While it may have been a disappointing night overall for the Brits at the Emmys, Sherlock repped our side of the Atlantic with a triple win, including gongs for stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
The BBC show ended its Emmys drought, which has seen it fail to win any of the 17 nominations it's received across its first two series. In fact if its four wins at last weeks Creative Emmys are counted, the seven statuettes its earned between the two ceremonies makes it the most wins for any program this year.
Last night, Benedict picked up the Best Actor in a Mini-Series (beating fellow Brits Chiwetel Ejifor and Idris Elba), while Martin took the Supporting Actor prize. There was also a win for series co-creator Steven Moffat who won Best Writing in a Mini-Series for the final episode of Sherlock's third season.
Sherlock won big at the Emmys 2014
The show did miss out on the Outstanding Mini-series award though, which went to Freeman's other hit show Fargo.
There was no sign of either Martin or Benedict at the ceremony, with Moffat joking to reporters backstage that Cumberbatch is now "too big to come to the Emmys."
The Sherlock creator also revealed that the team never expected so many wins this year:
"I didn't think we'd win anything, genuinely… very shocked and surprised." While he pointed out that the show has won plenty of awards outside of the US, he said he thought the Emmys had written them off: "We're delighted that we've made it here and hopefully that it will get more people watching."
As for series four, which he's currently working on, Steven teased: "We have a plan to top it, and I do think our plan is devastating. We practically reduced our cast to tears by revealing the plan."
