It took "Schitt's Creek" several seasons to catch on. A few months after its series finale, the big-hearted Canadian comedy was the hit of the 72nd Emmy Awards.
"Schitt's Creek" swept every comedy award handed out Sunday night, including the top prize in best comedy.
The first hour of the Emmys broadcast was dominated by the show, whose cast members had gathered for a viewing party in Toronto. Daniel Levy, the 37-year-old writer, actor and director who created the show with his father, Eugene Levy, won four Emmys: for writing, directing, best supporting actor and best comedy.
"Oh no, oh no," Levy said, as he accepted the Emmy for best supporting actor, his third of the night. "The internet's about to turn on me. I'm so sorry."
The show's stars, longtime colleagues Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy, won best acting in a comedy honors for their husband-and-wife roles on the comedy.
O'Hara thanked the Levys for giving her the chance "to play a woman of a certain age -- my age -- who fully gets to be her ridiculous self."
To round it out for the Rose family on "Schitt's Creek," Annie Murphy won for best supporting actress in a comedy.
Daniel Levy's four wins represented the biggest haul for anyone during the main prime-time telecast.
"Schitt's Creek" airs on Pop TV in the United States and attracted new viewers after its past seasons started streaming on Netflix in recent years.
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'WATCHMEN' WINS
"Watchmen," an ambitious adaptation of a graphic novel from veteran producer Damon Lindelof that addressed police brutality and white supremacy, won in the category of best limited series. Regina King, the show's masked hero, won best actress in a limited series, her fourth Emmy win.
King implored viewers to vote in the coming election and paid tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who died Friday. She delivered her remarks while wearing a T-shirt that honored Breonna Taylor, a Black medical technician in Louisville, Ky., who was killed by police in March.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who portrays King's husband on the show, won for best supporting actor in a limited series. And Lindelof and Cord Jefferson won for best writing in a limited series for their work on the series.
Uzo Aduba, who played Shirley Chisholm in "Mrs. America," FX and Hulu's chronicle of the feminist movement (and counter-movement) in the 1970s, won best supporting actress in a limited series.
THE WI-FI EMMYS
Lights! Camera! And ... let's hope the Wi-Fi works.
The 72nd Emmy Awards looked nothing like previous ceremonies celebrating the year's achievements in television and streaming.
Red carpet? Canceled. Actors seated shoulder to shoulder in an auditorium as the envelopes are unsealed? Nope.
Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the ceremony from a nearly empty Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles: "Welcome to the Pand-Emmys," Kimmel said.
In the opening moments, he appeared to deliver his jokes to a live audience -- but it was just footage of crowds from past broadcasts that made it seem as if Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglas and Jon Hamm were laughing at his remarks.
'SNL' STILL ON A STREAK
It's getting hard to remember a time when "Saturday Night Live" had fallen out of favor with Emmy voters, as it had for years.
But the recent winning streak of Lorne Michaels' NBC juggernaut continues. "SNL" won best sketch variety series for the fourth year in a row, and it swept guest acting honors as well.
Maya Rudolph won best guest actress in a comedy for her depiction of Kamala Harris. And Eddie Murphy was given guest acting honors for his hosting duties on the same episode, in which he reprised vintage characters like Gumby, Buckwheat and Mr. Robinson. It was his first Emmy win. Don Roy King also won for best directing in a variety sketch series for his work on the episode hosted by Murphy.
Cherry Jones ("Succession") and Ron Cephas Jones ("This Is Us") won the drama guest acting awards. RuPaul, of "RuPaul's Drag Race," won best host of a reality series.