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So, how did The Wire — roundly hailed by critics as television's best-ever show — do at last night's Emmys? Did the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences break tradition and give David Simon the award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, only the second Emmy The Wire has ever been nominated for (it lost in the same category in 2005), simply because its final season aired this year and it can never be nominated again? Nope! [Emmys]