Television is in the midst of a new golden age, as this year's Emmy nominations attest. Actors go where the best writing can be found, and TV is that place to judge by the flood of movie star names among this year's Emmy nominees, including Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Lange, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Julia Roberts.

It's especially true for actresses, as Halle Berry has been pointing out on the promotional trail for her new "Extant" series. The women's categories this Emmy year represent an array of meaty characters — Taylor Schilling's prison inmate in "Orange is the New Black," Lizzy Caplan's sex researcher in "Masters of Sex," Kerry Washington's D.C. fixer in "Scandal," Claire Danes' CIA agent in "Homeland," Margo Martindale's Cold War era Soviet spy in "The Americans," and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' U.S. vice president in "Veep" to name a few.

Christine Baranski, up for Emmy honors (her 12th nomination) for playing law firm partner Diane Lockhart on "The Good Wife" is quick to attest to the multi-dimensionality of her character. "What I really love? She's a powerful, well-educated woman, very well-spoken, and she can just go toe to toe with the guys. Women love that, they love to see it," she told us. "There are so many powerful women in the world now, running companies, running countries, running the international monetary fund. They know how to talk to guys. They don't, you know, bend and try to be all cute to try to deal with the guys. It's a new world, and I love that Diane is totally comfortable with men. She actually likes men. You get the feeling, this is a woman who can sit down and drink scotch with the guys and talk sports."

NEW GURU FOR YOU: There's nothing like aiming high. Nashville-based therapist and life coach Miles Adcox says that when it comes to dealing with the personal problems of real-life people on TV in a non-exploitative way, "the best example of that, who was brilliant at it, is Oprah Winfrey — and anybody who is even thinking about doing a talk show uses her as a reference."

He's certainly had occasion to do more than just think about Oprah of late. Come July 14, the handsome wellness workshop entrepreneur and entertainment industry favorite will be seen co-hosting Fox's new "The Daily Helpline" with radio advice talk show host Spirit. Everyday folks with problems from overcoming abuse to battling cancer, coping with teen pregnancy to confronting sexual woes show up in person in the studio, or contact Adcox and Spirit via social media. (Requests were already streaming in weeks ago.) Celebrities including Marie Osmond, Tom Green, TLC's Tionne Watkin, Loni Love, Tabatha Coffey and Brandy guest in segments to weigh in with their own opinions and experience.

So there is quite a bit of potential for exploitation — depending upon how the show is done.

Adcox admits, "The therapy world is often scared of the media world and vice versa, because we feel like media is about sensationalism and we don't want to do that. But the truth is we can reach way more people with a media platform than could ever do one person at a time in our office, so that's why I wanted to be involved" — in a healthy, Oprah-esque way.

"She didn't come across as another expert dropping advice from 10,000 feet and hoping something would change. She was real. She was vulnerable. She connected with people," Adcox points out. "And people had healing experiences on her show because of how good a listener she was. I haven't seen that recreated since she left, and that's what I'm excited about — stepping in in a way that can help people. I believe there is an audience interested in seeing human connection, and seeing real people helping real people and holding people in pain."

Real people in New York, L.A., Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Austin, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina will be able to see "The Daily Helpline" test run on TV. Elsewhere, viewers are being invited to sample via YouTube. A week's worth of shows are in the can and more are being shot.

Adcox, who has guested on a number of shows in the past, including "The Doctors" and "Dr. Phil," says he was initially asked to come in and help vet prospective hosts for "The Daily Helpline." However, as the weeks went by, he went from being asked about other candidates to being asked how he would feel about taking on the hosting chores himself.

"It wasn't my dream to do this, but it's a neat opportunity for me to step into," he says.

According to him, the celebs involved so far have been taking to the show as a neat opportunity as well. "Daily Helpline," he says, is "not there to get the dirt on movie star. These celebrities are coming and sitting in our chairs to share an experience in order to help someone else. I was surprised — the few I had relationships with that I asked about doing the show, it wasn't a hard ask. They were pleasantly excited about it."

He says that Tom Green, for example, "was able to help someone probably more than we were because they were going through same experience Tom had and he was able to share how he got through it."

That particular episode had to do with cancer and its accompanying stresses on personal and work relationships. Green, a testicular cancer survivor, has been a guiding light for countless men going through that ordeal for since his own battle in 2000.