my opinion. Perhaps a good host would have helped that. The lack of OLTL and AMC was the real downer. To end on a positive note, it was good that the winners felt that they had proper time to give their acceptance speeches. You have to take the good with the bad I guess. We wanted an award show and we got one!

I think HLN did a FABULOUS job and I thank them tremendously for bringing the Daytime Emmy Awards to HLN! It was awesome, and every one of the HLN show hosts were really into it for the 3 weeks prior – LOTS of great advertising, clips, interviews and all sorts of things to attract the audience. They were really psyched and really gave us , the viewers, the idea and the sense that they were truly excited to be hosting this Emmy Awards. I was thrilled and as an AVID HLN viewer, daily all day and night, I was super excited! They also replayed the entire show, immediately after an twice on Sunday as well. HLN sure did their share in contributing to giving daytime TV the place that they deserved and I so hope that they will be given another chance next year to do it again. With more time to prepare, and learning I’m sure after this, their first go at it, I would venture to bet it will be 100 times better, and there was nothing wrong with the job they did this year… so just think what we have to look forward to! Hats off to everyone at HLN!!!! Great Job!

I am extremely grateful to HLN for having aired the Daytime Emmys. It was a very classy show! I enjoyed that the show was presenter to presenter and that it seemed to flow seamlessly. However, a host might be fun! Hopefully, HLN can be better prepared for an AMC & OLTL tribute next year; they have plenty of time to gather the appropriate clips and music needed to celebrate our fallen soaps. HLN did a fantastic job!

Much better than last year. This year: too much time given to winners speeches. We dont need to hear them thank everyone they ever met on the road to their Emmy. There should have been clips of the nominees. There was no mention of webseries, a big oversite. The tribute section was a joke, it was all about Susan/Erica Kane, why not have Robert Woods on stage with Erica S.? All they said was we would miss those shows, duh!!!! But at least is wasnt a Vegas ad, I live in Vegas but I dont want Vegas showgirls on my Emmy show. Maybe a lack of time to prepare is a valid excuse for HLN, we will see next year.

The tribute to the cancelled soaps was not good. If Susan Lucci did not write speech, I felt sorry for her. She came across as washed up and self-centered. Exactly how many times did she say “Erica Kane”??? AMC had many other characters besides Erica.

They stated the purpose of the tribute was to honor ALL of the cancelled soaps over the past few years, including Guiding Light and ATWT. I’m not sure that the CBS soaps should have been included (they did get some form of tribute in prior years). However, if they meant to include the CBS cancelled soaps, they were barely mentioned.

The ONLY good part of the tribute was Erika Slezak. However, she was given so little to say after minutes of Lucci’s “Erica Kane” diatribe and Cameron Matheson’s remarks, that Slezak’s remarks were too little.

I can understand if a time crunch prevented HLN from getting the rights to show clips. However, it seems that someone could have spent more time putting the tribute together. The written remarks did not appear have much thought behind them and left Lucci looking pretty bad.

Playing that game show elevator music when the people would come up to accept their awards was very lame. Is it that hard to play the show themes? That’s the way it’s been done at the Emmys for as long as I’ve been watching. That’s what people look forward to hearing.

The issues with the lack of clips and the poor tribute to AMC and OLTL can perhaps be chalked up to a lack of preparation time. Hopefully that can be rectified next year, by whomever does the show. If there is an Emmy show next year.

Overall, it was a thumbs up, and much better than the Las Vegas infomercial garbage the past two years.

IF soaps will exist next year.

i am very grateful that hln televised the daytime emmy awards – i enjoyed the fact that there was no host – the tribute to amc & oltl stunk because that was really not a tribute to oltl & bob woods should have been there with erika slezak plus the amc tribute was all about erica kane which really pissed me off – i would have rather seen clips from oltl & amc because to me that is what a tribute is all about………….

Finola Hughes would have made a wonderful hostess–she looked lovely and spoke from the heart in her pre-show interview. The show needed her to punch it up and make the time lapses between presenters and winners’ speakers less obvious. I, too, think the nominees in best actor, supporting actor, and show deserved to have clips of them shown.

Wish music was better. Didn’t like Susan Luccis tribute , it did seem to be all about Erica Kane. Was so disappointed the tribute didn’t include any clips. I tuned in hoping to see a lot of my favorite actors so I was really disappointed the audience was barely shown. I think it showed that HLN really had no experience with this kind of broadcast.

Yes, Yes, the show was better and excellent effort for being quickly produced. Thanks to HLN.

