Television’s newcomers and underdogs ruled the 2010 Emmys, with the ABC comedy “Modern Family” and the HBO movie “Temple Grandin” picking up many of the night’s major awards.
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“Modern Family” beat out Fox’s “Glee” to win the Emmy for best comedy series. The two much-lauded freshmen series went head to head in a number of categories and inspired skits featured in NBC’s three-hour-long Emmy telecast.
“Glee’s” finger prints were all over the opening song and dance, which starred the show’s cast and featured cameos by Kate Gosselin, Betty White, Jon Hamm, and Tina Fey. “Modern Family” got its moment during a mock plot brainstorming session that tried to work George Clooney into the show about a motley group of relatives.
Temple Grandin,” the biopic of an autistic woman turned doctor of animal science, dominated the TV miniseries/movie awards, winning best made-for-TV movie and best actress in a miniseries or movie for Claire Danes’ portrayal of Grandin. Grandin herself scored a standing ovation from the audience.
Modern Family” joins a long line of classic TV shows to win top comedy series for their first seasons. Among them: “All in the Family” (1971, the first of four wins), “Taxi” (1979, the first of three in a row), “Cheers” (1983, the first of four), “The Cosby Show” (1985), “The Golden Girls” (1986, the first of two in a row), “The Wonder Years” (1988) and “Frasier” (1994, the first of a record five in a row). “Modern Family” co-creator Lloyd shared in all of those wins for “Frasier” and also won a writing Emmy for that show in 1996.
The most recent laffer to win for its inaugural season was “30 Rock.” It took home the Emmy in 2007 and again in 2008 and last year. However, show creator and star Tina Fey must have been reading our pundits predictions, which were fool-proof on the comedy front. When drama actress winner Kyra Sedgwick asked Fey, who was presenting, to keep her Emmy while she read off her speech, she quipped it would be the only one she held that night.
Falco made Emmy history by beating Fey and the other funny ladies, thus becoming the first woman to have won the top awards for both comedy and drama series. Previously, she had prevailed in three of her six Emmy bids for the series
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