'The Bear' wins best comedy series at the 2023 Emmy Awards
The bear took home the trophy for best comedy series at the 2023 Emmy Awards.
While accepting the award on stage at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, cast member Matty Matheson shared a long and passionate kiss with costar Ebon Moss-Bachrach as he began his speech.
“I love you, Ebon,” Matheson, 41, began on Monday, January 15. “I just love restaurants so much, the good, the bad, it's rough. We're all broken inside, and every day we have to show up and cook and make people feel good by eating something and sitting at the table. And it is really beautiful. And all of us here, we get to make a show together and we can make people feel good or anxious or triggered.
Matheson went on to thank the cast and crew, noting that there are “so many people who make this show possible every day.” He added that it is “hard work” and “early hours”, and joked that they “don't see the sun for three months”.
He concluded the speech with the words: “Restaurants forever!”
Several popular series were nominated in the category, including Abbott Elementary, Barry, Jury duty, The wonderful Mrs. Maisel, Only murders in the building And Ted Lasso.
By Ted Lasso the third and final season had more nominations than any show at this year's ceremony, with a total of 24. The wonderful Mrs. Maisel had 14 nominations and The bears debut season had 13 nominations.
The bear had a super successful evening at the Emmys, with Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy Allen White and Moss-Bachrach, 46, all take home acting trophies. Creator Christopher Storerwho was not present also won awards for outstanding writing and directing.
The 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards saw some of TV's biggest stars emerge after months of anticipation. A-listers flocked to the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Monday, January 15, for the 75th annual awards ceremony, hosted by Anthony Anderson. The nominations were announced in July 2023, two months before the Emmys were initially scheduled to take place […]
Ted Lasso previously won Outstanding Comedy Series at both the 2021 and 2022 Emmy Awards.
The Apple TV+ series, co-created by and stars Jason Sudeikiswas one of only seven other comedy series to win the prestigious award in its first two seasons.
“This show is about good and evil,” Sudeikis, 48, shared in his acceptance speech at the event in September 2022. “This show is about the truth and lies. This show is about everything, but mainly about our reaction to it. And your response to our show has been overwhelming.”
Although the show was hugely successful, the Ted Lasso cast and crew previously shared that season 3 would likely be the last.
“This story is done,” Sudeikis explained on the website “Fly on the Wall” podcast in May 2023. “It sounds like a political answer, but it is the truth. We only came up with these three [seasons]then this thing became a big old thing.
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While a fourth season may not be in the plans, Sudeikis noted that the Ted Lasso team has been “thinking about” working on possible spin-offs based on the original series.
'Whether it is [a book], whether it's creating podcasts about the episodes to offer audio commentary… just to talk through things and themes,” he explained at the time. “And it would also explain the show in a much more cerebral way than I could have ever explained to anyone. Yes, there are opportunities, I think, for spin-offs.
Director Declan Lowney has also discussed continuing the series in a different way.
“Everyone knew this was the end, but it is the end for now,” said 63-year-old Lowney The Hollywood Reporter in August 2023. “It will take two or three years before anything happens – if anything happens – so let's try to tie all these stories together properly. I think that it [could have] kept going, but it had done its thing: the three-season arc, that was the deal, that was something [Jason] popular. But I feel like there's something else… There's going to be other things.”