The 2019 Emmys felt more like the BAFTAs as half of the awards were handed to Brits or Brit-produced shows. “This is getting ridiculous,” said Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who was certainly the toast of H…
, summed it up when he won outstanding writing for a drama series for Succession episode“Blimey. I’m quite overwhelmed, I didn’t expect that. There’s quite a lot of British winners, maybe too many. Maybe you should have a think about immigration restrictions on [shithole countries],” he said. Fox bleeped the final words of his joke, but it was still clear that he was making a self-deprecating joke about British success tonight.
It’s quite an increase from last year, which only saw six of the awards dominated by the other side of the pond.Fleabag was a surprise for the outstanding comedy award, as well as Waller-Bridge’s acting win over Julia Louis Dreyfus in the outstanding lead comedy actress category. The show, which is distributed by All3Media International also won for Harry Bradbeer’s directing and outstanding writing for a comedy series.
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