{"id":848333,"date":"2026-09-15T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848333\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:34:16","slug":"emmys-2026-widows-bay-wins-best-comedy-with-a-record-breaking-haul-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848333\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys 2026: \u2018Widow\u2019s Bay\u2019 wins best comedy with a record-breaking haul \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d closed out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/tag\/emmy-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Emmy Awards<\/a> on Monday, Sept. 14, with a win for best comedy series, which, with three acting Emmys, writing and directing awards, and a few more here and there, set a new record for the most Emmys won by a comedy series with 14.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which only premiered in April, won best lead actor for Matthew Rhys and best supporting Emmys for Kate O\u2019Flynn and Stephen Root.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike comedy, where \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d dominated the categories, the drama Emmys were spread around more. \u201cThe Pitt\u201d won best drama while Noah Wylie won for lead actor in a drama. But seven of his co-stars nominated for supporting actress or actor went home empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Allison Janney won outstanding supporting actress in a drama for \u201cThe Diplomat\u201d while Tom Pelphrey won the supporting actor Emmy for drama for \u201cTask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rhea Seehorn won for actress in a drama for the sci-fi series \u201cPluribus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d closed out the Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 14, with a win for best comedy series,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,11643,451,3,2628,452,453,92,47892],"class_list":["post-848333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-emmy-awards","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tv","tag-tv-and-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}