67th Primetime Emmy Awards Winner's List

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Below is the complete list of winners for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards:

Outstanding Drama Series
"Better Call Saul" (AMC)
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
"Game Of Thrones" (HBO) *WINNER
"Homeland" (Showtime)
"House Of Cards" (Netflix)
"Mad Men" (AMC)
"Orange Is The New Black" (Netflix)

Andy Samberg to Host 67th Primetime Emmy Awards

Andy Samberg

Emmy Award-winning writer, actor and comedian Andy Samberg will host the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards airing LIVE coast-to-coast from the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 20 (8-11 p.m. ET live/5-8 p.m. PT live) on FOX. Samberg stars as Det. Jake Peralta on the award-winning comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

"It's wonderfully fitting that we have Andy Samberg, an Emmy Award winner himself, as our host for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards," said Bruce Rosenblum, chairman and CEO of the Television Academy. "Andy has excelled in all aspects of the television universe, both from behind and in front of the camera. His humor, insights and charisma will be an exciting addition to our annual celebration of television's best and brightest."

Television Academy Passes Primetime Emmy Awards Rules Changes

The Television Academy has passed a group of new Primetime Emmy Awards rules which reflect the increasingly varied and expanding television landscape.

Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy Chairman said, "We are thrilled to announce that our Board of Governors and senior industry executives have taken meaningful time to address, in a forward thinking manner, many of our existing rules and procedures. Our over 17,000 voting members represents a dramatically changing television industry and we want to continue to make sure we honor their creativity in the most relevant and fair ways possible."As our growing membership creates and produces more content for ever-changing platforms, today's changes in the rules and procedures are vital. We're sure that in coming years we will continue to evolve our rules as our dynamic industry grows."

The changes include:

Expansion of Final Round Voting: In an effort to increase member participation in the voting process, and to take advantage of the Academy's extension of online voting to both rounds, all voters eligible to vote in a category's nominating round are now eligible to vote in that category's final round, so long as they meet two additional requirements: much like the former Blue Ribbon panel process, voters must watch the required submitted material online and attest to no specific conflicts of interest with the nominees

67th Primetime Emmy Awards To Air September 20 on FOX

The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards return to FOX, airing live coast-to-coast from the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 20 (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT).
The Emmy Awards recognize excellence within various areas of television and emerging media. The Primetime Emmy Award is a symbol of peer recognition from more than 17,500 voting members of the Television Academy.

Host(s) and producers for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced soon.

Additionally, the “Creative Arts Emmy Awards” will be held on Saturday, September 12 and will air on FXX on a date to be announced.

News Brief: Lucy Lawless, 'Friends' Reunion on Kimmel, 'Full House' Reboot, Kathryn Prescott, Shonda Rhimes

* Marvel has released the first image of Lucy Lawless as Agent Isabelle Hartley in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 premiere.

* Despite all the pieces heralding this as a golden age of television, the Emmys — or more accurately, those who mounted and attended them — still haven’t gotten over their infatuation with movie stars, or retired their age-old inferiority complex. Not only does this fly in the face of history — movie stars aren’t exactly a new feature of Emmy voting — but it does a general disservice to those who have rightfully garnered praise for their television work.

* Grey's Anatomy and Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes is set to make her acting debut in a fall episode of The Mindy Project.

* Visit the sets of this year’s Emmy Award nominees on Google Maps.

* Finding Carter star Kathryn Prescott has joined CBS' upcoming miniseries The Dovekeepers, playing a teenaged tomboy named Aziza. Blessed with expert archery skills, Aziza disguises herself in her brother’s armor to join the male warriors of Masada — even managing to fool her lover Amram (played by 90210's Diego Boneta).

* Could a Full House return be in the works? The family sitcom, which aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995, is still a ratings juggernaut via repeats on Nick at Nite. Now Warner Bros. TV is mulling a new take on Full House, with some of the original cast intact. Leading the charge is John Stamos (Uncle Jesse) — who has an ownership stake in the show, which gives him good reason to champion the new series.

* Susan Sarandon's first job in New York? "A soap opera called A World Apart. I think I was about 21. No, wait, actually I did the movie Joe before, as soon as I got to New York. It was so much fun that I decided to be an actor."

* Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow reunite on Jimmy Kimmel for Friends fan-fiction. Watch below:

Primetime Emmys Deliver Second-Biggest Overall Audience in Eight Years

Billy Crystal paid tribute to the late Robin Williams.

Monday from 8-11 p.m. ET and live in all time zones, The 66th Primetime Emmy® Awards (4.2 rating in adults 18-49, 15.6 million viewers overall) generated the second biggest overall audience for an Emmys telecast in eight years and equaled the second highest Emmy rating in adults 18-49 in seven years, according to time zone-adjusted fast official ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

The 15.6 million viewers is the second biggest overall audience for the Emmys since 2006, trailing over that span only the 17.8 million for last year's telecast, which benefited from Sunday scheduling, a September airdate and a high-rated NFL lead-in. Excluding those 2013 results, this is the top Emmys in total viewers since the Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006 telecast on NBC averaged 16.2 million viewers.

66th Primetime Emmy Awards: Complete List of Winners

Below is the full list of winners for the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards:

Outstanding Drama Series
Breaking Bad
AMC • Sony Pictures Television

Outstanding Comedy Series
Modern Family
ABC • Picador Productions and Steven Levitan Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Bryan Cranston as Walter White
Breaking Bad • AMC • Sony Pictures Television

News Brief: 'True Blood' Finale Disappoints Critics, Hits Season High in Ratings; Matt Bomer to Guest on 'Freak Show'; Do Primetime Emmys Still Matter?

