It was a safe night at Sunday night’s Emmy Awards, with host Jimmy Kimmel keeping a steady stream of one-liners going without hurting too many feelings.
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That gives it a total haul over the years of 38 – more than any other narrative series since the first Television Academy prize-giving in 1949, overtaking the haul of 37 won by long-running comedy Frasier. “It’s called the Maggie Smith Rule”, Kimmel joked early on in the show.
“No, no, no, no, no”.
Calling the Downton Abbey star “Downton Absent”, the Emmys host took aim at the great Brit when she failed to show to collect her latest accolade, grabbing the award and telling her she could pick it up at the “lost and found”.
“Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too”, said a stunned Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a unsafe hacking conspiracy.
She tweeted through the Masterpiece PBS Twitter account.
But before presenters Minnie Driver and Michael Weatherly could accept the award on Smith’s behalf, host Jimmy Kimmel intercepted the trophy and told Smith to retrieve it herself.
The U.S. television audience for Sunday’s Emmy Awards dropped to 11.3 million viewers on average, the lowest level on record in the 68-year history of the industry’s highest honors, according to ratings data released by ABC on Monday.
Despite its lowest ratings ever, this year’s Emmys proved to be a successful night of recognition for the people who create, work on and act in the programs we see on our TV screens – or more realistically, our computer screens – nearly every day. This time she had a Sunday ceramics class she couldn’t get out of.
First-time nominee Rami Malek (Mr Robot) won for best lead actor in a drama, while Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) won the prize for best lead actress in a drama, in a surprise win for the BBC America series. “Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland posted a selfie with her sandwich on Instagram, while co-star Ariel Winter showed off the handwritten note from Kimmel’s mom that was in her lunch bag.
The biggest shows on TV get no Emmy love- “NCIS” and all its permutations, other procedurals, and so on. MTV’s “Video Music Awards” lost a third of its audience last month compared with the year before. I’m recommending that we get rid of all Muslim and Mexican people from the ceremony.
Now, Jane was likely asleep when the show aired last night, but surely she caught up with the news of the performance this morning.
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“I would like to dedicate this to my father who passed away on Friday, and I’m so glad that he liked Veep because his opinion was the one that really mattered”, she said in an emotional tribute, her voice breaking.
