Slightly more interesting than the People’s Choice Awards. Slightly.

Posted by Dan March 14th, 2007 at 11:17am In News Special Events

They announced the nominees for the Soap Opera Awards.  I mean, the Daytime Emmys.

There are lots of nominees for the daytime dramas, but I can't imagine anyone's curious (the nominees are here, if you are). I still think it's funny that Passions gets nominated for stuff (see pic of people lookin' sexy).

I'm scrolling through, trying to find something people might be interested in and coming up kind of dry.  There's the game show category, which this year features Jeopardy!, The Price is Right and Meredith Vieira's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Best game show host has the guy from Cash Cab, Alex Trebek, Bob Barker, Pat Sajak and Meredith Vieira.  It's kind of depressing — the game show categories.  Aside from Cash Cab and, to a lesser extent, Vieira's Millionaire, these people have been doing this since I was a cluster of cells.  Does anything really change?  Did Alex ask the questions particularly well this year, pronouncing the foreign words with a special grace?  Did Bob Barker keep his temper in check better than ever after being assaulted by the zillionth Boise housewife?

Aside from that, the best talk show nominees are Ellen's show, The View, Rachael Ray's show, Tyra Banks' show (who has been on the empowerment warpath ever since those swimsuit pictures came out) and Dr. Phill with his big, fat Texas head.

Fun fact: MTV's Made is up for an Emmy for "Special Class Series," which I'm guessing is a euphemism for "everything else."  It's up against Animal Rescue, A Baby Story, Judge Judy and Starting Over.