Daytime Emmys Airdate Set For December

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced that the airdate for the 50th annual Daytime Emmys will now be December 15 on CBS. Initially set to air on June 16, the awards show had to be canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, which concluded on November 9. 

Additionally, NATAS has solidified the dates for the Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmys, the 2nd Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards and Trustees’ Gala, and the Children’s & Family Creative Arts Emmys, which will all take place the weekend of December 16 and 17,

Although the Daytime Emmys were clear to move forward since it fell under the non-struck SAG-AFTRA Network Code, NATAS and CBS likely waited for the strike’s resolution before announcing the airdate on November 10. 

Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner will host the ceremony from Los Angeles’ Westin Bonaventure.

Note: Nominees of productions featuring people of color appear in bold text.

ABC’s drama series General Hospital leads the 2023 Daytime Emmys with 19 nominations, followed by CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful with fourteen, and The Young and the Restless with thirteen. NBC and Peacock’s Days of Our Lives earned eleven nominations. All previously mentioned series are nominated for the Daytime Drama Series award along with Popstar TV!’s The Bay, which received three nominations.

For talk shows, The Kelly Clarkson Show leads the field with eleven nominations, The Drew Barrymore Show with seven, and The Jennifer Hudson Show with six; all are nominated for the Daytime Talk Series award. The Live with Kelly and Ryan received two nominations while Today with Hoda and Jenna, received one nomination.

Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress Susan Lucci will receive her Lifetime Achievement Honors at the ceremony.