Schitt’s Creek Sweeps the 2020 Emmy Awards

The 2020 Emmy Awards was quite a Schitt-storm!

Schitt’s Creek, PopTV’s beloved, queer-inclusive sitcom, took home a record-breaking number of  awards this past Sunday at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired virtually. Viewers saw the cast and crew rake in seven primetime awards, making a total of nine in 2020, the most ever for a comedy series in a single year.

The show also swept the Emmy’s four acting categories in the same year, a first for any comedy or drama. Schitt’s Creek now joins All in the Family, The Golden Girls, and Will & Grace as one of the few series in television history to have all of its lead actors winning Emmys.

Catherine O’Hara kicked off the evening by nabbing her first-ever acting Emmy for her role as Moira Rose, the melodramatic matriarch fans have come to know and love.

“This is so cool,” a masked O’Hara told the audience from a remote viewing party in Toronto. “I will forever be grateful to Eugene and Daniel Levy for the opportunity to play a woman of a certain age—my age—who gets to fully be her ridiculous self.”

Schitt’s Creek also won Emmys for best writing, best directing, and best overall comedy series.

Dan Levy, who plays David Rose and co-wrote the series alongside his dad, Eugene, who also plays the family patriarch Johnny Rose, used his acceptance speech to urge the importance of voting.

“Schitt’s Creek is about the transformation effects of love and acceptance, and that is something we need now more than ever,” he told viewers. “Go out and vote so there can be more love and acceptance out there.”

Although the show has garnered critical praise, its epic run came to an end in 2019 when it was renewed for its sixth and final season. The show also held a special place in the heart and minds of queer viewers who lauded Dan for his portrayal of David, a pansexual character.

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