Posted Jun 29th 2009 7:00PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Video, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Season 3 of
Mad Men is set to premiere August 16th, so of course
the cast and crew are busy shooting it right now. While we don't have any new footage yet, AMC has released a series of new promos for the upcoming season.The ads focus on the different aspects of the series: Drama, Romance, Comedy and Action.
The idea behind them is that there's a little something for everyone, and let me tell you: they're right. Don't believe me? Not only do you have the requisite Mad Men drinking, smoking and sleeping with inappropriate people, but you have Don Draper making a googly face and saying "Pat M'Groin." How can that be beat? IT CAN'T.
Continue reading I don't care if it's not new footage, I'm still psyched about new Mad Men promos
Posted Jun 18th 2009 7:08PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Reality-Free, Mad Men
I don't mean the filming of the show moving to Los Angeles. It is already filmed there. I'm talking about the
setting of the show moving from New York City to Los Angeles.
Matthew Weiner hints at such a move, in that secretive way that he does because he hates giving away spoilers. But he does say in
this new Rolling Stone interview that the 60s were all about Los Angeles overtaking New York as "the future," and we've already seen a few episodes set there (last season, when Don got involved with Anna). Weiner doesn't say they will move there, but he does say "I always want the audience to be worried that I'm going to pick up and move the show somewhere. Because, you know, I might."
Continue reading What would Mad Men be like if it was set in Los Angeles?
Posted Jun 10th 2009 2:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Actually, two pieces of big news.
First, everyone has been wondering when season three of the AMC show would start. A lot of people have been speculating late summer, and then the network said it would be August, but now we have a definite date. The third season will bow on Sunday, August 16 at 10PM.
Continue reading Some big news for Mad Men fans
Posted Jun 1st 2009 8:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Reality-Free, Mad Men
This preview doesn't show any new scenes from the upcoming third season of
Mad Men, but it does give a nice quick summary of various things that happened in the second season and what the show is going to address when it comes back in August, and will get you excited for the new episodes. There's no official start date for the show other than just "August," though some have speculated it will be Sunday, August 16.
Posted May 31st 2009 11:22PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: 24, House, Lost, Episode Reviews, Emmys, Breaking Bad, Reality-Free, Mad Men
(S02E13) Cause and effect, random selection, grief, life and death... "My father is my hero, he's just decent."
Breaking Bad covered all that and more in the season finale, setting up Walter White's life after successful surgery that bought him more time. The question was this when the end credits rolled, what will that life be for the New Mexico science teacher after all that's come before?
Anyone out there who thinks they know is lying because only creator Vince Gilligan has a handle on what's been going on and what's to come. What we do know after watching the season finale is this:
Breaking Bad is as good as any other drama currently on television, and that includes
Lost, Mad Men, House, 24 and the other potential Emmy nominees for Outstanding Drama Series.
Continue reading Breaking Bad: ABQ (season finale)
Posted May 5th 2009 9:46AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Reality-Free, Mad Men
Yesterday, to be exact.
Rich Sommer (Harry) is
Twittering about it, and
Variety has a story.
The
Variety piece says that AMC has "delayed" the show until August 16, but I don't think it's really a delay since the show just started filming this week. Who wants them to rush things? Sure, it's a month later than usual (the show usually premieres in July) so I guess it's a delay, in general, but contract negotiations with Matthew Weiner and other things factored into that. It's still pretty much on target with its season opener, though the show will now go even deeper into the regular seasons of the major networks. The show remains in its Sunday night at 10PM slot.
Continue reading Mad Men starts filming this week
Posted Apr 20th 2009 4:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Filming for the third season of
Mad Men starts in a few weeks (and starts on AMC in August), but some folks want to watch season two again (or for the first time). Here's the cover for the season two DVD package and
here are the extras.
It's not a cigarette lighter, but it's still pretty cool.
Posted Mar 2nd 2009 3:07PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Do they cook? Not sure. Are they Jedi Knights? Errrrr, maybe? So what's the deal with
Celebrity Jedi Chefs? We wish we knew. In their own words, they're [mostly] TV actors who "do the same sorts of things that 'normal' Jedi do, but [they] also cook." There are 216 of them, and most have appeared on buzzy sci-fi shows, including
Heroes,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and
Battlestar Galactica.
We're not talking background players, either. Yeah, we're still stuck trying to figure out what Celebrity Jedi Chefs...
is exactly (and if the pictures, as suggested by the fashion, were all magically taken in 1993), but we needn't hear any more if it means we get to see pictures of Joan Holloway (among others, after the jump) weilding a saber.
Continue reading TV celebs wielding big sabers
Posted Feb 18th 2009 3:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, 24, Lost, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Are
Lost and
24 really the two best shows on TV right now? (A twenty second pause while you're thinking about that.)
Welcome back! I would definitely put
Lost in the "best" category. I don't know if it's the best, but it's certainly in the top 5. I can't speak for
24 because I haven't seen that much of it (though I take fans' word for it). But
USA Today's Robert Bianco
says that Lost and 24 are the two best shows on TV.
