This one goes out to Sal Saperstein: Apple had its best ever performance at the Emmys thanks to big wins for The Studio and Severance. It picked up seven wins on the night, taking its total to 22.

But it was all even at the top of the charts with HBO Max and Netflix sharing the honors with 30 Emmy wins apiece.

HBO Max came into the night with 21 awards and added another nine, largely thanks to The Pitt, The Penguin and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Netflix came into the Primetime Emmys with 24 awards, including six juried animation winners, and added six awards, helped by Adolescence routing its categories.

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The Studio broke record for the most Emmy-winning comedy ever in one year, taking a total of 13 wins including four tonight. This consisted of Outstanding Comedy Series and Seth Rogen winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Rogen also tied the record for the most Emmys won in one night thanks to writing and directing wins.

It came after The Bear previously held the record with 11 in 2023.

It marks a big night for the streaming arm of the Steve Jobs-founded technology company, which makes far fewer series than its rivals but the ones it does make have splashy stars such as tonight’s Emmy winners such as Rogen, Tramell Tillman, who won for Supporting Actor In A Drama Series, and Britt Lower, who won for Lead Actress In A Drama Series.

Cranston, who played Continental CEO Griffin Mill in The Studio, won the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys, where he was up against a number of his colleagues including Martin Scorsese, Anthony Mackie, Ron Howard and Dave Franco as well as The Bear’s Jon Bernthal. Similarly, Wever, who starred as Gretchen George in Severance, beat a number of her castmates including Gwendoline Christie and Jane Alexander.

Unfortunately, Saperstein himself, Ike Barinholtz did not win an award, losing out to Somebody, Somewhere’s Jeff Hiller in Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

The Studio’s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg also won for directing in comedy and the show won the comedy writing award. Slow Horses’ Adam Randall won for directing in drama.

Then there was John Oliver, the gift that keeps giving Emmys. Last Week Tonight beat Saturday Night Live, again, and the show also picked up the Variety Writing award.

The company went into the Primetime Emmys with 15 awards with The Studio picking up nine and Severance scoring six in categories such as outstanding guest acting, casting, cinematography, music, production design and sound.

This was after the iPhone maker landed 81 nominations – its most ever. After the nominations, Zack Van Amburg, Apple’s head of Worldwide Video said both shows “exceeded our wildest expectations in earning the most nominations for both drama and comedy series”. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told investors on an earning calls that it was “amazing to see how [Severance] and other Apple shows have captured the popular imagination”.

Cook was at the event and walked the red carpet, telling people how excited he was for both the number of Emmy nominations his company got as well as the new iPhone 17.

Having said this, Apple came in third behind HBO Max and Netflix.

For HBO, Hacks pair Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder won for Lead Actress and Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively.

Cristin Milioti, who plays Sofia Falcone in The Penguin, picked up the Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie category; Somebody Somewhere’s Jeff Hiller won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for HBO’s now-wrapped series. It was his first career nomination.

The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa, who plays Charge Nurse Dana Evans, was a surprise winner, beating The White Lotus stars Carrie Coon, Parker Posey and Aimee Lou Wood as well as Paradise’s Julianne Nicholson and Severance’s Patricia Arquette.

The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network and streamer went into the night with 21 wins at the Creative Arts and also landed its most ever Emmy nominations this year, scoring 142 noms, above Netflix in second place with 120. This marked the most Emmy nominations HBO has ever received in a single year, beating its previous total of 140 in 2022. Last year, it received 91 and was behind Netflix and FX.

Shows included Conan O’Brien, Dune: Prophecy, Hacks, House of the Dragon, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Pee-wee As Himself, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, The Last of Us, The Penguin, The Pitt, The Rehearsal, The Righteous Gemstones, The White Lotus and 100 Foot Wave.

In 2022, HBO Max nabbed 38 wins, double the amount it won in 2021. In 2023, it scored 31 wins, but last year had a slightly fallow year with only 14 wins as FX, helped by Shōgun and The Bear, topped the charts with 36 wins.

Apart from last year, which was FX’s best ever Emmy performance, HBO Max and Netflix have been going back and forth at the top of the Emmys charts. Netflix got more than HBO Max last year, HBO topped Netflix in 2023 and 2022 and Netflix nearly doubled HBO’s tally in 2021.

Netflix was helped by the barnstorming performance of Adolescence, its latest British series to help it at the Emmys after similar big nights for The Crown and Baby Reindeer.

The traumatic drama picked up wins for Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, and Erin Doherty. Director Phil Barantini, the man behind its one-shot concept, won the streamer’s first award of the night and was followed by Graham and Thorne picking up one for writing.

Then came the big win in Outstanding Limited Series, where Graham paid tribute to everyone who worked on the show from the executive producers to the man who cleaned the toilets in the Winnebagos.

At the BAFTA Tea Party yesterday, Stephen Graham, who along with co-star Owen Cooper are Liverpool F.C. fans, told Deadline that he was more nervous about his team beating Burnley F.C. earlier today than whether Adolescence won the big award. Liverpool did, in fact, win with a last-minute penalty so it’s truly been their day.

Elsewhere, Saturday Night Live continued its big year. The NBC show may have lost out to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, again, in the Scripted Variety Series category, but its 50^th anniversary beat Beyonce to the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) Emmy, topping a great Emmy season for Lorne Michaels’ show.

NBCU’s Peacock also picked up the top reality award for The Traitors, CBS won for The Late Show and Disney won a Primetime Emmy for Andor as Dan Gilroy scored the award for Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series.