DEVELOPING Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 5 storm. Florida orders evacuations
Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 5 storm off Mexico and threatens Florida, forecasters say.
Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on “Big Mouth" at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first for her narration of the National Geographic show “Queens.”
The former and future “Saturday Night Live" star Rudolph is up for three more Emmys. Her voice-over work as the Hormone Monstress on the Netflix animated show “Big Mouth” has earned her four of her Emmys.
“I’m really proud to be a part of this show,” she said. “It humanizes being human.”
She got emotional when as she talked about the privilege that she gets to do what she loves in her life.
“It’s making me cry because I’m very menopausal,” Rudolph said.
She won on the first of the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, which honor behind-the-scenes artistic and technical achievement in television and are a precursor to the main Emmys ceremony, hosted by Dan and Eugene Levy, that will air at 8 p.m. EST Sept. 15 on ABC.
Bassett appeared to collect her trophy for best narrator, a category that is usually star studded but where the winner, like Barack Obama last year, rarely shows
“Oh my god, wow, my first Emmy,” an emotional Bassett said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled and more grateful."
Bassett was attracted to the wildlife documentary project because of the all female-led production team, a rarity in the medium, she said backstage.
“It just touched my heart,” she said. “So I said yes.”
Bassett is a two-time Oscar nominee who won an honorary Academy Award earlier this year.
Other winners included the recently retired Pat Sajak, who won best game show host for his final season on “Wheel of Fortune." It was his fourth time winning the award, and first time since 1998.
“Saturday Night Live” thrived in the craft categories with six wins, including victories for its makeup and production design.
Rudolph won two Emmys when she was a cast member on the show, and is nominated for two more for her work as host of the sketch institution last season. Those will be awarded Sunday.
She will be returning this fall to play U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on the 50th season of “SNL” in the weeks leading up to the election.
“I feel like I am connected somehow to an incredible time in this country and an excitement that I haven't felt in a long time,” she said backstage on Saturday.
She is also nominated at the main Emmys ceremony for best actress in a comedy for her Apple TV+ series “Loot.” She is a longshot for that award, where the favorites are Jean Smart for “Hacks” and Ayo Edebiri for “The Bear,” which leads all shows in the comedy category with 23 nominations.
The Ron Howard-directed documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man” won four times and “Welcome to Wrexham" won three including best unstructured reality show. “Shark Tank” won best structured reality show. In an awards show crossover, the telecast of the Oscars won four Emmys including best live variety special.
Dick Van Dyke, who turns 99 next month, may have stolen the show when “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years Of Magic” won best pre-recorded variety special.
Van Dyke did a little dance and announced “that hurt” afterward. As the winners were being played off stage, he said, "I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to my memorial. I don’t have a date yet but I’m not feeling very well."
Van Dyke became the oldest person to get a daytime Emmy when he won in June for appearing on “Days of Our Lives.”
The season's top overall nominee, “Shogun,” got a win of sorts Saturday when the team that puts together the post-show making of featurette took home an Emmy. The FX series itself is up for 25 Emmys. Seventeen of those will be handed out on Sunday, which focuses on scripted television.
Plenty of big names are also up for Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, including Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling.
Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 5 storm off Mexico and threatens Florida, forecasters say.
Days after a political sign was erected outside Chip Wilson's Vancouver mansion, the waterfront property has been vandalized with graffiti.
Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, has died. She was 91.
Two people are in hospital after they were chased and shot at in what appears to be an act of road rage before eventually flipping their car while trying to escape, police say.
A Canadian soldier who was exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits while serving in Afghanistan has been awarded full medical compensation for testicular cancer after Veterans Affairs initially denied his claim.
Sammy Basso, who was the longest living survivor of the rare genetic disease progeria, has died at the age of 28, the Italian Progeria Association said on Sunday.
Scurvy is not just an archaic diagnosis of 18th-century seafarers and doctors should watch for possible cases, according to researchers following a recent case.
Ceremonies, events and protests are being held across Canada today to mark the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.
Federal political parties appear to be locked in a game of chicken over a debate that has stalled almost all business in the House of Commons.
A unique form of clouds made an appearance over the skies of Ottawa on Sunday evening.
Bernie Hicks, known as the ‘Batman of Amherst,’ always wanted to sit in a Batmobile until a kind stranger made it happen.
Bubi’s Awesome Eats, located on University Ave West took to social media to announce the closure on Friday.
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority and the Government of Ontario have awarded a $1.8 billion fixed-price contract to design, build and finance a new Far North hospital.
Manitobans are in cleanup mode after intense winds barreled through southern parts of the province this weekend.
Avry Wortman, 13, scored two touchdowns on Sunday during her team's win in the under 14 Greater Moncton Football Association.
A gargantuan gourd – affectionately named ‘Orangina’ by the urban gardeners who grew it in the front yard of their Vancouver home – earned the massive honour of being named B.C.’s heaviest giant pumpkin Saturday.
Chantal Kreviazuk is set to return to Winnipeg to mark a major milestone in her illustrious musical career.
From the beaches of Cannes to the bustling streets of New York City, a new film by a trio of Manitoba directors has toured the international film festival circuit to much pomp and circumstance.