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UPDATE: The final Nielsen numbers show Sunday's Emmys just did avoid going down as the least watched on record.

The telecast averaged 12.33 million, up from the early estimate of 12.2 million. The figure puts the show just ahead of the 1990 telecast, which averaged 12.3 million. So, in other words, Sunday's show was merely the second least watched Emmys on record.  
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If ratings estimates hold, last night's show will go down as the least-watched Emmy telecast on record.

From 8 to 11 p.m., the ABC telecast averaged 12.2 million, down 6 percent from last year's Nielsen-challenged affair, and on par with the record-low 12.3 million who caught the show in 1990.

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Despite what some would characterize as criminally low ratings, 30 Rock scored its second consecutive win for Outstanding Comedy Series and Mad Men notched its first win for Outstanding Drama Series on what turned out to be an evening of firsts (and fourths and elevenths...) at the 60th Annual Emmy Awards, which took place Sunday night at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

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The backstage reviews for the Emmy telecast were not kind. To the Emmy hosts.

Entourage star Jeremy Piven ripped their opening. The writer for John Adams ripped their general presence.

Jeff Probst, one of the five reality-bound Emmy cohosts, took the harsh Tribal Council vote well.

"We knew all along it's going to be tough having five people," Probst told the Emmy backstage press.

The problem, Probst says, was getting those five people—Probst, Project Runway's Heidi Klum, American Idol's Ryan Seacrest, Dancing With the Stars' Tom Bergeron and Deal or No Deal's Howie Mandel—to agree on what they were going to do on the Nokia Theatre stage.

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It's all over, folks, and the winners of the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards have been revealed. Who was the most deserving winner of the night? Whose speech moved you the most? What was the most shocking moment?

Browse all the hottest Emmy stories in our comprehensive Red Carpet coverage—and share your own thoughts in the comments section.

Meanwhile, a brief recap of the winners:

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Good to know that security is on their toes over at the Nokia Theatre.

Los Angeles police confirm to E! News that a security breach occurred at a checkpoint near the downtown Los Angeles venue at about 3:30 p.m., just as the red carpet action was starting to pick up before the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

According to authorities, three people who were planning to attend the ceremony were detained for questioning after guards found an aerosol rifle (similar in looks to a BB gun) in the trunk of their car at a checkpoint near the arrivals area.

"A car got past a checkpoint, and it had to be checked by the bomb squad," a law-enforcement source told E! News.

The incident prompted a 15-minute halt in the chauffeur action, as the throughway was shut down and A-listers such as Eva Longoria Parker had to ditch their rides and hoof it a short distance to the carpet, the source said.

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