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Emmys 2022: Squid Game makes history + full list of winners

The 2022 Emmy winners are in and historic with Apple & HBO shows among the top winners of the night.

Top winners of the night was ‘White Lotus’ with six awards, ‘Ted Lasso’ with four including the Outstanding Comedy Series and HBO’s ‘Succession’ with three awards.

Netflix’s most-watched series, ‘Squid Game’ made history after Hwang Dong-hyuk picked up the Outstanding Directing award and Lee Jung-jae’s Best Actor in a drama series win.

Check out the full list of winners:

Better Call Saul (AMC)

Euphoria (HBO)

Ozark (Netflix)

Severance (Apple TV+)

Squid Game (Netflix)

Stranger Things (Netflix)

Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve)

Laura Linney (Ozark)

Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets)

Sandra Oh (Killing Eve)

Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show)

Zendaya (Euphoria) (WINNER)

Jason Bateman (Ozark)

Brian Cox (Succession)

Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) (WINNER)

Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)

Adam Scott (Severance)

Jeremy Strong (Succession)

Patricia Arquette (Severance)

Julia Garner (Ozark) (WINNER)

Jung Ho-yeon (Squid Game)

Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets)

Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)

J. Smith-Cameron (Succession)

Sarah Snook (Succession)

Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria)

Nicholas Braun (Succession)

Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)

Kieran Culkin (Succession)

Park Hae-soo (Squid Game)

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) (WINNER)

John Turturro (Severance)

Christopher Walken (Severance)

Oh Yeong-soo (Squid Game)

Abbott Elementary (ABC)

Barry (HBO)

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)

Hacks (HBO Max)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Ted Lasso (Apple) (WINNER)

What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

Quinta Brunson (Abbott

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A real-life ‘Squid Game’ is reportedly being organized in Abu Dhabi

The Korean cultural center in the United Arab Emirates is reportedly set to launch a reenactment of the games in Netflix’s hit series ‘Squid Game’.

According to multiple reports, the event tagged ‘Squid Game’ will see participants explore games from the show devoid of the murder and bloodshed.

The event set to hold in two sessions on October 12 in Abu Dhabi will see two teams of 30 participants. Games expected to feature at the event include ‘Red Light, Green Light’, ‘Dalgona Candy’, ‘Marbles’ and ‘Ddakji’.

Interestingly, there will be no prize money as the winner is expected to take home a customized green tracksuit.

‘Squid Game’ hit Netflix on September 17 to instant reviews, kicking off multiple online reactions including TikTok trends.

The show follows the story of desperate debtors who discover themselves invited to play a series of Korean children’s games to win a jackpot prize of $38 million or die trying.

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Netflix to edit ‘Squid Game’ following reports of harassment

Netflix has reportedly confirmed plans to edit scenes from its rave series ‘Squid Game’ after a woman claimed she had been harassed by prank calls.

The businesswoman from Seongju, South Korea, told newsmen that since the series premiered on the streamer, she has received thousands of calls and texts from fans asking about the horror competition.

“This is a number that I’ve been using for more than ten years, so I’m quite taken aback. There are more than 4,000 numbers that I’ve had to delete from my phone,” Kim Gil-young shared. “At first I didn’t know why, but my friend told me that my number came out in ‘Squid Game’ and that’s when I realized.”

Reports further reveal that Gil-young turned down compensation offers of up to five million won ((£3 million).

Netflix and local production company Siren Pictures confirmed on Wednesday that the phone number which appears on a mysterious invitation card given to potential players in the series will be edited. “Together with the production company, we are working to resolve this matter, including editing scenes with phone numbers where necessary,” Netflix shared in a statement.

‘Squid Game’ is interestingly set to break a major record on Netflix as the most watched series on the streamer. Last month, the frightening hyper-violent series arrived on the service to critical acclaim.

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‘Squid Game’ director says Netflix rejected series 10 years ago

Squid Game’ may be Netflix’s first Korean-language blockbuster to get worldwide buzz and on to becoming the streamer’s most-watched show in history, but no one wanted to make it for over a decade. Not even Netflix.

The show creator, writer and director, Hwang Dong-hyuk recently spoke to The Korean Times about the challenges he encountered in funding the blockbuster drama and how it took ten years to get a nod from Netflix.

“After about 12 years, the world has changed into a place where such peculiar, violent survival stories are actually welcomed,” Dong-hyuk shared.

Originally titled ‘Round Six’ the project got greenlighted by the streaming platform in 2019.

Dong-hyuk reportedly came up with the story in 2008 while living with his mother and grandmother but with no one interested and job scarce, he was compelled to sell his laptop for $675, thereby halting the script’s development.

The nine-episode series has garnered quite the buzz since it premiered in September. Recently it was reported that South Korea was suing Netflix owing to the streamer causing a traffic surge.

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