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The Kelly Clarkson Show won outstanding daytime talk series for the fourth consecutive year at the 2024 Daytime Emmys, which were held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday (June 7) and broadcast on CBS. Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner co-hosted the show.
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Kelly Clarkson has won eight Daytime Emmys over the first five seasons of her popular talk show (compared to three Grammys over a much longer period of time).
In accepting the award for outstanding daytime talk series, Clarkson gave special thanks to NBC for listening to her concerns when she proposed moving the show from Los Angeles to New York. “I told them, ‘My life is not going super great,’ and they helped us move,” she said. “It’s been so great for not just me and my family, but for the show. Thank you for thinking of mental health and not just a product.”
Clarkson presented the first award of the night. The producers of the awards show presumably wanted to signal to the TV audience that she was in the house. Clarkson had not attended the Daytime Emmys in recent years.
Clarkson did not, however, win outstanding daytime talk series host, an award she had won the last four years running. The award went instead to Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, the married stars of the syndicated Live With Kelly and Mark. It was a surprise win: Ripa and Consuelos weren’t in attendance, causing the show to run a little short.
This was Ripa’s sixth win in that category. Only three other hosts have won six or more times in the history of the category, which dates to 1974. Phil Donahue leads with nine awards in the category, followed by Oprah Winfrey (seven) and Rosie O’Donnell (also six). What’s most impressive about Ripa’s track record in the category is that she has won alongside four different co-hosts. She and Regis Philbin won twice in the category. She and Michael Strahan also won twice. She and Ryan Seacrest won once.
TV legend Dick Van Dyke won guest performance in a daytime drama series for his appearance on Days of our Lives on Peacock. At 98, Van Dyke is the oldest Daytime Emmy winner in history. “If I had known I was going to live that long, I would have taken better care of myself,” Van Dyke joked in accepting the honor. Van Dyke, who was featured on the Mary Poppins soundtrack, which topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks in 1965, was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2020.
Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays (Food Network), hosted by Selena Gomez, was nominated for outstanding culinary series. It lost to Be My Guest With Ina Garten.
Amanda Kloots and Jerry O’Connell, Emmy-nominated co-hosts of The Talk, opened the show with a special-material version of Petula Clark’s classic “Downtown,” a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965. The rewrite was pretty corny, a throwback to the era when such segments were a staple of variety and awards shows.
The In Memoriam segment included entertainment reporter Sam Rubin (KTLA, Los Angeles) and actor and host Louis Gossett Jr.
If it doesn’t seem like a full year has gone by since the last Daytime Emmys, you’re on to something. The 2023 Daytime Emmys were held on Dec. 15. They were delayed six full months because of last year’s strikes by the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA.
The Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards will be presented on Saturday, June 8. It will stream live at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT at watch.TheEmmys.tv and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku.
The 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards was produced by NATAS and Associated Television International (ATI). Adam Sharp and Lisa Armstrong were executive producers from NATAS, while David McKenzie was executive producer from ATI.
Here are the 2024 Daytime Emmy nominations in selected categories, with winners marked. Categories with no winners marked will be presented on Saturday’s show. This list will be updated at that time. In program categories, we show only the name(s) of the most senior executive producer(s) who are nominees.
