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Outstanding Drama Series Nominations
All My Children
The Bold and The Beautiful - WINNER
Days Of Our Lives


Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team Nominations
All My Children
The Bold and The Beautiful
General Hospital - WINNER
One Life To Live


Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team Nominations
All My Children
Days Of Our Lives
One Life To Live - WINNER

[sheilaforever]

The absence of Y&R in ALL categories is stunning.
Especially considering that they had a rocky year but still were the best soap on the air...

[Jonathan]

Is this the first nom for Julie Carruthers as the All My Children EP?

[Kubla Khan]

No. AMC was nominated in 2005.

[Jonathan]

No. AMC was nominated in 2005.

Oh ok, thanks.

[LoyaltoAMC]

AMC is MY show, but these noms are mostly a joke. AMC was only nominated because of the tornado. It's had its moments this year, but visually the show is so unappealing, which only serves to make the acting and writing look that much worse. I can't believe anyone actually watched an episode and said, "gee, this series deserves an Emmy." B&B is so unintentionally funny to be taken seriously. Days? GMAFB! Only two shows are worthy of a nom IMO: Y&R (despite its many faults and the fact that it's ridiculousy over-rated, still the best produced show on the air) and GH (yes, the vision for the show is totally out of whack, the show needs an overhaul, and there's a certain amount of pretentiousness about the show, but day to day it's still the best written and acted show).

This post has been edited by LoyaltoAMC: 14 May 2009 - 09:47 PM

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It's funny that DAYS got nominated because of Ed Scott (and Noel Maxam). It was wise for Tomlin and Corday to choose the plane crash. If DAYS wins, I wonder if Corday will thank Ed.

I'm shocked that Y&R was shut out in all 3 categories. When was the last time that happened?!

[Jonathan]

I'm shocked that Y&R was shut out in all 3 categories. When was the last time that happened?!

Probably in the 70s.

[bellcurve]

It's funny that DAYS got nominated because of Ed Scott (and Noel Maxam). It was wise for Tomlin and Corday to choose the plane crash. If DAYS wins, I wonder if Corday will thank Ed.

No s&*%! I can't believe they are piggybacking off of Ed Scott's stuff.

[Cheap21]

I wonder why only 3 soaps got nominated instead of 4

AMC is MY show, but these noms are mostly a joke. AMC was only nominated because of the tornado. It's had its moments this year, but visually the show is so unappealing, which only serves to make the acting and writing look that much worse. I can't believe anyone actually watched an episode and said, "gee, this series deserves an Emmy." B&B is so unintentionally funny to be taken seriously. Days? GMAFB! Only two shows are worthy of a nom IMO: Y&R (despite its many faults and the fact that it's ridiculousy over-rated, still the best produced show on the air) and GH (yes, the vision for the show is totally out of whack, the show needs an overhaul, and there's a certain amount of pretentiousness about the show, but day to day it's still the best written and acted show).

Considering what else was out there, I can defiently see why AMC was nominated. I thought overall it was prett good last year. It was solid for the first couple of months and didnt start to go stale until the climax of the Jesse/Angie story with their wedding in May. It picked up after Pratt became writer later in the summer and was quite enjoyable for the remainder of the year. Its only in the last few months that I thought it went downhill but 2008 was a good year

[Amello]

To anyone wondering, only three shows were nominated this year because the rules state that only 40% of shows can be nominated. Passions didn't submit itself for drama series therefore that only left 8 shows to submit. 40% of eight shows out to 3.

[LoyaltoAMC]

I wonder why only 3 soaps got nominated instead of 4

I wonder if there's some judgment threshold these shows have to get passed in order to get nominated, regardless of how many shows are on the air. Not familiar with the process. I recently watched some clips on youtube of the 1981 daytime Emmys. Although there were probably around 13-14 soaps on the air that year, only three (AMC, GH & RH) were nominated for best show.

[Jonathan]

I wonder if there's some judgment threshold these shows have to get passed in order to get nominated, regardless of how many shows are on the air. Not familiar with the process. I recently watched some clips on youtube of the 1981 daytime Emmys. Although there were probably around 13-14 soaps on the air that year, only three (AMC, GH & RH) were nominated for best show.

Typically, if there's a huge dropoff between the #3 vote getter and the # 4 vote getter, only 3 will be nominated. Not sure of the exact threshold though.

[All My Shadows]

The lack of Y&R and even OLTL is shocking, but out of those three, I think AMC is most deserving. Whichever one wins, it'll be kinda exciting...B&B hasn't won for Outstanding Drama yet, AMC hasn't won it in ten years, and DAYS only won it once, back in 1978.

[Sylph]

Too bad La Phelps won't win, I hoped for a Phelps moment in an otherwise dull evening!

[bellcurve]

Too bad La Phelps won't win, I hoped for a Phelps moment in an otherwise dull evening!

Or Maria. I was hoping she'd take the trophy home, so we could hear what the new "queen bee" has to say.

[jcar03]

OLTL submitted "So You Wanna Be Shane Morasco's Father" for Drama series so its pretty clear to me why they didn't get nommed for that. The voters don't know that the show was probably one of the top two consistency wise for the year since I highly doubt many of them watch all year round. You need to submit a good episode for the voters to see and they did not do that.

[Faulkner]

So disrespectful that B&B didn't even get their acceptance speech!

THANK GOD AMC DID NOT WIN!

[Ruxton Hills]

Faulkner, on 30 August 2009 - 09:19 PM, said:

So disrespectful that B&B didn't even get their acceptance speech!

THANK GOD AMC DID NOT WIN!

Ditto! on both counts

I wanted to hear the speech. The awards sucked big time.

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That was so brutal!! I wanted to hear Bradley talk. Instead we got 2 minutes of credits? WTF!! They wasted minutes on Vanessa's 2nd song/dance. That was pointless.