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2014 EMMYS: By the Numbers (Hint: Sherlock and Breaking Bad Kicked Ass)

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Breaking Bad walked away with six wins last night, including a second straight triumph in Drama Series

Although Breaking Bad was the big winner in the regular series categories with six, it was the TV Movie Sherlock: His Last Vow that became the big Emmy winner of the night, with seven. After a strong showing at the Creative Arts Emmys last weekend where it picked up a field-best four wins, it snagged another three last night for Writing, Lead Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Supporting Actor (Martin Freeman). The wins came as a surprise to most predictors who had the men from Fargo and The Normal Heart out ahead in those races. True Detective only managed one Primetime Emmy win (for Directing) but still did well at the Creative Arts Emmys to come home with five for the night.

Modern Family only managed three wins but when one of those is your 5th consecutive Comedy Series wins, who’s counting? Orange is the New Black was sent to hole with no dinner.

HBO went into the night with a record-setting 99 nominations and came away with 19 wins, the best of any network. CBS and NBC didn’t fare too poorly with 13 and 11, respectively, showing that network television isn’t quite dead yet.

Wins by program (three awards or more):
“Sherlock” 7
“Breaking Bad” 6
“Saturday Night Live” 5
“True Detective” 5
“American Horror Story: Coven” 4
“Cosmos” 4
“Game of Thrones” 4
“67th Tony Awards” 3
“Deadliest Catch” 3
“Disney Mickey Mouse” 3
“Fargo” 3
“Modern Family” 3
“Orange Is the New Black” 3
“The Simpsons” 3
“The Square” 3

Network scorecard:
HBO: 19
CBS: 11
PBS: 11
NBC: 10
ABC: 8
FX Networks: 8
FOX: 7
Netflix: 7
AMC: 6
Discovery Channel: 4
Disney Channel: 4
FOX/NatGeo: 4
Showtime: 4
Cartoon Network: 3
Comedy Central: 3
Starz: 2
Adult Swim: 1
CartoonNetwork.com: 1
CNN: 1
Comcast.com: 1
ESPN: 1
FunnyOrDie.com: 1
justareflektor.com: 1
Nat Geo WILD: 1
National Geographic Channel: 1
pivot.tv: 1
TNT: 1

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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