However, in what is actually a surprising twist, American Horror Story: Freak Show ended up taking home the second-highest number of Emmys with five. Matching their wins from previous year were Shark Tank as Structured Reality Program, Deadliest Catch as Unstructured Reality Program, Jane Lynch as Reality Host (Hollywood Game Night), and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown as Informational Series, a third consecutive win. The Primetime Emmy Awards air Sunday, September 20 at 8/7c on Fox.
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Joanne Froggatt will go up against Game of Thrones stars Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke as well as Christina Baranski from The Good Wife, Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba for best supporting actress in a drama.
Within the visitor actor classes for drama collection, Martindale gained for FX’s “The People” and Cathey for Netflix’s “Home of Playing cards”.
Even when it’s not on television, Game of Thrones is dominating its rivals.
Among the other winners were Foo Fighters, who won two awards for their documentary series “Sonic Highways“, beating “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” in both categories. Which nominees made the right choices and which ones faltered?
Having trouble deciding between Cicely Tyson (“How to Get Away with Murder”) and Allison Janney (“Masters of Sex”) as Best Drama Guest Actress?
A rule change announced in February changed the definition of guest actor to performers appearing in fewer than 50 percent of a program’s episodes.
Among the previously announced honors was the 2015 Governors Award, which was bestowed upon A+E Networks for their corporate social responsibility programs. The political drama series had won 4 creative arts awards and 5 primetime awards.
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The 67th edition of the ceremony will be broadcast September 19 at 8 p.m. ET on FXX reported the Mirror.
