Like last year's show, this was held in California (Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills). The red carpet show only had one soap opera performer Lauralee Bell (Christine from Young and Restless). The majority of the people they spoke with were hosts like Steve Harvey. Due to the length the show seemed so short.
Like last year, the awards were not given in the standard order. One interesting though potentially frustrating thing was during some of the commercials they went side by side like I've seen on auto racing. I'm not sure if I liked that or not. Due to how late the show was running, if someone DVRed the program they would have missed many of the main awards (Younger Actor, Younger Actress Outstanding Talk Show Host, Outstanding Morning Program, Outstanding Original Song and Outstanding Daytime Drama Series) all aired after 10 pm ET. It was amazing how they fit in so many awards in 30 minutes along with the Bob Stewart Lifetime Achievement Award.
Here is a list of winners for a full list including who was nominated visit Gold Derby. This list is in the order of presentation on the show. (For creative arts Emmys details visit the official site.):
- LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA: Doug Davidson (Paul, Y&R)
- GAME SHOW: The Price Is Right (CBS)
- GAME SHOW HOST: Ben Bailey, Cash Cab
- TALK SHOW | INFORMATIVE: The Dr. Oz Show
- SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA: (TIE) Scott Clifton (Liam, B&B) Billy Miller (Billy, Y&R)
- DRAMA WRITING TEAM: The Bold and the Beautiful
- LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Game show host Monty Hall and Producer Bob Stewart
- SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA: Julie Marie Berman (ex-Lulu, GH)
- CULINARY PROGRAM: (TIE) Best Thing I Ever Made (Food Network) Trisha’s Southern Kitchen (Food Network)
- CULINARY HOST: Lidia Bastianich (Lidia’s Italy)
- LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA: Heather Tom (Katie, B&B)
- TALK SHOW | ENTERTAINMENT: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
- DRAMA DIRECTING TEAM: The Bold and the Beautiful
- SPECIAL CLASS | ANIMATED PROGRAM: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- YOUNGER ACTOR IN A DRAMA: Chandler Massey (Will, Days)
- MORNING PROGRAM: CBS Sunday Morning
- YOUNGER ACTRESS IN A DRAMA: Kristen Alderson (as Starr, GH)
- ORIGINAL SONG:“Good Afternoon,” Good Afternoon America
- TALK SHOW HOST: Ricki Lake (The Ricki Lake Show)
- OUTSTANDING DAYTIME DRAMA: Days of Our Lives
Last year during this broadcast, we saw the children's animated program (guessing that the special class animated replaced that.) The judge category which was part of last year's show was moved to the awards that were given out on Friday's show. This year we had three official hosts (AJ Hammer, Sam Champion and Robin Meade). Sam works for Good Morning America doing the weather, while the others have their own shows on HLN. AJ also hosted the red carpet show and the Showbiz Tonight special. Robin sang during the broadcast, which many people didn't appreciate. My issue was we didn't even get audio with the video of any shows, but we get to hear the songs. Sam's mike seldom worked so I have no idea what he was supposed to do other than early on there was a weather map based on his job.
Nancy Grahn (Alexis on GH) did comedy bits that were pre-taped. I was surprised that they continued to show them even after they went over time. They did get rid of the red couch segments. This year they had the idea to interview the winners right after they made a speech. I think it was a good idea, but lacked in execution. The show was supposed to only be 2 hours long and this would take a lot of time. Also there was no guarantee these doing the interviews knew enough about the winner to ask informed questions.
One improvement over last year was we heard a program's theme song when a winner was announced instead of generic music. That said there were a lot of glitches like Aisha Tyler being given the wrong envelope, Sam's microphone not working, and what happened during Monty Hall's lifetime achievement award presentation. There wasn't much done on the show as it was the 40th year. There was a cat fight package, a diva package, a talk show package and a father's day one. Sadly most of these had rather new clips, though the diva one included an As the World Turns and Guiding Light clip, which was a happy surprise. There should have been more mention of the anniversary, though I am glad they didn't do a crappy non-tribute to GH and YR which both had landmark birthdays. I liked that they mentioned the Smithsonian exhibition information and wonder what else will get donated. They had a fashion segment with Linsey Godfrey and Karla Mosely from B&B, where they were themselves as otherwise they would have been fighting.
Now on to my thoughts on the winners and how there awards were presented. One caveat due to how the voting was done for soaps this year (not counting the younger categories the highest vote getter from the prenom round won, which is something I personally do not like. The reason I don't like it is anyone who voted for someone who didn't make it as the final four or five had their vote discounted so to speak.) Doug Davidson got his award from the younger lead actor nominees (Max Ehrich, Bryton James, Chandler Massey and Freddie Smith). While I don't like seeing this award so early in the show, I did like that Doug won. His quip about his tuxedo being older than the guys, well let's just say Doug has been in soaps longer than any of them have been alive. Mike Richards got the game show award from Todd Newton, and Mike beat himself as he also is an executive at Let's Make a Deal. The Talk cast giving the award to Dr. Oz was okay after they had the right envelope. In a category with four people two winning may make the other two who didn't win disappointed. Scott was announced first and then Billy. This was a bit awkwardly done, though it was great to see Don Diamont's joy over his on screen son winning. B&B's writing award was based on the written word and not what we saw on screen. Kathy Griffin using a line of dialogue out of context during this award was interesting, though I'm a purist would would love to see them show an actual long clip. Since Ben Bailey is no longer hosting Cash Cab since Discovery cancelled it, I have no issue with him winning. Monty Hall's lifetime achievement award portion was a mess. Wayne Brady who hosts Let's Make a Deal now was supposed to introduce a clip package with a voice over from his daughter Joanna Gleason. We didn't see the package. Julie getting her award from her former castmates was nice and her win a bit of a surprise. I figure this happened due to how the voting was done. Heather Tom repeated as lead actress and got the award from current younger actress nominees Hunter King, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Kristen Alderson and Lindsey Morgan, when years ago she was in their shoes. B&B got directing for their remote in Italy, which was very pretty. George Lucas winning was cool if you are into Star Wars. Chandler Massey got his award from Lindsay Hartley who used to be on Days. The Bob Stewart Lifetime Achievement Award went more successfully as Betty White presented it well and the clip package from his son Sandy was good (though since Bob has passed away Sandy picked up the award.) I was surprised to see the CBS Sunday Morning win as before they were part of the News Emmys, and I appreciated that they said that too. Kristen Alderson winning felt to be more about her time on One Life to Live even if she won for work on General Hospital. Vincent Irizarry while having been in the business for years never worked with Kristen even with all of his soap hopping. Ricki Lake wasn't there for her award, and her show was cancelled. Days winning was surprising as the last time was 35 years ago and was presented by Erika Slezak who first promoted that OLTL is now online.
The in memoriam segment was hosted by Jess Walton (Jill, Y&R) and Corbin Bernsen due to the death of Corbin's mother soap opera legend Jeanne Cooper (Kay, Y&R). Corbin's comments were off color, and in later showings they bleeped what he said as that would have been what his mother would have said. Il Volo sung while the clips played. The images and text were large enough to read them on a normal sized television, which I appreciated (as not everyone shown in the recent Tony Awards were visible.)
During the broadcast, there were ads for Y&R's move to TVGN starting on July 1 and how you can watch All My Children and One Life to Live on Hulu. I thought that was a great idea as some people watching the show may not have known about that. Hopefully the 2014 show is better than the 2013 edition and that it airs on television again.
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