LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maya Rudolph won her sixth profession title Emma On Saturday night, she took home the trophy for Best Character Voice Acting for her work on Big Mouth on the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first award for narrating the National Geographic show Queens.

A former and future “Saturday Night Live” star, Rudolph is nominated for 3 consecutive Emmy Awards. Her voiceover work as Hormone Monstress in the Netflix animated series “Big Mouth” earned her 4 Emmy Awards.

“I’m really proud to be a part of this show,” she said. “It humanizes being human.”

She became moved as she spoke in regards to the privilege she has of with the ability to do what she loves in life.

“I’m crying because I’m going through menopause,” Rudolph said.

She won the primary of the two-day Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which honor artistic and technical achievements in television and are a precursor to the foremost award (*6*)Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted by Dan and Eugene Levywhich is able to air on September 15 at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.

Bassett apparently took home the award for Best Narrator, a category that is frequently star-studded but in which the winner, like last 12 months’s Barack Obama, rarely appears.

“Oh my god, wow, my first Emmy,” Bassett said with emotion. “I couldn’t be more excited and grateful.”

Bassett said backstage that she was drawn to the wildlife documentary project because of its all-female production team, a rarity in the medium.

“It just touched my heart,” she said. “So I said yes.”

Bassett has been nominated for an Oscar twice and received an honorary Oscar earlier this 12 months.

Other winners included the recently retired Pat Sajakwho won the award for Best Game Show Host for his final season on “Wheel of Fortune.” It was his fourth win in the category and first since 1998.

“Saturday Night Live” found success in the craft categories, winning six awards, including those for makeup and production design.

Rudolph won two Emmys as a solid member and was nominated for 2 more for her work hosting the sketch institute last season. The Emmys can be presented Sunday.

She will return in the autumn to play the vice chairman. Kamala Harris on the fiftieth season of “SNL” just a few weeks before the election.

“I feel like I’m somehow connected to an amazing time in this country and an excitement I haven’t felt in a long time,” she said backstage Saturday.

She can be nominated on the foremost Emmy Awards for best actress in a comedy for her Apple TV+ series “Loot.” Her probabilities of winning the award are slim, with Jean Smart for “Hacks” and Ayo Edebiri for “Bear” which takes first place in the comedy category with 23 nominations.

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Ron Howard’s documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man” won 4 times, while “Welcome to Wrexham” won thrice, including best unstructured reality show. “Shark Tank” won best structured reality show. In an awards crossover, the Oscars telecast won 4 Emmys, including best live special.

Dick Van Dykewho turns 99 next month, could have stolen the show when “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years Of Magic” won for best pre-recorded variety program.

Van Dyke did a brief dance and announced “this hurts” later. As the winners were played offstage, he said, “I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to my memorial. I don’t have a date yet, but I don’t feel great.”

Van Dyke became the oldest person to win an Emmy for a daytime television show when he accepted the award in June for his appearance on “Days of Our Lives.”

The highest nominated in all the season, “Shogun” scored a victory of sorts Saturday when the team that creates the post-show footage won an Emmy. The FX series itself is nominated for 25 Emmys. Seventeen of those can be presented Sunday, with the series specializing in scripted television.

Many big names, including Oscar winners, will compete in the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday Jamie Lee Curtis AND Da’Vine Joy Randolph and nominated for an Oscar Ryan Gosling.

Morris Chestnut reveals what viewers can expect from the ultimate five episodes of Reasonable Doubt’s second season.

In the recently aired episode titled “Primetime,” fans watched as Jax’s friend and Corey’s client, Shanelle Tucker, unpacked the start of her abusive relationship together with her husband, JT, whose murder Shanelle was accused of. The episode also featured Shanelle’s first televised interview from prison, the top of Corey’s relationship with a renowned television journalist, and a pregnancy announcement that would impact the Stewart family.

That may appear to be loads of shocking stories, but Chestnut says there are more.

“We’re shooting a lot of stuff. I’m not sure how much of it there will be, but there will be a lot of twists and turns in the show,” the actor shares. “I think that’s one of the things I realized while shooting the show. I didn’t know exactly how everything was going to end, what was going to happen, and none of the crew knew either. We’re always guessing. I’d say probably 95 to 98 percent of people were wrong about what was happening, and I love that.”

“I love taking those scripts and reading them in terms of the episode and saying, ‘Oh, wow, what happened next?’ So what can you expect? Lots of twists and turns, and things might not go the way you expect them to.”

This season of Reasonable Doubt not only explores Jax and Corey’s legal challenges, but in addition gives viewers a more in-depth have a look at intimate partner violence and abuse. The series explores how gaslighting, emotional manipulation and escalating violence contribute to the physical abuse victims can experience. Corey, from Chestnut, is a defense attorney who focuses on such cases, defending women who acted in self-defense against their abusers.

“I personally always like to have a little compassion in everything I do, depending on the role,” Chestnut explains. “But in this case, it’s something I draw from because it’s what I really feel. I mean, it’s a very real issue that affects more people than we realize because people don’t always talk about it. Especially the victims who go through it, they’re going to be silent for a long time.”

Chestnut praises showrunner Raamla Mohamed, who she says “puts (the issue of domestic violence) on the table.” She highlights how “Reasonable Doubt” shows National Domestic Violence Helpline phone number (1-800-799-SAFE) and website address at the top of each episode, offering victims who could also be viewing the show a way out.

“That was huge for me,” Chestnut says of being included. “I just have such genuine sympathy for anyone who has to go through that. I felt like I was doing my part to help in any way I could, and sometimes that’s what art does. That’s sometimes the benefit of being an actor, of being on a show like that, that can have a positive impact on someone’s life who might have had a tragic, negative experience.”

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“Raamla and Emayatzy are the leaders of this set, and it’s literally one of the best sets I’ve ever been on,” Chestnut gushes. “They have such a working machine there. I was excited. It was easy to get my footing. Being on a TV show and in a production, you become like a family. You spend so much time with everyone there. (The cast) welcomed me with open arms. Everyone was so nice and friendly. It was really easy for me to come in and be a part of it.”

New episodes of Reasonable Doubt might be available on Hulu every Thursday through October 17.