But there was BBC success for Mrs Brown's Boys, which won best sitcom.
Friday Night Dinner is also up for best sitcom and new comedy, with nods for stars Tamsin Greig and Tom Rosenthal.
Mrs Brown's Boys has been a surprise success - winning a Bafta for best sitcom and gathering up to eight million viewers on BBC One.
Hart, who won three awards in 2010, is up for best female TV comic, TV comedy actress and the People's Choice award, while her show is up for best sitcom.
The headlines follow better-than-expected debuts for two NBC comedies in their regular time periods last week -- Ryan Murphy's latest "The New Normal" and the Matthew Perry-fronted "Go On" (the latter ranking as NBC's best sitcom debut in two years).
It also claimed the best TV sitcom award, while Ricky Tomlinson, who plays Jim Royle - the slovenly head of the Royle family - was named best actor.
To make matters more confusing, Brendan O'Carroll's real-life wife plays his TV daughter, his TV son's wife is acted by his daughter, and his big sister is his neighbour and best friend in his sitcom.
One of the earliest examples of successful lobbying occurred back in 1955 with the CBS sitcom Father Knows Best.
While the show ended with the "Modern Family" cast onstage for the best comedy award, the sitcom also monopolized the first half-hour of the show, winning all of the first four Emmys handed out.
It was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom on the 100 Best Sitcoms poll run in 2004 by the BBC.
The sitcom is one of the best examples of ensemble acting on British television for many years.
However, they were both pipped by Lena Dunham, creator and star of sitcom Girls, which also won best comedy TV series.
But Drescher is a sitcom veteran and knew where she stood the best chance of securing an audience.
Other celebrities flanking Sheen at Wednesday's press conference included Janeane Garofalo, best known for Reality Bites, and Mike Farrell, star of sitcom MASH.
Winters won a best supporting actor Emmy for playing Randy Quaid's father in the sitcom Davis Rules in 1991.
French is best known for her comedy collaboration with Jennifer Saunders and for her popular sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.
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