Something remarkable happened on the first weekend in September last year, when the two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies took place a week before the Primetime Emmys telecast. At the Creative Arts shows, the FX drama series “Shōgun” won 14 awards, breaking the record for the most Emmys ever won by a program in a single year.

It was not surprising that “Shōgun” topped the 13 Emmys that the limited series “John Adams” had won in 2008; most people expected the Japanese-language juggernaut to take a run at that record. The crazy part was that it set a new record before the main Primetime Emmy Awards even took place, walking away from the Creative Arts shows with the record in hand and with seven more chances to increase its total the following weekend.

It won four more at tha

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