Nardine Saad
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Noah Wyle, who won an Emmy for lead actor in a drama, says The Pitt was designed as a love letter to first responders, "to talk about the aggregate toll that these shifts have taken on them since Covid".

He says he wants to put "the spotlight back on these trenches, which are flagging in morale and in personnel, and try to inspire this generation" to do that work.

"And that was the audience we played the show for. That was the first audience that responded with and it was their word of mouth."

Joe Sachs, the show's writer and producer, says "we hear time and time again emergency workers saying 'we feel seen'".

"There are people who've had post-traumatic stress from Covid who never realised it, who said, 'Wow, I'm getting help now because of you,'" he says.

Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Emmy Awards

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Alan Cumming, the host for The Traitors which won its second consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Programme, just spoke to the press backstage.

Commenting on the upcoming civilian season, he's asked if Donald Trump might be a good fit.

"Well, I'm sure our president would be very good on the show, [in terms of] chaos and sort of turmoil and treachery," says Cummings.

He also talks about the other places in Scotland where he'd love to film.

"I would think I really would love to go back to the Fair Isle, which is this island between Orkney and Shetland, as this bird watching place."

Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Emmy Awards

Stephen Colbert, who's won the award for outstanding talk series after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled by CBS earlier this year, tells reporters how much he loves doing the show.

"I love what we do, and I want to go to work on Tuesday and for the next nine months with these people, and work hard to have fun.

"We do the show for each other every day, and then I have the privilege and responsibility that day to share with the audience what we did, you know? And I love it.

"I know it's coming to the end in May, but I'm going to savour every day of it, you know, I want to land this play absolutely beautiful, and I got nothing."

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Sakshi Venkatraman
US reporter

The 77th Emmy Awards have just wrapped up.

It was a big night for shows like Adolescence, The Studio and The Pitt, which took home their fair share of awards.

Some of the standout moments for us:

• Owen Cooper, 15, became the youngest ever male Emmy winner for his performance in Adolescence. The show finished with six awards tonight
• The Pitt taking out the final two big awards for best actor and best drama series
• We saw reunions of several beloved casts from shows like Gilmore Girls and Law and Order Special Victims Unit

Ultimately, Bargatze ended up donating $350,000 to charity despite threats to cut money over the length of winning speeches.

The show may be over but stick with us, we're still chatting with stars backstage and will bring you all the latest news.

The Pitt has taken home two major Emmy awards in a row, winning now for outstanding drama series.

"I want to dedicate this all the healthcare workers, frontline, first responders," show creator R. Scott Gemmill said while accepting the award.

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Noah Wyle wins lead actor in a drama series for his performance in medical drama The Pitt.

"What a dream this has been," he says.

It's not Wyle's first Emmy nomination, he had a few back when he was an actor on ER.

But it's been 26 years since his last Emmy win.

As the categories get bigger, the speeches are getting longer.

And as host Nate Bargatze promised, the amount he has to donate to charity has been ticking down with each speech that runs too long. Somehow, it's now in the negatives.

"I think I actually made money," he says.

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The Studio picks up another win for outstanding comedy series.

Seth Rogen takes the stage for the fourth time tonight to accept the award.

"It's getting embarrassing," he says. "I really appreciate it, in all honesty... I'm legitimately embarrassed by how happy this makes me."

Adolescence is really cleaning up tonight.

The show just took home the award for best limited series. Stephen Graham, who won for lead actor just minutes ago, accepted the prize.

"Whether or not you were the executive producer... or you were the fellow that was cleaning the toilets...we were all equal," he says of the Adolescence set.

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I'm speaking to Last Week Tonight's John Oliver backstage, where he's said that he is hoping The Late Show's Stephen Colbert wins the Emmy for Outstanding Host.

"I think we all want Colbert to win. I really hope that happens," says Oliver, adding that he would be upset if he didn't.

He's not the only one in the industry that has rallied around Colbert. Host Jimmy Kimmel had earlier taken out a billboard urging voters to support Colbert's show, rather than his own programme.

In July, CBS announced it was cancelling Colbert's long-running talk show, citing financial reasons. The decision came just days after Colbert criticised a settlement between CBS' parent company - Paramount Global - and President Trump, causing some Democrats and political commentators to ask if it could have been political.

