Pioneers
Who is Lucille Ball?
This show won Outstanding Comedy Series from 2010-2014, following the lives of three diverse family set-ups in suburban Los Angeles, linked by patriarch Jay Pritchett.
What is Modern Family?
This ultra-popular HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's fantasy novels won 4 awards in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019, and maybe in 2020 if they knew how to end a show right
What is Game of Thrones?
All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman are owed to this man, whose knack for discussing racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality, and women's liberation defined TV comedy for decades to come
Who is Norman Lear?
Grey's Anatomy, The Goldbergs, Black-ish, American Housewife
What is ABC?
In a time of ideal suburban shows in the 50s, Jackie Gleason's show about Ralph Kramden, his wife Alice, and best friend Ed Norton was the first series to portray the working class in a gritty, non-idyllic manner set in Brooklyn.
What is The Honeymooners?
The most recent winner of Outstanding Comedy Series, it follows the trials and tribulations of the formerly wealthy Rose family when they are forced to relocate to a small town they once purchased as a joke.
What is Schitt's Creek?
This show following womanizing advertising executive Don Draper, his personal and professional lives, and the changing moods and social mores of the United States throughout the 1960s, is one of three shows to win 4 consecutive awards
What is Mad Men?
Called the most powerful man in television, he's created and developed Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story, Pose, 9-1-1, and The Politician. His influence is large enough to where experts and historians credit him for the shift towards "inclusive storytelling."
Who is Ryan Murphy?
The Crown, Ozark, Stranger Things, Grace and Frankie, Big Mouth
What is Netflix?
The Angry Young Man of Hollywood, he broke out with his teleplays Requiem for a Heavyweight and Patterns, and then promptly tackled racism, war, censorship, and more, as we the audience entered...The Twilight Zone
Who is Rod Serling?
The winner in 2019, Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars as a free-spirited and sexually active but angry and confused young woman in London.
The most recent winner of Outstanding Drama Series, he series centers on the Roy family, the dysfunctional owners of Waystar RoyCo, a global media and hospitality empire, who are fighting for control of the company amid uncertainty about the health of the family's patriarch
What is Succession?
One of the most powerful women in TV, this Marian Catholic grad is the mind behind Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder. Her shows have created such a fervent fanbase, they are often grouped in the same universe called "Shondaland"
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Insecure, Westworld, Barry, Euphoria, Lovecraft Country
What is HBO?
Before the Late Show, the Tonight Show, and Ed Sullivan, there was Texaco Star Theater, hosted by this vaudeville comedian nicknamed "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television"
Who is Milton Berle?
The winner in 2018, Highland Park native Rachel Brosnahan stars as a housewife in the late 1950s living in New York City who discovers she has a knack for stand-up comedy and pursues a career in it.
What is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?
Game of Thrones could have won 5 consecutive awards if it wasn't for this Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel, following a post-war totalitarian society subjecting fertile women to child-bearing slavery, winning in 2017
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
His extensive resume featuring Grace Under Fire, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, Mom, Young Sheldon, and the Kominsky Method led to him being dubbed "The King of Sitcoms" of the 2010s
Who is Chuck Lorre?
American Horror Story, Fargo, Atlanta, Pose, What We Do in the Shadows
What is FX?
Adapted from radio, this sitcom killed two birds with one stone. Not only did they portray the ideal American family of the 50s, they also kickstarted the "famous family" persona, in this case, the Nelsons.
The only other show alongside Modern Family with 5 consecutive awards is this 90s sitcom spin-off of Cheers, following a psychiatrist returning to his hometown of Seattle and building a new life as a radio advice show host while reconnecting with his father and brother
What is Frasier?
The first show to win 4 consecutive awards, it chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station in an unnamed city, garnering acclaim for its humanization of police officers
What is Hill Street Blues?
After starting his career as a cartoonist for the strip Life in Hell, he shifted his focus to television, breaking ground with animated shows for adults with The Simpsons and Futurama
Who is Matt Groening?
Shameless, Billions, Black Monday, Moonbase 8
What is Showtime?