Daytime Emmy Awards 2009 winners

Tyra Banks and Rachel Ray both won Daytime Emmys for their respective talk shows at the 36th annual awards show last night.
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Tyra Banks and Rachel Ray both won Daytime Emmys for their respective talk shows at the 36th annual awards show last night.
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The theme song of the Daytime Emmys this year for Rachael Ray and Tyra Banks was "R-E-S-P-E-C-T."

Ray and Banks still get much of their TV attention for their popular specialty shows — Ray with her food juggernaut, Banks with "America's Next Top Model." Both also get a fair amount of tabloid attention for everything from their relationships to their shapes.

So it was an impressive step that they won the two top talk show prizes in last night's awards ceremony.

Ray won for "best entertainment" talk show, while Banks won for "best informative" talk show. The original inclusive award was split into those two separate categories last year, though the line between them remains fuzzy.

Banks had not previously been nominated for a Daytime Emmy. Ray was nominated in the talk category last year and won in 2006 for "30 Minute Meals."

In equally big Daytime Emmy news, Ellen DeGeneres dropped to runner-up in the "best talk show host" category that she had won the previous four years.

Beating her took a team effort: the "View" team, with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters.

Ray was also nominated in that category, along with Kelly Ripa and Regis Philbin.

Regis was one of the few male nominees in the female-dominated daytime world. The tilt of daytime programming was also dramatically reflected in the shift of the show from ABC to the CW, a smaller network that openly targets younger women.

DeGeneres should be able to survive stepping down from this throne. She has been a regular winner in the People's Choice awards, her ratings have remained stable, she celebrated the 1,000th episode in May and she remains a popular high-end celebrity endorser. She's currently the face of Cover Girl cosmetics.

Elsewhere, "Cristina's Court" again beat veterans "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court" for best legal/courtroom program. It's the second win for the show, which is only in its third year.

Meanwhile, CBS' "The Bold and The Beautiful" was named best drama, beating out ABC's "All My Children" and NBC's "Days of Our Lives."

The top acting prizes were shared among the soaps, with Christian LeBlanc winning for his lead role in CBS' "The Young and the Restless" and Susan Haskell taking the corresponding prize for ABC's "One Life To Live."

Supporting honors went to Tamara Braun for "Days of Our Lives," while Vincent Irizarry of "All My Children" tied with Jeff Branson of CBS' "Guiding Light."

In all, "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" led the field with five Emmys each, while PBS' "Sesame Street," "The View," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "El Tigre" won four each.