My big hope is to reverse the reality show trend and help daytime drama thrive–I don’t know if the awards did that. I’m glad to see the actors and others recognized, but, really, it’s all a political game. The best shows were cancelled or unrecognized–OLTL!

Writing award to Days? Come on. I love Days but the storylines reflect the show’s total confusion. Plots get started, go nowhere, end abruptyly, take preposterous turn-arounds. Characters are added, then dropped. Many individual scenes were well-written. I would recognize Days for most poorly conceived storylines in one year award. The actors deserve better.

I thought Susan Lucci’s segment was just an attempt to acknowledge fan support for AMC and OLTL. Better than nothing.

I hope the ratings were good!

As I have said, they, HLN didn’t have time to put this award show together so I am cutting them a break and thanking them for letting me see my favorite stars, Aside from my general hospital friends who won, and One days star. I didn’t get to see my favorite characters from landview because for some strange reason that I can’t figure out, it was neglected again, The soap, the characters, Hell even the tribute was ruined for me because of all people Ericka KAne had to show up, And When SHE did SHE made sure that when SHE was on camera and yacking that SHE was the queen of daytime t v and SHES not. Susan lucci, we fans miss All my children not just you. Now that that’s out of the way, Oh my lord that music I hope I never under any circumstances have to hear it again, Where did all of these people come from that got awards for things I never heard of? You know if the soaps are gone no one will ever watch the day time emmys to see if barbara walters stupid show wins, the show that pretty much started all the networks infecting the airwaves with talk shows and killing our soaps. The time that was spent on that greatest life achievement award was boring that time could have been spent on One life to live and all my children the guy that got the award I do not know, Except that he and barbara walters created a show that I can’t watch because its to loud and I can’t stand all the hosts screaming at each other, and if I had to take a guess all those ladies hate each others guts. anyway, Oscar the grouch gets the award from me because his attitude and his garbage can pretty much says how the evening went, and left me feeling, Very grouchy and most of the awards that were handed out belong in the trash. It was a cheep, boring evening, And that is not hln’s fault, At least it wasnt a 3 ringed circus although I still would like to know why a alligator showed up, a reality idiot, and debby gibson. I could not wait till it ended, But good for our General hospital and Tony Gerrys speech That made my day.

The pace was excellant. But was disappointed at supporting and lead actress winners. The tribute was awful but I understand that ABC would not allow clips. ABC continues to make it clear that the fans will not have soaps in any way, shape or form. Sad and pathetic Disney-ABC daytime.

I have to give it a thumbs up just because it was nice it got on air. I too liked younger leads presenting to leads. Liked that it seemed to be about the awards and daytime and not promoting a destination or filled with frivolous stuff.

Didn’t like no clips shown with audio and video. Didn’t like the music played. It was the same. At least get a couple different themes. And what about playing winner’s show music when they won. Didn’t like the no-shows who won. Didn’t like Bethenny Frankel presenting. Didn’t like the viral award either. What was that? Didn’t like people moving about during the broadcast. Thought Susan Lucci gushing about herself was strange. I actually was out of the room during that and just heard. But when I saw Cameron with her, I thought that odd. Would have liked to have a host. I’m available for next year. Call me.

Improvements can be made. I hope they are already looking for next year’s broadcaster so they have plenty of time to make the show great.

On the whole, I thought it well done and classy. I’d rather have it untelevised on the broadcast channels if it meant proper respect and due was given to the daytime genre. I’m hoping that if they air on HNL next year, they’ll fix the music and video clips problems.

The biggest misstep was the Erika Cane/OLTL & AMC tribute. While I understand they weren’t able to secure the rights for clips to give a video tribute, the producers could have done something truly special by bringing up the cast and crew of OLTL and AMC for a proper goodbye. Susan Lucci had a lot of hubris to make that speech about herself and her character, whether she wrote it or not. No character is more important than giving proper due to the combined 84 years of 2 shows.

It was the best of a difficult situation. Kudos to HLN for stepping up. I liked seeing many stars and little of the Vegas tackiness. Maybe next year, we could have those clips from the soaps and all shows as there will be more time for planning. Is Neil Patrick Harris available to host?

I am more than disappointed with the AMC and OLTL tribute segment. It was not their intention btu the writers made Susan Lucci look self-centered and I know she is not. It is good to say thank you but we needed a genuine and honest presentation to remember these series. I liked the in memoriam segment. I know the daytime emmys are a real mixed bag of categories but I do feel the soaps got their due for the first time in a long time.

