CANAL+ series win at the Emmy awards

A week after making an almost clean sweep at the Creative Arts Emmys, CANAL+ content has won 6 primetime Emmys at the 63rd edition of the most important television awards, held last night.

Mad Men was a big winner, once again. The series produced by AMC has won - for the fourth consecutive year - the most prestigious of all the awards: Best Drama Series. Fifteen Emmys and four Golden Globes in just four seasons are testament to the unquestionable quality of the hit show. Season 5 will air on CANAL+ in 2012.

After almost monopolizing the technical awards last week, Boardwalk Empire, the HBO series about the birth of the Mafia in the 1920s, won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Drama, given to Martin Scorsese. CANAL + will broadcast the second season on 28 November.

Another of the big winners of the night was miniseries Mildred Pierce, adapted from the novel by James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) that tells the gripping story of a newly divorced woman who strives to build a new life during the time of the Great Depression. The HBO production, which is currently being shown on CANAL+, won the Emmy for Best Actress (Kate Winslet) and Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries (Guy Pearce).

Peter Dinklage received a well-deserved Emmy for Best Actor for his charismatic interpretation of Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones. Last week, the series received the award for Best Title Design at the Creative Arts Emmys.

In the reality and variety shows categories, awards went to Saturday Night Live, the veteran entertainment program broadcast on U.S. television since 1975. This year it added Best Director to its whopping 31 Emmy Awards. At the Creative Awards the show also won last week: Outstanding Guest Actor and Best Song for Justin Timberlake and Best Makeup.

Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, A Game of Thrones, Mildred Pierce and Saturday Night Live accounted for 21 Emmys. THere were also  two technical awards for other content broadcast by Canal +, Single-Camera Picture Editing for Cinema Verite and the Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for Lady Gaga: The Monster Ball Tour.