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"Last night (September 22) saw US TV&amp;#039;s finest gather to mingle, party and give each other one big congratulatory pat on the back - it was the 2013 Primetime Emmys and it was far from a straightforward awards ceremony. Bryan Cranston didn&amp;#039;t win the &amp;#039;Lead Actor in a Drama Series&amp;#039; trophy! Modern Family didn&amp;#039;t clean up! This was an Emmys packed full of shocks, snubs - and, as usual - one or two snores...  &amp;gt; Breaking Bad, Behind the Candelabra, Homeland among big Emmys winners &amp;gt; Primetime Emmys 2013: All the major winners from 65th annual ceremony SHOCKS!  Bryan Cranston taking to the stage at these sort of shindigs has now begun to seem like a foregone conclusion, so it was a real shocker to see Jeff Daniels take home the &amp;#039;Leading Actor in a Drama Series&amp;#039; statuette for his role as Will McAvoy in the interesting but uneven The Newsroom, beating not only the hotly-tipped Breaking Bad star but also last year&amp;#039;s winner Homeland&amp;#039;s Damian Lewis, Mad Men&amp;#039;s Jon Hamm, Downton Abbey&amp;#039;s Hugh Bonneville and House of Cards lead Kevin Spacey.  Pleased as we were to see Wever win an Emmy for her performance as Nurse Jackie&amp;#039;s loveable Zoey Barkow, it was also rather surprising to see her best the likes of Glee&amp;#039;s Jane Lynch, The Big Bang Theory&amp;#039;s Mayim Bialik and Modern Family stars Julie Bowen and Sofia Vergara... ... and more surprising still to see the 33-year-old stand up in front of her peers, gasp &amp;quot;I gotta go!&amp;quot; and flee the stage, a bundle of nerves. Channelling your on-screen counterpart, Merritt? SNUBS!  It was a washout for the fine folk of Downton Abbey. Despite being nominated in 12 major categories, ITV&amp;#039;s hit period drama took home just the one - no Emmy love for Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery or the show itself in the &amp;#039;Drama Series&amp;#039; category. The Downton cast will just have to console themselves with the enormous 9.5m audience that tuned in for last night&amp;#039;s series four premiere in the UK... Game of Thrones - despite being tipped for victory by Digital Spy readers - also went home empty-handed, with even fan favourite Peter Dinklage not getting a look in.  House of Cards meanwhile may have broken boundaries as the first online-only drama to secure an Emmy nomination, but Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and the show itself were all denied a win. Personally, we&amp;#039;re still furious that Corey Stoll wasn&amp;#039;t nominated for his gut-wrenching performance in the Netflix series. SNORES!  Modern Family creator Steve Levitan may call his show winning the &amp;#039;Outstanding Comedy Series&amp;#039; prize for the fourth year in a row &amp;quot;mind-blowing&amp;quot;, but we call it &amp;quot;mind-numbing&amp;quot;. The ABC sitcom is undoubtedly a great show, but was it the best comedy on television in 2013? The Emmy voters are a creature of habit when it comes to certain categories - Jim Parsons beating out Matt LeBlanc and Louis CK for the &amp;#039;Lead Actor in a Comedy Series&amp;#039; gong was a similarly yawn-some example of same-old, same-old. Who was snubbed at the Emmys? Who were the shock winners? And which categories were a foregone conclusion? Share your thoughts below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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