2020 Daytime Emmy Nominations announced (Wheel nominated)

...Eh, I'll say it. Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader hosted by John Cena got nominated for Outstanding Game Show over Wheel.

But good luck to all the other shows nominated! I'm not really a fan of awards shows unless I can say a dismal TV show or Movie technically got an award.

Yes. Yes it does.

Granted, I think Vanna's turn as host deserves some sort of nod (especially since it's by far the most creative and/or unique thing to happen on the show in the past 5-6 years or so), but other than that it's been the same old tiredness.


And, I'd argue, for good reason. Granted, that doesn't explain why the Academy thinks The Euphemism Show Notice Me, Urban Dictionary-Senpai! Family Feud is worth being nominated for Outstanding Game Show...

MarioGS got it right; Alex Trebek took the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host over Pat this year.

Emmys: the one day of the year where the entire game show industry unites to point and laugh at Wheel. To have literally every big-name game show except Wheel nominated every single year is just wrong. Yes, the show has been terribly-produced, but to blatantly exclude it from any recognition at all feels like somebody out there has some vendetta for the show. It would be like the Oscars never nominating Meryl Streep or the Grammys never nominating Ariana Grande even if their most recent work wasn't as well received. The names alone are big enough.

But I wish we knew the reason why - does the Academy really hate the show that much, or is Sony just using good old Jeopardy! favoritism? Fremantle never plays favorites with Price/LMAD. Not all J! staff works on Wheel, so it's a big middle finger to those that work only on Wheel. Always excluded, and always thrown under the bus because Harry Friedman putting all his creativity into Jeopardy! over the past several years has resulted in a near-universal preference for that show, instead of two juggernaut companions like they once were in better times. Is there any reason to put the fault on Wheel's constant Emmy snubs on anybody but Harry?

It's so sad how far our show has fallen. I'm just thankful things are actually finally going to change. I honestly think less than another decade under Harry and the show would have been cancelled but J! would have continued even without Alex because of how J!'s popularity has risen this past decade and Wheel's has fallen.

And I am not counting Pat's nominations in all this. We know from the moment the nominations are announced that Pat is never winning over Alex Trebek, especially not now. Could you imagine the riots if Pat won the award over Alex, even though Pat had a health emergency of his own? Health aside, it's pretty much become law that Wheel can only get equal or lesser spotlight than Jeopardy! these days. I actually kind of miss the days where Family Feud was so far above both of them but Wheel and J! were still roughly equal. Now Feud has pretty much fallen a bit under J!, but still well above Wheel thanks to Mr. Harvey.

It's times like this I wish Wheel and Jeopardy! weren't co-owned. Not like it would be any difference given how much casual game show fans like to compare the two as if they're competitors. Maybe if they were, Wheel or its owners would wake up and smell the coffee.

I’m wondering, do the hosts submit their own individual reel or does the show submit one for consideration in both Show and Host categories?