30 ROCK too home 5 Emmys

The 2009 Emmy Awards had a lot of surprises to unfold. Both old and new dominated the  61st Primetime Emmys. It was a big surprise when AMC’s “Mad Men” won for the second year in a row in the drama series category and “30 Rock” won for the third consecutive year for comedy series category.

Glenn Close got the lead actress award for FX’s “Damages” and Bryan Cranston for AMC’s “Breaking Bad” for the 2nd consecutive year. These two awards came as real shocks.

There were big winners like PBS’ “Little Dorrit”, with seven awards, HBO’s “Grey Gardens”, which took six and NBC’s “30 Rock”, which won five. There were 20 various shows that took home the 28 Emmys handed out on the Sunday.

The three hour long show was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. He spiked jokes in between the musical numbers and announcement of awards in various categories.

NBC’s “30 Rock” had 22 nominations in the prestigious award show. But as the night proceeded it went upto winning only 5 awards including: Matt Hubbard for writing and Alec Baldwin, who won for lead actor in a comedy for the second year in a row.

Tina Fey, the creator of the show explained while she collected her statute, “Whew! That was a nail-biter”. Fey also added, “The night was full of interesting and unexpected things, and I thought that didn’t bode well for us”.

With 21 Emmy wins HBO continued its lead and domination in the award show.  “Grey Gardens” was named as the best made-for-TV movie. Jessica Lange, who played the lead role in the movie as  an eccentric relative of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, took time to believe that she has actually won the award.

The 60 year old Lange said while collecting her award, “I can’t believe I’m standing here”.

The 54 year old Brendan Gleeson took home the award for actor in a miniseries or movie for HBO’s “Into the Storm,” in which he played Winston Churchill. Shohreh Aghdashloo, 57, won the  Supporting actress for the pay channel’s “House of Saddam”.

Michael Emerson bagged the title for supporting actor in a drama series for ABC’s “Lost,” and Cherry Jones won supporting actress for playing the female president of the United States on Fox’s “24″.

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