Um,
Mad Men, anyone?
Continue reading What's the best show on TV: Lost, 24, or Mad Men?
Posted Feb 9th 2009 2:28PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: CSI, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, NCIS, Reality-Free, Mad Men, Burn Notice, The Mentalist, TV Squad Ten
What is cool? Can you define that thing, that quality that makes certain characters seem like they're more with it than everyone around them? Maybe cool is a state of being, not a thing you can pick up by wearing Armani or drinking Grey Goose or driving a BMW.
As I was looking around the current crop of television shows, I found ten characters who seem to capture the essence of cool -- whether they know it or not. After the jump, we count them down.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: The coolest characters on TV now
Posted Jan 22nd 2009 3:36PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Casting, Reality-Free, Mad Men
All this
talk about
Mad Men star Jon Hamm doing several episodes of
30 Rock as Liz's new boyfriend and this is the first time that this little nugget of information has come out: Hamm auditioned for the role of Jack Donaghy!
(He didn't get it.)
In an
Entertainment Weekly interview with Fey and Hamm, Hamm unveils that he was one of the first people to audition for the role of the NBC executive on
30 Rock. It was so early in the auditioning process that even Fey doesn't remember him coming in to read the lines. Hmmm...someone else as Jack. Baldwin is so perfect in the role that it's hard to picture someone else there, though I guess if someone else was in the role we wouldn't even think of Baldwin. It will make a great extra for the next DVD set though.
As for Baldwin doing Don Draper, that wouldn't have worked out. I think he'd be too well-known. One of the things that makes
Mad Men work is that a lot of the cast aren't household names.
Posted Jan 17th 2009 1:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Mad Men
At the risk of sounding all wimpy and lame, let me just say "Yee-hah!"
Mad Men creator/producer/visionary
Matthew Weiner signed a deal with Lionsgate earlier today after several months of back and forth. The deal secures Weiner for two more seasons of the show, and not only includes a deal for developing more TV shows but also includes a deal for movies.
There aren't any hard numbers on the deal (not yet anyway), but it is believed to be in the seven figures. Of course, that's a no-brainer. As if it wasn't going to be at least $1 million. But it's probably a helluva lot more than that. AMC might have helped with the money.
This is fantastic news. I suppose that
Mad Men would have gone on regardless (it was
picked up for a third season by AMC), but it wouldn't be the same without Weiner. Now everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, get back to work, and make sure those episodes debut this summer as planned.
To repeat: "Yee-hah!"
Posted Jan 16th 2009 8:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Casting, Reality-Free, Mad Men
I think the producers of
30 Rock are inside my head, which is probably a bad thing, since I have a crush on Tina Fey.
But it really does seem that way since the news came that
Mad Men''s Jon Hamm was going to join the NBC comedy for some episodes, playing a doctor that lives in Liz Lemon's building and begins to date her.
It's as if the writers and producers got together and said, "Hey, why don't we take the star of Bob's favorite drama and put him on Bob's favorite comedy?" There really can't be any other explanation (my role in the casting on TV shows and the overall programming scheme at NBC has an amazing amount of importance in my head).
Anyway, here are the first pictures of Hamm and Fey on the set of the show. Looks like Hamm's character drives a motorcycle. No word on whether or not he smokes or will cheat on Liz with the wife of a jerky comedian. (More pics
here.)
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Jan 9th 2009 3:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Reality-Free, Mad Men
If you're a
Mad Men fan and you've been wondering when the third season was going to premiere (especially since creator/producer
Matthew Weiner hasn't been re-signed yet), there's good news coming out of the Television Critics Association panel:
the third season will debut this summer.
This has always been the plan, of course, but there was a bit of confusion and worry over whether or not Weiner would return to the show, and if he didn't, who would be put in his place and how would this affect the start of the third season. But AMC's Charlie Collier says that he's sure they'll make a deal with Weiner soon, and that the writing of the third season should be getting under way in the next couple of months.
Continue reading Mad Men's third season coming this summer
Posted Dec 19th 2008 8:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Festivus, Reality-Free, Mad Men
It's funny how
Mad Men has become such a pop culture and social phenomenon. It's on a niche cable channel, but it's still one of those shows that has infiltrated the world in so many different ways: fashion, advertising, music,
other TV shows. Maybe it's the fact that it's the best show on television or maybe people want to be hip or maybe people want a return to a different time and place, but you can see influences from the show everywhere, even if you're not a regular viewer.
There has been an onslaught of advertising-related
Mad Men homages, some of them lame, some of them clever. This one falls in the latter category. It's a holiday e-card from the advertising/marketing staffing agency
Markinekt. It's a takeoff on the opening sequence from the show, but instead of Don Draper it features a snowman falling from the building. On the way down he passes giant cartons of Baxter Egg Nog and a woman wearing snow boots.
I wonder if this snowman has been cheating on his wife?
Continue reading Merry Christmas from a Mad Snowman - VIDEO
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