Ellen DeGeneres by Gregg DeGuire/ WireImage.com
We were promised more energy, more fun and more excitement for this year's Daytime Emmy Awards, and the event delivered. Opening with multiple, overlapping spoofs on daytime television, hosts Sherri Shepherd and Cameron Mathison set the tone from the start. With an all-new, banquet-style set-up and an open bar for the guests, the sweltering L.A. evening outdoors was left far behind for the cool festivities inside the Kodak theater. Backstage in the press room, TVGuide.com heard from the winners of each category, where the newly crowned Daytime Emmy recipients gushed about their new trophies.Tyra Banks was one of the first of the night to take home a win. For her acceptance speech, she took over the entire stage area with her team when they won for Outstanding Talk Show/Informative series, and she was no less outspoken when she arrived at the press room. Explaining that she'd had her own "ugly cry" after holding her composure on camera, she also spoke to her mother's emotions over th...
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Cameron Mathison and Sherri Shepherd by Steve Fenn/ABC
What ingredients go into a successful TV awards show? Hmm...fancy gowns, lots of energy, poignant speeches...how about free-flowing alcohol?In an effort to mimic the unpredictable nature of the Golden Globe Awards, attendees at this evening's Daytime Emmy Awards (ABC, 8 pm/ET) will be treated to an open bar. They'll also be sitting at dinner theater-style round tables."Usually everyone is sitting in a row," The View panelist and Daytime Emmys cohost Sherri Shepherd told the AP. "This year, it'll be like a wedding. We're also going to do something so that fans will be able to get a view of what's going on at the different tables."Celebs will find digital video cameras at their tables to capture the evening's events. Video will be uploaded to SOAPnet.com throughout the evening so that viewers can follow all the fun and antics of their favorite daytime stars.Shepherd cohosts tonight's ceremony with All My Children hunk Cameron Mathison. "Liquor is always an added bonus," said Shepherd....
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Alec Baldwin by Brian Ach/ WireImage.com
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa is nearing production and a few new voice cast members will be joining Ben Stiller Chris Rock David Schwimmer Jada Pinkett Smith Sacha Baron Cohen Cedric the Entertainer and Andy Richter in the recording studio in their pajamas as we always like to thinkBernie Mac and Sherri Shepherd will voice the parents of Stillers lion Alec Baldwin is a rival of Macs pride leader and William of the Black Eyed Peas will bring to life a watering hole lothario Matt Mitovich
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Cameron Mathison by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com, Sherri Shepherd by Bennett Raglin/WireImage.com
All My Children's Cameron Mathison and The View's Sherri Shepherd have been named hosts of the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.The ceremony airs Friday, June 20 on ABC (8 pm/ET).In addition to playing pretty-boy Ryan Lavery on AMC, Mathison finished in fifth place during the fifth season of Dancing With the Stars.Shepherd joined The View as a cohost in 2007. In addition to ABC's broadcast, SOAPnet offers two new features from 6-8 pm/ET. "Handicapping the Emmy" brings ESPN sports talent together to analyze the nominations and predictions ("gee, Mike, he oughta get the trophy for the way he broke down her defense and put seven points on the board.") Also, "Deconstructing the Emmy" will allow viewers to see preparations for the Kodak Theater ceremony and take a peek at stars getting ready for the big night. — J.R. WhalenRelated:• Daytime Emmys Aiming for Golden Globes Energy• Finola Hughes, Lawrence Zarian Bring Daytime Emmy Fans Backstage
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Sherri Shepherd by Donna Svennevik/ABC
The View cohost Sherri Shepherd, formerly of prime time's Less Than Perfect and currently recurring as 30 Rock's Angy Angie Jordan, is developing a sitcom vehicle for the CW in which she would star as (art-imitates-life alert!) a married woman who discovers that her hubby not only has been unfaithful, but has an illegitimate kid to show for it. The wife then (end real-life parallels alert!) invites the child and mistress to move in. According to the Reporter, if picked up the show likely would shoot in NYC, allowing Shepherd to pull a Ripa and tackle double duty.
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Nazanin Boniadi and Jason Thompson in GH: Night Shift by Adam Larkey/SOAPnet
New View cohost Sherri Shepherd has joined the lineup for the 12th-annual ABC Super Soap Weekend, to be held Nov. 10-11 at Disney-MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The complete list of talent includes these stars from your fave ABC shows: All My ChildrenSusan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, David Canary, Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Thorsten Kaye, Michael E. Knight, Alicia Minshew, Aiden Turner and Jacob YoungGeneral HospitalBradford Anderson, Julie Berman, Tyler Christopher, Josh Duhon, Sonya Eddy, Rebecca Herbst, Kimberly McCullough, Kelly Monaco and Laura WrightGeneral Hospital: Night ShiftNazanin Boniadi, Dominic Rains, and Kent King will join GH regulars Thompson, McCullough, Anderson, and EddyOne Life to LiveKristen Alderson, Kathy Brier, Brandon Buddy, Kamar de los Reyes, Kassie DePaiva, Michael Easton, Forbes March, Erika Slezak, Trevor St. John, Tika Sumpter and Bree Williamson
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Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd of The View by Steve Fenn/ABC
ABC's latest incarnation of The View, featuring Whoopi Goldberg as moderator and Sherri Shepherd as a gabber, thus far is averaging 3.5 million total viewers, a seven percent increase from the 3.3 mil who were tuning in to the Rosie-run edition a year ago.Though the talker got off to a slow start this season — Whoopi drew a million fewer than O'D did on her first day — with Shepherd in place in its second week, it bested Ro by 400,000 heads.
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Sherri Shepherd, The View
The View definitely has a different view in its newest host Sherri Shepherd. The comic actress who joined the ABC chatfest on Sept. 11 even makes resident conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck wince when she disses evolution. Not that pious means puritan. On her very first day at the table, Shepherd proclaimed that she once sent nearly nude pix to her boyfriend — in prison! We talked to the self-described "real woman" about life on The View, her negotiations for the plum job and her gig on the Emmy-winning 30 Rock.
TVGuide.com: You were always a front-runner. Were you surprised at all that you got the
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Didn't see this one comin'. Whoopi Goldberg's first week on The View tied Rosie O'Donnell's with a 1.2 rating (which had previously been the best that the chatfest had ever gotten for a premiere week). Moreover, says the Hollywood Reporter, the show was up 42 percent from the week before and up 12 percent in the key women aged 18-49 demo. Sherri Shepherd's brought some eyeballs to The View as well. Her debut Monday averaged 3.9 million viewers, a tasty increase from last season's second-week average of 3.1 million.Matt is en route to the Emmys in Los Angeles. Friday's Take was written by Ben Katner.
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Comic Sherri Shepherd has been chosen to fill Star Jones Reynolds' long-vacant fifth seat on The View. Although the official announcement will have to wait until Sept. 10, the deal was made back in August, TV Guide has learned exclusively. The View producers were hoping to stay mum about Shepherd’s status for a couple of weeks to keep the hoopla focused on Whoopi Goldberg's signing on as moderator. But an anonymous source leaked the news early.Shepherd, who has guest-hosted on the ABC chatfest over a dozen times, campaigned hard for the job. "I’ve been telling them I’m available," she told TV Guide in June. "If you want me, I’m available." Apparently, what Sherri wants, Sherri gets. — Reporting by Ileane Rudolph
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