The results were in before the kettle had finished on Tuesday morning, which is the one mercy of an awards ceremony that runs while the country is asleep. So here are the Emmy winners 2026 and where to stream every one of them in the UK tonight, plus which of them you and whoever you share the sofa with will actually agree on. It is the first properly dark week of autumn. The timing could be worse.
What won at the 2026 Emmys
Widow's Bay finished the week on 14 Emmys, six on the telecast and eight at the Creative Arts ceremonies, breaking the single-year record for a comedy that The Studio set last year with 13. Matthew Rhys won two lead acting awards on the same night, Comedy for Widow's Bay and Limited Series for The Beast in Me. The Pitt won Drama Series for the second year running, having gone in with 25 nominations, more than any other series. The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards were held in Los Angeles on 14 September, hosted by Mariska Hargitay, and the whole list is in the Television Academy's winners recap.
- Drama Series: The Pitt, on NOW
- Comedy Series: Widow's Bay, on Apple TV
- Limited or Anthology Series: DTF St. Louis, on NOW
- Lead Actress in a Drama: Rhea Seehorn for Pluribus, on Apple TV
- Lead Actress in a Comedy: Jean Smart for Hacks, on NOW
- Lead Actor in a Comedy and in a Limited Series: Matthew Rhys for Widow's Bay on Apple TV and The Beast in Me on Netflix
- Lead Actress in a Limited Series and Television Movie: Sally Field for Remarkably Bright Creatures, on Netflix
- Reality Competition: The Traitors, free on iPlayer
Where to stream the Emmy winners in the UK
Everything below is a subscription, free or ad-supported offer that was live in the UK this week. No rentals, because paying to own one episode of something you will watch once is not a recommendation. Three of the six sit on a single NOW membership, which is less a curatorial position than the honest shape of the winners list. For the version of this with no awards in it, what to watch tonight in the UK is the standing one.
Widow's Bay
Fourteen Emmys, Comedy Series among them, and no comedy has ever taken more in a single year. Ten episodes at 38 minutes, which is the entire argument for starting it on a Wednesday. Matthew Rhys plays an island mayor whose tourism plan wakes up the things everyone told him to leave alone. On Apple TV.
The Pitt
Two years, two Drama Series wins, and a second Lead Actor for Noah Wyle. One shift in a Pittsburgh trauma department, told close to real time, 48 minutes an episode and two series deep. Grim, gripping, and not the thing to put on when one of you has had a week of it. On NOW.
DTF St. Louis
Limited Series, supporting wins for David Harbour and Linda Cardellini, and both directing and writing for Steven Conrad. Seven episodes, a love triangle in suburban Missouri, and one of the three does not come out the other side. Jason Bateman leads it. Over in a fortnight. On NOW.
Pluribus
Rhea Seehorn won Lead Actress in a Drama for it and Vince Gilligan won the writing award. Nine episodes: a novelist in Albuquerque is one of the few people a contagion has not folded into one serene shared mind, and she wants no part of it. The strangest thing here. On Apple TV.
Hacks
Jean Smart's fifth Lead Actress in a Comedy win for the part, this time for the fifth and final series. Five series, 47 episodes, a Las Vegas veteran and the young writer she cannot stand and cannot manage without. If you have been meaning to start it, the ending is in place. On NOW.
The Beast in Me
Honourable mention
The mention rather than a pick, and the reason Matthew Rhys went home with two. Eight episodes, Claire Danes as a grieving writer who decides her wealthy new neighbour is a murderer, Rhys as the neighbour rather enjoying being suspected. Nastier than everything above it. On Netflix.
What each one is, and which of you it is for
Widow's Bay is Katie Dippold's comedy, ten episodes of 38 minutes, with Matthew Rhys as an island mayor whose tourism revival wakes up the local legends everyone told him to leave alone. It won Comedy Series, Lead Actor for Rhys, and both supporting comedy awards, for Stephen Root and Kate O'Flynn. This is the one you can put on without a negotiation first, and it is on Apple TV here.
