Netflix earned a record number of 2020 Emmy Awards nominations, but it was HBO who won the most hardware during a virtual Emmy Awards telecast Sunday night that saw Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek sweep the comedy category in record fashion. 

HBO garnered 11 Emmy Awards during the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted event, including major wins in the best drama and best limited series category. The other big winner during the ceremony was Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek, which set a record by winning all seven categories in the comedy genre. 

Netflix finished third for the evening with two awards. VH1, FX Networks and Apple TV Plus each won one award during the audience-less telecast. 

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HBO, which won 30 total Emmy Awards -- including 19 Creative Arts awards -- was paced overall by Watchmen, which took home four awards Sunday night and a total of 11 Emmy Awards, including best limited series or movie. Succession, a star of the primetime telecast, won seven Emmy Awards overall, tying it with Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian -- including outstanding drama series. 

The night included several surprise winners, including actress Zendaya, who at 24 years old became the youngest actress to win best lead actress in a drama series, for her role as troubled teenager Rue Bennett in HBO’s freshman series Euphoria. 

Also getting a surprise nod was Uzo Aduba, who won the outstanding supporting actress statuette for her role as Shirley Chisholm in FX’s Mrs. America. 

Not surprising was RuPaul’s Drag Race’s win in the Reality Competition Program category -- it's third consecutive win -- and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’s fifth consecutive win in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category. 

Actor/Director Tyler Perry was awarded the TV Academy’s Governor’s Award during the live ceremony, which aired on ABC. 

A partial list of winners from the 72nd Emmy Awards announced during the live telecast are as follows:

Outstanding Comedy Series

Schitt’s Creek (Pop) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Eugene Levy (Schitt’s Creek) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Daniel Levy (Schitt’s Creek) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek)

Outstanding Drama Series

Succession (HBO) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Jeremy Strong (Succession)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Zendaya (Euphoria) 

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Julia Garner (Ozark) 

Outstanding Limited Series

Watchmen (HBO) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie

Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie

Regina King (Watchmen)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie

Uzo Aduba (Mrs. America) 

Outstanding Reality/Competition Series

RuPaul’s Drag Race 

Outstanding Variety Talk Series

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of April 13 to April 19 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

April 13 -- Agua Donkeys (comedy) -- Quibi

April 15 --Mrs. America (drama) -- Fx on Hulu (Pictured)

April 15 -- Outer Banks (drama) -- Netflix

April 15 -- What We Do In the Shadows (returning series) -- Fx

April 17 -- #blackAF (comedy) -- Netflix

April 17 -- Bosch (returning series) -- Prime Video

April 17 -- Selah and the Spades (drama) -- Prime Video

April 17 -- Sergio (drama) -- Netflix

April 19 -- The Last Dance (sports documentary) -- ESPN

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of April 13 to April 19 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

April 13 -- Agua Donkeys (comedy) -- Quibi

April 15 --Mrs. America (drama) -- Fx on Hulu

April 15 -- Outer Banks (drama) -- Netflix

April 15 -- What We Do In the Shadows (returning series) -- Fx

April 17 -- #blackAF (comedy) -- Netflix

April 17 -- Bosch (returning series) -- Prime Video

April 17 -- Selah and the Spades (drama) -- Prime Video

April 17 -- Sergio (drama) -- Netflix

April 18 -- The Last Dance (sports documentary) -- ESPN

Mrs. America, a drama series focused on the life of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, debuts on the newly established FX on Hulu hub April 15. 

Schlafly twice ran for Congress, authored many, many books, published a conservative newsletter and advised lawmakers on defense issues. 

Cate Blanchett plays Schlafly, who was wholeheartedly against the Equal Rights Amendment, thinking it would send women to war and bust up the traditional family structure. “She really did sell this notion that the Equal Rights Amendment would break apart the American family,” Blanchett said in a conference call with media. 

Mrs. America also looks at other feminist icons in the 1970s, including Shirley Chisholm, an African-American who ran for president in 1972, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. 

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Dahvi Waller created the series and is an exec producer, along with Blanchett, Stacey Sher, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. 

