Television’s biggest night came and went as the 74th Emmy Awards were unveiled tonight in downtown Los Angeles, hosted by “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson, and aired live on NBC and streaming on Peacock. In one of the most competitive Emmy seasons in recent memory, it was “Succession,” “Ted Lasso,” and “The White Lotus” that took home the Television Academy’s top prizes.

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In a night filled with upsets and snubs, one of the more obvious narratives was the lack of breakthrough success for Disney+ and its shows. Despite an impressive number of nominations for “WandaVision” and “The Mandalorian,” Disney+ mostly sat out Sunday evening, racking up technical awards like Outstanding Stunt Performance or Sound Mixing and missing entirely on the higher-profile actor, writer, and direction categories.

READ MORE: See The Complete Winner’s List From the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards

So, as we often do in the hours following an awards ceremony, we find ourselves asking what it all means.

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It is not often that we get to view Netflix as an underdog. Since the platform began to invest in original content, it has dominated cultural conversations worldwide and set the gold standard for subscription numbers. But tonight, with crucial wins for “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” in the Outstanding Drama Series and Limited Series categories at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, two of the rare doors to remain closed to Netflix have flung themselves wide, wide open.

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The 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards was a “Crown” -ing achievement for Netflix. The streaming service won Best Drama Series (“The Crown”) and Limited Series or Anthology Series (“The Queen’s Gambit”) for the first time in their history. During this telecast alone, Peter Morgan’s generational drama series took seven Emmys, and “Queen’s Gambit” added another two to its formidable haul following the Creative Arts Emmy Awards last weekend.

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In a world where every studio and content creator has launched its own streaming platform, it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. This has been the story of Apple TV+ over the past few years. While the streaming neophyte has been quietly gaining ground on its competitors with noteworthy shows like “Mythic Quest,” “For All Mankind,” and “Servant,” it took the cultural phenomenon that is “Ted Lasso” to finally secure an Emmy series win, this time in the Outstanding Comedy Series category.

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In CONCLUSION: OK, so that’s a wrap. As somewhat predicted, it became a big night between HBO and Netflix, with the streamer beating their rival cable channel/streamer in the end. Netflix took home the big Outstanding drama series prize (“The Crown“), and then all eyes were on the Outstanding Limited Series award. It was clearly between “Mare Of Easttown” and “The Queen’s Gambit,” and while Kate Winslet took the Best Limited Series Actress award, Scott Frank, the writer, director, and creator of “The Queen’s Gambit,” took the Best Director in a Limited Series award and thus that was the sign that ‘Gambit’ was just ever so gently ending them out.

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In something of a surprise, the Television Academy is expanding the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony from two nights to five. The additional three nights will likely allow the organization to do virtual acceptance speeches in all categories, although that was not specifically noted in a press release regarding the change. Both the Creative Arts and Primetime Emmy Awards will be virtual ceremonies due to continuing concerns regarding the coronavirus pandemic.

READ MORE: Primetime Emmys are officially going virtual for 2020

Each ceremony will be viewable on Emmys.com beginning Monday, Sept.

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Television Academy members have officially received their ballots for the 2020 Primetime and Creative Arts Emmys. And after months of Emmy campaigning sort of turned into a more traditional phase one campaign than expected (FYC outdoor advertising has popped up all over LA, more zoom Q&As than anyone could possibly watch), the nomination game is finally in the home stretch. Unfortunately, the final ballot offered bad news for any series battling to land a Limited Series nomination.

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That look on Logan Roy’s face. What was behind that unique half-smile Brian Cox delivered as Roy in what constituted the last shot of “Succession” season three? Was the billionaire patriarch proud of his son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) for throwing him under the bus? Was he already hatching a plan to get back at him? Only series creator Jesse Armstrong knows for sure, but Cox has some well-formulated ideas of his own.

