CNN will debut the seventh season of its Emmy Award-winning documentary series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell on July 10, the network said Tuesday.

The series stars comedian and political provocateur Bell as he visits communities across America to explore race, class, and the unique challenges they face.  Bell's destinations for the seventh season include Appalachia, to explore largely unknown population of Black Americans who call the area home; Boston, to examine the mental health issues affecting the sport world; Hawaii, to uncover how the island has been commodified by an exploitative tourism industry following the COVID-19 pandemic and New York City, to discuss Asian American representation in film and media, revealing the commonality between his own experience and theirs, said CNN.

“For the last seven years, United Shades of America has been a cornerstone of the CNN Original Series brand and Kamau’s unparalleled ability to weave his natural curiosity and sense of humor together have ignited many important – and at times vital – conversations around race and society in this country,” said Amy Entelis, Executive Vice President for Talent & Content Development, CNN Worldwide in a statement.  “We are excited to join Kamau on another personal and witty odyssey across America.”

Added Bell: “Neither COVID, nor misinformation, nor political gridlock, nor the gloom of the feeling that American democracy is crumbling will keep me from my appointed duty of traveling the country for another season of United Shades of America. 

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Bell serves as executive producer of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell along with Lydia Tenegalia, Chris Collins, Sandra Zweig, Morgan Fallon, Jimmy Fox, Layla Smith, Tim Pastore, Amy Entelis and Lyle Gamm.

Netflix garnered more Creative Arts Emmy Awards wins than any other content distributor during a ceremony last night, according to the Television Academy.

The streaming service won 15 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night in the first of two ceremonies celebrating technical, guest acting roles and other categories. The second Creative Emmy Awards ceremony will take place tonight (Sept. 15).

National Geographic finished second with eight wins -- seven for its documentary series Free Solo, which topped all shows, according the Television Academy. CNN, NBC, Fox, HBO, YouTube, CBS and VH1 also won multiple awards.

Other programs with multiple wins included Love, Death & Robots, Our Planet and Queer Eye (Netflix); Age of Sail (YouTube), RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1), Saturday Night Live (NBC), Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), and Rent (Fox).

Also last night, 97-year old legendary producer Norman Lear became the oldest winner in Emmy history, taking home the statuette for Outstanding Live Variety Special for ABC's  Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons, a re-staging of two of Lear's iconic 1970's comedies with contemporary casts.

A complete list of 2019 Creative Arts Emmy winners can be found here. The 71st Emmy Awards will air on Fox Sept. 22.

CNN will launch six new original series in 2019 including a health-themed show with Sanjay Gupta and a profile of Detroit during the mid 1960s, the network said Wednesday (April 11).

The new shows include Chasing Life With Sanjay Gupta, a six-part series that follows the famed doctor as he searches for the secret to living longer, healthier and happier; Tricky Dick, a four-part series that explores Richard Nixon’s life and times; and American Dynasties: The Bushes, which explores the Bush family’s complex internal dynamics.

Also on the docket is American Style, a four-part series that examines the most iconic moments in fashion, history and pop culture; Once in a Great City: Detroit 1962-64, which examines the city’s glory years with the success of its auto industry and the Motown music company; and The Redemption Project, an eight part series which follows the victims and/or surviving family members of a life-altering crime.

The series will join recently renewed shows Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell, This is Life With Lisa Ling, and The History of Comedy onCNN's lineup, said the network.