Telling the story from the conservative viewpoint, she said, was a “fresher” option. 

Waller sought to “find the connective tissue between women on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.”

Schlafly, she said, was “unabashedly, unapologetically asking for, demanding a piece of the pie, a piece of the power of the political structure.”

Sher said the idea came from watching coverage of the 2016 election, and how not much had changed for women in politics since the 1970s. “Some of it was pretty misogynistic,” she said.

Tracey Ullman plays Betty Friedan and Uzo Aduba plays Shirley Chisholm. Margo Martindale portrays Bella Abzug, Rose Byrne plays Gloria Steinem and John Slattery plays Phyllis’s husband Fred.  

Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Paulson are also in the cast. 

Blanchett described Schlafly, who died in 2016, as “always the most overqualified person in the room.”

She said the feminists “underestimated [Schlafly’s] capabilities and her endurance, and her ability to simplify a message.”

At the TV Critics Association press tour in January, Waller called Mrs. America “an origin story of today’s culture wars.”

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With many sitting at home, waiting out the coronavirus, Mrs. America might find an audience. “The series is about how people respond to change, and very disruptive change, and fear of change,” said Waller. “What we’re living in right now is a very sudden disruptive force, more than any social revolution could possibly be. All the uncertainty and fear that that’s bringing up, I think you’ll find elements of that in the series.”

FX on Hulu is the part of the first phase of a Disney overhaul of Hulu, with the conglomerate putting some of FX's biggest programming on the streaming service. 

Mrs. America is a lively look at conservative iconoclast Phyllis Schlafly and the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in early ’70s America. Cate Blanchett plays Schlafly, an author, defense expert and staunch opponent of ERA, which she calls a “fraudulent amendment” in the series, pushed by elitist “libbers” from the Northeast that would result in women sent to war.

A deeply religious mother, Schlafly is a fascinating character, and Blanchett fills her with verve. Schlafly raises a large family in Illinois. She sends out a political newsletter with her name on it to followers, and discusses political issues on public affairs programs and in Washington.

Other political figures in Mrs. America are Shirley Chisholm, an African-American candidate for the presidency in 1972, U.S. Rep. Bella Abzug and feminist Gloria Steinem. Uzo Aduba plays Chisholm, Margo Martindale plays Abzug and Rose Byrne portrays Steinem.

John Slattery plays Schlafly’s husband Fred, but the men don’t appear to have a whole lot to do in this series.

Tracey Ullman, Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Paulson are also in the cast.

Women on both sides of the aisle wield considerable political energy in Mrs. America, which can make the 2020 presidential election, and its lack of a female candidate, all the more disappointing.

Dahvi Waller created the series and is an exec producer. At TCA press tour earlier this year, she called Mrs. America “an origin story of today’s culture wars, and how we became such a divided nation.”

The series offers an intriguing portrait of Schlafly, a political figure many are not familiar with. She was, to some, a fearless feminist and to others, a feminist’s worst nightmare. Blanchett takes on a big-league role, and delivers it with aplomb.

FX has greenlit a new limited drama series, Mrs. America, starring Cate Blanchett, the network announced Tuesday.

The series explores the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), said network officials. Blanchett – in her first role in an American television series – plays conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly. Through the eyes of Schlafly and other women of the era -- Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus -- - the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape, said FX.

Ms. America creator and writer Dahvi Waller (Mad Men) will serve as showrunner for the nine-episode series, with Waller, Blanchett, Stacey Sher and Coco Francini serving as executive producers.

“Cate Blanchett is one the great actors of our time – and we are truly honored to have her star in Mrs. America,” said FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf in a statement. “We have no doubt that Cate is the perfect actor to play the role of Phyllis Schlafly, who was one of the most polarizing and fascinatingly complex figures of the ‘70s for her opposition to and role in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, which to this day has never been ratified. Dahvi Waller’s scripts are extraordinary, and I’m thrilled to re-unite with my former Jersey TV partner Stacey Sher, and commend her on assembling such a dynamic foursome of gifted, female, artist-producers to take on this timely story.“