HBO's 'Veep' Wins Cable's First Emmys

By R. Thomas Umstead
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HBO’s political comedy series Veep won the first Emmy Awards for cable industry during the Emmy’s primetime telecast Sunday night.

Veep's  show’s writers Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche beat out writers from Amazon’s Transparent, Fox’s The Last Man On Earth; HBO’s Silicon Valley; FX’s Louie and Showtime’s Episodes to take the statuette, while Veep's actor Tony Hale  beat out Keegan-Michael Kay (Comedy Central’s Key & Peele) Ty Burell (ABC’s Modern Family);  Andre Braugher (Fox’ Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Adam Driver (HBO’s Girls) and Tituss Burgess (Netflix’ Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.)

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.