Disney/ABC Television Garners 68 Daytime Emmy Nominations
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The Disney/ABC Television Group received 68 nominations for the 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards announced today in New York City. “General Hospital” is the most honored show with 23 nominations, including a nod for Outstanding Drama Series. Executive producer of “The View” and “The Barbara Walters Specials” Bill Geddie will receive the 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions as writer, producer and director over his more than 30-year television career. “The View” received its 13th nomination for Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment. ABC News’ “Good Morning America” received its sixth consecutive nomination for Outstanding Morning Program; “GMA” has won the award in three out of five years since the category was created.
The 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Bill Geddie, executive producer of “The View.” Mr. Geddie, along with Barbara Walters, serves as executive producer of “The View,” ABC’s critically acclaimed live talk and entertainment program produced by ABC and Ms. Walters’ Barwall Productions. Mr. Geddie has also partnered with Ms. Walters for the past 25 years as executive producer of “The Barbara Walters Specials” and “The 10 Most Fascinating People,” which he also co-writes and directs. He and Ms. Walters joined creative forces over 15 years ago for “The View” and have watched their original idea of women of different ages, experiences and backgrounds discussing the most exciting events of the day evolve into one of Daytime’s most popular and talked-about programs.
Disney-ABC Domestic Television receives a total of four nominations. “LIVE! with Regis and Kelly” is honored with two nods, including in the Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment category, as well as Outstanding Talk Show Host for Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, which marks the 21th nomination for both the show and its hosts. “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” receives two nominations, including Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show and Outstanding Game Show Host for Meredith Vieira, who has won in this category twice before, in 2005 and 2009.
Joining “General Hospital” with a nod for Outstanding Drama Series is “All My Children” with its final nomination in the category. The Lead Actress and Actor categories comprise a distinguished list of previous winners. Emmy winner Debbi Morgan (Angie Hubbard on “All My Children”), six-time winner Erika Slezak (Viki Lord on “One Life to Live”) and last year’s winner, Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos on “General Hospital”), are each honored with nominations in the Lead Actress category. Emmy winner Maurice Benard (Michael ‘Sonny” Corinthos, Jr. on “General Hospital”), six-time winner Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer on “General Hospital”), two-time winner Darnell Williams (Jesse Hubbard on “All My Children”) and Emmy winner Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan on “One Life to Live”) each receive nominations in the Lead Actor category.
Emmy winner Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis on “General Hospital”) receives a nod in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category, along with previous nominees Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Webber on “General Hospital”) and Melissa Claire Egan for her role as Annie Chandler on “All My Children.” Four-time Emmy winner Jonathan Jackson (Lucky Spencer on “General Hospital”) receives a nomination in the Supporting Actor category, along with third-time nominee Bradford Anderson (Damien Spinelli on “General Hospital”), Sean Blakemore (Shawn Butler, “General Hospital”) and second-time nominee Jason Thompson (Patrick Drake on “General Hospital”).
Chad Duell (Michael Corinthos on “General Hospital”) receives his second consecutive nomination in the Outstanding Younger Actor category, along with first-time nominees Nathan Parsons (Ethan Lovett on “General Hospital”) and Eddie Alderson (Matthew Buchanan on “One Life to Live”).
ABC receives three nominations for the “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade” for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing – Live Action, Outstanding Special Class Directing and Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control.
Disney Channel receives six nominations, including four for its Disney Junior programming: “3rd & Bird!” – Outstanding Pre-school Children’s Series and Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series; “Jake and the Never Land Pirates” – Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special; and “A Poem Is…” – Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime Program. Also nominated in the Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime Program category is Disney Channel’s “The Time I…(Dyslexia)” and “The Time I…(Shoes).”
Disney XD is honored with two nominations in the Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Episodic category for “I’m in the Band Flipbook” and “Pair of Kings Flipbook.”
