When actors direct, and other behind-the-camera tales

"When TV actors go behind the camera, they're not doing it to win an Emmy," writes Thomas J. McLean in the kickoff piece to the Variety Road to the Emmys: The Director section, and he has the stats to back it up.  No actors have been nommed for a directing Emmy since 2001. Still, that leaves other rewards for such moonlighting directors as Jon Hamm (above).

Elsewhere in the section:

-- A selection of TV directors talk about their experiences in trying to build their careers.

-- How reality-competition directors and documentary directors make for strange bedfellows in the Emmy category that throws them together.

-- Interviews with top minis-and-movies helmers about how they overcame the greatest challenges in their Emmy-contending projects.