{"id":231649,"date":"2019-09-20T03:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231649"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:33:52","slug":"game-of-thrones-veep-make-last-emmy-awards-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/20\/game-of-thrones-veep-make-last-emmy-awards-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Game of Thrones,&#8217; &#8216;Veep&#8217; make last Emmy Awards stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DRACARYS!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GameofThrones?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GameofThrones<\/a> is the most nominated series at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Emmys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Emmys<\/a>, with 32 nominations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cmPM3XonUE\">pic.twitter.com\/cmPM3XonUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameOfThrones\/status\/1151160990995746816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Veep?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Veep<\/a> cast thanks YOU for 7 seasons of love. Watch seasons 1-7 now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HBO<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaChlumsky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnnaChlumsky<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidHMandel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DavidHMandel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrTonyHale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MrTonyHale<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cleaduvall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cleaduvall<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timothycsimons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@timothycsimons<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamRichardson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SamRichardson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActorKevinDunn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ActorKevinDunn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrmattwalsh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MrMattWalsh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialJLD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@officialJLD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dhKh3clsi0\">pic.twitter.com\/dhKh3clsi0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Veep (@VeepHBO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeepHBO\/status\/1148244244932509696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;\u00a0has dominated the Emmy Awards with the formidable power of, say, your average fearsome, flame-belching dragon. Same goes for &#8220;Veep,&#8221;\u00a0but picture a cutthroat politician instead.<\/p>\n<p>The drama and comedy series are among the front-runners for Sunday&#8217;s ceremony (8 p.m. EDT, Fox) for their concluding seasons, a last chance to rule. But will they? There&#8217;s suspense as well over the never-crowned women of &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221;\u00a0whether Sandra Oh and Billy Porter will make Emmy history, and how much streaming services such as Netflix can chip away at old-guard cable and older-guard broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Cue HBO&#8217;s blockbuster drama and critically adored political satire.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy pregabalin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalterpenes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/pregabalin.html\">https:\/\/www.medicalterpenes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/pregabalin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the big farewell to the Emmy giants &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; and &#8216;Veep,&#8221;&#8216; said Tom O&#8217;Neil, author of &#8220;The Emmys&#8221;\u00a0and editor of the Gold Derby awards website. &#8220;The question is, how big will their sweeps be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;\u00a0has the most Emmys of any drama or comedy series in history, 57, and it&#8217;s been undefeated each time it was nominated in recent years. It holds the record for most Emmys won by a series in a single season, 12, set in 2015 and matched the following year.<\/p>\n<p>If the fantasy saga that brought cinematic sweep to TV successfully defends its best drama series title to net a fourth trophy, it will join a select club that can boast the same: &#8220;Hill Street Blues,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;L.A. Law,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;The West Wing&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;Mad Men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TV academy members brushed aside the anti-finale fan chorus in bestowing a single-year record 32 nominations on &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221;\u00a0but it remains to be seen if they&#8217;re as generous Sunday. There&#8217;s worthy competition, including BBC America&#8217;s &#8220;Killing Eve&#8221;; AMC&#8217;s &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221;; FX&#8217;s &#8220;Pose,&#8221;\u00a0Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Bodyguard&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;Ozark&#8221;; HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Succession,&#8221;\u00a0and NBC&#8217;s &#8220;This Is Us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy levitra soft online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalterpenes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/levitra-soft.html\">https:\/\/www.medicalterpenes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/levitra-soft.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actresses of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;\u00a0have a last shot at recognition for the series. They&#8217;ve failed to earn a single award despite receiving a combined 18 nominations over the drama&#8217;s eight-season run that, starting in 2011, brought George R.R. Martin&#8217;s novels alive with ample gore as well as strong female characters.<\/p>\n<p>Emilia Clarke is aiming for a best actress win after previously vying for supporting actress honours. She&#8217;s facing Oh, the former &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;\u00a0star who would be the first actress of Asian descent to claim the top acting award, and Viola Davis of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;How to Get Away With Murder,&#8221;\u00a0who in 2015 became the first African American winner in the category.<\/p>\n<p>The men of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;\u00a0also have something to prove, with the exception of three-time winner Peter Dinklage, up for this fourth. Alfie Allen and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, his castmates, also are in the running.<\/p>\n<p>Kit Harington is getting his first shot at lead actor honours for the saga. Other nominees include &#8220;Pose&#8221;\u00a0star Porter, who would be the first openly gay man to triumph in the category, and Sterling K. Brown of &#8220;This Is Us,&#8221;\u00a0who in 2017 became the fourth African American actor to win the honour.<\/p>\n<p>On the comedy side, &#8220;Veep&#8221;\u00a0ruled as best series the past three times it was nominated, but was sidelined last year when star Julia Louis-Dreyfus&#8217; breast cancer treatment delayed production. Amazon Prime Video&#8217;s &#8220;The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel&#8221;\u00a0won and will defend the title against &#8220;Veep&#8221;; &#8220;Fleabag,&#8221;\u00a0also on Amazon; HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Barry&#8221;; Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Russian Doll&#8221;; NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Good Place,&#8221;\u00a0and Pop TV&#8217;s &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clindamycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalterpenes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/clindamycin.html\">https:\/\/www.medicalterpenes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/clindamycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Louis-Dreyfus could become a seven-time winner for the political satire and, with the two Emmys she holds for &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;The New Adventures of Old Christine,&#8221;\u00a0break her tie with Cloris Leachman as the most-honoured performer in Emmy history. Rachel Brosnahan of &#8220;Mrs. Maisel&#8221;\u00a0won last year and is nominated again.<\/p>\n<p>There will be stars aplenty but no ringmaster for the three-hour show. It could go as smoothly as February&#8217;s no-host Oscars but, fingers crossed, there might be an outbreak of the spontaneity that a live telecast should have if presenters and winners co-operate. (Please don&#8217;t thank your agent, dog walker, et al.)<\/p>\n<p>Nominees would do well to recall the splash that Glenn Weiss made last year, proposing to his fiancee from the stage as he accepted a directing Emmy, and prepare accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of an emcee makes extended political comedy riffs less likely, but there&#8217;s always room for a skit poking fun at Washington or a soapbox acceptance speech, as Bradley Whitford offered at last weekend&#8217;s creative arts ceremony when he won a guest acting trophy for &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If a winner uses part of the allotted 45 seconds to criticize President Donald Trump it won&#8217;t be the first time, and the former host of &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221;\u00a0in turn has no love for the Emmys, said Gold Derby&#8217;s O&#8217;Neil. The reality series earned scant nominations and no trophies during its run, and Trump has bashed the awards show as &#8220;terrible,&#8221;\u00a0a ratings loser and, for good measure, &#8220;sooooo boring!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony has dropped in viewership, the case for most awards shows fighting for attention amid other distractions. Last year&#8217;s Emmys had a record-low audience of slightly more than 10.2 million, down 11 per cent from the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DRACARYS!#GameofThrones is the most nominated series at this year\u2019s #Emmys, with 32 nominations. pic.twitter.com\/cmPM3XonUE &mdash; Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) July &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","mauthors-lynn-elber","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285402,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231649\/revisions\/285402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}