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    A night of surprises at Emmy Awards

    By David Bauder | China Daily | Updated: 2013-09-24 07:17

    Breaking Bad takes its first-ever award for best drama, while Jeff Daniels' win for best actor in drama is the most unexpected

    The Emmys lived up to its reputation as the least predictable entertainment awards show on Sunday night.

    US television's annual night of honors, where the AMC drama Breaking Bad and ABC comedy Modern Family were judged the industry's finest, mixed in surprises with expected winners, and ended some winning streaks while extending others.

    Newcomer Netflix made its presence felt, but not in the splashy way it had hoped for.

    "Nobody in America is winning their office pool," host Neil Patrick Harris said late in the CBS telecast from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

    The best drama win for Breaking Bad was its first ever, and Anna Gunn won a best supporting actress award for playing the wife of Bryan Cranston's Walter White character, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord around whom the series revolves. Cranston was denied a bid for his fourth drama acting award for the show.

    It was splendid publicity for Breaking Bad, which airs its series finale next Sunday. "What a way to go out," Cranston said backstage.

    "I'm biased, I love our show," added Vince Gilligan, the series' creator. "I was stunned that we won. It was a very big surprise for me."

    Netflix disappointed

    Going into the Emmys, much speculation surrounded whether Netflix's House of Cards would be the first series not shown on a broadcast or cable network to win best drama. It didn't, but Gilligan said if it wasn't for streaming services like Netflix, his show wouldn't have lasted beyond its second season.

    House of Cards was the first online program to be nominated for a top series honor, as big a revolution in the TV industry as when HBO's The Larry Sanders Show became the first cable series nominee. It was a decade, however, until another cable show, Sex and the City, won one of the awards. David Fincher of House of Cards won a directing award.

    The Modern Family win can't be called a surprise, since it has been declared best comedy all four years that it has been on the air. None of its ensemble cast took home trophies, though.

    Jeff Daniels of the HBO drama Newsroom was probably the most unexpected winner, declared best actor in a drama in a category with heavyweights like Cranston, Jon Hamm of Mad Men, Kevin Spacey of House of Cards and Damian Lewis of Homeland.

    "I felt the work stood up to what the other guys are doing," Daniels said. "But we're all doing different things."

    One of the show's oddest moments came quickly, when Merritt Wever of Nurse Jackie won best supporting actress in a comedy series.

    "Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Um, I got to go, bye," Wever told the audience. Her brevity drew positive notices from Harris and not a few folks on Twitter.

    Wever said later she made it quick because she thought she was going to cry.

    Tony Hale of Veep was another surprise winner in the comedy supporting actor category, beating three Modern Family cast members.

    "Was I fine? Because I totally blacked out," he asked about his acceptance speech backstage.

    Comedy winners

    More familiar names took home best acting trophies for comedies.

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus won for the second year in a row for playing the lead character in the HBO series Veep. Jim Parsons, whose CBS show The Big Bang Theory has blossomed into television's most popular comedy, won his second acting award.

    "It means a ton because I've actually lost many, many more times than I've won. I've lost 10 times in fact. It's delicious to win," said Louis-Dreyfus, who has now won twice as many personal Emmys for Veep as she did playing Elaine Benes on Seinfeld.

    As she accepted her second straight award as best actress in a drama for Showtime's Homeland, Claire Danes paid tribute to one of the series' writers, who died last March and received a writing Emmy posthumously on Sunday.

    The ceremony often struck a melancholy note with extended tributes to stars and other industry members who died in the past year.

    "Well, this may be the saddest Emmys of all time but we could not be happier," said Modern Family executive producer Steve Levitan.

    A notable Emmy winning streak ended on Sunday when The Colbert Report beat its comedy rival The Daily Show in the variety series category. Jon Stewart's Daily Show had won the award for 10 years straight.

    Michael Douglas was honored as best actor for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO movie Behind the Candelabra, besting his co-star Matt Damon. The film also captured a top trophy as best movie or miniseries.

    It was a good night for the pay cable service HBO, which took home seven awards and earned bragging rights over its rival Showtime.

    Associated Press

     A night of surprises at Emmy Awards

    Actress Sofia Vergara and actor Derek Hough pose at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

    A night of surprises at Emmy Awards

    (China Daily 09/24/2013 page10)

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