Saturday, October 18, 2025

'Love on the Spectrum' and 'Welcome to Wrexham' both Emmy winners for a late National Sports Day


A belated Happy National Sports Day, which I'm celebrating with the Emmy Awards for Welcome to Wrexham and Love on the Spectrum!
Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program.
  • America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (Netflix)
  • Love on the Spectrum (Netflix)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (MTV)
  • The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Hulu)
  • Welcome to Wrexham (FX)
2022 winner Love on the Spectrum leads with five nominations, followed by defending winner Welcome to Wrexham with three, 2021 winner RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked with two, and newcomers America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives with just this one. That's pretty much the order that Gold Derby predicts for the nominees. Half of the experts, 85.7% of the editors, and 77.4% of the users have chosen Love on the Spectrum to walk off the stage with the statuette. The other half of the experts, including Joyce Eng, 14.3% of the editors, and 12.8% of the users expect two-time winner Welcome to Wrexham will repeat. RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked has the support of 6.8% of users, while long shots The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders currently have the votes of 2.2% and 0.8% of users, respectively.
Support behind Love on the Spectrum consolidated by the Creative Arts ceremony, when 77.8% of experts, 83.3% of editors, and 85.6% of users had jumped on the bandwagon. Welcome to Wrexham still had significant support with 22.2% of experts, 16.7% of editors, and 11.0% backing it. The rest of the nominees lost their voters, with only 2.0% of users still picking RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked, 1.0% choosing The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and 0.3% hanging on to America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The prognosticators picked correctly, as Love on the Spectrum won.

The Television Academy hasn't uploaded the acceptance speech for this award, so I'm embedding Karina Holden ('Love on the Spectrum' executive producer): Series is a learning experience for her from Gold Derby.

Karina Holden ('Love on the Spectrum' executive producer) tells how the series is a learning experience for her. In 2022, the show won big at the Creative Arts Emmys by winning all three of its nominations, including Unstructured Reality Program. Gold Derby contributor Charles Bright hosts this interview as part of our "Meet the Experts" Emmy nominees panel for reality/nonfiction.
This is the video I should have embedded in 'The Traitors' won two Emmy Awards for National Coming Out Day to celebrate the show's Emmys for Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program and Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program. Better late than never. Speaking of casting...
Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program
  • The Amazing Race – Jesse Tannenbaum, Alex Stiner, Kayla Kellerbauer, and Pollyanna Jacobs (CBS)
  • Love on the Spectrum – Cian O'Clery, Sean Bowman, and Emma Choate (Netflix)
  • Queer Eye – Danielle Gervais, Jessica Jorgenson, Natalie Pino, and Brian Puentes (Netflix)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race – Goloka Bolte, Adam Cook, and Michelle Redwine (MTV)
  • Survivor – Jesse Tannenbaum, Caitlin Moore, Penni Lane Clifton, and Daniel Gradias (CBS)
Love on the Spectrum is the defending winner, so it's my pick to repeat.
Watch Love on the Spectrum win Casting For A Reality Program: 2025 Creative Arts.

The team from Love On The Spectrum accepts the Emmy for Casting For A Reality Program at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
I appreciated having Marlee Matlin and Nyle DiMarco, himself an Emmy nominee for Deaf President Now!, present. They exemplify another dimenson of diversity. So do the cast of Love on the Spectrum, who accepted the award along with the casting directors. Congratulations!

Since today is a late celebration of National Sports Day, it's time to acknowledge the Emmy Awards won by Welcome to Wrexham.
Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program
  • Deadliest Catch – Rob Butler, Isaiah Camp, Josh Stockero, Alexander Rubinow, Hugh Elliott, Nico Natale, Brock Carter, Christopher James Forrest, and Chris Courtner (Discovery Channel)
  • Life Below Zero: "The Last Snow" – Matt Edwards, Matt Mercer, Jennifer Nelson, Michael Swingler, and Tanner Roth (National Geographic)
  • Love on the Spectrum: "Episode 7" – Leanne Cole, Rachel Grierson-Johns, Gretchen Peterson, and John Rosser (Netflix)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked: "Drag Baby Mamas" – Miguel Siqueiros, Jimmy Bazan, and Johanna Gavard (MTV)
  • Welcome to Wrexham: "Down to the Wire" – Sam Fricke, Jenny Krochmal, Mohamed el Manasterly, Michael Oliver, Tim Roche, Matt Wafaie, Steve Welch, and Tim Wilsbach (FX
This is the other category where the top three nominees for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program are competing with each other. Since Welcome to Wrexham is the two-time defending winner, I'm predicting it will three-peat. My second choice is 2022's winner, Love on the Spectrum. My third choice is 2021's winner, Life Below Zero. Sorry, RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked, I think Deadliest Catch has a better chance.
Watch Welcome to Wrexham win Picture Editing For An Unstructured Reality Program: 2025 Creative Arts.

The team from Welcome To Wrexham accepts the Emmy for Picture Editing For An Unstructured Reality Program at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
That was inspiring. Congratulations!
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Reality Program
  • The Amazing Race – Jim Ursulak, Allie Boettger, Paul Bruno, John Buchanan, Dean Gaveau, Ryan P. Kelly, Marcus Lominy, Richard Chardy Lopez, Mickey McMullen, Sean Milburn, Paul Orozco, Simon Paine, John Pitron, Jeff Zipp, Troy Smith, and Ryan Gerle (CBS)
  • American Idol: "Grand Finale" – Patrick Smith, Randy Faustino, Michael Parker, Manny Barrajas, Christian Schrader, Jesse Dunham, Barry Weir Jr., and Adrian Ordonez (ABC)
  • Deadliest Catch: "My Brother's Keeper" – Jared Robbins (Discovery Channel)
  • The Voice: "Live Finale, Part 2" – Michael Abbott, Randy Faustino, Tim Hatayama, Christian Schrader, Carlos Torres, Andrew Fletcher, Shaun Sebastian, Kenyata Westbrook, Colin Bonney, Servio Escobedo, John Koster, Robert P. Matthews Jr., Marlon Moore, and Ryan Young (NBC)
  • Welcome to Wrexham: "Down to the Wire" – Mark Jensen (FX)
I may be featuring the Twitter/X promotional image for Deadliest Catch, but Welcome to Wrexham is the two-time defending winner here, too. The only nominees that might prevent it from three-peating this category are American Idol and The Voice, and only if the voters settle on which is the better singing competition show.
Watch win Sound Mixing For A Reality Program: 2025 Creative Arts

Mark Jensen, CAS accepts the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Reality Program at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Congratulations!

That's a wrap for today. Stay tuned for the Sunday entertainment feature to see if I continue my Creative Arts Emmy Awards coverage, shift to the Daytime Emmys, or do something else entirely.

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