“Game of Thrones” dominated the Emmy kingdom Sunday, honored as top drama for the second consecutive year and becoming the most honored prime-time TV series ever on a night of surprises and sharp political jabs.
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Comedian Louie Anderson, a longtime Las Vegas performer, helped get Sunday’s Prime Time Emmy Awards show off with a laugh. He was called out in host Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and then received the first award.
Louis C.K. would have to open a vein to spread any more of his DNA across some of the fall’s best new shows.
“South Park” has taken on the controversy over San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest.
“Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara is the world’s highest-paid TV actress for the fifth year in a row, according to Forbes.
It was the mid-1960s, the height of the civil rights movement. Police had beaten voting-rights demonstrators in Selma. A bomb had exploded in a Birmingham church, killing four black girls.
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