Widow's Bay Breaks an Emmys Record

Widow's Bay stormed the Emmy Awards on Monday night, breaking a record for a comedy series with 14 awards including best comedy series and three acting wins, the AP reports. The first-season horror comedy created by Katie Dippold about a New England island community reckoning with a centuries-old curse spoiled the going-away party for Hacks, which had gotten the most comedy nominations of any show in its fifth and final season. Widow's Bay broke the comedy record set last year by The Studio when it won 13. Star Matthew Rhys won best actor, Stephen Root won best supporting actor, and Kate O'Flynn won best supporting actress. Dippold won for writing. Rhys also won best actor in a limited series for The Beast in Me, becoming the first man to win two leading actor categories in the same year. More notable awards:

• The Pitt won the Emmy Award for best drama series for the second straight year on Monday night, along with best actor for star Noah Wyle. HBO Max's 24-hours-in-the-life-of-an-emergency-room series created by R. Scott Gemmill has now won for each of its first two seasons.
• Jean Smart won her fifth best actress award in an unprecedented sweep for the fifth and final season of Hacks. No actor had won an Emmy every year for a series that lasted more than three seasons until she did it Monday.
• Rhea Seehorn won best actress in a drama for playing the lone central character on Apple TV's Pluribus.
• Sally Field, 79, became the oldest woman to win best actress in a limited or anthology series or TV movie for "Remarkably Bright Creatures."
• Allison Janney won best supporting actress in a drama over Katherine LaNasa from The Pitt, who won last year, and three of her castmates. Janney, who won for her role on The Diplomat, joined Smart as an eight-time Emmy winner.
• Tom Pelphrey won supporting actor in a drama for Task.
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, taken off the air by CBS, won best variety series. It's one of six Emmys the show has won this year after the show was cancelled for what the network said was economic reasons while many believe it was his criticism of the Trump administration.