Five key takeaways from the 2019 Emmys
The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards offered up several pleasant surprises — wins for Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Billy Porter, to name two — as well as a few less well-received moments. Here are the top five takeaways from the night.this year. However, while the film awards show saw a spectacular bump of almost 30% in the ratings after ditching an emcee, there was no such luck for Fox on Sunday night.
It was a historic night for Waller-Bridge’s Amazon show, which upset a pair of established American Emmy juggernauts in “Veep” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” on the way to four primetime wins. Comer gave a shout-out to her family watching back in Liverpool during her acceptance speech, revealing, in typically British self-deprecating fashion, that she didn’t invite them because she never expected to best her co-star Sandra Oh for the golden statuette.
NBC took a place among the top five networks, albeit with just seven awards, five of which went to “Saturday Night Live,” while CBS and Fox each earned four. ABC lagged behind with a single Emmy for “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’”Many of the evening’s winners felt empowered to speak up and speak out, advocating for trans rights, pay equity and other forms of representation and inclusion.
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