Crikey! “Neighbours,” the famed Australian soap opera that helped launch the careers of superstars like Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie, Russell Crowe, Chris Hemsworth, Guy Pearce, Liam Hemsworth and Natalie Imbruglia, is getting its first-ever Emmy love.
The show, which has received several nominations and wins via Australian and U.K. TV awards shows, is now a contender on this continent. As an Amazon Freevee show, “Neighbours” has been nominated for the 2024 Daytime Emmys alongside CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Young and the Restless,” as well as Peaco*ck’s “Days of Our Lives,” ABC’s “General Hospital” and Popstar! TV’s “The Bay.”
Basically, pretty much everything eligible. But how did “Neighbours” make it to eligibility for the first time on these shores? When Amazon Freevee revived “Neighbours” in 2023 (after the show had been canceled the previous year), Amazon MGM Studios became the primary financier and distributor of the series, making the show eligible for a U.S. Daytime Emmy for the first time. The series now premieres simultaneously in the US and UK on Amazon Freevee, while continuing to air on Network 10 in Australia.
The National Academy of Televison Arts & Sciences is rolling out the nominations for Daytime Emmys, announcing a handful of categories on Thursday night and revealing the rest on Friday morning. Among the categories shared on Thursday: Daytime Drama Series Lead Actor, Daytime Drama Series Lead Actress, Daytime Talk Series Host, Daytime Drama Series and Daytime Talk Series.
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The 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air live on Friday, June 7, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS (delayed on the west coast). The Lifetime Achievement honorees, hosts, presenters, and Silver and Gold Circle honorees will be announced at a later date. The Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards will take place on Saturday, June 8, and streamed on The Emmys apps and at watch.TheEmmys.tv.
Effective thisDaytime Emmyswill no longer include a category devoted to younger performers in a daytime drama; they’ll now be required to enter lead, supporting or guest categories.
The eligibility period for the 2024 Daytime Emmys is Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2023. Here are this year’s nominees:
Daytime Drama Series
“The Bay” (Popstar! TV)
“The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
“Days of our Lives” (Peaco*ck)
“General Hospital” (ABC)
“Neighbours” (Amazon Freevee)
“The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
Daytime Talk Series
“The Jennifer Hudson Show” (Syndicated)
“The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Syndicated)
“Tamron Hall” (Syndicated)
“Turning The Tables with Robin Roberts” (Disney+)
“The View” (ABC)
Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actor
Eric Braeden as Victor Newman, “The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
Scott Clifton as Liam Spencer, “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
Thorsten Kaye as Ridge Forrester, “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
Eric Martsolf as Brady Black, “Days of Our Lives” (Peaco*ck)
John McCook as Eric Forrester, “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress
Tamara Braun as Ava Vitali, “Days of our Lives” (Peaco*ck)
Finola Hughes as Anna Devane, “General Hospital” (ABC)
Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan, “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
Annika Noelle as Hope Logan, “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
Michelle Stafford as Phyllis Summers, “The Young and the Restless” (CBS)
Cynthia Watros as Nina Reeves, “General Hospital” (ABC)
Daytime Talk Host
Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, “The View” (ABC)
Kelly Clarkson, “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Syndicated)
Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa, “Live with Kelly and Mark” (Syndicated)
Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell, Sheryl Underwood, “The Talk” (CBS)
Tamron Hall, “Tamron Hall” (Syndicated)
The 2024 ceremony will once again take place at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles. This is the second year in a two-year telecast deal that NATAS had set with CBS, which has broadcast the Daytime Emmys 18 times, more than any other network.
Among other category changes, also eliminated is the category for outstanding promotional announcement. Meanwhile, the categories devoted to outstanding writing for a daytime non-fiction series and outstanding writing for daytime non-fiction special have been merged into a new category: Outstanding writing for a daytime non-fiction program. And the daytime program host category has been split into two categories: “daytime personality–daily,” and “daytime personality—non-daily.”
At the 2023 event, which awarded programs that aired through the 2022 calendar year, “General Hospital” dominated the competition, winning seven awards, while “The Kelly Clarkson Show” pulled off six wins.
Associated Television International will once again produce the Daytime Emmys with NATAS. ATI also produced Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies on The CW in 2009 and on CBS in 2010, 2011, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Adam Sharp and Lisa Armstrong are executive producers from NATAS, while David McKenzie is executive producer from ATI.
