The 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2009) watch online HD

Unlike the prime time Emmy awards, the daytime Emmys are only 2 hours and in prime time. Let's not forget that they are a couple of months late because none of the major networks wanted to broadcast it. Like the Tony Awards get more viewers than the Daytime Emmys, I think not. The two hour award show was hosted by Vanessa Williams who was singing a little too much of the time. There was a silly photography sequence of the fashions which was just ridiculous and a waste of time. There was no memoriam and there wasn't last year as well to remember those lost like Eileen Herlie, Beverlee McKinsey, Shell Kepler, and others in the daytime part of the business. They did pay tribute to Guiding Light by having Betty White, television legend, pay a fan tribute. Who knew that she was a fan? She could have been on the show. The clips were nice and the cast made their final curtain call but as Betty White said "All good things come to an end" and Guiding Light is no more.

This year's daytime emmy awards aired with the usual tuxedoed, what-she's-wearing, red-carpet fanfare and bulb-popping history making, night-to-remember delivery of sensationalism and letdowns. Who won and who didn't win and who said what and will anyone remember any of this come the dawn?

The anticipated hilight, literally and figuratively speaking, was without a doubt the Guiding Light dedication and retrospective, with more than a tear shed by the disappointed fandom to see their stalwart favorite program come to an end in mid-September.

With the departure of this daytime anchor, will the rest of these soap operatic melodramas stand much of a chance?

How predictable is the writing on the wall for what will befall the hour glass, the hospital, the young, the restless, the bold, the beautiful and all my children?

Will the world stop turning?

Will there only be one life to live?

For now, there was smiles for nominations, bigger smiles when someone else did the winning, but Guiding Light won't be shining any further here or on Another World, and longtime viewers consider this a Capitol offense, but should the other shows follow suit and not even bother to . . . . Search For Tomorrow?