VOA · What's Trending Today?
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01This is what's trending today.
02Stars gathered in Los Angeles Monday night for the Emmys, the biggest award ceremony in American television.
03It was the 70th anniversary of the Emmys, and this year, fewer people watched the three-hour-long broadcast than ever before.
04The television ratings may have suffered, but there were still reasons to celebrate for many of last night's Emmy winners.
05Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs.
06Maisel became the first internet series to win the Emmy for Best Comedy.
07It also won seven other awards for writing, directing, acting, and more.
08HBO's Game of Thrones won the Best Drama Series award for a third time.
09The show's eighth and final season begins next year.
10Game of Thrones took a total of nine awards Monday, more than any other production.
11The long-running NBC comedy show, Saturday Night Live, was the only traditional broadcast show to be honored at this year's Emmys, and it won a lot of awards, tying with Mrs.
12Maisel for eight.
13Critics noted that the award winners this year were not a very ethnically-ethnically mixed group.
14Yet the nominees represented the most diverse group in the history of the Emmys.
15Twitter user April Rain, who created the Oscars So White movement on Twitter, posted a series of tweets about the Emmys.
16In one post, she wrote, Let's talk a bit more about what diversity is and isn't, and whether that should be the goal.
17Last night, the Emmys chairman, CEO, Hema Washington, encouraged everyone to give themselves a round of applause for diversity.
18But why?
19Some social media users also had other criticisms of the awards show.
20They said hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost lacked in humor.
21Critic Dominic Patton wrote, Turns out going with two hosts instead of one did not double the fun at the 70th Primetime Emmys tonight.
22The crowd did seem to enjoy some moments at the awards ceremony, such as Betty White's appearance on stage.
23The audience stood and cheered the 96-year-old television comedy star for more than a minute.
24Another standing ovation went to Henry Winkler, who won a Supporting Actor Award for HBO's Barry.
25It was his first Emmy win in his more than 40-year-long career in Hollywood.
26Winkler gained fame in the 1970s for his part in the hit television show, Happy Days.
27Winkler told the crowd, If you stay at the table long enough, the chips come to you.
28Then he jokingly told his adult children that they could go to bed now.
29Daddy won, he laughed.
30Director Glenn Weiss brought some romance to the Emmys, after being recognized for his work on the 2018 Academy Awards broadcast.
31Weiss used his Emmy Award acceptance speech to propose marriage to his girlfriend, Jan Svensson.
32He spoke to her from the stage.
33You wonder why I don't want to call you my girlfriend?
34He asked.
35It's because I want to call you my wife.
36The crowd went wild with cheers.
37Svensson looked both surprised and very pleased as she joined Weiss on stage.
38Then she said yes.
39And that's what's trending today.
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