http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/arts/television/emmy-awards-2016-past-coverage.html 2016-09-18 14:40:34 Here Is Your Emmy Awards Cheat Sheet A look at Emmy coverage you might have missed ahead of Sunday night’s awards ceremony. === The 68th The New York Times’s live coverage of the awards ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. on Sunday. In the meantime, here’s a look at Emmy coverage you might have missed: Here are this year’s nominees Over in Watching, our Can Sunday night’s Emmy ratings top last year’s? It shouldn’t be difficult: The 2015 ceremony was the “What a fun surprise. Because in a strange way I feel like we’re the bad kids who got invited to the party — like somehow this year we slipped through the cracks.” — “The dragon on set is essentially a 14-foot green pole with a little green ball on the top of it. More often than not, it was me swinging it around and shouting cues for people to know the dragon was passing over them; the ball was there for an eye line. Amazingly, somehow when the dragon’s on set — which, again, is literally a pole — people get excited.” — “Women playing a nuanced role in life has been happening for eons, but on TV it’s been few and far between. In 2016, we’re still trying to get the wife role to match who we are in life, which is people who are many things, not just wives.” — “My grandma, who has passed now, was from Minnesota. She didn’t really have an accent but she had a Midwestern quality about her, and she grew up on a farm. So it’s in my wheelhouse.” — “Also, my character swears more than any other character, which I think is funny because she’s the mother of four children.” —