‘Children’ Star Lucci Nominated Again in Daytime Emmy Awards

ABC soap opera star Susan Lucci, always an Emmy nominee but never a winner, was nominated today for her 11th Emmy in as many years as a total of 205 daytime Emmy nominations were announced here.

CBS’ veteran “Guiding Light” and “The Young and the Restless” led the pack with 14 nominations each, followed by 13 for ABC’s “All My Children,” in which Lucci stars, and 12 for CBS’ “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.”

The nominations for the 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards even included two for a rival awards show, NBC’s “The 6th Annual Soap Opera Awards.”

CBS shows easily lead the nominations, getting 74, followed by 39 for ABC, 30 for NBC, 29 for PBS and 29 for syndicated programs. There were two cable nominees.

One was for a Home Box Office special, “Buy Me That,” which warned parents and kids of deceptive advertising, and another for the lighting of an MTV special, “Club MTV.”

Winners in the major categories will be announced here June 28 in a two-hour ABC broadcast hosted by Oprah Winfrey. The show will be shown in the West on a tape-delay basis at 2 p.m.

There will also be a non-televised Emmy ceremony in Los Angeles on June 23, primarily for winners in such creative arts categories as hair design, makeup, editing, and graphics and title design.

The nominations in 51 categories were jointly announced by the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

In the talk show field, “The Joan Rivers Show” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show” each got four nominations, followed by three for Phil Donahue’s “Donahue” and two for “Sally Jessy Raphael.” All are syndicated series.

Geraldo Rivera’s syndicated “Geraldo” wasn’t cited, though, and the only network morning show nominated for Emmy honors was ABC’s top-rated “Good Morning America,” which got two nominations.

CBS’ “The Price Is Right” led the game show race with six nominations, followed by the syndicated “Jeopardy,” which got four.

Although “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” was the most-nominated children’s series, PBS’ long-running “Sesame Street” got nine nominations. CBS’ “Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies” and PBS’ “‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and “Square One TV” each got four.