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Downey’s Dream Cars on Max and Christian Cooper of National Geographic’s Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper were among the winners Saturday night the 51st Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmys.

Held a day after the Daytime Emmys at downtown Los Angeles’ Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the Creative Arts & Lifestyle awards honored legal/courtroom dramas, travel/adventure programs, and arts and culture shows, as well as lighting and technical direction specialists and costumers, cinematographers and hairstylists.

Among the winners was Amazon Freevee’s Judy Justice for best Legal/Courtroom Program. The Kelly Clarkson Show, which picked up its fourth consecutive talk-show win the night before, scored two more wins Saturday, for lighting design and live sound mixing/editing.

Multiple winners Saturday also included Nat Geo’s Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory, Netflix’s Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, and Netflix’s African Queens: Njinga.

See the complete list of winners below.

Essence Magazine has celebrated beautiful black women and black culture for 50 years.

Today, OWN debuted the official trailer for its highly anticipated original documentary series, “Time of Essence,” which premieres on Friday, August 18 at 9/8 pm Et/Pt.

The five-part, one-hour series celebrates the trailblazing magazine that reaches a global community of over 20 million Black women and has revealed some of the past half-century's most captivating and influential covers.

Oprah Winfrey joins the names of thought leaders, celebrities, and culture-defining influencers featured in the series, which includes: Oscar®-winning actresses Halle Berry and Whoopi Goldberg; Emmy®-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, Regina Hall, and Taye Diggs.

It also features Golden Globe®-winning actress Taraji P. Henson; actress Gabrielle Union-Wade; fashion model and icon Beverly Johnson and her daughter Anansa Sims; singer and actress Vanessa Williams.

This special wouldn’t be complete without iconic Essence Magazine editor Mikki Taylor, long-time Editor-In-Chief Susan L. Taylor,...

The Surreal Life is the latest reality series to get a reboot.

VH1 is bringing back the series, which ran for six seasons between 2003 and 2006, to launch later this fall.

It comes after Deadline revealed that MTV is bringing back Cribs alongside other reboots across ViacomCBS, including The Real World, Behind the Music, Ink Master and Dating Naked.

The series will feature Dennis Rodman, August Alsina, Stormy Daniels, Tamar Braxton, Frankie Muniz, Kim Coles, Cj Perry and Manny Mua living together and competing in a series of challenges.

No word if they’re sticking with Glen Campbell’s former mansion in the Hollywood hills.

The series is produced by 51 Minds Entertainment, which produced the original. Christian Sarabia, Fernando Mills, Ken Martinez and Nicole Elliott exec produce for the Banijay-owned company, Elena Diaz, Tolani Holmes and Dan Caster are executive producers for MTV Entertainment Group and Kat Uyenco, Jen McGrogan...

VH1 is bringing back “The Surreal Life.”

In the latest example of ViacomCBS cable networks reviving their best-known IP, “The Surreal Life” will return for the first time in 15 years with a new season on VH1 this fall.

The show, which puts a cast of celebrities together in a house and forces them to participate in group activities, ran for two seasons on The WB and four more on VH1 between 2003 and 2006. The franchise also spawned spinoffs including “My Fair Brady” and “Flavor of Love”.

Cast members for the new season are August Alsina, Cj Perry, Dennis Rodman, Frankie Muniz, Kim Coles, Manny Mua, Stormy Daniels and Tamar Braxton.

51 Minds Entertainment will return to produce the new season, with Christian Sarabia, Fernando Mills, Ken Martinez and Nicole Elliott serving as executive producers. Elena Diaz, Tolani Holmes and Dan Caster are executive producers for MTV Entertainment Group. Donny Herran and...

Leslie Jordan is reaching for his sponge and rubber gloves.

The legendary TV actor has signed on to host “Squeaky Clean,” a cleaning competition series in the pipeline at Quibi, Variety has learned exclusively.

“Squeaky Clean” will pit three cleaning-obsessed contestants against each other in two competitive rounds – “Quick Scrub” and “The Big Clean” – from shiniest floor in studio competition history. Jordan will be joined in the show by lifestyle host and designer Sabrina Soto, who will serve as the resident cleaning and organization expert, appearing in every episode alongside a celebrity judge.

The show is being produced by Shine TV and 51 Minds Entertainment. Executive producers for the series are Christian Sarabia, Dean Houser and Nicole Elliott for 51 Minds Entertainment, and Tanya Shaw for Shine TV.

Jordan is arguably best known for playing Beverley Leslie across multiple seasons of “Will & Grace,” winning an Emmy for the role back...

MTV has unveiled The Busch Family Brewed, a 10-episode comedic reality docuseries that revolves around descendants of the Busch family, founders and original owners of the iconic beer brand. It’s slated to premiere at 9 Pm Thursday, March 5.

The Busch Family Brewed marks a return to the family reality sitcom genre for MTV, which launched one of the biggest hits in the genre with The Osbornes, a series featuring the domestic life of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family. It premiered on MTV in March 2002 and, in its first season, was cited as the most-viewed series ever on MTV. The final episode aired on March 21, 2005.

The Busch Family Brewed is an insider’s look into an American dynasty. With recent approval to break ground on a new craft brewery on their property – the first for the family in over 150 years – the Busches now have a place to create...

Stars: Justin Herman, Nicole Elliott, Andy Palmer, Eric C. Schneider, Boo Gay, Tracy Collins, Milo Rubi, Will Allday, Chris Fender, Patrick Sane, Nasir Villanueva, Larry Wade Carrell | Written and Directed by Stephen Wolfe

Send in the dolls… Doll Factory is in the fine tradition of campy, low budget horror comedy films that leans heavily on stereotypes and wears its cheesy sensibilities on its sleeve. Baby dolls are attacking people! If you need ask “why?” this film is not for you.

We kick off with a flashback sequence, 2 cops and their ‘ethnically insensitive’ acquaintance are in an abandoned factory, ostensibly fighting for their lives but really just giving ‘banter’ and, aside from the racial stereotype situation, it is not terrible. We then flash forward to the present… Sexy teens at a Halloween house party are casually talking about sexual activities and the like (we have some terrific drunk acting) and suddenly one the girls,...