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One Day At a Time got some sweet revenge Sunday night, winning its first Emmy Award six months after the multi-camera comedy was canceled by Netflix after three seasons. Coincidentally, the Emmy victory came just hours after co-creator/executive producer Gloria Calderon Kellett unveiled the filming dates for the…

The 71st Emmy Awards kicked off Saturday and Sunday with the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles. As a cascade of Emmys were handed out in technical and acting categories, and there were plenty of expected wins and some surprises. The biggest winner of the two nights…

Speaking backstage at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday in the wake of winning her guest comedy gong for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Jane Lynch revealed that she has a comedy series in the works at Netflix, in which she would star with Cyndi Lauper. “We’re our ages now. I’m almost 60, and she’s 65. We’re…

Sundance TV's State of the Union swept the short-form series Emmy categories Sunday, winning for Short From Comedy or Drama Series in the first award given this evening on the second night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, followed by Actress and Actor in Short Form Comedy or Drama Awards for its stars Rosamund Pike…

Bradley Whitford has made history as the first person to win an Emmy in both the comedy and drama guest categories. Picking up the award at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday for his role as Commander Joseph Lawrence in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, Whitford previously won the comedic version for Transparent in…

Creative Arts Emmy Awards regular Jane Lynch took home her first guest actress honor at Sunday’ show. This time, she got the gold for her role in Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, on which she plays comedienne Sophie Lennon. “The company I keep in this category,” Lynch said onstage accepting the award. “I'm just so…

UPDATED with final wins total: Despite much fan derision, Game of Thrones took home three Emmys early Sunday for the episode “The Long Night”: Sound Mixing, Score and Music Composition. Given that fans complained they couldn’t see the episode since it was so dark, it perhaps makes sense that so far it’s won for aural…

It was a good night for HBO on night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys. Game of Thrones and Chernobyl topped the list of winners winning 10 and seven trophies respectively while The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel scored six including acting wins for Jane Lynch and Luke Kirby. Antonia Blyth, Matt Grobar and Diane Haithman were…

Primetime Emmy voters weren’t Crazy in Love with Homecoming: A Film By Beyonce on Netflix. The documentary of her 2018 performance at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was shut out in all six categories it was nominated, which were presented at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night. Beyonce has yet to win an…

Rachel Bloom was a good sport on the red carpet before the Creative Arts Emmys, taking off her shoes to get comfortable and chatting up reporters even though she was minutes from dashing to perform the opening number for the show. Her positive attitude was rewarded with an Emmy for outstanding music and lyrics for her…

This time Queer Eye would not wait 14 years for its next Emmy win. Netflix’s reboot of the popular 2000s reality series tonight won the Structured Reality Program Emmy Award for a second consecutive year. It was one of four Emmy wins for the unscripted series Saturday night. In its first year of eligibility last year…

W. Kamau Bell snapped up the Emmy for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program for his show United Shades of America on Saturday night at the Creative Arts Emmys—his third consecutive win in this category. Accepting the statuette up on stage, he took the opportunity to call out the industry for falling short on…