The complete list of Disney/ABC Television Group nominees includes:
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN – ABC
GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING CHILDREN’S SERIES
BORN TO EXPLORE – ABC
OUTSTANDING GAME/AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION SHOW
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE — SYN
OUTSTANDING MORNING PROGRAM
GOOD MORNING AMERICA – ABC
OUTSTANDING PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN’S SERIES
3RD & BIRD! – DISNEY CHANNEL
OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT – EPISODIC
DISNEY XD: I’M IN THE BAND FLIPBOOK – DISNEY XD
DISNEY XD: PAIR OF KINGS FLIPBOOK – DISNEY XD
GENERAL HOSPITAL: “BRENDA WEDDING & KIDNAPPING” – ABC
OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW/ENTERTAINMENT
LIVE! WITH REGIS AND KELLY – SYN
THE VIEW — ABC
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
DEBBI MORGAN, AS ANGIE HUBBARD ON ALL MY CHILDREN – ABC
ERIKA SLEZAK, AS VIKI LORD ON ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
LAURA WRIGHT, AS CARLY CORINTHOS JACKS ON GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
MAURICE BENARD, AS MICHAEL “SONNY “CORINTHOS, JR. ON GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
ANTHONY GEARY, AS LUKE SPENCER ON GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
DARNELL WILLIAMS, AS JESSE HUBBARD ON ALL MY CHILDREN – ABC
ROBERT S. WOODS, AS BO BUCHANAN ON ONE LIFE TO LIVE – ABC
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
MELISSA CLAIRE EGAN, AS ANNIE CHANDLER ON ALL MY CHILDREN – ABC
NANCY LEE GRAHN, AS ALEXIS DAVIS ON GENERAL HOSITAL — ABC
REBECCA HERBST, AS ELIZABETH WEBBER ON GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
BRADFORD ANDERSON, AS DAMIEN SPINELLI ON GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
SEAN BLAKEMORE, AS SHAWN BUTLER ON GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
JONATHAN JACKSON, AS LUCKY SPENCER ON GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
JASON THOMPSON, AS PATRICK DRAKE ON GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
EDDIE ALDERSON, AS MATTHEW BUCHANAN ON ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
CHAD DUELL, AS MICHAEL CORINTHOS ON GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
NATHAN PARSONS, AS ETHAN LOVETT ON GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW HOST
MEREDITH VIEIRA, WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE – SYN
OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW HOST
REGIS PHILBIN AND KELLY RIPA, LIVE! WITH REGIS AND KELLY — SYN
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/SET DECORATION/SCENIC DESIGN FOR A DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT FOR A CASTING DIRECTOR FOR A DRAMA SERIES
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN FOR A DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES DIRECTING TEAM
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE – ABC
OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES WRITING TEAM
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN HAIRSTYLING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LIGHTING DIRECTION FOR A DRAMA SERIES
ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LIVE & DIRECT-TO-TAPE SOUND MIXING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP FOR A DRAMA SERIES
GENERAL HOSPITAL – ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MULTIPLE CAMERA EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION FOR A
DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE — ABC
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMA SERIES
GENERAL HOSPITAL “DUST” — ABC
ONE LIFE TO LIVE “ONE LIFE”– ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN TECHNICAL DIRECTION/ELECTRONIC CAMERA/VIDEO CONTROL FOR A DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN — ABC
GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING IN A TALK SHOW/MORNING
THE VIEW — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LIGHTING DIRECTION
THE VIEW — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LIVE & DIRECT TO TAPE SOUND MIXING
THE VIEW — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
THE VIEW – ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING – LIVE ACTION
DISNEY PARKS CHRISTMAS DAY PARADE — ABC
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS DIRECTING
DISNEY PARKS CHRISTMAS DAY PARADE — ABC
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN TECHNICAL DIRECTION/ELECTRONIC CAMERA/VIDEO CONTROL
DISNEY PARKS CHRISTMAS DAY PARADE — ABC
THE VIEW – ABC
OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A CHILDREN’S SERIES
3RD & BIRD! – DISNEY CHANNEL
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS SHORT FORMAT DAYTIME
A POEM IS… – DISNEY CHANNEL
THE TIME I…(DYSLEXIA) – DISNEY CHANNEL
THE TIME I…(SHOES) – DISNEY CHANNEL
OUTSTANDING STUNT COORDINATION
GENERAL HOSPITAL — ABC
OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR AN ANIMATED SERIES OR SPECIAL
JAKE AND THE NEVER LAND PIRATES – DISNEY CHANNEL
The Daytime Emmy Awards presentation will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, June 23, 2012 in Beverly Hills, CA. The Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards presentation will return to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 17, 2012. Nominations were announced by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
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Disney/ABC Television Group Takes Home 19 Emmys, Including Six for ‘Modern Family’
ABC Network’s critically acclaimed freshman hit comedy series, “Modern Family,” swept more categories than any other series with three wins, including the top comedy series prize, at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, presented last night. In addition to winning for Outstanding Comedy Series, “Modern Family’s” Eric Stonestreet captured his first-ever Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and executive producers Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd took the Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series prize for the pilot episode.
“Modern Family” won a total of six Emmys, with the other three awards for Casting, Sound Mixing and Picture Editing announced at the Creative Arts Emmys on Aug. 21.
With the combination of wins at the Primetime ceremony and the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Disney/ABC Television Group won a total of 19 awards, with ABC leading all broadcast networks with a total of 18 wins.
ABC’s “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” series captured a first-time win for Reality Program, and Walt Disney Animation Studios and ABC were big winners in the animation category at the Creative Emmy Awards announced on August 21, as their holiday special “Disney Prep & Landing” took home four Emmys, the most for any broadcast program, including one for Outstanding Animated Program. Individual Achievement Emmy Awards were also presented for storyboard artist Joe Mateo, art director Andy Harkness and background key designer William M. George III. “Disney Prep & Landing” is ABC’s first television special produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Producers from Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie” won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Series at the Creative Arts Emmys.
Additional winners announced at the Creative ceremony include: Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) for “Grey’s Anatomy”; Outstanding Costumes for a Variety/Music Program or a Special for “Jimmy Kimmel Live”; Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or a Special for “Dancing with the Stars”; Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music or Nonfiction
Programming for the “82nd Annual Academy Awards”; Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series for “Lost”; Outstanding Stunt Coordination for “FlashForward” and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series for “Dancing with the Stars.”
