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"Well, it&amp;#039;s that time again! The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are here, and, well, we&amp;#039;re here to watch it right along with you. There are plenty of statues to be handed out tonight, but who will go home with one? Well, that remains to be seen. Join Digital Spy live from 8/7c (1am on Monday morning in the UK) for all the action - and we&amp;#039;re sure there&amp;#039;ll be plenty of it!   23:11So, that&amp;#039;s it for the 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards! Were there any surprises? Any disappointments? Sound off in the comments and join us... well, next year! 23:10THE man Vince Gillian (shout out to The X-Files!) is accepting the award for the cast and crew. What a great thing for Breaking Bad, especially as it gets ready to bow out very soon. 23:09As for &amp;#039;Outstanding Drama Series&amp;#039;, this one goes to Breaking Bad. Well done!  23:08&amp;quot;This may be the saddest Emmys ever, but we could not be happier,&amp;quot; says the bro accepting the award (though the entire cast and crew is on stage). Uh... that seems slightly tasteless to me, but okay. Enjoy your billionth award, guys. 23:06Will Ferrell will be presenting the final awards of the night. I&amp;#039;m not sure why him, but okay, let&amp;#039;s go for it. He&amp;#039;s got three kids with him and he&amp;#039;s wearing a t-shirt and casual shorts and a pair of sandals. He jokes that Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith dropped out at the last minute and he couldn&amp;#039;t find child care when they called him last minute. The audience is eating it up. The &amp;#039;Outstanding Comedy Series&amp;#039; award goes to... Modern Family. AGAIN? 23:02If you hadn&amp;#039;t guessed, we&amp;#039;re definitely running over tonight. We&amp;#039;ve still got &amp;#039;Outstanding Comedy Series&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Outstanding Drama Series&amp;#039; to go, but why give those out when we can go to ANOTHER ad break? Yawn. 23:00As for &amp;#039;Outstanding Mini-Series or Drama&amp;#039;, that one goes to Behind the Candelabra again. Was it REALLY that good? 22:58&amp;quot;This was a two-hander,&amp;quot; Michael starts, speaking to Matt Damon, &amp;quot;and you&amp;#039;re only as good as your other hand. So you want the bottom or the top?&amp;quot; Yes, yes, very clever. Don&amp;#039;t we all love a good gay joke? (I&amp;#039;m rolling my eyes at the cheapness).  22:57Yay, it&amp;#039;s Claire Danes and Bryan Cranston! They&amp;#039;re presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini-Series or Movie&amp;#039;. The Emmy goes to Michael Douglas, which I suppose makes sense (though he was up against Matt in the same category). 22:54Well, we&amp;#039;ve got approximately five minutes left to the broadcast (assuming we don&amp;#039;t go over time) and I feel like there are about five big awards still left to give out, but I suppose that&amp;#039;s not the case. Let&amp;#039;s just get this thing moving, can we? 22:49&amp;#039;Best Supporting Actress in a Mini-Series or Movie&amp;#039; is given out, as well, and that one goes to Ellen Burstyn for Political Animals. I haven&amp;#039;t seen any of the nominated projects, so I can&amp;#039;t really say much about this one. Ellen Burstyn is great, though. 22:48Andre Braugher and Mark Harmon are giving out the award for &amp;#039;Best Directing for a Mini-Series or Movie&amp;#039;, and that goes to Steven Soderbergh for Behind the Candelabra... so there&amp;#039;s that. 22:38Do you care about Kaley Cuoco and the chairman of something-or-other (I literally can&amp;#039;t remember and they just said, what, less than 30 seconds ago?). Chairman of the Academy? Basically, they just want to tell you that you can watch TV on your iPad, laptop and phone now. They&amp;#039;re also rolling a tribute video to those we&amp;#039;ve lost from in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. 