Its star, Pauline Collins (once the young downstairs maid who fooled around with the master's son on "Upstairs, Downstairs"), won the Tony Award for best actress in a play.
Every October, for decades, a group of reporters and photographers have gathered in the stairwell of an apartment block in a quiet district of Stockholm, waiting to hear if the poet upstairs has finally won the Nobel prize for literature.
He listened all week and kept calling in until he gauged the perfect time, and one day he ran upstairs and said, 'I won it!' He's always been able to will what he wants".
Its 2004 win made The Sopranos the first series on a cable network to win the award, while its 2007 win made the show the first drama series since Upstairs, Downstairs in 1977 to win the award after it had finished airing.
There will be a lot of low times for him but he has a lot of positives on his side - a very good balanced squad that knows how to win, the bloke upstairs ready to give him information when he asks, and a few quid to spend as well.
Satisfied that Hollywood had helped me win round one, I walked upstairs to find my 12-year old, seated in what I think used to be her bedroom.
But if the losing continues, would Riley kick himself upstairs and give Van Gundy a legitimate chance to win with this crew of Heat players?
Want to watch us and see who wins?" "No, I'm going to head upstairs," I said.
Public broadcasting last won an Emmy in the category in 1977, for "Upstairs, Downstairs," another British import.
Constellations first opened at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs, in London, in January 2012, with Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins winning acclaim for their performances.
