While the Tony Awards ceremony has dominated the Best Variety Special (or Special Class) category since 2007, winning nine times, while three live productions of stage musicals — “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Grease” and “Jesus Christ” took the rest of the honors– voters instead went for executive producers Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear’s ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” — live re-creations of episodes from Lear’s TV classics “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons.”
The win comes 40 years after “All in the Family” collected its 22nd Emmy Award in 1979 — tying at the time the record for most wins as Best Comedy Series (4) held by “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Both “Frasier” and “Modern Family” have passed them with five each in more recent decades.
See 2019 Creative Arts Emmy winners (Saturday): Full list of nominees and winners in 48 categories
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The win comes 40 years after “All in the Family” collected its 22nd Emmy Award in 1979 — tying at the time the record for most wins as Best Comedy Series (4) held by “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Both “Frasier” and “Modern Family” have passed them with five each in more recent decades.
See 2019 Creative Arts Emmy winners (Saturday): Full list of nominees and winners in 48 categories
Nothing was changed from the original scripts,...
- 9/15/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
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