AMC drama Mad Men, which looks at the changing social standards and family lives of advertising industry employees in 60s New York, claimed the outstanding drama series award for the second year running, while 30 Rock claimed the best sitcom prize and the outstanding actor in a comedy series award for star Alec Baldwin.
Australian actress Toni Collette scooped the best comedy actress prize for United States of Tara ahead of 30 Rock's Tina Fey, though the latter was rewarded for her popular impression of US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Though Mad Men and 30 Rock claimed the major prizes, it was BBC drama Little Dorrit which stole the show, winning seven awards, including best mini-series.
'We're thrilled that Little Dorrit has gone down so well this side of the Atlantic,' said the show's executive producer Anne Pivcevic after the Dickens adaptation's success, which also included prizes for outstanding writing, directing, art direction, costumes and cinematography.
The supporting comedy prizes were claimed by Kristin Chenoweth for Pushing Daisies and Jon Cryer for Two and a Half Men, who joked: 'I used to think that awards were just shallow tokens of momentary popularity, but now I realise they are the only true measure of a person's worth as a human being.'
Glenn Close won the outstanding actress in a drama award for legal series Damages while Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston took the male equivalent of the prize ahead of Mad Men's Jon Hamm.
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