Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series is an annual award given to the best television comedy series of the year. From 1960 to 1964, this category was combined with the Comedy Specials (one time programs) category so that both type of programs competed for the same award during those years. "The Flintstones" and "Family Guy" are the only animated series to be nominated for the award. Outside the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), Fox has won this award twice, with "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development", cable network HBO has
The Bob Cummings Show stations before reappearing on the CBN Cable Network in the mid-1980s. The series remains in syndication on some smaller stations today. The original opening credits for the series incorporated a commercial for Dunhill cigarettes and were replaced with the "Love That Bob" opening. In 1956 Cummings was nominated for an Emmy for Best Actor in a Continuous Role and Ann B Davis for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The show was also nominated for Best Comedy. In 1958 the show was nominated for an Emmy for Best Comedy. Davis won for Best Supporting Actress. In 1959 the show, Cummings