Pop Culture Checklist

The nominees for the Daytime Emmy Awards were announced today. The award show airs June 20 on ABC.

Here are the nominees:

Outstanding Drama Series

Young and the Restless

General Hospital

One Life to Live

Guiding Light

Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series

David Canary (All My Children)

Thaao Penghlis (Days of Our Lives)

Peter Bergman (Young and the Restless)

Anthony Geary (General Hospital)

Christian LeBlanc (Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Maura West (As the World Turns)

Crystal Chappell (Guiding Light)

Nicole Forester (Guiding Light)

Michelle Stafford (Young and the Restless)

Jeane Cooper (Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Younger Actress in Drama Series

Jennifer Landon (As the World Turns)

Rachel Melvin (Days of Our Lives)

Vail Bloom (Young and the Restless)

Emily O’Brien (Young and the Restless)

Tammin Sursok (Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Younger Actor in Drama Series

Van Hansis (As the World Turns)

Jesse Lee Soffer (As the World Turns)

Darin Brooks (Days of Our Lives)

Ton Pelphrey (Guiding Light)

Bryton McClure (Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in Drama Series

Kelley Menighan Hensley (As the World Turns)

Heather Tom (Bold and the Beautiful)

Judi Evans (Days of Our Lives)

Gina Tongoni (Guiding Light)

Tracey Bregman (Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama Series

Trent Dawson (As the World Turns)

Daniel Cosgrove (Guiding Light)

Brian Kerwin (One Life to Live)

Kristoff St. John (Young and the Restless)

Greg Rikaart (Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Talk Show, Informative

Dr. Phil

A Place of Our Own

Tyra Banks Show

Outstanding Talk Show, Entertaining

Ellen Degeneres Show

The View

Rachael Ray Show

Outstanding Talk Show Host

Ellen Degeneres

Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa

Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi, Elisabeth Hasselback, Sherri Shepherd (The View)

Collegehumor.com made an interesting observation. 

They found that the upcoming Dark Knight movie trailer and 1989’s Batman movie trailer are eerily the same.

Look for yourself right HERE.

Well, this one did not surprise me.

Shannon Elizabeth and dance partner Derek Hough were voted off Dancing with the Stars last night.

I think America had enough of this couple when they wined about last weeks’ comments from the judges. They totally flipped out, making themselves look petty and ridiculous.

Cristian de la Fuente, who was injured during his second performance Monday, said he ruptured a tendon in his biceps and would need surgery to repair it. However, he is delaying the operation so he can continue dancing.

Only five celebrities remain: Jason Taylor, Christi Yamaguchi, de la Fuente, Mario and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Nominees for the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be announced live Wednesday on The View. It airs at 11 a.m. on ABC.

The show will include several soap stars, such as Rebecca Budig and Cameron Mathison (All My Children); Farah Fath and John-Paul Lavoisier (One Life To Live); Biggest Loser host Allison Sweeney and her Days Of Our Lives co-star Bryan Dattilo; Van Hansis (As The World Turns), and Marcy Rylan (Guiding Light).

Winners of the daytime Emmys will be named, live, at 8 p.m. June 20 on ABC. 

Neil Diamond will be the guest mentor on American Idol tonight.

What a total snoozer! Lucky for me, I banned the show after Carly Smithson was voted off.

It airs at 8 p.m. tonight on Fox. The results show is at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Warner Bros. announced its new upcoming Web site, www.thewbtv.com.

It will feature many WB favorites, such as Smallville, Gilmore Girls and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It also will show non-WB shows, such as Friends and The O.C.

The site will include social networking, links to Facebook and original short-form programming. A sister site, www.kidsWB.com, includes programming from Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics and is already online.

The new Web site goes live in August.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s “Baby Mama” topped the box office with $18.3 million.

The comedy is about surrogate motherhood. Runner-up was the comedy “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” opening with $14.6 million.

A third comedy, ”Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” was another comedy that did well. It hauled in $11 million.

Last week’s No. 1 movie, “The Forbidden Kingdom,” fell to third place with $11.2 million

TOP 10 BOX OFFICE MOVIES

1. Baby Mama, $18.3 million

2. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, $14.6 million

3. The Forbidden Kingdom, $11.2 million

4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $11 million

5. Nim’s Island, $4.5 million

6. Prom Night, $4.4 million

7. 21, $4 million

8. 88 Minutes, $3.6 million

9. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, $2.4 million

10. Deception, $2.2 million

Like many of you, I feel lost with no “24″ this season!

That is why I am happy to report ANY 24 news, including its new cast photo. I love Kiefer, but Carlos Bernard (aka Tony Almeida) looks really hot!

Go HERE to see it. Enjoy!!

The new “Dark Knight” poster is pretty sweet!

Go HERE to see it. 

Moby, Detroit’s Carl Craig and Speedy J will headline the 9th annual Techno Festival.

It will be held may 24 through May 26 at Hart Plaza on the Detroit riverfront. They are among 70 acts set to play on four stages.

For details and the entire schedule, go to http://www.myspace.com/detroitmusicfest.

Here’s the main stage lineup:

Saturday, May 24:

4 p.m. — Deepchord presents Echospace

5:30 p.m. — Half Hawaii

7 p.m. — Zip

9 p.m. — DBX

10 p.m. to midnight — Moby

Sunday, May 25:

2 p.m. — Keith Worthy

3:30 p.m. — Alton Miller

5 p.m. — Lawnchair Generals

7 p.m. — Miles Maeda

9 p.m. — Mark Farina

11 p.m. — Carl Craig

Monday, May 26:

2 p.m. — Rex Sepulveda

4 p.m. — Cassy

6 p.m. — Cobblestone Jazz

7 p.m. — Paul Ritch

8 p.m. — Joris Voorn

9 p.m. — Oscar Mulero

11 p.m. — Speedy J with Scott Pagano VJ