22:36&amp;#039;Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Mini-Series or Movie&amp;#039; is also announced, and that one goes to James Cromwell for American Horror Story 22:34Hey, it&amp;#039;s Alison Janney and Anna Faris, here to present for &amp;#039;Outstanding Writing for a Mini-Series, Movie or Dramatic Special&amp;#039;. Alison Janney is so tall! I always forget.  In any case, the award goes to Abi Morgan for The Hour - well-deserved! She&amp;#039;s grateful to the BBC, as you do, and a bunch of other people we haven&amp;#039;t heard of. Hurrah! 22:30Let&amp;#039;s take a moment to LOL at Shemar Moore, who&amp;#039;s stuck backstage but keeps trying to convince us that he&amp;#039;s got &amp;quot;the best seat in the house&amp;quot; because that&amp;#039;s where the celebs all come to &amp;quot;get their drink on&amp;quot;. Yeah, okay! 22:25Oh man, it&amp;#039;s another tough memorial. Edie Falco is remembering her former co-star and dear friend, James Gandolfini. I love Edie Falco and I loved James Gandolfini and ugh, it&amp;#039;s so sad. Nothing else to be said about that. 22:23Alyson Hannigan and Coulby Smoulders are on stage next (God, we really are moving fast at all the wrong times, it seems) to give out the award for &amp;#039;Outstanding Variety Series&amp;#039;. Without wasting any time, the award goes to The Colbert Report. Fair enough - The Daily Show has been taking it every year, and it was definitely Stephen&amp;#039;s time. 22:21Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum are on hand to actually give out the award. It&amp;#039;s between Derek Hough, Lauren Carlile, Mandy Moore, Sonya Tayeh and Tabitha and Napoleon. Nice showing up for So You Think You Can Dance.  The award goes to... Derek Hough. Blah. 22:19Neil is a big part of this performance - he gets to sing and dance again - &amp;#039;Luck Be a Lady&amp;#039;, if you&amp;#039;re curious - and Derek Hough is there to dance. There are pieces for Mad Men, Game of Thrones (I see you, Travis Wall!), American Horror Story, Breaking Bad, The Big Bang Theory and Boardwalk Empire. I&amp;#039;m only slightly confused about all of this, but I&amp;#039;m a sucker for dance and it&amp;#039;s great that the choreography award is being given out on the main show rather than the week before. 22:16Beginning in 1955, the Academy started giving out awards for &amp;#039;Outstanding Choreography&amp;#039;. Well, tonight there&amp;#039;s a performance to honour each of the nominees. I recognise lots of people from So You Think You Can Dance which is great - I actually just spoke with Sonya Tayeh from So You Think You Can Dance a couple of weeks ago about her nomination, so I&amp;#039;d love to see what she&amp;#039;s come up with for tonight, as well. Let&amp;#039;s do this. 22:09Michael J Fox is on stage next to pay tribute to Gary David Goldberg, who created Family Ties and Spin City. He keeps it short and sweet - we must be tight on time again. 22:07&amp;#039;Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series&amp;#039; goes to Don Roy King from Saturday Night Live, by the way. 22:05God, we&amp;#039;re really not wasting any time tonight, are we? Jim Parsons and Bob Newhart are back on stage now to present for &amp;#039;Outstanding Writing for a Variety Program&amp;#039;. Before they do that, though, everyone gives Bob a standing ovation for just having won his first Emmy LAST WEEK. Can you believe that?  In any case, the one thing I notice as the nominees are read out is the fact that most of these shows have about ONE female writer each and are mostly full of white hipster bros. Talk about annoying. Either way, The Colbert Report wins. Good show! 22:00Dean Morris and Emilia Clarke are out next. Ugh, Emilia Clarke is disgustingly pretty. They&amp;#039;re presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Guest Actor&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series&amp;#039;, and those go to... Dan Bucatinsky and Carrie Preston, who are presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series&amp;#039;, which goes to David Fincher for House of Cards. Whew, that was a lot. David&amp;#039;s not there, though, so they accept the trophy on his behalf. 