Colbert has already previously won nine Emmys - and as we reported earlier, also won the award for outstanding talk series.

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Stephen Colbert wins the award for outstanding talk series.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled by CBS earlier this year.

The crowd erupted into thunderous applause and chants of "Stephen, Stephen!" when Colbert takes the stage.

"I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege of being part of the late night tradition which I hope continues long after we're no longer doing this show," he says.

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Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston is presenting the outstanding talk series award.

He jokingly calls Tom Hanks a "woke degenerate".

It's a reference to comments made by US President Donald Trump, who recently posted on social media that Hanks was "woke and "destructive".

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Adolescence scoops another award, this time for Stephen Graham who wins for lead actor in a limited series.

He won earlier tonight for writing the show.

"I'm just a mixed race kid from a block of flats," he says. "So for me to be here today in front of my peers and to be acknowledged today is the most humbling thing."

Some long speeches have caused Bargatze original donation count to nearly halve from $100,000 to $52,000.

"The in memoriam ran a little long," the host said, clarifying multiple times that he was joking.

Nate is adding money to the charity pot for short speeches, and taking cash away when award winners speak for too long.

Each year, the Emmy Awards spends a few minutes on a slideshow tribute honoring entertainers who died in the past year.

Some of those featured on the "Who We Lost" slideshow this year: Cosby Show actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, director David Lynch, musicians Ozzy Osbourne and Quincy Jones, Gossip Girl actress Michelle Trachtenberg, and Dame Maggie Smith.

A few eagle-eyed fans on social media have spotted a hidden detail on Severance star Britt Lower's speech notes.

It has a hidden reference written on the back of it. It says "let me out" in small text facing the audience.

If you've watched you show, you know exactly what it means.

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Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Emmy Awards

Owen Cooper has just walked into the press room, holding the historic Emmy award as the youngest-ever recipient of the award for lead actor in a drama series for Adolescence.

The 15-year-old looks excited and flabbergasted by the win.

"It means some much to me. It means so much to me, my family, people back home. So, you know, it's just, yeah, it just means a lot to me."

A journalist asks him how his friends would react to his win. Cooper said they might not be awake yet "because it's four in the morning at home", before adding: "They'll be all over the moon, yes."

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Husband and wife Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are receiving the 2025 Bob Hope Humanitarian award for their philanthropy, activism and "unwavering commitment to global good".

The Cheers and Curb Your Enthusiasm stars are the first couple to be honoured with the award, which was established in 2002 to recognise media figures whose philanthropic efforts reflects the spirit of the late comedian Bob Hope, according to the Television Academy.

The academy describes Danson and Steenburgen, married since 1995, as "two luminaries whose off-screen legacy shines as bright as their decades of celebrated television work".

Danson, whose other credits include The Good Place and Becker, is a longtime environmentalist and ocean conservation activist. He co-founded the American Oceans Campaign in 1987 and has supported several charities, including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Steenburgen, who has starred in Elf and Parenthood and won an Oscar for Melvin and Howard, has worked with Artists for a Free South Africa and No Kid Hungry, and has advocated for more arts funding in US schools.

The couple has long supported LGBTQ+ rights and co-founded the charity Angels at Risk in 2007 to combat drug and alcohol abuse among children, teenagers and their families.

Cristin Milioti wins lead actress in a limited series for her work in The Penguin.

It's her first win and nomination.

"I wrote this on the back of notes I took in therapy the other day," she says while giving her speech. "This show was a bright spot for me."

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British director Philip Barantini, who won the Emmy for director of an anthology series, has just been talking to the press as the Emmys pile up for Adolescence - 15-year-old star Owen Cooper having just won the award for lead actor.

Barantini says: "We made the show in a small town in the UK, in Yorkshire, and you know, we hoped that it would spark a bit of a conversation in the UK, because, you know, knife crime is a big problem there.

"And when we were developing this show, we wanted to talk about toxic masculinity and incel culture and all those things that our children are going through right now.

"And so we thought, you know, you'll do OK in the UK. And then when it came out, and it was just every single day or week, it's just something else.

"So my mind is completely blown, and I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved and what everyone did. When everybody is on the same page, on the same train, going in the same direction on the project, then it's it's magical, that's all I can say. And it was that from day one."