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HBO® and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. “ MASTERPIECE 2015 EMMY OLIV FOR YOUR E ® KITTERIDGE EMMY ® CONSIDERATION -OUTSTANDING AND ALLOTHERCATEGORIES LIMITED SERIES MOVIES/LIMITED SERIES /1 SERIES MOVIES/LIMITED -NPR ” HBO 06.02.15 003 EMMY 2015 MECH 3 1 0 . 3 9 9 . 3 3 0 7 THE WRAP MAGAZINE FP4C V1 FOR YOUR EMMY® CONSIDERATION FOR BEST LIMITED SERIES AND ALL CATEGORIES 12 ON THE COVER Contents Richard Cabral MOVIES / LIMITED SERIES I JUNE 15, 2015 photographed by Dove Shore at TheWrap offices on FEATURES May 16, 2015 12 “TOO TIMELY” American Crime echoes the headlines “DARING” “PROVOCATIVE” - VARIETY - LOS ANGELES TIMES 18 MAGGIE’S BATTLE Gyllenhaal’s characters have to be real 22 HE’S HENRY VIII, HE IS Damian Lewis on Wolf Hall “EXCEPTIONAL” “GRIPPING” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - TV GUIDE 24 FOUR YEARS OF HORROR Jessica Lange looks back on AHS 26 INTO THE DARKNESS James Nesbitt and David Oyelowo delve into wrenching roles “NOT JUST GOOD, IT’S STARTLINGLY GOOD” - THE NEW YORK TIMES DEPARTMENTS 4 Awards Beat: A plea on behalf of the reluctant Mr. Letterman 6 By the numbers: Here’s our handy Emmy-category flowchart 8 From Sundance to Lifetime: Stockholm, Pennsylvania hits the air 10 Shindigs & Soirees: The season begins 28 Emmy’s Back Pages: Bill Murray, Emmy winner FELICITY HUFFMAN ON AMERICAN CRIME EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CREATIVE DIRECTOR “The minute we put someone Sharon Waxman Ada Guerin in a box, we stop seeing them as a whole person. And that EDITOR VP, SALES Steve Pond Caren Gibbens creates division and prejudice.” DEPUTY EDITOR DIRECTOR OF SALES For exclusive behind-the-scenes video and Tim Appelo Nicole Winters interviews with Felicity Huffman, John Ridley, Elvis Nolasco and Richard Cabral go to thewrap.com FELICITY HUFFMAN IN DKNY PHOTOGRAPHED BY DOVE SHORE; STYLING BY JORDAN GROSSMAN JORDAN BY SHORE; STYLING DOVE BY PHOTOGRAPHED HUFFMAN IN DKNY FELICITY 2 / THEWRAP / JUNE 15, 2015 Watch “Inside American Crime” and the FYC panel at abc.com/AmericanCrime #AmericanCrime BLT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC B: 10.5” x 12.5” PUB NAME: THE WRAP SHOW NAME: AMERICAN CRIME CONTACTS: L: 9.5” x 11.5” ISSUE DATE: 06.15.15 MECH DATE: 06.02.15 JO SAYAMA 323.860.4094 T: 10”w x 12”h AD SIZE: P4CB JOB #: ABP-9643 JENNIFER BAIRD 323.860.4027 MECH BUILT AT 100% FINAL FOR YOUR EMMY® CONSIDERATION FOR BEST LIMITED SERIES AND ALL CATEGORIES “DARING” “PROVOCATIVE” - VARIETY - LOS ANGELES TIMES “EXCEPTIONAL” “GRIPPING” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - TV GUIDE “NOT JUST GOOD, IT’S STARTLINGLY GOOD” - THE NEW YORK TIMES FELICITY HUFFMAN IN DKNY PHOTOGRAPHED BY DOVE SHORE; STYLING BY JORDAN GROSSMAN JORDAN BY SHORE; STYLING DOVE BY PHOTOGRAPHED HUFFMAN IN DKNY FELICITY Watch “Inside American Crime” and the FYC panel at abc.com/AmericanCrime MOVIES/LIMITED#AmericanCrime SERIES / 3 BLT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC B: 10.5” x 12.5” PUB NAME: THE WRAP SHOW NAME: AMERICAN CRIME CONTACTS: L: 9.5” x 11.5” ISSUE DATE: 06.15.15 MECH DATE: 06.02.15 JO SAYAMA 323.860.4094 T: 10”w x 12”h AD SIZE: P4CB JOB #: ABP-9643 JENNIFER BAIRD 323.860.4027 MECH BUILT AT 100% FINAL FRONT & CENTER / Awards Beat Give This Man Another Gold Statuette, DAMMIT A farewell Emmy will no doubt make David Letterman uncomfortable, which is reason enough to give him one BY STEVE POND don’t even remember exactly when this glorious at it: absurdist humor, stupid pet tricks surgery, or when Warren Zevon wanted to do happened—sometime around 1977, I and a guy who wasn’t really interested in his one more television show before he died, when expect, though the exact year is lost in guests at 10 a.m. What the hell was that? there was something that needed to be dealt the mists. Early in my writing career, I’d Great TV, that’s what it was. I watched the with on the unique forum that is late night, Igone to a comedy club near my home in Orange show most mornings and wondered how he Dave was the one you and I and Zevon would County, California to see a comedian friend stayed on the air. The inevitable happened after turn to. And Dave would rise to the occasion named Gary Mule Deer, a prop-oriented comic four months, when the show was cancelled. and find exactly the right tone. Always. (Even whose bio I’d written