Breaking Bad wins Emmy for best drama
Modern Family wins for top comedy for fourth year in a row while Claire Danes picked best actress for second and Jeff Daniels chosen best actor
Breaking Bad took home the top honour at the Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the best drama series prize for the first time, as AMC's gritty tale of a schoolteacher turned meth kingpin heads into the home stretch of its final season.
In the best comedy series category, ABC's Modern Family was a return winner as the show about unconventional families won the top award for the fourth consecutive year.
The television industry's top awards on Sunday honoured a mix of old and new shows, with more than a few upsets in the acting categories, and much talk about the trends transforming today's television - binge-watching, mobile viewing and online streaming.
TV streaming pioneer Netflix's groundbreaking political thriller House of Cards took home an award for directing, but failed to score wins in best drama and best acting categories.
Premium-cable veteran HBO, which lead the field with 108 of the more than 500 nominations, proved its staying power in the increasingly competitive television industry, where basic cable and Netflix have challenged its high-quality production.
