OSN exclusive shows score big wins at the Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

OSN, the region’s leading pay-TV network, celebrated with the stars as its exclusive shows won accolades across the board at the 68th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

With the biggest shows winning a huge haul of the coveted statuettes, we can proudly claim that OSN is the home of the outstanding drama, comedy, variety and reality-competition shows. 

Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the awards saluted the excellence of the small screen’s most celebrated talents. 

This year was a record-breaker for global hit, Game of Thrones (OSN First HD- Home of HBO). Winning the best drama series award for the second year in a row, makes it the most decorated series in Emmy’s history, with a total of 38 awards. On Sunday night the show took a haul of 12 awards. 

It was also a big night for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (which premiered on OSN Play and On Demand), Ryan Murphy’s dramatization of the OJ Simpson trial. The 11-episode show was nominated for 22 awards, winning nine including Outstanding Limited Series, while actors Sterling K Brown, Sarah Paulson and Courtney B Vance collected individual statuettes for their outstanding performances as Christopher Darden, Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran, respectively.

Rami Malek took home the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot (OSN First HD); Tatiana Maslany won  Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work in Orphan Black (BBC First HD); Julia Louis-Dreyfus won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in Veep (OSN First HD- Home of HBO), which also scored the award for Outstanding Comedy Series; and Outstanding Variety Talk Series went to Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (OSN First HD-Home of HBO), to name a few. 

OSN is the exclusive home of all HBO content in the Middle East, and the network topped the tables winning an impressive 22 awards across the telecast and creative arts categories, proving that OSN continues to be the only entertainment destination for the very best in award-winning shows. 

The biggest night in TV entertainment was broadcast live on OSN First HD to audiences across the MENA region, with all the glitz, glamour and gossip from the red carpet live on E! Entertainment, where the nominees chatted with hosts Giuliana Rancic and Jason Kennedy before taking their seats at the Microsoft Theatre, LA for the main event. 

In celebration of the awards night, OSN made both channels, OSN First HD and E! Entertainment, open to all their customers across all packages for a period of 72 hours from 19 September, 3am KSA, until 21 September, 3am KSA.

This year, for the first time on OSN First HD, the award ceremony was fully interactive as viewers could send tweets during the live screening and the primetime repeat using the hashtags #OSN, #Emmys or #Emmys2016 for a chance to see them appear on screen. 

The breadth and quality of OSN shows nominated for Emmy’s this year, once again reinforces the world-class and award-winning content OSN brings exclusively to viewers across the region.