{"id":770870,"date":"2026-09-14T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770870\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:50:12","slug":"emmy-awards-2026-live-colman-domingo-mariska-hargitay-walk-red-carpet-at-tvs-biggest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770870\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Awards 2026 live: Colman Domingo Mariska Hargitay walk red carpet at TV&#8217;s biggest night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh actor Gerran Howell: Brits shocked by US healthcare system shown in The Pittpublished at 23:46 BST<\/p>\n<p>23:46 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">David Willis and Regan Morris<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerran Howell speaking to the BBC at an Emmys pre-party, with a blue step and repeat in the background\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21ad5d00-b4d2-4649-8a62-17aae3918bd9.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gerran Howell speaking to the BBC at an Emmys pre-party<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh actor Gerran Howell, who does a convincing American accent as Dr Dennis Whitaker on the buzzy medical drama The Pitt, says members of the medical community have been the show&#8217;s biggest fans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt&#8217;s taken off,&#8221; Howell told the BBC at a pre-Emmys party. &#8220;It&#8217;s become a real word-of-mouth thing. It&#8217;s amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, he added, he&#8217;s grateful it has recently become available to audiences back home in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Howell says the The Pitt&#8217;s reputation for showing the realities of an American emergency department in action have fascinated British audiences and healthcare workers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the medical communities are very different,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to think of it as maybe a bit of a cautionary tale for our system, however different it is from the American system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He adds that he knows many Americans are envious of Britain\u2019s free national healthcare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cA lot British people are very shocked seeing the American healthcare system,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But you know, we&#8217;ve got our faults too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh actor Gerran Howell: Brits shocked by US healthcare system shown in The Pittpublished at 23:46 BST 23:46&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}