For those who subscribe to TV Guide, Soaps columnist Michael Logan is predicting NBC's Days of Our Lives will win the Daytime Emmy for best drama, which would be only its second (and first since 1978!).
The print publication rather limiting, here is the whole sum of Logan's take on this year's contest [http://tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/daytime-emmy-predictions-2065.html].… _______________________________________________________________________
Daytime Emmy Predictions By Michael Logan
The awards show nobody wanted finally found a home. The 36th Annual Daytime Emmys—hosted by Vanessa Williams—will air Sunday, August 30 on the CW (8/7c). Who’ll take the gold? It’s an unusually tough call this year. In fact, after watching each episode viewed by the judges, I’m utterly baffled in several categories—sometimes because there’s too much great work (Lead Actress), sometimes because no one is truly awesome enough to be award-worthy (Younger Actor). Plus it doesn’t help that NATAS (looking to save dough and avoid hassle) has once again dropped the second round of voting that used to take place after the nominations were announced. This robs voters of the chance to compare and contrast the finalists and make a more informed choice, and it can’t help but screw with the results. Thus, these aren’t just fearless predictions, they’re probably insane.
Outstanding Drama Series: Days of Our Lives will grab the top prize (for the first time in 31 years) thanks to an epic episode in which half of Salem faced death on a plummeting plane. Raw, scary, ultimately tragic, it made you gasp for oxygen right along with the passengers. Likeliest upset: Storm’s sacrificial death on The Bold and the Beautiful and the donation of his heart to his sister Katie. This daring and profound plot twist could triumph even though it’s marred by some horribly lame dialogue about God (by the pontificating heart surgeon) and some acting so sudsy it makes you wince.
Outstanding Lead Actor:Days’ Peter Reckell. Don’t sell him short. As his character, Bo, faced the aftermath of the plane crash—and the loss of his beloved father—this iconic ’80s hunk was so honest and heartfelt and powerfully moving that he shames the competition. Likeliest upsets: Voter faves Tony Geary (General Hospital’s Luke) and Christian LeBlanc (The Young and the Restless’ Michael). Each submitted a “very special episode.” In Geary’s, Luke has an out-of-body experience and goes on trial for his life misdeeds. (Geary also plays the judge, and the prosecution and defense attorneys.) LeBlanc has almost an entire hour to himself—yet another snoozy soap riff on “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Both of these actors are too showy and over-Emmy’d. Enough already.
Outstanding Lead Actress:Y&R’s Jeanne Cooper. The episode she submitted has her acting opposite herself—as rich, elegant Kay and her cheap, drunken doppelganger Marge—and the 80-year-old legend is simply dazzling. So are the special effects. Likeliest upset:All My Children’s Debbi Morgan (Angie), glorious in her reunion with her “dead” Jesse. Also marvelous is B&B’s Susan Flannery who drops her psycho-mama routine long enough for Stephanie to quietly, tenderly care for her dying Eric. Spellbinding! One Life to Live’s Susan Haskell has stunning moments as her character, Marty, is hit with all those heinous secrets that Todd’s been keeping from her. And that’s all she has—stunning moments. OLTL, which treats all us viewers like we have ADD, won’t let any of Haskell’s scenes run more than a minute or so and, as a result, her performance is delivered in fits and starts. It feels choppy and it’s not her fault.
Outstanding Supporting Actor:Guiding Light’s Jeff Branson. As Shayne, a paralyzed Peace Corps mine detonator haunted by his past, he ends the episode in a suicide attempt on the railroad tracks that may be too wrenching to ignore. Besides, the rest of the category is pretty damn weak. Likeliest Upset:GH’s Bradford Anderson (Spinelli). His exhausting, computer-dork nonsense drives me batty, but people do seem to love it. As the World Turns’ Van Hansis might also have a better-than-good shot here as gay, lovesick puppy dog Luke—if voters don’t mind the whining.
Outstanding Supporting Actress:OLTL’s Bree Williamson. Is she really a supporting actress? No frackin’ way. But, boy, what a star! Her character, Jessica, gives a bitter, blistering, breathtaking eulogy at her husband’s funeral, then goes home to her memories. This is the same kind of wild, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants acting that won GL’s Gina Tognoni (Dinah) a pair of Emmys. As I see it, there’s no real contest in this category but if there is an upset, it deserves to be Tamara Braun as Days’ drug-addled nutcake Ava.
Outstanding Younger Actor:Days’ Darin Brooks. His mad Max is ballsy and riveting as he raises holy hell with the father who abandoned him. But is Brooks deserving of an Emmy? Oh, probably not. Still, this is an immensely enjoyable, kick-ass and take-names kind of performance and somebody’s gotta win, right? Likeliest upsets:AMC’s Cornelius Smith, Jr. is solid and compelling as his character, Frankie, tries to process his father’s return from the dead. Y&R’s Bryton McClure, already an Emmy winner, packs some punch in scenes where Devon fights the social service system to keep his little sis from being taken away.
