Mario Lopez is set to host the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, Oct. 17, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif. The show will be streamed live at watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys app; the show was broadcast on CBS the last five years.
The Kelly Clarkson Show has won outstanding daytime talk series the last four years in a row. Kelly Clarkson has also won outstanding entertainment talk show host four times, though she lost last year to Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos of Live With Kelly & Mark. Still, that means that Clarkson won in at least one of those categories in each of her show’s first five seasons.
This year, another talker, The Drew Barrymore Show, received one more total nomination (nine vs. eight for Clarkson’s show). The other nominees for outstanding daytime talk series are The Jennifer Hudson Show, Live With Kelly and Mark and The View.
The hosts of four of those five shows are nominated for outstanding daytime talk series host. The sole exception is that the hosts of The View were passed over in this category in favor of Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb, hosts of Today With Hoda & Jenna (NBC).
Beginning Monday, Oct. 13, Access Hollywood will feature five nights of dedicated Daytime Emmys segments leading up to the ceremony. Following the ceremony, on Monday, Oct. 20, the program will recap the show with red-carpet moments, winner reactions and exclusive footage.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Access Hollywood and having Mario Lopez host this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards,” Adam Sharp, president & CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) said in a statement.
Lopez, who will turn 52 one week before the Daytime Emmys, has served as anchor of Access Hollywood since 2019.
In addition, NATAS has announced that, this year, for the first time since 2018, a limited number of tickets to the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony will be available for public purchase. Tickets are now on sale, for $75 plus applicable fees, exclusively through Ticketmaster.
The 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be produced by NATAS Productions LLC. Sharp and Lisa Armstrong are executive producers, with Rachel Schwartz serving as head of the Daytime Emmy Awards.
Deborah Norville will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
In January 2025, Sharp revealed that the Daytime Emmy Awards would move from its traditional May/June date to October, switching places with the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
The Daytime Emmys drew 3.1 million viewers in its first year on CBS and has fallen below 3 million in each of the last four years. Still, that was well above the dismal numbers it posted in 2019, the last year it didn’t have a broadcast partner.