Outstanding Daytime Talk Series
The Jennifer Hudson Show, Syndicated; Executive producers: Mary Connelly, Jennifer Hudson, Lisa Kasteler Calio, Andy Lassner, Graehme Morphy, Walter Williams III
WINNER: The Kelly Clarkson Show, Syndicated; Executive producers: Kelly Clarkson, Alex Duda, Kareen Gunning
Tamron Hall, Syndicated; Executive producers: Quiana Burns, Tamron Hall
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts, Disney+; Executive producers: Kadine Anckle, Philip Byron, Reni Calister, Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson, LeBron James, Robin Roberts
The View, ABC; Executive producer: Brian Teta
Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host
Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, The View, ABC
Kelly Clarkson, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Syndicated
WINNER: Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa, Live with Kelly and Mark, Syndicated
Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell, Sheryl Underwood, The Talk, CBS
Tamron Hall, Tamron Hall, Syndicated
Outstanding Entertainment News Series
Access Hollywood, Syndicated; Senior executive producer: Maureen Fitzpatrick
WINNER: Entertainment Tonight, Syndicated; Executive producer: Erin Johnson
Extra, Syndicated; Executive producers: Theresa Coffino, Jeremy Speigel
Outstanding Culinary Series
WINNER: Be My Guest with Ina Garten, Food Network; Executive producer: Rachel Purnell
Family Dinner, Magnolia Network; Executive producer/host: Andrew Zimmern; Executive producers: Patrick McMahill, Patrick Weiland
Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays, Food Network; Executive producers: Selena Gomez, Eli Holzman, Shauna Minoprio, Aaron Saidman, Melissa Stokes
Valerie’s Home Cooking, Food Network; Executive producers: Valerie Bertinelli, Mary Beth Bray, Jack Grossbart, Stephen Kroopnick, Marc Schwartz
What Am I Eating? with Zooey Deschanel, Max; Executive producer/host: Zooey Deschanel; Executive producers: Jarrett Moreno, Matthew Segal, Taye Shuayb, Jessie Surovell, Mike Vainisi, Tracy Wares, Jeffrey L. Weaver, Tom Werner
Outstanding Daytime Personality – Daily
Frank Caprio, Caught in Providence, Facebook Watch
WINNER: Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, Matt Cohen, Cassie DiLaura, Denny Directo, Will Marfuggi, Rachel Smith, Entertainment Tonight, Syndicated
Deborah Norville, Steven Fabian, Lisa Guerrero, Ann Mercogliano, Jim Moret, Les Trent, Inside Edition, Syndicated
Robert Hernandez, Star Jones, Divorce Court, FOX
Judge Judy Sheindlin, Whitney Kumar, Kevin Rasco, Sarah Rose, Judy Justice, Amazon Freevee
Outstanding Music Direction and Composition
African Queens: Njinga, Netflix; Composer: Michael “Mikey” J Asante
Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, Netflix; Music by Steve Gernes, Tyler Sabbag, Duncan Thum
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, NBC; Lead Composer: Evan Frankfort
Mysteries of the Faith, Netflix; Music by Rob Lewis
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre, Netflix; Composer: Amotz Plessner; Music Supervisors: Anny Colvin, Pilar Fitzgerald
Outstanding Original Song
“Shine, General Hospital, ABC; Composers: Derek Ryan Deblieux, Douglas Ladnier, John Shartzer; Composer & Lyricist: Jophielle Love Kindar-Martin
“Unexpected Truth,” Unexpected, Hulu; Composer & Lyricist: B.Slade
“We’re Home,” Reconnecting Roots, PBS; Composer & Lyricists: Heidi Feek, Dillon Hodges, Mandy McCauley
Outstanding Arts and Popular Culture Program
Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids, Vimeo; Executive producers: Dan Goodman, Neil Patrick Harris, Brian Hunt, William H. Masterson, III
King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, Netflix; Executive Producers: Kendall Elrod, Russ Friedman, Jesse Jacobs, Peyton Manning, Brent Montgomery, Will Nothacker, Ian Sambor, Connor Schell, Eric Wattenberg
Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter, Sundance TV; Executive producers: Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Elisabeth D. Rabishaw, Maer Roshan, Jason Rovou
Oprah and “The Color Purple” Journey, Max; Executive producers: Tara Montgomery, Brian Piotrowicz, Oprah Winfrey
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors, PBS; Executive producers: Michelle Merker, Donna Pennestri, John Ross, Andrew Russell, Ramin Setoodeh
Working in the Theatre, AmericanTheatreWing.org; Executive producer: Heather A. Hitchens
Outstanding Daytime Special
Culture Quest: Ukraine, PBS; Executive producer: Ian Grant
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, ABC; Executive producers: Michael Antinoro, Sally Hopkins Conner, Bill Fortney, Richard Godfrey, Julianne Hough, Derek Hough
97th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC; Executive producers: Bill Bracken, Will Coss, Brad Lachman
Recipe for Change: Celebrating Black Men, SpringHill; Executive producers: Philip Byron, Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson, LeBron James, Joel Relampagos
Unexpected, Hulu; Executive producers: John Hill, Norman Lee, Zeberiah Newman, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Leah Turner
Outstanding Short Form Program
Catalyst, LinkedIn News; Executive producers: Courtney Coupe, Enrique Montalvo
The Dads, Netflix; Executive producers: Jon Marcus, Dwyane Wade
Hollywood Atelier: Rob Pickens, The Hollywood Reporter; Executive producers: Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Jason Rovou
How Una Pizza Napoletana Became the No.1 Ranked Pizza in the World, Eater; Executive producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre, Netflix; Executive producer: Ken Scherer
Outstanding Daytime Personality – Non-Daily
Samantha Brown, Samantha Brown’s Places To Love, PBS
Derrick Campana, The Wizard of Paws, BYUtv
Christian Cooper, Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper, National Geographic
Zoë François, Andrew Zimmern, Holiday Party with Andrew & Zoë, Magnolia Network
Jet Tila, Ready Jet Cook, Food Network
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The Black Keys has parted ways with its managers, Irving Azoff and Steve Moir, following the abrupt cancellation of the band’s arena tour in North America late last month.
