Netflix's 'Arcane' becomes the first streaming series to win an animated Emmy

Netflix's 'Arcane' Becomes First Streaming Series To Win An Animated Emmy - Deadline

🍿 2022-09-04 ​​04:45:00 – Paris/France.

Call it third time lucky.

Netflix eventually won Outstanding Animated Program at the Emmys with Arcane winning the award at the Creative Arts ceremony. This is the first time that a broadcast in Streaming wins the prize.

He beat her Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, The Simpsons and Chadwick Boseman-voiced What if…? in the hotly contested category.

Other competitors of Streaming in the past have included Netflix Big mouth et BoJack Rider.

Esoteric co-creator Christian Linke won the award. “Thank you that. This is a big problem for us because we come from video games. It was amazing to see the world embrace our characters and our stories so thanks to Netflix who believed in us from the start, thanks to Riot Games who worked on the whole IP… and to all the people who have been with our game and League of Legends over the past 12 or so years who have helped make it as big as it is now,” he said.

The League of Legends series released in November and was quickly renewed for a second season. The series, made in partnership with Riot Games, stars Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell and Katie Leung and is set in the utopian region of the League of Legends kingdoms Piltover and the downtrodden metro Zaun.

Hosted by Fortiche Productions, the series follows the origins of popular League Champion sisters Jinx and Vi as they seek to reunite. Overcoming the Arcane World is a dark power that causes violence and chaos and threatens to tear the sisters apart.

The series features voice performances from Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung, Jason Spisak, Toks Olagundoye, JB Blanc and Harry Lloyd.

Last year, Adult Swim's animated series Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky won Best Animated Program for the second half of the first season, beating Big Mouth, Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons and South Park.

Other recent winners include Rick and Morty in 2020 and 2018, The Simpsons in 2019, Bob's burgers and in 2017 Archer in 2017.

SOURCE: Reviews News

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