21:57And the Emmy goes to... Claire Danes for Homeland. So well-deserved! She&amp;#039;s very grateful to the show&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;intrepid&amp;quot; team of writers, especially Henry Bromell, who passed away in March (and won earlier tonight, if you remember). The cast gets some thanks, as does the crew and the network. Her husband is thanked, as well - just before the music cuts her off. Rude! 21:55Apparently, this is &amp;quot;the moment [we&amp;#039;ve] all been waiting for&amp;quot; - the accountants from Ernst &amp;amp; Young are on stage... as is Bob Newhart. Well, nevermind. Jimmy Fallon is actually presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series&amp;#039;, despite his microphone constantly lowering further and further into the floor. Yes, &amp;quot;haha&amp;quot;. 21:47And now, Carrie Underwood performing a cover of &amp;#039;Yesterday&amp;#039; (yes, The Beatles). I&amp;#039;m not quite sure why, but I do like Carrie Underwood, so let&amp;#039;s all sit back and enjoy. 21:44Don Cheadle is reflecting the coming-of-age of TV, when the death of John F Kennedy Jr and Martin Luther King Jr&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;I Have a Dream&amp;quot; speech brought Americans in front of their TVs en masse for the first time. 21:42&amp;quot;The last time I won something was a few years ago, the &amp;#039;Best Actor Over 50&amp;#039; from the AARP,&amp;quot; Jeff says. &amp;quot;To my wife, we&amp;#039;ll have to move the barca lounger the AARP gave us.&amp;quot; So funny! 21:42Moving right along, we&amp;#039;ve got Juliana Margulies and Dylan McDermott giving out the statue for &amp;#039;Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series&amp;#039;. Jeff Daniels takes the win for The Newsroom, though I think everyone was wishing that Bryan Cranston&amp;#039;s name would have been called.  21:39Kerry Washington and Diane Carroll are out next, and I&amp;#039;m sorry, but going off tonight&amp;#039;s choice of outfits, she is NOT earning that &amp;#039;Best Dressed&amp;#039; title she was recently given. They&amp;#039;re presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series&amp;#039;, and the winner is... Bobby Cannavale for Boardwalk Empire. 21:30Mindy Kaling and Steven Ammell are presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Reality Show Competition&amp;#039;, but their teleprompter isn&amp;#039;t working, so they have some awkward banter before announcing the nominees. Most of them are awful, but the Emmy goes to The Voice when it totally should have gone to So You Think You Can Dance, which is hands-down the best reality TV show there is. Sorry, that&amp;#039;s a fact. 21:28Nathan Fillion pops out to help the song along, as does Sarah Silverman. Neil&amp;#039;s disco moves are pretty funny, I suppose. 21:25We&amp;#039;re halfway through the show now, and it&amp;#039;s time for Neil to do a song and dance number. We&amp;#039;ve been rushing through awards faster than I can type for this. I mean, bless him - he&amp;#039;s talented and all - but let&amp;#039;s prioritise, people. The song is literally about being &amp;quot;the number in the middle of the show&amp;quot;. I guess that&amp;#039;s meant to be funny. 21:18Oh man, this tribute hits close to home. Jane Lynch is back on stage, this time to pay tribute to Cory Monteith, who died earlier this summer. She&amp;#039;s a wonderful speaker and does him proud. So, so sad.  21:16They&amp;#039;re also giving out &amp;#039;Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series&amp;#039;, and this one goes to... Anna Gunn for Breaking Bad. This one is definitely well-deserved (and I can say that without ever having watched the show). 21:15Moving right along, it&amp;#039;s Blaire Underwood and Connie Britton. Ooh, I quite like Connie&amp;#039;s floor-length green velvet dress with gold embellishments. They&amp;#039;re presenting for &amp;#039;Outstanding Writing for a Drama series&amp;#039;, and the award goes to Henry Bromell for Homeland.  This one is a bit morbid, as Henry died earlier this year and the award is being excepted by his wife. She keeps the speech short and sweet, thanking only the Academy. 