First reported by the New York Times, a representative for Azoff has confirmed the split, telling Billboard it was an “amicable parting.” A representative for The Black Keys declined to comment. Moir did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
On May 24, information on the Keys’ 31-date International Players Tour trek, which was slated to kick off Sept. 17 in Tulsa, Okla., and wrap Nov. 12 in Detroit, quietly disappeared from Ticketmaster’s website.
Two days later, the band — which consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — posted an update on X (formerly Twitter) writing that they had “decided,” following a run of shows in the United Kingdom and Europe, “to make some changes to the North American leg of the International Players Tour that will enable us to offer a similarly exciting, intimate experience for both fans and the band, and will be announcing a revised set of dates shortly.” No other reason was given for the cancellation of the arena dates, though it has been widely speculated that slow ticket sales were to blame.
The Black Keys signed with Azoff and Moir in 2021 after parting with their longtime manager, John Peets at Q Prime South.
As Black Keys fans await the promised rescheduled dates and/or refunds for the arena shows, a single North American date remains on the band’s official website: a July 6 performance at NASCAR Chicago Street Race.
The cancellation of the Keys’ arena dates is the second-profile tour cancellation to go down in recent weeks. On Friday (May 31), Live Nation announced that Jennifer Lopez had canceled her This Is Me…Live Tour just a month before it was set to kick off in Orlando, Fla. The touring giant stated that the superstar was “taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends.” Lopez later released her own statement saying that she was “completely heartsick” over the cancellation and that she “wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was absolutely necessary.”
When Snowd4y, a Toronto parody rapper, released the track “Wah Gwan Delilah” featuring Drake via Soundcloud on Monday (June 3), it instantly went viral.
“This has to be AI,” one commenter wrote about the song. It was a sentiment shared by many others, particularly given the track’s ridiculous lyrics and the off-kilter audio quality of Drake’s vocals.
To date, the two rappers have not confirmed or denied the AI rumor. Though Drake posted the track on his Instagram story, it is hardly a confirmation that the vocals in question are AI-free. (As we learned during Drake’s recent beef with Kendrick Lamar, the rapper is not afraid of deep-faking voices).
To try to get to the bottom of the “Wah Gwan Delilah” mystery, Billboard contacted two companies that specialize in AI audio detection to review the track. The answer, unfortunately, was not too satisfying.
“Our first analysis reveals SOME traces of [generative] AI, but there seems to be a lot of mix involved,” wrote Romain Simiand, chief product officer of Ircam Amplify, a French company that creates audio tools for rights holders, in an email response.
Larry Mills, senior vp of sales at Pex, which specializes in tracking and monetizing music usage across the web, also found mixed results. He told Billboard the Pex research and development team “ran the song through [their] VoiceID matcher” and that “Drake’s voice on the ‘Wah Gwan Delilah’ verse does not match as closely to Drake’s voice…[as his voice on] official releases [does], but it is close enough to confirm it could be Drake’s own voice or a good AI copy.” Notably, Pex’s VoiceID tool alone is not enough to definitively distinguish between real and AI voices, but its detection of differences between the singer/rapper’s voice on “Wah Gwan Delilah” and his other, officially released songs could indicate some level of AI manipulation.
A representative for Drake did not immediately respond to Billboard’s request for comment.
How to Screen for AI in Songs
There are multiple types of tools that are currently used to distinguish between AI-generated music and human-made music, but these nascent products are still developing and not definitive. As Pex’s Jakub Galka recently wrote in a company blog post about the topic, “Identifying AI-generated music [is] a particularly difficult task.”
Some detectors, like Ircam’s, identify AI music using “artifact detection,” meaning they detect parts of a work that are off-base from reality. A clear example of this is seen with AI-generated images. Early AI images often contained hands with extra or misshapen fingers, and some detection tools exist to pick up on these inaccuracies.
Other detectors rely on reading watermarks embedded in the AI-generated music. While these watermarks are not perceptible to the human ear, they can be detected by certain tools. Galka writes that “since watermarking is intended to be discoverable by watermark detection algorithms, such algorithms can also be used to show how to remove or modify the watermark embedded in audio so it is no longer discoverable” — something he sees as a major flaw with this system of detection.
