2017 Emmys: TV stops to bask in its own glory - and note some of its progress

This is us, up to our eyeballs in great television, and grateful for the distraction. Host Stephen Colbert stuck to this theme in his jaunty opening musical number at Sunday’s exuberant 69th Primetime Emmy Awards show on CBS. ”My HBO Go password is SEXBOT1-2-3,” he sang. ”The world’s a little better on TV.”

He was joined in cameo appearances from the…