The award for no censorship and tons of F-bombs being dropped goes to the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards. For the first time in decades, the award show honoring the best in soaps, game shows, talk, children’s and cooking shows was not televised on a major network or cable outlet. The show was live streamed online Sunday and the host — Kathy Griffin, and several presenters (especially “The Talk” co-host Sharon Osbourne) let the curse words fly since the show was without censorship.
Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey and the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” were among the winners. The “Ellen DeGeneres Show” received it’s eighth trophy as outstanding entertainment talk show at the awards ceremony in Beverly Hills. The “Steve Harvey Show” was honored as outstanding informative talk show while Harvey won as best game show host for “Family Feud.”
CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” took home six awards, including honors for best drama series and best lead actor for star Billy Miller. Eileen Davidson of NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” was named best drama series actress.
ABC’s “Good Morning America” won the best morning program Emmy.
The Daytime Emmys also introduced new awards for Spanish-language shows. Winners include Telemundo’s “Un Nuevo Dia” as best morning program, to CNNE’s “Clix” as best entertainment show and to Rodner Figueroa of Univision’s “El Gordo y la Flaca” as best daytime talent in Spanish.
CBS, which received eight creative arts Daytime Emmys for technical achievements at a ceremony last week, emerged as the network leader with a total of 14 awards after Sunday’s ceremony.
PBS received a combined 13 awards, with six for HUB Network; five for TOLN.com; four for ABC and three for NBC.
Several winners were no shows for the event, including Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey, Katie Couric (Best Talk Show Host, “Katie”), and Dr. Oz (Best Talk Show Host, “Dr. Oz”).