Game of Thrones and Veep have taken home the Emmy awards for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series, respectively. It's the second year in a row for both shows.

Game of Thrones also won for Outstanding Direction (Miguel Sapochnik) and Outstanding Writing (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss), both for the penultimate episode of the season "Battle of the Bastards." Veep's only other honor of the night was for lead actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who now holds the record for most consecutive wins in the category (she now has five, breaking her tie with Helen Hunt).

Both Veep and Game of Thrones are HBO properties, and the network came …

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Rami Malek just won his first-ever Emmy for his role as Elliot in USA's Mr. Robot. Malek accepted the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series by stepping on stage and whispering to the audience, "Please tell me you're seeing this too," mimicking the nervous paranoia of the character he plays on the show.

"I play a young man who is like so many of us profoundly alienated," Malek said, "and the unfortunate thing is, I'm not sure how many of us would want to hang out with a guy like Elliot. I want to honor the Elliots because there's a little bit of Elliot in all of us, isn't there?"

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The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards have wrapped and let's just get it out of the way: Veep. Game of Thrones. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Got it? Good. "It's just nice to be nominated" is true of every person up until the point where a winner is chosen. We've been keeping a running tally of all the winners so far tonight.

Amazon's Transparent took an early lead in the comedy categories with two wins - one for directing, and one for lead actor Jeffrey Tambor, who used his speech to call for more transgender performers in transgender roles: "I would not be unhappy [if I were] the last cisgender man to play a female transgende …

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HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has just won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. The award was won last year and every year from 2003 to 2012 by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but Stewart's Daily Show successor Trevor Noah was not nominated this year.

This award is an affirmation of the bandied-about claim that Oliver has taken over Stewart's role as late night's sharpest dissenting voice in the last year. That said, Samantha Bee's Full Frontal wasn't nominated for this year's ceremony, but it was seen as a huge snub and likely won't happen again. The competition will be much stiffer in 2017, as Bee (another Daily …

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Jeffrey Tambor has won the Emmy award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for the second year in a row for his performance in Amazon's Transparent. Accepting the award, he told a story about meeting Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, saying, "He took my hand and said 'you can call me Jeff Bezos.'"

He used the moment to ask that Hollywood "give transgender talent a chance, give them auditions, give them their stories," adding that he would "not be unhappy" were he "the last cisgender man to play a female transgender on TV." Tambor expressed similar sentiments when he accepted awards at the 2015 Emmy Awards, the 2015 Golden Globes, and the 2016 Scre …

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Tonight, television will broadcast a celebration of all things television. The 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, organized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will honor the biggest and best shows in TV in the past year (with a little help and campaigning from their respective networks, of course). Red carpet coverage starts at 7PM ET on ABC, with the awards themselves starting at 8PM ET. You'll be able to stream everything live via ABC's website or via its Android / iOS app - in all those cases, that's going to require login credentials from a TV provider.

Update: It has begun! Check out all the Emmy winners here!

While the cru …

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In the last 15 years, the Emmys have used the term "miniseries" to describe (and honor) a two-part network dramatization of the Anne Frank story, five incarnations of a 13-part horror bonanza, a six-hour movie version of America's most famous play, and a disaster of an eight-part Kennedys history which aired on the reality TV network Reelz. For a long time, it was basically a meaningless word in a mess of a category.

But as TV viewing habits and network practices have evolved, that's changed. Networks hungry for attention and acclaim have quite literally reshaped the definition of miniseries, taking a category that in 2010 could only find t …

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The 68th Emmy Awards are taking place this Sunday, and Jimmy Kimmel will host, which means he'll be responsible for some kind of pithy and irreverent opening monologue that will (probably clumsily) attempt to sum up the state of television. If the idea of watching that excites you, but you'd prefer to avoid the rest of the awards show (or you don't have any way to watch it), Facebook has a solution. After Kimmel's monologue streams on linear television, the whole thing will be posted as a 360-degree video to Facebook.

As Variety reports, the clip will live on Kimmel's Facebook page, ABC's Facebook page, and the Emmys / Television Academy Fa …

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