The ratings were disappointing, but the winners shone and the evenings lasted into the night – deadline

I am pleased to say that I have been informed that I beat all the "experts" of the Gold Derby contest to predict the winners of this year's Emmy Awards. So while it was booming after this triumph, let me make some predictions of Emmy about next even if we are 12 months away from the big party of 2020.

Even if the Emmy repeat their winners year after year, the slate will be erased clean in the first three categories of the best drama series, the best comedy series and the best limited series. Since the big winner of the evening, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has firmly closed the door to all seasons of her award-winning comedy series at the Emmy Awards. Bag with chips After only two seasons of six episodes, I predict that something else will win this award next year. And since the TV Academy decided to send the last season of the HBO mastodon The iron Throne with 12 wins and his fourth trophy in the drama series we can rest assured he will not be back either. And just in case you're surprised, 10 award-winning limited series at Emmy Chernobyl do not go to spring a second season to the Big little lies and try to continue on this nuclear catastrophe plot for a shot at Emmy's more glory, at least according to a producer behind the scenes who assured the media that it was he for the depressing series, which remains to be limit.

So, although next year is very different, we must applaud this year's Emmy Bash, the culmination of a very long eight-month campaign, for concocting real surprises and unexpected winners, just to mix things up very little Emmy – as a way. Yes, there was the boring repetition of seeing Last night tonight with John Oliver, RuPaul's Drag Race, Saturday Night Live and other winners again again, maybe a sense of already seen which contributes to the decline of the ratings. Yet even though it's not a magnet for notes, this year's real treat has been to see unexpected winners of winners like Bag with chips in many key categories, Jodie Comer as a lead actress in a drama series Kill Eve, Billy Porter as the lead actor in a drama series Exposure, Julia Garner and director Jason Bateman win prizes for Ozark, and When they see us Star Jharrel Jerome takes the lead actor in a limited series / film with a speech that becomes a real highlight when he introduced the "Exonerated Five" series, sitting in the audience.

And what a weekend for the British. Old Emmy staple Downton Abbey He dominated the box office with his debut on the big screen, while British projects won half of the gold medals last night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. This is the kind of weekend that makes you think that the British are coming back to reclaim America. It is also the kind of unexpected triumph that gives me hope that the voters of the Academy (of which I am one, and yes I voted for Chip bag) are thoroughly judging real contents on sentimentality or shows that they are just comfortable with it. If not, how to explain the complete game of the perennial winner Veep in a last season that could have been his best? Julia Louis-Dreyfus will have to wait another day to break her tie with Cloris Leachman and win the greatest number of Emmy victories. At the HBO party, I came across her husband, Brad Hall, who summed it up succinctly when he used a colorful word that was not appropriate for a family website. Veep exclude. However, I reported one of the strong points turned out to be the hilarious tribute to the seven seasons of the series. So, who needs another Emmy?

I met the President of the TV Academy and Director of Operations, Maury McIntyre, while I was attending the Governors' Ball after the ceremony last night in downtown, and he was overflowing. "We really mixed up with new winners," he said, delighted with the result because the Academy is often accused of doing the opposite. Nevertheless, despite some authentic surprises and new British faces, there is a tendency to tick the box in some categories with the same winners such as Last week tonight with John Oliver, a weekly show that competes mostly with nightly talk shows, is certainly a skill set different from those of Kimmel, Corden, Colbert, Meyers, Noah, etc. deserving, who lose each year against Oliver in a predictable way. Perhaps the category should be further modified to recognize the difference and place the weekly programs of Oliver and Samantha Bee in a different category type.

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Incidentally, sitting in the gigantic Microsoft Theater, it was almost deafening that every mention of Oliver's show – or Colbert, in this case – of the crowd sitting in the highest regions of the room, which was clearly the entire staff of the two east coast shows, sung and screamed with a boring coherence. It looked like hundreds, and they did not stop.

Netflix player Ted Sarandos, in a corner of the governors' ball before going to the party at his company at MILK, seemed delighted with the performance of his streamer, winning his biggest total with 27 (including including two big winnings for Ozark)37. In the case of Netflix, however, even with impressive numbers, it is still the streamer that has not yet won in any of the three most prestigious categories of drama series, drama series and limited series. Hulu and Amazon Prime rivals to have with this particularly impressive, which now wins the Comedy series two years in a row with two different series (The wonderful Mrs Maisel last year, and Flea bag, who together pocketed 12 Emmys this year).

Sarandos joked with good humor on the British show: "We felt like being at BAFTA tonight," while BAFTA-LA's executive director, Chantal Rickards, happened by chance, surprised her comment and said "thank you". Netflix is ​​already plotting its next moves for next year, when the very, very Columbia The crown will be back in contention and will aim to give the streamer its first win in the major category. At present, the most important program category she has chosen is the separate award for best television film, organized three years in a row, all for episodes of a series of anthologies, Black mirror, rather than true "movies". But hey, everything goes in the rules, but the category of TV movies is another that could use some adjustments on the part of the Academy. And for all my life, I do not understand why Netflix, with a plethora of movies from which to choose Passersby, does not make them eligible for Emmy and continues to go in the same direction in this category with Black mirror episodes. Oh, wait, because they to win.

It seems that the Emmys, this year on Fox, got the lowest odds of all time. This is not a surprise since, with the obvious exception of The iron Throne, you have to wonder how many there are even in Central America heard many of the big winners of the night, a lot less looked their. The only winner of traditional Big 4 networks was Saturday Night Live for Variety Sketch Series and Directing. It also happens to be, with 45 seasons, the oldest network entertainment show of the year. That said all Emmy parties, outside the Academy Governors' Ball, are thrown by streamers or cable jacks, while it's still the four commercial networks that run the Emmys every year and time antenna to their competitors. The big winner of HBO, as usual, has rolled from one wall to another at the Pacific Design Center, and Amazon at Chateau Marmont had lines of revelers who were trying to penetrate in the crowded party space. Amazon had a very good night, so it was natural that her celebration was a good idea.

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Aside from that, the Emmy show itself, beautifully produced by Don Mischer Productions and Done + Dusted, had many great moments, largely thanks to a group of laureates who were able to teach future laureates how to deliver a speech. d & # 39; acceptance. From Michelle Williams and Patricia Arquette to Jharell Jerome and Billy Porter, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bill Hader to Alex Borstein and Tony Shalhoub – the latter brilliantly took off all the winners who read an endless list of thanks – I can not remember not a ceremony with this level of memorable and unscripted moments, which are, after all, what it is. However, some of the elements of the comedy did not land, but the "wax museum" of Ben Stiller and Bob Newhart was priceless and deserved to be remembered among the unsuccessful attempts of others (and that Variety goes up a musical number – arrrrrgh). At least from my point of view inside the auditorium and listening to other attendees, the show has been well received by Microsoft, as you can always see by the number of standing ovations, and last night there were many.

I imagine that the board of governors of the TV Academy, which I sat for six years, will likely have a moment to come to Jesus, just as the Motion Picture Academy did a few years ago with these disturbing odds. But in a fracture, and more and more a divided television landscape, it would take a miracle worker to produce a show that will appeal to all the disparate factions the Emmys face. Already, with the two added Creative Arts shows, they do three of these things just to distribute all the material. This is a fact of life on television, and it will only be more complicated for an awards show that was originally built to honor only three networks and take place overnight. All we could ask was that there were so many memorable moments from last night's talk show this morning after. It is all these winners that we can thank. this.

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