21:13&amp;quot;If you or someone you love suffers from EHD, there is hope. Treatment is available at the Ryan Seacrest Center for Excessive Hosting.&amp;quot; Oh man, that&amp;#039;s priceless. 21:12We&amp;#039;ve got a comedy sketch up now. NPH&amp;#039;s How I Met Your Mother castmates have put together a PSA-type video for a condition known as &amp;quot;Excessive Hosting Disorder&amp;quot;, showing him bursting into nomination announcements and other hosting duties while filming the show. Clever! Alyson Hannigan laments, &amp;quot;Last year for my birthday, Neil gave me a gift bag from the 2009 Tonys!&amp;quot; Ha! 21:05&amp;#039;Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini-Series or Movie&amp;#039; is being given out as well, by the way, and that one goes to Laura Linney for The Big C: Hereafter. Well-deserved - I love Laura Linney. Unfortunately, she can&amp;#039;t be there tonight so Matt and Michael accept the award on her behalf. 20:57Oh look, it&amp;#039;s Behind the Candelabra stars Matt Damon and Michael Douglas. They&amp;#039;re here to say a few words about... Elton John. I&amp;#039;m not sure why since this is an awards show about TV, but Elton is here to sing. Oh right, I get it - Liberace &amp;quot;played a mean piano&amp;quot; and had a rather gaudy persona and Elton&amp;#039;s written a Liberace-inspired song called &amp;#039;Home Again&amp;#039;. He&amp;#039;s going to sing it now. Yay? 20:50For another memorial feature, we&amp;#039;re paying tribute to Jean Stapleton with her All in the Family son-in-law, Rob Reiner. Jean passed away in May, and Rob is incredibly emotional about the loss of his former colleague and good friend. 20:48Moving on, we&amp;#039;ve got Jimmy Kimmel and Sofia Vergara on stage for the &amp;#039;Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series&amp;#039; award presentation. This one goes to Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory. This is apparently his FIFTH win, if you can believe such a thing.  20:45Oh wait, I apparently missed the boat. Bob Newheart won for The Big Bang Theory and Melissa herself won, though I&amp;#039;m not sure for what. That was done strangely. 20:44Gail Mancuso for Modern Family is the winner of the directing award - only the second time a woman has won this award, incidentally. Go, Gail! But seriously, what happened to the other awards for &amp;#039;Outstanding Guest Actor&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Guest Actress in a Comedy Series&amp;#039;? 20:43Will Arnett and Margot Martindale are out immediately after - wow, we&amp;#039;re not wasting time tonight! - to present for &amp;#039;Outstanding Guest Actor&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Outstanding Guest Actress&amp;#039; in a Comedy Series. Again, too many nominees to type out in time, but the awards are given to... I have no idea because Melissa Leo is suddenly out to give out the award for &amp;#039;Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series&amp;#039;. What&amp;#039;s happening here? 20:40Ha! This is the best speech ever. Tony whispers speech hints to her as Anna Chlumsky texts distractedly on her phone. I love them! (And Veep is one show I have watched a bit of and enjoyed!) 20:39Jon Hamm and Alec Baldwin are on hand next to give out the award for &amp;#039;Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series&amp;#039;. I don&amp;#039;t even know who the nomineees are, but my guess is that Tina Fey will take this one - especially given that 30 Rock ended this past year. Laura Dern, Lena Dunham, Edie Falco, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler are also up.  Turns out, I was wrong about that Tina thing. The winner is Julia Louis-Dreyfus! Totally well-deserved (and she also pulls Tony Hale up in his Veep character to hold her bag). Boss!  20:31Robin Williams is out next, and he&amp;#039;s giving a speech on Jonathan Winters, who passed away this year. I&amp;#039;m not quite sure what&amp;#039;s up with Robin, who seems a bit wooden, though I&amp;#039;m sure his speech is heartfelt, given that he worked with Jonathan on Mork &amp;amp; Mindy and has known him for years. 