EXCLUSIVE: Season 1 of Apple TV+’s authorized thriller Presumed Harmless will compete within the Restricted or Anthology Collection classes on the 2025 Emmy Awards. The designation has been accepted by the TV Academy, sources stated.
It comes after Presumed Harmless was submitted as a drama collection for the Golden Globes and SAG Awards, incomes star Jake Gyllenhaal a Golden Globe nomination for Finest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Tv Collection, Drama. The present is also being featured in varied drama class Emmy prognostications.
The explanation for the swap is the evolution Presumed Harmless took over the previous few months. The present began off as a restricted collection adaptation of Scott Turow’s bestselling novel of the identical identify with no blueprint for a second season.
When Apple TV+ ordered a second season following the unique installment’s breakout success, the preliminary concept was to observe The White Lotus mannequin of a brand new story and largely new solid every season, with a personality presumably crossing over, serving as connective tissue.
With that in thoughts, Presumed Harmless was submitted as a drama collection for the primary wave of awards exhibits it was eligible for very like The White Lotus switched from restricted to drama collection after Season 1.
However with no apparent path to proceed the collection from Turow’s physique of labor, Season 2, govt produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams and Season 1 star Gyllenhaal and co-exec produced by Turow, finally took a really totally different route. Apple TV+ and producing studio Warner Bros. TV acquired the rights to Dissection of a Homicide, the upcoming debut authorized thriller by Jo Murray, to function supply materials. It’s a new case that includes all new characters, led by lawyer Leila Reynolds, with casting presently below means.
Per the Emmy Awards guidelines & procedures for a collection to be thought-about restricted or anthology, “the story arc should be utterly resolved inside its season, with no on-going storyline and/or principal characters in subsequent seasons.”
Starring Gyllenhaal within the lead position of chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, the primary installment of the anthology collection focuses on the horrific homicide that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Legal professional’s workplace when certainly one of its personal is suspected of the crime.
The ensemble solid additionally contains Ruth Negga, who was nominated for Finest Supporting Efficiency in a New Scripted Collection on the Movie Impartial Spirit Awards the place collection will not be separated by style, Invoice Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle and Renate Reinsve.
Presumed Harmless hails from Unhealthy Robotic Productions and David E. Kelley Productions in affiliation with Warner Bros. Tv. Season 1 was govt produced by Kelley, Abrams, Rachel Rusch Wealthy, Dustin Thomason, Matt Tinker, Gyllenhaal, Anne Sewitsky, Greg Yaitanes, and Sharr Whire. Miki Johnson and Turow served as co-executive producers.
Whereas Presumed Harmless will make a swap at most awards exhibits from drama to restricted collection like HBO’s True Detective did after Season 1, it received’t have to take action on the WGA Awards. The writers guild follows their very own tips, with the Apple present’s first season touchdown a WGA Award nomination for Restricted Collection earlier this yr. In 2023, the award in that class was received by The White Lotus‘ second season, with the guild persevering with to acknowledge the present as a restricted collection after it was moved to drama in all different main award races.
