Ellen DeGeneres, Young and the Restless Rack Up Daytime Emmy Award Nominations

See if your favorites will be going up against each other at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards next month

By Peter Gicas May 01, 2013 4:44 PMTags
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It's good to be Ellen DeGeneres.

She and her popular program, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, managed to score 10 Daytime Emmy nominations on Wednesday, including outstanding talk show. It will compete against Live! with Kelly and Michael, The Talk and The View.

Of course, it's even better if you're one of the folks over at The Young and the Restless.

The soap opera topped all other programs with an impressive 23 nods, helping giving CBS a total of 50 nominations this morning.

The sudser will vie for the Oustanding Drama Series prize against Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and One Life to Live.

Meanwhile, NBC's Today will duke it out with ABC's Good Morning America and CBS Sunday Morning in the Outstanding Morning Program category.

On the kid front, R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour received nine nominations, and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness earned seven.

Oh, and Sesame Street racked up 17.

For the full list of nominees, go to EmmyOnline.org. The 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be presented in Beverly Hills on June 16 and will air live on HLN.