20:29&amp;quot;Holy cow! Even to be on a list with those guys is crazy humbling. It&amp;#039;s mind-blowing!&amp;quot; he says before thanking his wife, daughter, parents and siblings and finally, the show and Julia Louis-Dreyfus... and a bunch of people we&amp;#039;ve never heard of. 20:28Hey look, it&amp;#039;s Emily Deschanel and Zooey Deschanel. They&amp;#039;re presenting &amp;#039;Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series&amp;#039;, which is between too many people for me to type out, they&amp;#039;re going so fast. (The ladies got much more clip time!) All you need to know is that the Emmy is going to Tony Hale from Veep. Hey, that&amp;#039;s Buster from Arrested Development! 20:27After Tracy gives her speech, Tina jokes, &amp;quot;No one told you that you could speak, Tracy!&amp;quot; Tina herself shares the award with her partner Robert Carlock, who apparently makes her feel lazy. Wow. 20:26We&amp;#039;ve got LL Cool J and Malin Akerman out to present together next. What a bizarre combo. They&amp;#039;re giving out the award for &amp;#039;Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series&amp;#039;. Just for the record, Malin is a really really nice lady. Thought I&amp;#039;d throw that in there since no one ever really talks about her.  In any case, Tina Fey and Tracy Wigfield get the Emmy for their writing on 30 Rock&amp;#039;s final season. Well deserved! 20:20Merritt&amp;#039;s speech goes a little something (exactly) like this: &amp;quot;Aw, thank you so much. I gotta go... bye!&amp;quot; Well... okay? Talk about underwhelming. 20:19And the Emmy goes to... Merritt Wever from Nurse Jackie. I don&amp;#039;t watch that show, so I can&amp;#039;t speak to that, but I will say this: Jane Krakowski was absolutely ROBBED, yet again!  20:18The first award tonight is for &amp;#039;Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series&amp;#039;. The nominees are Mayiim Bialik for The Big Bang Theory, Julie Bowen for Modern Family, Anna Chlumsky for Veep, Jane Krakowski for 30 Rock, Jane Lynch for Glee, Sofia Vergara for Modern Family and Merritt Wever for Nurse Jackie. 20:16Ha! Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are eating movie popcorn and wearing 3D glasses in the front row, where they begin shouting up demands to &amp;quot;twerk it!&amp;quot; and for Neil to take his pants off. Oh, these two. They&amp;#039;re our first two presenters for the night, and they&amp;#039;re the absolute best. 20:14Another part of the opening bit sees Jimmy Kimmel and Jane Lynch - former hosts of the show - are back up on stage, reflecting on how they haven&amp;#039;t been asked back. Oh look, there&amp;#039;s Jimmy Fallon, as well, and he&amp;#039;s in tap shoes! Everyone proceeds to give NPH some tips on how to host, but when he insists he did it first, out walks Conan O&amp;#039;Brien. Well, this is going to be a long night... 20:12&amp;quot;For every Walter White, there&amp;#039;s an Orange Is the New Black... or as Paula Deen has been asked to call it, Orange is the New African American. Not soon enough?&amp;quot; Neil asks. First sinker of the night. 20:11Fun fact: there are over 6,000 people in the audience tonight! There are also over 2,000 people working the event, which is pretty insane. 20:09Neil&amp;#039;s giving a nice little monologue about how TV can touch you and change lives, etc. Who here agrees with that one? I was certainly changed by The X-Files, but I suppose that&amp;#039;s making me seem a bit dated... I like Downton Abbey and Homeland? There, that&amp;#039;s better. And we&amp;#039;re live now in the auditorium! Woo hoo, let&amp;#039;s get this (three hour) show on the road. 20:06Well, here we go. Look, it&amp;#039;s Neil Patrick Harris! He&amp;#039;s hosting again tonight, one would assume from this promo. We&amp;#039;ve got a nice little opening sketch about him binge watching every TV show in preparation for the ceremony - not too far from reality, for many people! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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