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Broadcast and cable television earned some of the top honors at Emmys 2014.
AMC’s hit series ‘Breaking Bad” scored big on Monday night, August 25, winning a total of five awards, including its second consecutive prize for outstanding drama series.
The loved crime drama, about a high school teacher who receives a diagnosis of lung cancer and starts dealing crystal meth with a former student, concluded its final season.
Bryan Cranston, who starred in the series as the teacher, Walter White, won the award for best lead actor in a drama series, which is his fifth Emmy win.
In the acceptance speech, Vince Gilligan, the show’s father, said it was “a wonderful time to be working in television”.
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The Emmy Award for best comedy series went to the ABC sitcom ‘Modern Family’. The series tied ‘Frasier’ for a record five consecutive wins. Ty Burrell, who stars as the show’s goofy son-in-law of the family patriarch, won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series.