'Nurse Jackie's' Wever Wins Best Supporting Comedy Actress Emmy

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The cable industry jumped out to a quick start during the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards as Nurse Jackie's Merritt Wever and Veep's Tony Hale won snared Emmys for best supporting comedy actress and actor respectively.

The award was the first for Wever, who plays Zoey Barkow, a student nurse in Showtime’s veteran comedy series, and marks the third Emmy-win for the series. Hale, who plays the personal assistent to the vice president -- played by Julie Louis-Dreyfus, who also won an Emmy for best comedy actress -- also nabbed his first statuette and the  third for the HBO series.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.