NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was a big winner on night two of the Creative Arts Emmys and as each win was announced, there was an outpour of love and praise for the late great Craig Zadan, who served as executive producer. The live musical telecast based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway smash is…

When RuPaul Charles won his third Emmy for Outstanding Host for RuPaul’s Drag Race, he took the stage and brought everyone to church leading them in a call and response chant: “Everbody say ‘love!'” he hollered with everyone following suit. “Now drive that down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” he added. “Our show is…

“We live in a time when people are being persecuted and targeted very cruelly,” W. Kamau Bell said, after picking up his Emmy for Best Unstructured Reality Series. He described his CNN series United Shades of America as giving people a “microphone” and “public square to tell their version of the story.” It’s Bell’s…

Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert took home the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special Live, inducting not one, not two but three more people into the EGOT family: Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and John Legend. Rice, Webber, and Legend (who also starred in the live production) took the stage to claim their spot in…

“I am all that stands between you and a buffet full of free alcohol,” the evening’s final presenter Samantha Bee said on stage, noting she’s used to people wanting her to stop talking. She gave her sincere gratitude to attendees because “none of us has to make small talk with Sean Spicer this time.” Spicer having…

Jane cinematographer Ellen Kuras won for Outstanding Cinematography on the National Geographic documentary about the titular primatologist Jane Goodall and backstage, she addressed the lack of females in the field. She said that there were a “handful of women in the field” when she first started in the industry…

Strong Island filmmaker Yance Ford made history as the first openly trans man to be nominated for an Academy Award and tonight he made history once again for being the first openly trans man — a trans man of color for that matter — to win Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for the Netflix documentary. The…

Fourteen years after its first Emmy win for Best Reality Show, Queer Eye  was awarded the statuette for Best Structured Reality Series. Among those it bested, ABC’s Shark Tank, which had won every year since 2014. Co-creator David Collins gave an exuberant acceptance speech that, unfortunately was so long on…

The TV Academy showered Anthony Bourdain with posthumous Emmys this evening, including Best Nonfiction Writing and Best Informational Series or Special, for CNN’s Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown. By the time the  dust settled, Bourdain’s program had bagged six Emmys – the most for one year in the series…

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver picked up its third consecutive win for Best Variety Series Writing at Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys. This time, however, Oliver and crew were a no-show, sending a message, read by a member of the show’s digital team. They assured Emmy attendees they were honored to win, but…

“We wanted to do a story about a tyrant,” Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker said backstage of this season’s USS Callister Best TV Movie win. “It’s quite odd” he joked of competing in a fiction programming category, given that this season’s story is of “a misogynist bully with a bizarre haircut ,put into a position…

Game of Thrones slayed the Creative Arts Emmys like a dragon, collecting seven trophies out of its total 22 nominations — and this is just the first night of the two-part ceremony not to mention the Primetime Emmys ceremony on Sept. 17. The Game of Thrones camp, which was nominated for 15 awards at tonight’s…