While PBS’s Sesame Street again garnered the most nominations in the children’s TV categories, the public broadcast outlet’s Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks emerged as the animated favorite as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced nominees for the 33rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on ABC from the Kodak Theatre on April 28.
Jakers!, a CG-animated series from Mike Young Prods. and Entara, received a total of four nominations, three of which are for voice cast members Maile Flanagan, Russi Taylor and Tara Strong, who are up against each other in the Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program race. Jess Harnell from Mike Young’s Pet Alien (Cartoon Network) Tony Jay from Nelvana’s Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends (Nickelodeon) fill out the category. Jakers! is also up for Outstanding Children’s Animated program, along with PBS’ Arthur, Cartoon Network’s Baby Looney Tunes, Nick Jr.’s Dora the Explorer and the Discovery Kids offerings Peep and Todd World, another Mike Young production.
Warner Bros. toon shows also did well. The Kids’ WB! entries The Batman and Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island are both in the running for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program, going up against Discovery Kids’ The Save-Ums and NBC’s Tutenstein. Meanwhile, Baby Looney Tunes snagged a second nom for music direction and composition, along with PBS’s Clifford’s Puppy Days and Maya and Miguel.
Competing against the juggernaut known as Sesame Street in the Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series category are Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Room and the Discovery Kids shows Paz and Hi-5.
Animated shows are holding their own against live-action competitors in the sound and music categories as Warner Bros. toons completely fill the Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing’Live Action and Animation field. The Batman, Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island, Johnny Test, Loonatics Unleashed and Xiaolin Showdown are all up for the award. Meanwhile Nick Jr.’s Dora the Explorer is up against live-action shows in the sound mixing competition and Disney Channel’s The Buzz on Maggie is taking on the soaps and talkers in the Best Song category with ‘Just the Way I Am’ by composers/lyricists Bob Thiele and Dillon O’Brian.
The complete list of 2006 Daytime Emmy Award nominees can be found at www.emmys.org/awards/daytimeawards_noms.php.
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