Many Are Unhappy w/ 2014 Daytime Emmys Red Carpet Interview Team

[JamesG]

With Soap Operas in Decline, the Daytime Emmys Move Online
by Tim Surette
6/5/14


Like many of the soap operas that dominated daytime television in decades past, the Daytime Emmy Awards are being shoved aside by broadcast television.

With just two weeks left before the 41st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Thursday that the ceremony has failed to find a broadcast host and will air exclusively online, reports Deadline.

Those looking to watch the biggest awards for soap operas and daytime talk shows will have to settle for firing up their computers and pointing their browsers to DaytimeEmmys.com to see trophies handed out on June 22 at 5/4c.




"We are confident that the expert team we've brought on will flawlessly execute an evening that celebrates the outstanding talent being honored and allows fans to be a part of the action," National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences chairman Malachy Wienges said in a statement.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Daytime-...e-1082616.aspx

[tlc38tlc38]

It's a shame the awards aren't broadcast anymore. This award show is one of the few that I enjoyed. Daytime TV doesn't get the credit it deserves.

Btw, what year was the last Daytime Emmys broadcast?

[installLSC]

At what time do the owners of the Daytime Emmys just admit defeat and cancel the show? If you can't even find cable carryage of your awards show, how can you call yourself a legitimate awards show?

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally Posted by tlc38tlc38

Btw, what year was the last Daytime Emmys broadcast?

This will be the first year that it will stream online.

[TMC]

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/articl...home-tries-web

More than 20 million people would watch the Daytime Emmys in the early 90s, but viewership has declined as soaps have disappeared.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#t93SzT8QCvh4Hord.99

[MickeyMac]

If they tried hard enough, I am sure they could have found a network to broadcast this.

[mets82]

They'll talk about how viewership is down and all that but lets face it, Daytime TV has been getting the shaft for years now. They'd rather shove the reality nonsense down our throats than to have soap operas or even game shows. Its sad, not one network could pick up the daytime emmys.

[JamesG]

Kathy Griffin's Daytime Emmys Gig
by Andy Swift
June 13, 2014


Kathy Griffin is coming to daytime — sort of.

The comedian has been tapped to host the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards — which, for the first time, will only be broadcast online — from the Beverly Hilton on June 22.


“I am beyond thrilled to be hosting what I’m told is the most important television event of the year,” Griffin said in a statement.

“Knowing that over 100 million people from every corner of the planet will be watching, I will try to keep my nerves at bay and deliver a great show.”

http://tvline.com/2014/06/13/kathy-g...mys-2014-host/

[TMC]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/kath...e-emmy-awards/

Griffin has been tapped to host the June 22 ceremony. “I am beyond thrilled to be hosting what I’m told is the most important television event of the year,” she joked in a statement. "Knowing that over 100 million people from every corner of the planet will be watching, I will try to keep my nerves at bay and deliver a great show."
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle/1#hmobqk4ztC8zoZA2.99

[JamesG]

Daytime Emmys: NATAS Owes Apology for Red Carpet Show, Rape 'Joke'
by Matt Webb Mitovich
June 22, 2014


When it was announced that this year’s Daytime Emmys would be streamed online (and not broadcast), surely no one imagined that the accompanying red carpet pre-show would set the bar so unacceptably low, with an interview team that would lob rape “jokes,” talk about “going lesbian” for one actress and quite possibly not recognize more than five of the people they spoke to.

Rather than recruit any number of proper reporters who cover the daytime-TV genre, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences issued a casting call for “millennials between the ages of 18-35… who have a strong entertainment news background and/or very strong social media following (300,000 followers minimum),” Soap Opera Network reported.

What NATAS in turn hired was a quartet of “social media experts”: Brittany Furlan, Lauren Elizabeth, Jessica Harlow and Meghan Rosette.









Among the red carpet team’s more egregious affronts — and this is barely scratching the surface:


* Furlan said to nominated "The Young and the Restless" alum Daniel Polo — whom she didn’t know was no longer on the show playing Jamie, but that should be the worst of her shortcomings — “I don’t want to go to jail for this one.”

Upon learning the young actor is in fact (barely) of age, she then remarked: “Oh, so he’s legal!”



Furlan literally came onto, and hard, every male in attendance, to a degree that makes E!’s Giuliana Rancic look positively demure.

Even "Days of Our Lives‘" Galen Gering couldn’t help but throw shade at the brassy brunette as she squealed, “Oh my gawd!” at his castmate Greg Vaughan.







* Harlow asked Lawrence Saint-Victor (Carter, B&B) — “a beautiful chocolate man,” as she introduced him — “What’s it like to be a black man on a soap opera these days?”

Not coming from any place of social insight, but simply for lack of anything else to ask him.





* Elizabeth asked veteran actor Joseph Mascolo (Stefano, Days), who had been introduced to them as a daytime legend: “What is so legendary about you, sir?”





* When presented with Monty Hall, Furlan and Elizabeth befuddled the iconic game show host by trying to explain to him what “shipping” is — in the context of Furlan ‘shipping Elizabeth and the 92-year-old Hall.





* After she and Elizabeth came onto Ryan Paevey (Nathan, GH) six ways to Sunday, running the full gamut of clumsy doctor and policeman/handcuff innuendos, Furlan said as the actor left, “We’re going to get you away from us before we rape you.”

Imagine for a moment — but don’t, because it is sickening — if a male reporter had directed that comment to an actress.









Again, the above is but a small sampling of what the four “social media experts” (though mostly Furlan and Elizabeth) got away with over the course of the two-hour pre-show.

(And all while asking barely a single storyline-related question, because being familiar with soaps of course was not part of the aforementioned job description.)



Many on Twitter have asked for NATAS to apologize for the red carpet car wreck, which many proper daytime-TV journalists repeatedly and vocally derided in social media.

The soap opera acting community has enough problems claiming deserved respect for their work; associating them with such an inane production does no one any favors. Were you among those who “tuned in” to this mess?

http://tvline.com/2014/06/22/daytime...pet-rape-joke/

[mets82]

Didn't watch the show because my computer is broken (and still is ) but I've been reading what has been said about the show. What a joke. Doesn't really surprise you that you have a bunch of nitwits who know nothing about Soap Operas doing a red carpet show. I've never even heard of these people.

[tlc38tlc38]

Daytime actors really don't get the credit they deserve and this just goes to prove it. I miss the days of Joan and Melissa!