'Fleabag' Wins Emmy for Best Comedy

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Amazon comedy series Fleabag earned top Emmy honors in a competitive comedy category.  

The series beat out last year's winner The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as well as multi Emmy winner HBO's Veep in its final year of eligibility for the coveted statuette. 

Also nominated in the category were Netflix's Russian Doll, HBO's Barry, Pop TV's Shitt's Creek and NBC's The Good Place.

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R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.