Boring! Predictable! Same shows win & actors repeatedly…Y&R & DOOL never seem to be in the running. MAaybe with 2 soaps gone they will have a chance to get some winners in there next year.

It was classy of HLN to do the show since other passed and I will give them a two thumbs up for that alone. I am a bit hyprocritical because I did not watch the broadcast and after learning of the winners, I am glad I did pass because although HT is a good actress, I feel ES should have gotten that 7th Emmy as well as TG. The popularity and politics continues and until the daytime genre rein this process in then I will be passing on any airing of the Daytime Emmys.

I enjoyed the show very much. I was so happy that no one was rushed in their acceptance speeches, but at the same time the show didn’t feel like it was dragging on too long. I thought there was a great mix of soap representation, and non soap people to appease the more mainstream media. Also, the fact that they had a red carpet segment was also great to see. It was a classy, dignified ceremony that properly honoured daytime…that’s all you could really ask for.

What I didn’t like- Anderson and Oscar (so silly!), and the crappy segue-way music! Gosh it got so annoying! I didn’t see the final half hour or so, so I didn’t see the tributes to AMC or OLTL but I’m sorry that most were disappointed by it.

I agree with a lot of the comments here. We are so grateful that HLN agreed to broadcast the Daytime Emmys and they certainly promoted them with much enthusiasm in the preceding weeks. There seems to be three areas that most fans are saying needed improvement: clips of nominees (actors and shows) with show themes used, the lame opening with Anderson Cooper and Oscar the Grouch, and most of all, the sad tribute to AMC and OLTL. It was poorly written and I felt sorry for Susan, Erika, and Cameron who were decidedly awkward. Show montages and more of the cast from these shows would definitely have helped. Overall, I feel HLN did a decent job for the amount of time they had to prepare. Hopefully, there will be improvements and they will agree to broadcast this show again next year!

I will acknowledge that Susan Lucci did not write that ridiculous overflow of crap about herself and her character…..BUT….I am sure that she could have turned around and refused to say it and instead “suggested” that she & Erika Slezak be allowed to appear together, just the two of them, to speak off the cuff and express their feelings about their shows, castmates, crews and fans. People will say she has been unfairly maligned for her “tribute” speech but in reality she could have pushed for a little more equality or even stepped aside to allow Erika Slezak to get to the microphone. Sorry, I think La Lucci enjoyed the adulation too much to be a team player in this case.

I just want to say that the post barbara t. left on june 25 at 10:52, it’s above, I agree with everything you said, however I am barbara t. so who the hell are you ? CAn’t you use your own name?

I thought it was OK for an awards show. Most award shows are dull — as long as there aren’t any embarrassing musical numbers or comedy, I’m good LOL. I liked that it got straight to the point and focused on the awards and soaps weren’t ignored or played down. My one major criticism was the ‘tribute’ to AMC and OLTL — that wasn’t good and it seemed more like a tribute to Erica Kane aka Susan Lucci than anything else. Other than that, HLN did an adequate job.

from what I’ve read about it online, they should have called this the HLN Daytime Akward Show! hurts to know they really missed it on a proper tribute to AMC and OLTL. terrible gafffe!

aside from that, I’m really not seeing video for the show on you tube or such, except for people coming in to the building… anyone know where you can watch it in whole?

Very Classy

I just heard that HLN broke records for their viewing of the emmys, Maybe they will have the emmys on next year and we can give them Ideas on how to put on a good show, Anyway that’s good news for them and us so we maybe, have a home for the daytime emmys. that would be nice.

As much as I appreciated HLN for taking on the Daytime Emmys, all in all, I was disappointed. For me, the whole show was basically about the shows that are replacing our soaps…talk shows and court room shows. It’s like they sucked the life out all of the over top dramatics of the last two programs and we were left with this year’s show. The highlights for me were all the soap stars winners speeches…especially Anthony Geary’s…
Besides that, the rest was a bore.

if i win a the mega million, i will buy the rights to All My Children and hire everyone back. i miss the show a lot!

I agree with so many of the comments already posted.
I’m a huge Days fan so I’m always annoyed when some of the best acting on Days goes completely unnoticed.
Also, why does the Daytime Emmy’s always turn in to The Susan Lucci Show? Enough already!
Oh yea that music was dreadful. Enough said.

