Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae has become the first Asian star to win the Emmy award for best male actor in a drama.

The South Korean won for playing the main role of the increasingly desperate Seong Gi-hun in the hit Netflix show.

The show's creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, won the best drama series director prize, also the first Asian to do so.

Ted Lasso won best comedy series for the second year in a row, while outstanding drama went to Succession, also for a second year running.

The drama's British creator Jesse Armstrong made a jibe about the monarchy during his acceptance speech at the US TV industry's most prestigious ceremony of the year.

"It's a big week for successions - new King in the UK, this for us," he joked. "Evidently a bit more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles."

"Keep it royalist, keep it royalist," the show's star Brian Cox, who was also on stage, told him after the audience went fairly quiet.