* True Blood's last episode was the most disappointing series finale in a long time. Something about the blandness of True Blood's finale felt almost offensive. Jessica and Hoyt got hitched, because it was Bill's greatest wish to see his progeny married off? Bill just had to lecture Sookie about how having children makes life worth living? Sookie needed to chat with the Reverend about God's plan? For a show that once skewered Ted Cruz and other self-proclaimed defenders of "family values," this was pretty conservative stuff. What happened to the transgressive fun of True Blood?

* True Blood ended as it lived: a complete mess with no emotional center.

* 4.1 million viewers tuned in for the initial airing of the True Blood series finale, a Season 4 high.

* Do the Primetime Emmys still matter in 2014? Television -- most reasonably discerning people can agree -- is better than ever. There are more worthy series to honor on more networks than at any time in the medium's 75-year history. Yet, the awards show that honors this bounty seems to be sliding into, if not outright irrelevance, then senescence.

* Ashton Kutcher was the highest-paid TV actor in 2014 ($26 million).

* Matt Bomer will guest star on one episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show. Creator Ryan Murphy broke the news himself at EW’s Emmy Party saying he’s excited to reunite once again with the "amazing" actor

* TiVo now has a product aimed at cord-cutting DVR lovers: The company has announced its first antenna-only DVR, the Roamio OTA. Priced at $50, the limited-edition DVR is not equipped to receive or record cable or satellite television. According to TiVo, 88% of the most-recorded shows among its customers are available free over-the-air with a digital antenna.

Primetime Emmys: Which Shows & Actors Have The Most Social Heat So Far?

On Monday night, the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held to honor the best in U.S. prime time television. The Viralheat team has been crunching social media chatter over the weekend to determine who's hot and not. They looked at the number of mentions as well as the sentiment of viewers' posts on various social media networks. Based on the social media data, below are the leaders in each category:

Best Comedy Series
Orange is the New Black

Best Drama Series
Game of Thrones

Lead Actor – Comedy
Ricky Gervais

Lead Actress – Comedy
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lead Actor – Drama
Bryan Cranston

Lead Actress – Drama
Kerry Washington

Will the social media leaders match the winners chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences? Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC to find out.

Check out the Viralheat findings in the infographic below:

NBC Partners with Television Academy and NBCUniversal Networks to Bring Most Social Experience Ever for The 66th Emmy Awards

NBC is partnering with the Television Academy and NBCUniversal Networks to bring the most social Emmys experience ever to TV viewers for "The 66thEmmy Awards" show live coast-to-coast Monday, August 25 (5-8 p.m. PT, 8-11 p.m. ET).

In an effort to make this year's Emmys the most social one to date, NBC, the Television Academy, "Access Hollywood," E! and the "Today" show along with host Seth Meyers and his "Late Night" team, will join forces to harness the strength of their collective social media footprint. Every touch point of the Emmys will have social media integration, giving the audience a chance to participate in the Emmys experience during the week and moments leading up to the show, the red carpet, backstage and live during the telecast. This week leading up to the Emmys Meyers is providing fans with exclusive content, including rehearsal footage, backstage content and footage from press visits via the @LateNightSeth social handles.

2014 Creative Arts Emmys: Complete List of Winners

Allison Janney. Photo Credit: Invision/AP

The Television Academy tonight presented the 2014 Creative Arts Emmy® Awards on Saturday night (August 16, 2014) for programs and individual achievements at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. This first ceremony of the 66th Emmy Awards honored guest performers on television dramas and comedy series, as well as the many talented artists and craftspeople behind the scenes to create television excellence. Produced for the 20th year by Spike Jones, Jr., this year’s Creative Arts Awards featured an array of notable presenters, among them Jane Lynch, Tony Hale, Amy Schumer, Allison Janney, Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum, Comedy Central's Key & Peele, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, Morgan Freeman, Tony Goldwyn, Aisha Tyler, Joe Manganiello and Carrie Preston.

Highlights included Jon Voight's moving posthumous presentation of the Academy’s prestigious Governors Award to casting icon, Marion Dougherty. Voight was one of Dougherty's discoveries.

The awards, as tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP, were distributed as follows:



This year’s Creative Arts telecast partner is FXM; a two-hour edited version of the ceremony will air Sunday, August 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with an encore at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FXM. The program will be streamed in its entirety as part of the Backstage LIVE! show on Emmys.com at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET on Monday, August 25.

Emmys in 26 other categories will be presented at the 66th Emmy Awards telecast on Monday, August 25, 2014, 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, on NBC.

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex

NBC Releases First Primetime Emmys Promo with Host Seth Myers (Video)

NBC has released a promo for the upcoming Primetime Emmy Awards featuring host Seth Myers. The spot includes humorous sight-gag references to Breaking Bad, Masters of Sex, Mad Men, American Horror Story, True Detective, Game of Thrones, Top Chef and Mad Men.

Watch the promo below:

2014 Primetime Emmy Nominations: Complete List of Nominees

Below are the nominations for the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, announced this morning in Los Angeles.

Outstanding Drama Series
"Breaking Bad"
"Downton Abbey"
"Game of Thrones"
"House of Cards"
"Mad Men"
"True Detective"

Outstanding Comedy Series
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Louie"
"Modern Family"
"Orange is the New Black"
"Silicon Valley"
"Veep"