The Pitt is R. Scott Gemmill's hospital drama, Noah Wyle and Patrick Ball at the front of it, two series and thirty episodes in. One shift in a Pittsburgh trauma department, near enough in real time. It won Drama Series for the second year and Wyle won Lead Actor again. This is the one somebody in the room has been dodging since January, and not without reason. On NOW, with the rest of the HBO shelf.
DTF St. Louis is Steven Conrad's seven-part limited series, with Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini as three middle-aged people in a suburban Missouri love triangle that one of them does not survive. It ended the week on seven Emmys, including both supporting awards and directing and writing for Conrad. Seven episodes is a fortnight of evenings, which makes it the easiest yes here for a household that refuses to start anything long. On NOW.
Pluribus is Vince Gilligan's, nine episodes, with Rhea Seehorn as an Albuquerque novelist who turns out to be immune to a contagion that has folded everybody else into one calm shared mind. She is not grateful about it. Seehorn won Lead Actress in a Drama and Gilligan the writing award. If one of you likes being unsettled and the other wants a proper plot, this is the overlap. On Apple TV.
Hacks is the Las Vegas one, from Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, with Jean Smart as a veteran headliner and Hannah Einbinder as the young writer forced on her. Smart won Lead Actress in a Comedy for the fifth time in the role, for the fifth and final series. Five series is a commitment, but it is finished now, which is the reassurance certain people need before starting anything. On NOW.
The Beast in Me is the honourable mention. Gabe Rotter's eight-episode limited series has Claire Danes as a grieving writer convinced her wealthy new neighbour killed someone, and Matthew Rhys as the neighbour, thoroughly enjoying being suspected. It won him Lead Actor in a Limited Series a few minutes after the comedy one. The shortest thing on this list and by some distance the nastiest. On Netflix.
The rest of the winners, briefly
Sally Field won Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie for Remarkably Bright Creatures, Olivia Newman's film about a widow on the aquarium night shift and the giant octopus that leads her to an answer she had stopped looking for. It took Television Movie as well, and it is on Netflix. So is The Diplomat, which won Allison Janney the supporting drama award and has three series sitting there. Tom Pelphrey won the other supporting drama award for Task, Brad Ingelsby's Philadelphia thriller with Mark Ruffalo, on NOW. Saul Metzstein won Directing for a Drama Series for Slow Horses, six series of it on Apple TV; Prime Video has the first series only, which is a taster rather than a plan. The Traitors won Reality Competition, and the version that won it, Alan Cumming and the castle, has been free on iPlayer since June.
The NOW cluster is not a coincidence. HBO Max launched in the UK and Ireland on 26 March 2026 and, rather than setting up opposite Sky, went inside it: NOW Entertainment subscribers got HBO Max at no extra cost in the NOW app, and Sky Atlantic kept the first-run HBO shows. That is why The Pitt, DTF St. Louis, Hacks and Task all turn up on NOW rather than on another subscription nobody wanted to add. One membership covers half of this list.
Pick one without the argument
Three of them on one membership still leaves you choosing, and choosing is the part nobody in the front room is any good at. MatchWatch is the bit between opening four apps and actually putting something on: you each swipe privately, nobody defends a runtime out loud, and the first thing you both said yes to is what goes on. If one of you wants a trauma ward and the other wants a laugh, shows for couples who disagree is the longer version, and the couples page covers the setup.
Whatever you do not pick tonight keeps. An eight-part limited series is a bad Tuesday and a perfectly good Saturday, and it will still be there. This week's picks turn over on their own, and the guide explains services and vetoes, which is worth five minutes if one person's veto has quietly become house policy. Otherwise you end up on Coronation Street again and discover you have opinions about it, which is its own kind of result.
So that is the Emmy winners 2026 and where to stream them in the UK: Widow's Bay and Pluribus on Apple TV, The Pitt, DTF St. Louis and Hacks on NOW, The Beast in Me on Netflix, and The Traitors free on iPlayer. Pick one of the six above, or let the pair of you settle it without the discussion. Available in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States.