It was obvious that ABC looked at the Daytime Emmys this year as basically a promotional vehicle for SOAPnet (“MVP”'s regular net is SOAP)–and besides, over 9 million homes were watching “Rock Camp” on the sister Disney Channel, anyway.

what was the new way of picking the nominees? I think that the emmys are the most valid awards shows because people actually submit episodes are are judged from those episodes. GH must give the best episodes every year.

As for MVP, it already failed in Canada (and has been cancelled), so why would any network in the US think that it would do any better there? It's truly a bizarre pick-up, considering that there are so many other Canadian shows that would probably do much better stateside, but are overlooked.

However, Canadian series are starting to make inroads in the US. Corner Gas, Davinchi's Inquest and Cold Squad (the original, the one that Cold Case ripped off) all air in US syndication, and Fox just signed up to do a remake of Little Mosque on the Prairie. There was a lot of hope in Canadian television circles that the strike would mean US networks would look north for programming (there was no strike here), but that didn't happen to a large extent. I still think a US network would do well to program a Friday or Saturday with Canadian programs. They'd probably get them dirt cheap, the quality is there, and none of the networks are airing anything of consequence anyway on Fridays or Saturdays.

Here's a thought: next year just stream the show on the internet. Sell advertising or have product placement. Show decent clips from the nominees, preferably the clips or shows submitted by the nominees. You could watch in real time or download for later. Stream decent interviews with the winners. Let the winners thank people to their hearts content. Do something different.