The 2011 Creative Arts Daytime Emmys were handed out on Friday, June 17 in Los Angeles at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. While broadcast soaps General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and All My Children took home various technical awards; it was Crystal Chappell’s Venice that picked up the Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime Creative Arts Emmy. General Hospital took home the most wins at the Creative Arts Daytime Emmys.

Check out a list of the 2011 Creative Arts Daytime Emmy winners after the jump.

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Major props to the creative forces behind webisoaps Venice and Gotham. Both sudsers received nominations for Oustanding Special Class Short Format, and will go up against Disney Channel's Tasty Time With Zefronk. In light of the recent blows the daytime soap opera industry and its fans have endured, I expect more and more soap fans to be flocking online for their sudsy fix, and shows like Venice and Gotham could find even more popularity and support as a result. Congrats to Venice co-creators Crystal Chappell (Carly, DAYS) and Kimmy Turrisi, and Gotham's Martha Byrne.

What do you get when you cross an As The World Turns vet with an Another World alum? One pretty hot smooch! Perry (Matt Crane) wants Catherine (Martha Byrne) to go out on a date with him. When she hesitates he decides a nice buss just might do the trick with his Nicole Miller co-worker. Meanwhile, Crane's former AW cougar Anna Stuart (Elizabeth)—they were one of my all-time Bay City couples, Matt Cory and Donna Love— warns her wheeling,dealing son Richard (Michael Park) about that deep-pocketed beeyouch Dinah (Maeve Kinkead). READ MORE

Matt Crane made his debut on Martha Byrne's Gotham on yesterday's episode. Watch the installment after the jump.

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The cast of Martha Byrne's Gotham  has been busy with location shoots lately. Anne Sayre, Byrne and Tamsen Fadal filmed scenes while attending Nicole Miller's fashion show on Feb. 12.  Anna Stuart, Brianne Moncrief, Kurt McKinney and Michael Park shot scenes at law offices in Hoboken.   READ MORE

Okay, I will readily admit, when God was handing out the virtue of patience, I was probably somewhere yelling at a heavenly microwave to hurry up. A few weeks back I blogged that Martha Byrne's web soap opera Gotham was "really, really boring", and, well, it was. At least it was then. In tonight's episode, however things begin to shape up quite noticeably, and I couldn't be happier. READ MORE