“Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara busted out a victory dance following Sunday’s Emmy Awards show — which snared its best ratings☂ in eight years in a big win for CBS.
Her ABC sitcom won Best Comedy💞 for the fourth straight year, and she celebrated the win at HBO’s after-party.
The three-hour CBS telecast, hosted by “How I Met Your Mother” star Neil Patrick Harris, averaged 17.6 million viewers❀ from 8 to 11 p.m. — up 33 percent from last year.
They were the Emmys’ best numbers si🐬🍌nce 2005, when the show, then hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, snared 18.6 million.
Sunday’s Emmycast also notched its best numbers since 2006 with viewers ages 18 to 49 (4.9 rat𒉰ing), a 26 percent jump from𝐆 last year’s show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
The night was highlighted by big winsꦍ for AMC’s “Breaking Bad” — which took Best Dramatic Actress (Anna Gunn) and Best Drama — and for other first-timers Tony Hale (“Veep”) and Merritt Wever (“Nurse Jackie”).
The one whiff of controversy came with the broadcast’s break from tradition when it honored five late i🤡ndustry notables with solo t☂ributes.
It took flak for including in that group Cory Monteith — the “Glee” star who died last summer at age 31 after battling drug ad💮diction — while r꧒elegating TV icons Jack Klugman and Larry Hagman to the In Memoriam tribute.
It was Harris’ second time hosting the Emmys. He last ✱hosted in 2009 and𝓡 has hosted the Tonys four times.