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This is a somewhat strange time. Well, perhaps that’s an understatement. Half the country is trying to stay at home and deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Both film and television production has effectively shut down in the U.S., Canada and Europe. And yet, marketing, promotion and development, however, continue. On the television and streaming side writer’s rooms are open and breaking down new series often via video conference. It’s not the status quo, but it’s trying to be.

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If anyone was thinking Netflix and Amazon were going to take the pedal off the medal this Emmy season you were gravely mistaken. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and “Veep” may currently look like insurmountable frontrunners in the Drama and Comedy Series categories, but the streaming giants aren’t acting like it. Over the span of the last 24 hours, both companies revealed their plans to once again give Emmy voters “experiences” that no other network has come close to attempting.

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Finally, voting for the 91st Academy Awards has come to a merciful end.  Six months of screenings, Q&As, bus shelter ads, talk show appearances, cocktail parties and controversies (oh, so many controversies) have all led to this: a week of everyone overthinking their Oscar predictions.  But, before we consider whose dreams will come true and whose dreams will be shattered let’s take a look at some of the exciting things we can look forward to on Sunday and in the weeks to come.

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The newly crowned Emmy-award winner for Reality-Competition TV Series, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is returning in December for a fourth “All Stars“ edition.  The cast of returning contestants was announced last week, but today VH1 revealed what has turned out to be an increasingly impressive list of guest judges every season.

READ MORE: RuPaul revisits season 10 and says top four of All Stars 3 was a ‘shock’ [Interview]

This year’s crop of talent includes “Black-ish’s” Jenifer Lewis, Ciara, two-time Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves, Olympic Silver medalist Gus Kenworthy, Keiynan Lonsdale, “Big Little Lies'” Zoë Kravitz, “Community’s” Yvette Nicole Brown, “Saturday Night Live’s” Cecily Strong, pop-star Rita Ora, iconic club promotor Susanne Bartsch, “Grey’s Anatomy’s” Ellen Pompeo, Frances Bean Cobain, Oscar-nominee Felicity Huffman, fashion designer Jason Wu and “In Contempt’s” Erica Ash.

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With so many close races it was obvious there would be some upsets at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, but no one expected this many. Netflix’s “The Crown” scored unexpected Directing and Best Actress in a Drama Emmys for Stephen Daldry and Claire Foy, respectively. And “The Americans” took the Drama Writing and Best Actor statues for series showrunners Joe Weinberg and Joel Fields; and Matthew Rhys.

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What a night for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!” Amy Sherman-Palladino’s fast-talking, stand-up comedy show swept the Comedy awards with Writing, Directing, Supporting and Lead Actress, and Series. Elsewhere on the Drama side, the TV Academy finally gave “The Americans” some love with Best Actor and Writing, Claire Foy scooped up Best Actress for her final turn as the Queen, and “Game of Thrones” reigned supreme over “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Check out the complete list of winners below!

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The 68th Emmy Awards were announced Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the ABC production came in under 3 hours thanks to unexpected wins for no-shows Maggie Smith and Ben Mendelsohn.

The official telecast followed two earlier ceremonies over the past week where the below the line honors were revealed as well as some other key awards.

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With the fall festivals showing off their wares, Oscar season is firmly underway, with some films falling, and others — “La La Land” and “Jackie,” most notably, rising. But before we get into all of that with full gusto, we still have the minor matter of one of the biggest awards ceremonies in America to deal with, in the shape of this Sunday’s upcoming Emmys.

The biggest thing in the TV calendar, and traditionally marking the end of one ‘season’ and the beginning of a new one for the small screen (though that’s increasingly irrelevant in the days of year-round programming), this year’s winners will be announced in a Jimmy Kimmel-hosted ceremony on Sunday night, though below-the-line Creative Arts Emmys were already announced this past weekend.

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Emmy Winners 2015: 'Game Of Thrones' And Viola Davis Make History

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'Game Of Thrones' Leads The 2015 Emmy Awards Pack With 24 Nominations

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20 Performers Who Deserve 2015 Emmy Nominations (But Maybe Won't Get One)

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