Shogun proved its enduring success on Sunday night with a record 18 Emmy Awards, including one for best drama series.

A year after the category featured frequently nominated, multi-season permanent staff such as Succession, The Crown, Better call SaulAnd Yellow vestsjust one of this year’s nominees — The Crown — was previously nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. The rest of the nominated dramas either came from an acclaimed first season (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fallout, 3 Body SolutionAnd Shogun) or finally get the well-deserved Emmy recognition (Slow horses, The Gilded AgeAnd The morning show).

On Emmy Night it was finally Shogun who emerged as the winner. Shogun — an adaptation of James Clavell’s historical novel about an Englishman in 17th-century Japan, and the basis for an acclaimed 1980 miniseries — earned a record-breaking 25 nominations at this year’s Primetime Emmys, and had already won 14 ahead of Sunday’s main event. The film took home an additional four, breaking the record previously held by HBO’s 2008 miniseries John Adamswhich won 13 prizes at the time.

However, Outstanding Drama Series would not be one of those 25 nominations: originally announced as a Limited Series upon release, the critical success and popularity of Shogun instead convinced the producers to begin work on new seasons that would expand on Clavell’s original story, which Shogunfrom ‘s in contention for ‘Outstanding Limited Series’ to ‘Outstanding Drama Series’, where it was the winner.