‘GH’, ‘Americans’,
‘Candelabra’, ‘Newsroom’, ‘Y&R’ Lead Bryan Award Nominations
July 8, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The 13th
Annual Bryan Awards were admitted into General Hospital in Port Charles, New
York on Monday night, where the long-running daytime drama received a leading
31 Bryan Award Nominations, including Best Soap, when the nominations for the
Bryan Awards were announced live on "The DJBC Happy Hour" radio
program in Columbus, Ohio.
GH, which
was almost cancelled last year, turned 50 in April, and leads in overall
nominations for the second straight year.
The show has eight of the twelve Guest Acting nominees for Daytime (four
each in Guest Actor and Actress). Not
far behind GH in the Daytime races is "The Young and the Restless",
which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in March.
Y&R has 24 nominations, including three for Lead Actor, and
posthumous nods for Jeanne Cooper (Lead Actress) and Bonnie Franklin (Guest
Actress) who both passed away this spring.
Joining GH and Y&R in the Daytime Soap category are the other two
network soaps "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "Days of Our
Lives", which have 18 and 14 nominations, respectively. The online revivals of "All My
Children" and "One Life to Live", which debuted in late April,
received only one and two nominations respectively.
In the
Primetime field, the race is on in the New Series category, as that race
appears to be Russians vs. Newsmen, as "The Americans" edges
"The Newsroom" as the two most-nominated dramas and first-year
programs with 24 and 20 nominations, respectively. "The Americans" is F/X's drama
about KGB agents posing as married travel agents in the early 1980s, and
"The Newsroom" is HBO's sleeper hit drama about the production of a
cable news show.
Both
"The Americans" and "The Newsroom" are Drama Series
nominees, where they will be joined by "Breaking Bad", "Downton
Abbey", "Game of Thrones", last year's New Series champ
"Homeland" and defending Drama champ "Mad Men".
Joining
"The Americans" and "The Newsroom" in the New Series race
are "Elementary", CBS's Americanized version of "Sherlock
Holmes"; "The Following", Fox's breakout thriller starring Kevin
Bacon; "Inside Amy Schumer", Comedy Central's breakout sketch show
which debuted in April; "Legit", F/X's comedy about a comedian trying
to go the straight and narrow path; "The Mindy Project", Fox's show
about an OB/GYN doctor balancing her personal life and professional life;
"Mystery Diners", Food Network's show about the restaurant business;
and "Nashville", ABC's critically acclaimed drama about country music
singers.
In the
Comedy race, two-time defending Comedy Series champion "Modern
Family" leads all comedies with 15 nominations in an open race, fielding
much competition from network shows like "The Big Bang Theory" and
"New Girl" and cable shows like "Girls" and
"Louie". Those five shows are
all nominated in the Comedy Series race with "Parks and Recreation"
rounding out that category.
In the
Longform races, it's a period piece battle between a legendary pianist, an
insane asylum, and the Great War.
"Behind the Candelabra", HBO's Memorial Day weekend film about
pianist Liberace's rocky romance with his young chauffeur leads all longform
programs with 20 nominations. The second
season of "American Horror Story", "American Horror Story:
Asylum", which took place in and out of an insane asylum in the mid 1960s,
has 17 nominations. HBO's "Parade's
End", a miniseries about a doctor fighting in the first World War, has 16
nominations.
"This
year, the Bryan Awards is coming of age," said Bryan Awards creator Bryan
Curtiss. "Over the years, there
have been shows that have clinged on to the landscape of 'The Bryan Awards',
such as 'Gilmore Girls', 'As the World Turns', 'The West Wing', '24', 'Mad
Men', and 'Arrested Development'." The latter show returned to Netflix after a
seven-year hiatus, failed to make the cut in the Comedy Series race, but gained
seven nominations, all in acting categories.
The 13th
Annual Bryan Awards will air on WCRS-FM in Columbus, Ohio in "The DJBC
Happy Hour" timeslot on August 19, 26, and September 2. For more information on WCRS, go to http://www.wcrsfm.org.
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