Better than last year and better than nothing, but that isn’t saying much. How about the people who are nominated showing up? How about music and clips from the shows? Next year should be better because there will be more time to prepare and there should be no excuse to mention AMC and include “queen” Lucci.

That Agnes Nixon couldn’t mention OLTL, that OLTL was ignored, that Erika Slezak was slighted, that OLTL’s “tribute” was a shocking farce pretty much ruined it for me. But I am impressed HLN was bold and brave enough to do the show.

Okay I guess there is two barbara t’s

be nice if HLN put together a fabulous tribute clip video on their website – the show is over, but they could sure drive up the traffic to their website if they put a bunch of stuff for us on there.

I am grateful to HLN for broadcasting the event, while many others passed up on it, and they did only have a short time to put it together, so I get some of the mishaps due to this, but the biggest disappointments to me were the following:
– The tribute to OLTL and AMC was not a tribute at all, it was an Erica Kane/S. Lucci
lovefest hosted by Susan Lucci. That in no way was a tribute to two wonderful,
longstanding and outstanding soap operas with many wonderful actors, writers,
etc.

– Where are all the clips that we used to see in years gone by of the actors
submissions in each category, as well as the clips of each of soaps nominated
for Daytime Drama???? That would have been a great way to honor those
nominated, as well as a good advertisement for every soap still out there.

Bottom line, I am thrilled about GH’s wins, and grateful to HLN for airing the show, and I would love to see it next year, as I am sure with more time, the show will have so much more to offer. Any way to promote all of the remaining soaps is a plus in my book.

it was not the best but it was not worst my leading actress did not win but i was thankful that i was able to see it

I was appalled by the lack of a tribute to OLTL and AMC, expecting one of the quality that GL got in 2002… so to rectify this, here is one for the fans:

http://youtu.be/KorJOGewzI4

HUGE IMPROVEMENT over the last few years when the Daytime Emmys were turned into nothing more than a commercial for the venue! HLN did an excellent job promoting it also. Given the short time they had to produce the show, I really enjoyed it.

On the downside: OLTL and their fans deserved a REAL tribute and so did their fans. A clip montage for AMC & OLTL was expected. Also, shots of the nominees was expected. If they weren’t present, head shots would have been fine.

Hope HLN will do it again next year & OLTL gets the recognition it deserves. It did air in 2012, and they were some of their best episodes! I still miss it 🙁

THANKS HLN!

On the minus side for me, there was no host to anchor the show this year, plus the tribute to the cancelled soaps, like AMC, & OLTL was very half-ass! They should have also included ATWT, & GL, plus showed clips of these shows too. I think it would have been nice for fans of all these shows to give them the proper send-off they deserved. On the plus side, I thought it was nice that HLN repeated the live broadcast 3 times that weekend, to give those who may have missed some or all of it, a second chance to see it again. That’s something that the 3 major networks wouldn’t have done.

I love the daytime emmys, but I have to admit that I had a hard time sitting through this years show. I was incredibly bored. I felt that the show NEEDED to show clips from the shows – not all the shows, mind you, just the soaps. And instead of just having Susan Lucci (how many times did she say her own name and Erica Kane’s in her speech that night?) talk about All My Children and One Life To Live, there should have been video. How do you give a tribute with no video or clips? I also think that too much time was devoted to other daytime tv instead of the soap operas. I mean, 5 awards? No, show needs to cater a little more to soap fans. After all, it’s the genra we are trying to save.

I found the Daytime Emmy’s a nice try. THey tried to be different. They tried to have innovation and then did it with few resources and a lack of time. Withotu proper clips or any clips it really hurt the show. I don’t blame Susan Lucci at all. They clearly wrote the stuff and Susan just said it. I would have like it had they gave Erika Slezak and Lucci same 3 minutes each to talk if they couldn’t show clips. And Cameron Mathison has no rights being on there. Robert Woods, David Canary, even Tad the Cad. Lucci will be loved or hated – though I think the hate is really Erica Kane. Lucci herself is rather boring though sweet. I hear she is the least diva and you can tell in some ways – she is hard hitting the pavement willing to do anything find a job. She knows she is over 60 and it won’t be easy. Her character is so convincing we hate Susan sometimes. And I disagree about her acting which is often criticized; I think the problem is everyone hires Susan to be well Erica Kane and that’s the problem. If she were such a horrible actress I don’t think she would have survived so long and had so many opportunities. Both soaps deserved a far better send off. I am not sure it is proper to have acting awards for daytime now with only 4 soaps – it really dimminishes the value of such an award.