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Airing tonight on CBS—your home for awards shows no one cares about!-Daytime Emmys producers were willing to try bold and unorthodox gimmicks to increase viewership, such as literally installing 200 hysterical soap fans on the stage alongside the presenters and winners. It's a prospect that doesn't sit well with some nominees:

Lead actor nominee Peter Bergman of CBS' "The Young and the Restless" isn't so sure about the close-up access.

"Just presenting, you could be accosted. Lucky me," he said, tongue-nearly-in-cheek. "It ends up being almost silliness. It's not how I want to celebrate a career achievement." [...]

Among the scheduled presenters are Ellen DeGeneres, Rachael Ray, Tyra Banks, Jerry Springer, Alex Trebek and "The View" co-hosts Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar — minus the recently departed Rosie O'Donnell.

The quartet could be reunited onstage if "The View" wins in the talk-show host category and O'Donnell attends, as [co-EP Ricky] Kirshner anticipates.

Cockteasing the public with a Rosie/Rest-of-the-Bitches reunion is certainly one savvy way to go, as few could resist the prospect of such an awkward and public reconciliation. The ceremony could wind up seeing a sizable uptick in ratings, purely for those recent View converts jonesing to witness a self-righteous O'Donnell steamroll her former co-hosts just once more at the podium. Should Walters call for a group hug over the orchestra swell that quickly devolves into a 204-person hair-pulling, face-scratching grand melee on the stage of the Kodak Theater, that will just be the icing on the proverbial cake.