for his PR company. But What the hell was that? turned into How when he was admitting his own adultery.) The club was nondescript, with three acts on great is that? when it moved from morning to He had another chance to rise to the occasion the bill. Gary was the headliner, preceded by late night, as we all learned in 1982, when NBC on May 20, when his show came to an end. defected Soviet comic Yakov Smirnoff, who said put Dave where he belonged. I’ll leave it to Letterman being Letterman, his was not a teary from the stage that it was his first American gig others to analyze the many ways in which he farewell, but a self-deprecating one, with the ever. But the first comic to take the stage that changed the face of late night, how he made host turning the jokes on himself and acting like night was a former weatherman from Indiana absurdity and self-consciousness and irony a a guy who just happened to be surrounded by named David Letterman. My wife-to-be and I bigger part of every subsequent host’s toolkit. talented folks for 33 years. It was anything but a saw him do 15 minutes or so on a tiny stage that Who among the hosts now doing the job could victory lap, but of course it was just right. night, and we knew it immediately: This guy have come up in a Dave-free world? None of You know who else has taken Dave for was going to change the face of comedy. ‘em, that’s who. granted? Emmy voters. He won a bunch of OK, that’s a lie. We did see David Letterman Over the years, I suppose, it got easy to take Emmys back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but nothing at the beginning of his comedy career, almost Dave for granted. Back when it was Letterman since 2001. And that feels wrong. The Television 40 years ago, but there were few signs that this v. Leno, I’d never watch Jay instead of Dave. But Academy is known for bestowing golden guy was going to become DAVID LETTERMAN. in the new late-night landscape I’ve certainly parting gifts on the final seasons of shows like As I recall, Letterman was good that night, but turned to Kimmel regularly, and checked in on Breaking Bad, and there are far worse things I couldn’t tell you any of his jokes, or his topics. whatever viral silliness Fallon was doing. they could do than salute a man who changed We were entertained, for sure, but that was it. Maybe Dave took the gig for granted, too. television. Sure, it’d be a sentimental sendoff for The rest came later. (Thirty-three years in the same job will do that the least sentimental guy in late night, and it The rest began with the morning talk show to a guy.) But he still had something nobody else would make Dave uncomfortable and he might that Letterman began hosting in 1980. The guy had. When the chips were down and the stakes not even show up. had no business doing a morning talk show, were high, in the aftermath of 9/11 or Hurricane But so what? As I’ve been saying since 1977, which was the whole point and why he was so Sandy, or when he came back from his bypass this guy is gold. W TAYLOR BRIAN BY ILLUSTRATION 4 / THEWRAP / JUNE 15, 2015 ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN TAYLOR BRIAN BY ILLUSTRATION MOVIES/LIMITED SERIES / 5 FRONT & CENTER / By the Numbers THE TELEVISION MOVIES AND LIMITED SERIES WITH THE MOST HOW TO TELL EMMY WINS WHAT KIND OF TELEVISION OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES John Adams SHOW YOU ARE 13 wins, 2008 HOW MANY EPISODES DO YOU HAVE? MORE 1 THAN 2-5 Angels in America 5 11 wins, 2003 IS YOUR RUNNING TIME AT LEAST 150 MINUTES? “A masterpiece of impressive depth” -Huf ngton Post Blog “First-rate performances” -Los Angeles Times YOU’RE SHORT-FORM! NO YES DO YOU TELL A COMPLETE, NON-RECURRING STORY? Behind the Candelabra 11 wins, 2013 NO YES DO YOU HAVE AN ONGOING STORYLINE THAT WILL CONTINUE IN YES SUBSEQUENT SEASONS? Eleanor and Franklin NO 11 wins, 1976 DO YOU HAVE MAIN CHARACTERS WHO WILL CONTINUE IN SUBSEQUENT SEASONS? Outstanding Lead Actress Outstanding Lead Actor Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series In A Drama Series In A Drama Series YES NO CAITRIONA BALFE SAM HEUGHAN TOBIAS MENZIES YOU’RE A SERIES! YOU’RE A LIMITED SERIES! AND ALL OTHER CATEGORIES Roots holds the minis/ movies record YOU’RE A TV MOVIE! for nominations with 37 STARZFYC.com 6 / THEWRAP / JUNE 15, 2015 STARZ and related service marks are the property of Starz Entertainment, LLC.