Categories: Television Tags: ABC, Awards, DATG, Emmys, Modern Family
Disney’s ‘Prep & Landing’ Delivers at Creative Emmy Awards; ABC and Disney Channel’s ‘Wizards’ Also Charm
The Creative Emmy Awards ceremony took place at the Nokia Theater LA Live in Los Angeles last night and although perennially-strong HBO took the top spot with 17 wins, the Disney/ABC Television Group finished strong with 16 between ABC and Disney Channel. The event leads up to the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 29.
Leading the pack for Disney was its half-hour holiday special ‘Prep & Landing’ which took home a total of four awards including Outstanding Animated Program. The remaining three were awarded as part of the jury-awarded Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in which a peer of animators select one, multiple or no winners. In this case, three of the winners came from the same program: Andy Harkness for art direction, William M. George III for background key design and Joe Mateo for storyboarding.
The ensemble comedy ‘Modern Family’ (which is produced by 20th Century Fox) took home two awards: Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Comedy Series for the series’ pilot.
Awards also went to several ABC primetime dramas including ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ for Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) for its episode titled ‘Suicide is Painless,’ ‘LOST’ for its series finale in the category of Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series and ‘FlashFoward’ for Outstanding Stunt Coordination in the episode titled ‘No More Good Days.’
‘Dancing with the Stars’ took home two for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series while fellow reality series ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution’ took home the Outstanding Reality Program award for the ‘Naked Chef.’
Other awards for ABC went to ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ (juried) for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety/Music Program or Special and the 82nd Annual Academy Awards for Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Music or Non-fiction Programming.
For Disney Channel, favorite ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ repeated their performance from 2009 and took home the award for Outstanding Children’s Program once more.
Categories: Television Tags: Awards, DATG, Emmys, Prep & Landing
Disney/ABC Television Group Garners 69 Emmy Nominations
The Disney/ABC Television Group (DATG) captured 69 Primetime Emmy nominations, it was announced today by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. This total reflects nominations for ABC Television Network, ABC Studios, ABC.com and Disney Channel programming.
The ABC Television Network received 63 nominations, including a first-time, first season Comedy Series nomination for “Modern Family,” which gathered a total of 14 nominations, including recognitions for Art Direction, Casting, Directing, Picture Editing, Guest Actor, Sound Mixing and Writing.
“Modern Family’s” Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Julie Bowen and Sofia Vergara all garnered nominations in the Supporting Actor/Actress in a Comedy Series category.
The final season of “Lost” received a total of 12 nominations, including a Drama Series nomination in addition to being selected for the Art Direction, Music Composition, Single-Camera Picture Editing, Guest Actress, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories. The series finale episode “The End,” received a Writing for a Drama Series nomination for writers/executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and the episode’s director, Jack Bender, was recognized in the Directing for a Drama Series category.
“Lost’s” Matthew Fox, received his first Lead Actor in a Drama Series nomination for the series final season and was joined by his cast mates Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn who were nominated for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Emerson and O’Quinn were both previous winners in the supporting category. Elizabeth Mitchell received a nomination for Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
The ABC.com webisode series “Lost Presents: Mysteries of the Universe – The Dharma Initiative,” was awarded a nomination in the Special Class Programs category.
“Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” captured its first nomination in the Outstanding Reality Series category while “Dancing with the Stars” was recognized for its fifth straight nomination in the Reality-Competition Category. Additionally, “Dancing with the Stars” host Tom Bergeron is a repeat nominee for Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program.
Disney Channel dominated the Children’s Program categories with nominations for “Hannah Montana,” “JONAS” “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie.” Disney Television Animation received a nomination for the Disney XD animated series “Kick Buttowski – Suburban Daredevil” in the Outstanding Animated Short-Format category, marking the first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for a Disney XD property.
ABC’s first television special produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, “Disney Prep & Landing” received a nomination in the Animation Special category.
The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy ceremony will be telecast on NBC on Sunday, August 29.
Categories: Television Tags: ABC, Awards, DATG, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Emmys, Lost, Modern Family, Prep & Landing
Cast of ‘The Lion King’ Las Vegas to Perform During 2010 Daytime Emmy Awards
CBS has just announced that the Las Vegas cast of Disney Theatrical’s The Lion King will perform during the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards airing live from the Las Vegas Hilton on Sunday, June 27 from 9 PM – 11 PM ET/PT. The performance joins a previously announced line-up of Vegas-based acts such as the Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and the showgirls of Jubilee. The awards show will be hosted by Regis Philbin.
Other presenters added to the previously announced line-up include Wayne Brady, Jeff Foxworthy, Vanessa Marcil and Alex Trebek. A tribute to television’s ‘American Bandstand’ and emcee Dick Clark will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest and will feature Donny Osmond, Chubby Checker, Tony Orlando and cast of The Jersey Boys amongst others.
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