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Preliminary Nielsen ratings data on Monday showed that just
11.9 million Americans watched Sunday's Emmy Awards telecast
which was broadcast live on Fox television in competition with
NBC's "Sunday Night Football."
The Emmys TV audience was some 4 million fewer than the 2014
event, and the smallest in the award show's history. The
top-rated Emmys in recent years was the 2013 show, where
comedies "Modern Family" and drama "Breaking Bad" won the top
awards and which drew 17.76 million viewers overall.
Sunday's ceremony brought surprise best series wins for both
"Game of Thrones" - one of the most popular dramas on U.S.
television - and HBO's satirical White House show "Veep."
It also made history when Viola Davis, star of "How To Get Away
With Murder," became the first black woman in the 67-year
history of the Emmys to take home the statuette for lead actress
in a drama series.
The National Football League game between the Green Bay Packers
and Seattle Seahawks on "Sunday Night Football" drew 23 million
viewers.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Grant
McCool)
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