Outstanding Younger Actress:GH’s Julie Berman. Now that ATWT’s Jennifer Landon—who won three back-to-back Emmys—is out of soaps and out of this race, it’s time for Berman to get some Emmy love. She’s dynamite as Lulu goes to the nuthouse to visit her mother, Laura, and confesses to murder (as well as her fears that she, too, may someday go mad). ABC refused to hire Genie Francis for this stuff, so Berman gets extra props for performing her scenes opposite an extra in a really bad wig. Likeliest upset:Days’ Rachel Melvin, who does some lovely work from a hospital bed as the guilt-wracked Chelsea. If only the director and camera people had adoringly showcased her the way the GH team did Berman, Melvin would have a better chance.
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Originally posted by MARKPGH: WOW...little Mikey Logan is practically predicting a DAYS sweep.
I honestly don't see DAYS or Reckell winning (though i would be happy for Reckell).
Logan must have forgotten Ken Corday's snide remarks he's made over the years regarding the Emmys and how they have shunned his show.
Out of the DAYS noms..i see them grabbing the Directing Emmy, Melvin and possibly Brooks.
If days gets anything i could see directing, and maybe brooks, but the abc bloc vote i think will shut out melvin, but i am hoping it'll be a tie and cancel the 2 out and have melvin win.
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Someone needs to refresh my memory on how voting is done now. From what I had gather there is just the judging where different people are assigned categories (I read Crystal Chappell judged in Lead Actor). This would mean the 'bloc voting' wouldn't be as common because it is not like the past when the first round anyone voted in. I could be incredibly wrong though.
but wouldnt there still be the same number of voters per show? or did they stop that? that could explain the unpredictable noms this year. though cbs surely still was in control of lead actress and actor.
DAYS isn't facing cancellation as imminently as it once was, or as much so as a couple of other shows, so I don't think that'll help them.
I don't fully understand how the voting works, but it seems, from what I've gathered, that a couple of judges from each show per category scored all the pre-nommed reels (a scale of 1 to 10) and those scores were tabulated to rank all of the pre-noms to determine nominees and the winner. If this is the case, it's really hard to assign the loyalties of one show to another, because it can vary greatly depending on who the pair of judges were. It would also mean that vote-splitting among nominees from the same show like Young and Irizarry or Berman and Storms would not be an issue.
I think it was a 1.5-year renewal with an extra year if they met certain budget restrictions, which I thought they had. If DAYS does get support because people don't want it cancelled, good for them.
exactly, the emmy corporation may not like them, but the SOD sure did when they did their awards, and days is one of the most talked about soaps, whether it be good or bad.
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DAYS last won drama series in (I believe) 1979 (maybe 78). I don't think it's been nominated for drama series too many times overall, but I recall that during the mid/late nineties, DAYS, GH, Y&R, and AMC were nominated for best drama series several years in a row. (Because of this, for years I went about under the misguided notion that these four were the good soaps, and that ATWT, GL, OLTL, AW, and whatever other soap ABC was airing at the time were bad ones. I gave B&B a pass for some reason.)
Days of Our Lives won its [thus far] one-and-only Emmy, for outstanding drama series, in 1978.
BEST DRAMA SERIES [again, thus far]… 1972: The Doctors (NBC) 1973: The Edge of Night (CBS) 1974: The Doctors (NBC) — 1st ceremony 1975: The Young and the Restless (CBS) 1976: Another World (NBC) 1977: Ryan's Hope (ABC) 1978: Days of Our Lives (NBC) 1979: Ryan's Hope (ABC) 1980: Guiding Light (CBS) 1981: General Hospital (ABC) 1982: Guiding Light (CBS) 1983: The Young and the Restless (CBS) 1984: General Hospital (ABC) 1985: The Young and the Restless (CBS) 1986: The Young and the Restless (CBS) 1987: As the World Turns (CBS) 1988: Santa Barbara (NBC) 1989: Santa Barbara (NBC) 1990: Santa Barbara (NBC) 1991: As the World Turns (CBS) 1992: All My Children (ABC) 1993: The Young and the Restless (CBS) 1994: All My Children (ABC) 1995: General Hospital (ABC) 1996: General Hospital (ABC) 1997: General Hospital (ABC) 1998: All My Children (ABC) 1999: General Hospital (ABC) 2000: General Hospital (ABC) 2001: As the World Turns (CBS) 2002: One Life to Live (ABC) 2003: As the World Turns (CBS) 2004: The Young and the Restless (CBS) 2005: General Hospital (ABC) 2006: General Hospital (ABC) 2007: Guiding Light (CBS) and The Young and the Restless (CBS) — TIE! 2008: General Hospital (ABC) 2009: ?
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