| Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Daytime Talk Series |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
| First award | 1974 |
| Currently held by | Live with Kelly and Mark (2025) |
| Website | emmyonline.org |
| Related | Award was split intoTalk Show—Informative andTalk Show—Entertainment from 2008 to 2022 |
TheDaytime Emmy Award for Daytime Talk Series, originally calledOutstanding Talk Show, is an award presented annually by theNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) to honor daytimetalk shows. It was first presented as theOutstanding Talk Show award at the1st Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony held in 1974.
From the35th Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008 to the49th Daytime Emmy Awards in 2022, the award was divided into two specific categories:Outstanding Talk Show—Informative, honoring talk shows that were more informative in nature, andOutstanding Talk Show—Entertainment, honoring those that were more entertainment in nature. In 2023, the NATAS merged the two specific categories back into one, under the new official nameOutstanding Daytime Talk Series.[1]
In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
| Year | Program | Network | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 (7th) | |||
| The Phil Donahue Show ‡ | [8] | ||
| Dinah! | |||
| Good Morning America | |||
| 1981 (8th) | |||
| The Phil Donahue Show ‡ | [9] | ||
| Over Easy | |||
| The Richard Simmons Show | |||
| 1982 (9th) | |||
| The Richard Simmons Show ‡ | [10] | ||
| The Phil Donahue Show | |||
| Hour Magazine | |||
| Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal | |||
| 1983 (10th) | |||
| This Old House ‡ | [11] | ||
| The Phil Donahue Show | |||
| Hour Magazine | |||
| The Richard Simmons Show | |||
| 1984 (11th) | |||
| Woman to Woman ‡ | [12] | ||
| The Phil Donahue Show | |||
| Hour Magazine | |||
| This Old House | |||
| 1985 (12th) | |||
| The Phil Donahue Show ‡ | [13] | ||
| Hour Magazine | |||
| The Merv Griffin Show | |||
| This Old House | |||
| Woman to Woman | |||
| 1986 (13th) | |||
| The Phil Donahue Show ‡ | [14] | ||
| Hour Magazine | |||
| New York's Master Chefs | |||
| This Old House | |||
| 1987 (14th) | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show ‡ | [15] | ||
| The Phil Donahue Show | |||
| Hour Magazine | |||
| This Old House | |||
| 1988 (15th) | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show ‡ | [16] | ||
| The Phil Donahue Show | |||
| The Frugal Gourmet | |||
| This Old House | |||
| The Wil Shriner Show | |||
| 1989 (16th) | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show ‡ | [17] | ||
| The Phil Donahue Show | |||
| The Frugal Gourmet | |||
| Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | |||
| This Old House |
The award was split intoTalk Show—Informative andTalk Show—Entertainment.
The separateInformative andEntertainment awards were merged back into a single award.
| Year | Program | Network | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 (50th) | ||||
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | Syndicated | [36] | ||
| The Drew Barrymore Show | Syndicated | |||
| The Jennifer Hudson Show | ||||
| Live with Kelly and Ryan | ||||
| Today with Hoda & Jenna | ||||
| 2024 (51st) | ||||
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | Syndicated | |||
| The Jennifer Hudson Show | Syndicated | |||
| Tamron Hall | ||||
| Turning the Table withRobin Roberts | ||||
| The View | ||||
| 2025 (52nd) | Live with Kelly and Mark | Syndicated | [37] | |
| The Drew Barrymore Show | Syndicated | |||
| The Jennifer Hudson Show | ||||
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | ||||
| The View | ||||
| Wins | Host |
|---|---|
| 9 | The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| 6 | Donahue |
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show | |
| 4 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show |
| 2 | Dinah! |
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | |
| The Merv Griffin Show |