Emmy Awards Viewers May Be Asking: Will Susan Lucci Get Her First Emmy On Her 18th Nomination?

Longtime loser Susan Lucci has yet another chance to break her string of bad luck.

The soap opera veteran has received her 18th Daytime Emmy Award nomination for best actress.

Lucci, who plays Erica Kane on ABC’s “All My Children,” has had plenty of practice with consolation speeches. She’s never won.

In all, her show got 17 nominations Wednesday. CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” had the most, 18 nominations, and “General Hospital” had 16. “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” with 13 nominations, had more than any other non-soap opera.

O’Donnell is up against “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which will compete for its fifth consecutive Emmy as best talk show. Other nominees are “Leeza,” “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” and “The View.”

Jerry Springer, whose combative talk show has been soaring in the ratings lately, was snubbed in the talk show category.

Lucci will compete in the category of outstanding lead actress in a daytime drama series (soap opera) against Eileen Davidson of “Days of Our Lives,” Jacklyn Zeman of “General Hospital,” Cynthia Watros of “Guiding Light” and Kim Zimmer of “Guiding Light.”

Syndicated shows had 53 nominations; ABC 52; CBS, the ratings king in daytime, had 49; PBS 48; and NBC 26.

The awards will be given out May 15 in a ceremony telecast on NBC.