Close to a year since it debuted on Netflix, 'The Queen’s Gambit' finally won the ultimate prize, the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series Emmys
, becoming the streamer’s most watched limited series with 62M households WW, femme trailblazing chess dramafinally won the ultimate prize, the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.was already leading at the Creative Emmys with a total of nine wins, making the series’ nabbing of the top trophy a no-brainer prior to the show, however, HBO’swas breathing down the Queen’s neck all night with wins for Kate Winslet, Evan Peters and Julianne Nicholson.
Bringing the Walter Tevis-penned novel about a young female chess playing, drug addicted genius who takes the globe by storm in the 1960s was a decades-long uphill battle. Allan Scott was attached to the property for 30 years, with Horberg joining him to develop 20 years ago as a film. The latter producer ofbelieved that Scott Frank was the guy to adapt the material. It was during Horberg’s 1980s executive days at Paramount when he first met Frank.
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