ABC's "General Hospital" earned a leading 28 nominations for Daytime Emmy awards, with four of its stars competing for honors as top actor or actress.
Nominations were announced Tuesday for the 42nd annual awards. The ceremony will be held on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, Calif., on April 26, televised on the Pop network.
The other top soap operas, "The Young and the Restless" (25 nominations); "The Bold and the Beautiful" (19 nominations) and "Days of Our Lives" (16 nominations) were the other shows with the most potential trophies.
"Sesame Street" earned 13 nominations and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" had 10.
CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "The Young and the Restless" and NBC's "Days of Our Lives" joined "General Hospital among the nominees for best soap opera.
Best actress nominees for daytime drama were Peggy McCay and Alison Sweeney of "Days of Our Lives," Maura West and Laura Wright of "General Hospital" and Gina Tognoni of "The Young and the Restless."
Best actor nominees for a soap were Anthony Geary and Jason Thompson of "General Hospital" and Christian LeBlanc and Billy Miller of "The Young and the Restless."
Nominees for supporting actress are Linsey Godfrey of "The Bold and the Beautiful," Amelia Heinle and Elizabeth Hendrickson of "The Young and the Restless" and Finola Hughes and Lisa Locicero of "General Hospital."
Supporting actor nominees are Scott Clifton and Jacob Young of "The Bold and the Beautiful," Chad Duell of "General Hospital," and Kristoff St. John of "The Young and the Restless."
Nominees for best game show were "Family Feud" (syndicated), "Jeopardy!" (syndicated) and "The Price is Right" (CBS).
Nominees for best informative talk show were ABC's "The Chew," ''The Dr. Oz Show" (syndicated), "The Kitchen" (Food Network) and "Steve Harvey" (syndicated).
Nominees for best entertainment talk show were "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (syndicated), "Live! With Kelly and Michael" (syndicated), "The Talk" (CBS), and "The Wendy Williams Show" (syndicated).
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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