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Being an editor is a little like being a mortician. You're often the last one to see the finished product and, if done well, no one notices your handiwork. Of course, in TV, millions attend the viewing. And a bad wake can be the death of a show or career. But such are the perils of the TV editor, who must at once…

Having her first recurring TV role on a third-season cable series is probably enough to keep Caitlin Fitzgerald busy, but the Masters of Sex star has another first this year. As a first-time Emmy voter, Fitzgerald is juggling playing the long-suffering wife of a sex researcher with digging through hundreds of…

Kathryn Hahn has long excelled in supporting roles (Girls, Kroll Show, Parks and Recreation), but at last she's front and center in Showtime's Happyish. Created by novelist and This American Life contributor Shalom Auslander, Happyish follows disgruntled advertising exec Thom Payne and his artist wife Lee, played by…

Michael Kelly has been through the Beau Willimon grinder. He knows full well that any character, beloved or not, can be done away with by the House of Cards creator at a moment's notice. Just ask Kate Mara, whose Zoe Barnes got pushed into an oncoming train in the first episode of season two and became one of the most…

At the tail end of The Comeback's triumphant second season return—after nine years off the air—Lisa Kudrow's Valerie Cherish, a fading former sitcom star desperate to return to the limelight, gets what she really wants: an Emmy award. As votes start to come in for this year's accolades, Kudrow surely deserves…

Season 3 premieres July 12, but Masters Of Sex's leading man is staying fairly tight-lipped about what's coming up on the show. However, he does hint that he and real-life girlfriend Sarah Silverman might be sharing some scenes this season, and says that The Good Wife alum Josh Charles, a new addition to Masters, is…

Since winning a supporting actor Academy Award for 1980's Ordinary People, Timothy Hutton has worked regularly in film, theater and TV. His most recent turn as ex-gambler Russ Skokie in John Ridley's limited series for ABC, American Crime, squares him off against Emmy-winner Felicity Huffman, who portrays Russ's…

Matt Walsh has been a staple of improv comedy going on 25 years. Starting out in Chicago, he would make his way to both New York and L.A., going on to cofound the Upright Citizens Brigade in the process. But before all that, Walsh was a psychology major who worked for a time in that industry before making the jump to…

Netflix burst into the Emmy scene in 2013 with a massive first campaign, which featured some unorthodox stints, including a House of Cards BBQ truck serving free food to TV Academy members during the nomination voting period. Three years into original programming, Netflix has not scaled back in its Emmy campaign…

Initially intended as a smaller role, Rupert Friend has made Homeland's assassin with-a-heart Peter Quinn into one of the show's main attractions. Making his first appearance in season 2, Quinn's job was then to eradicate the threat of terrorist traitor Nicholas Brody (Damien Lewis), and it seemed with the end of…

"Success can paralyze you way more than failure, in my opinion," Vince Gilligan confesses while sitting in his Glendale office surrounded by Better Call Saul fan art. Fellow BCS executive producer Peter Gould and the show's star Bob Odenkirk are sitting nearby. "I keep thinking of that old analogy that you've got to…

The weeks of press sentimentality and celebrity genuflecting are over. The furious Foo Fighters series finale montage —featuring 562 different memorable moments from Letterman's 33 years on late-night TV (thank you, screengrabber.com for counting) — has been aired. The set has been struck, the ratings ruminated, and Da…