Pex’s method of using VoiceID, which can determine if a singer matches between multiple recordings, can also be useful in AI detection, though it is not a clear-cut answer. This technology is particularly helpful when users take to the internet and release random tracks with Drake vocals, whether they’re leaked songs or AI deepfakes. With VoiceID, Pex can tell a rights holder that their voice was detected on another track that might not be an official release from them.
When VoiceID is paired with the company’s other product, Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), it can sometimes determine if a song uses AI vocals or not, but the company says there is not enough information on “Wah Gwan Delilah” to complete a full ACR check.
Parody’s Role in AI Music
Though it can’t be determined without a doubt whether “Wah Gwan Delilah” contains AI vocals, parody songs in general have played a major role in popularizing and normalizing AI music. This is especially evident on TikTok, which is replete with so-called “AI Covers,” pairing famous vocalists with unlikely songs. Popular examples of this trend include Kanye West singing “Pocket Full of Sunshine” by Natasha Bedingfield, Juice WRLD singing “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay, Michael Jackson singing “Careless Whisper” by George Michael and more.
Most recently, AI comedy music took center stage with Metro Boomin‘s SoundCloud-released track “BBL Drizzy” — which sampled an AI-generated song of the same name. The track poked fun at Drake and his supposed “Brazilian Butt Lift” during the rapper’s beef with Lamar, and in the process, it became the first major use of an AI-generated sample. Later, Drake and Sexyy Red sampled the original AI-generated “BBL Drizzy” on their own song, “U My Everything,” lifting “BBL Drizzy” to new heights.
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Produced by WWE in partnership with UFC, NXT Battleground: Las Vegas features six matches with five title bouts on Sunday, June 9.
NXT Battleground: Las Vegas takes place at UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada., with a start time of 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The event is hosted by Sexyy Red.
Want to watch NXT Battleground 2024 online? This event is streaming on the WWE Network on Peacock for Premium or Premium Plus subscribers only.
If you’re not a subscriber, you can get access and a Peacock monthly subscription, which starts at $5.99 per month. However, there’s a deal on a Peacock subscription. Right now, you can get 12 months of service for just $19.99 per year with promo code “STREAMTHEDEAL.”
Check out the full NXT Battleground: Las Vegas fight card below, and PPV livestream here.
Fight Card, 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
- Trick Williams (champion) vs. Ethan Page (Singles match for the NXT Championship) — Main Event
- Nathan Frazer and Axiom (champion) vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson (Tag team match for the NXT Tag Team Championship)
- Roxanne Perez (champion) vs. Jordynne Grace (Singles match for the NXT Women’s Championship)
- Shayna Baszler vs. Lola Vice (NXT Underground match)
- Oba Femi (champion) vs. Wes Lee vs. Joe Coffey (Triple threat match for the NXT North American Championship)
- Sol Ruca vs. Lash Legend vs. Fallon Henley vs. Jaida Parker vs. Michin vs. Kelani Jordan (Ladder match for the inaugural NXT Women’s North American Championship)
Want to attend NXT Battleground: Las Vegas in person? There are last-minute tickets available via SeatGeek, StubHub and Ticketmaster. Prices vary depending on seats available at UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada.
NXT Battleground: Las Vegas is available to stream on Peacock on Sunday, June 9, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
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No need to beg! Sabrina Carpenter unveiled her latest single, “Please Please Please,” on Thursday (June 6) alongside a cinematic music video.
“Please, please, please don’t bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice,” the pop star muses on the track, which features a high-action, Bardia Zeinali-directed visual starring Carpenter’s boyfriend, Barry Keoghan, as the duo portray a Bonnie and Clyde-type couple navigating their love through crime and jail stints.
“Please Please Please” follows Carpenter’s viral hit “Espresso,” which was released right before she took the stage at Coachella back in April. The track currently sits at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and has risen as high as No. 4.
Earlier this week, Carpenter revealed that her sixth album Short n’ Sweet will be arriving on August 23. “This project is quite special to me and i hope it’ll be something special to you too,” she wrote on social media, alongside a photo of the star looking over her shoulder with a red kiss mark on her arm.
The singer’s last album, 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send — which features hits like “Nonsense,” “Feather” and “Because I Liked a Boy” — peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking Carpenter’s highest-charting effort on the tally.
Watch the “Please Please Please” music video below.
