‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Wins at 2026 Primetime Emmys: ‘Widow’s Bay,’ Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime & More Big Winners
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Widow's Bay broke records in comedy. Reba McEntire and Noah Kahan performed.
Por Billboard | 15/09/2026
Late Night With Stephen Colbert went out in style, winning outstanding variety series at the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which were presented at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Monday (Sept. 14). The show won a total of six Emmys for its final season, the most it ever won in any one season. Widow’s Bay won a total of 14 Primetime Emmys, setting new records for the most wins in a single season by a comedy series, and most wins in a freshman season by a comedy series. It tops The Studio , which set new records in both categories with 13 wins last year. Related Here Are All the Winners in the 7 Music Categories at the 2026 Primetime Emmys: Full List Bad Bunny Wins First Primetime Emmy for 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show: Updated Sabrina Carpenter Wins First Primetime Emmy for ‘The Muppet Show’ Widow’s Bay was the top award recipient this year across the three nights of the Primetime Emmys. Runners-up were The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny, DTF St. Louis, The Pitt and The Traitors , each of which won seven awards. Mariska Hargitay hosted the show, becoming the first woman to host the show in 15 years. She opened with “I Love TV Screens,” a parody version of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts’ “I Love Rock ’N Roll,” a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks in 1982. The spot featured cameos by basketball star Jalen Brunson, Jennifer Coolidge and Jean Smart. Later in the show, she did a parody version of Supertramp’s “Goodbye Stranger,” a No. 15 hit on the Hot 100 in 1979, in which she saluted the many shows that are ending their runs this year. Hargitay and the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit performed a clever sketch , which spoofed Taylor Swift fans’ obsessive search for clues about her next moves. Swift, a friend of Hargitay, made a fun cameo appearance in the sketch. Related Taylor Swift Makes Surprise Emmys Cameo to Unpack Swiftie-Coded Easter Eggs With Detective Olivia Benson Sally Field and Reba McEntire paid tribute to Dolly Parton, who died three weeks ago. Noah Kahan performed Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” in the In Memoriam spot . Colbert’s show had won outstanding talk series in 2025, soon after its cancellation was announced. This year it won in the outstanding variety series category that Colbert had won twice (2013-14) with The Colbert Report , his previous show on Comedy Central, and that Late Show With David Letterman won six times (1994 and 1998-2002). Beginning this year, the Television Academy combined outstanding scripted variety series and outstanding talk series into a single category: outstanding variety series. The academy also converted it to what they call “an area award,” which means the nominees aren’t directly competing against each other. Instead, voters answer one question for each nominated show: “Does this nominee merit an Emmy?” Any series that rec