There’s a altering of the guard within the actuality competitors Emmy area. After successful the harbinger Excellent Casting For A Actuality Program class final 12 months, Peacock’s popular culture phenom The Traitors tonight took one of many two high classes within the area, Excellent Host For A Actuality Or Actuality Competitors Program, for its emcee Alan Cumming.
In doing so, the Scottish actor, who had been nominated 4 occasions for his position on The Good Spouse and internet hosting the Tonys, unseated the dominant winner within the Actuality Host class for the previous decade, RuPaul, who had taken the statuette the final eight years. Along with RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s RuPaul, Cumming confronted Survivor’s Jeff Probst, High Chef‘s new host Kristen Kish and Shark Tank‘s Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Robert Herjavec, Lori Greiner, Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary
Cumming was not available to obtain his first Emmy throughout Night time 1 of the Artistic Arts Emmy Awards Saturday. He could have one other likelihood on the fundamental Emmy telecast on ABC on Sept. 15 as an govt producer of The Traitors, which can be nominate for Excellent Actuality Competitors Program.
Tonight’s win provides to The Traitors‘ momentum because it seems to be to upset a area of 4 earlier Actuality Competitors Program winners, The Wonderful Race (10 wins), RuPaul’s Drag Race (5 wins, together with final 12 months), The Voice (4) and High Chef (1).
It additionally marks one of many highest profile Emmy victories but for Peacock, becoming a member of final 12 months’s Visitor Actress In A Comedy Sequence win for Poker Face’s Judith Mild.
