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The Handmaid's Tale, Veep and Saturday Night Live, have won the top prizes at the Emmy awards on a night dominated by jokes about President Donald Trump.
Based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale picked up a total of five statuettes including best drama series and best actress for its star Elisabeth Moss at the ceremony in Los Angeles.
Veep was named best comedy for the third time and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was honoured for a sixth time for her role as a self-absorbed politician in the comedy.
Alec Baldwin won outstanding supporting actor for Saturday Night Live, in which he has scathingly portrayed US President Donald Trump.
"I suppose I should say at long last, Mr President, here is your Emmy," he joked, in a dig at Mr Trump's often-stated annoyance at never having won a statuette for NBC reality show The Apprentice.
Kate McKinnon, who played Hillary Clinton last season, was also honoured as best comedy series supporting actress for Saturday Night Live.
She told reporters backstage that the role had been "the greatest honour of my life" and talked of the "special kind of electricity" on set every week.
John Lithgow accepts the award for outstanding support actor in a drama series for his role in The Crown.
John Lithgow received the best supporting drama actor for his role as Winston Churchill in The Crown.
The 71-year-old actor said: "Most of all I have to thank Winston Churchill. In these crazy times his life, even as an old man, reminds us what courage and leadership in government really looks like."
Host Stephen Colbert, as expected, broke into jokes on the night about President Trump, who he called the "biggest TV star of the last year" for influencing shows' plot-lines.
He mocked Mr Trump's previous allegations of the Emmys being rigged and said if he had won an award for his appearance on Celebrity Apprentice he may never have run for office.
The President's fired press secretary Sean Spicer also made a surprise appearance on stage and joked "this will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys - period", in a reference to the debacle over numbers attending Mr Trump's inauguration speech.
(SKY NEWS)
