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 Flintstones [by whom? citation]. As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots. Despite the mixed critical reviews at first, "The Flintstones" has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. In 1961, "The Flintstones" became the first animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, but lost out to "The Jack Benny Program". In January 2009, IGN named "The Flintstones" as the ninth-best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows". Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon