Mad Men

By Tom Lewis 10:00pm Sanctuary Sci Fi - New Time 10:00pm The Graham Norton Show BBC America - Season Premiere 10:00pm Skins BBC America - Season Premiere. 10:00pm Mad Men AMC - Don makes some new friends on his trip to Los Angeles; Peggy looks for romance; Duck ponders the future of Sterling Cooper.

By Meghan Keane Every week on AMC TV's Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Wired.com asks a real-world ad man about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today.

By Bob Sassone The Alaskan Governor and VP candidate will appear on the October 25 episode, according to Cindy Adams at The New York Post. If that wasn't exciting enough, this is the same episode that Jon Hamm will host, so I bet we can look forward to a Mad Men parody. Wouldn't it be great if Palin could appear...

By Matt Amazon) Mad Men Season Two on DVD Though I can’t seem to convert my friends onto the show, I’m a big fan of Mad Men. I love the tone of the show, the calm, cool narratives and the smoky, politically-incorrect dynamic of the office. Having said that, they mess up the typography a lot. Mark Simonson...

We've seen much more of Don Draper this season, but we are even more in the dark about who he is, what he wants, what he's afraid of, what his secrets are.

By noreply@blogger.com (Toby) I'm expecting that in order to cement the time and place of the American version of 'Life On Mars' as 1973, there will be plenty of references to the TV shows of that time. (This is something that happens with 'Mad Men' as well, to the point I'm pretty much resigned to the idea I may have to chuck t...

In case you aren't sufficiently annoyed by the real weddings you can't wiggle out of, meet Rachel Buchman (Rosemarie DeWitt of "Mad Men") and her problem-child...

Thanks, Prison Break, for getting "Viva Las Vegas" stuck in my head, which inevitably morphs into "Viva Viagra" and makes me want to kill myself. Thanks to the beautiful, beautiful miracle that is DVR, I don't normally see commercials, but I couldn't help but notice that the Fox promo monk...

By Whitney Matheson Greetings! It's time for my weekly roundup of pop-culture picks. Take a look at what's been improving my life for the last few days: Best TV show I saw: Mad Men. I don't know how much more I can gush...

 SC - By fitsnews • on October 9, 2008 Actress Christina Hendricks has single-handedly turned the TV show Mad Men from something we could care less about watching ...

By LyleMasaki The Martha Stewart Show (Syndicated) Check local listings Attention Mad Men fans! Today out actor Bryan Batt stops by to talk up his critically praised show and cook up some recipes from the 60s. Sounds like a good inspiration for a classic cocktail party.

Breaking Bad': Drugs and suburbia, once again subscription), Turkey - While “Mad Men” received the best drama Emmy this year, Bryan Cranston snatched the Emmy for best actor in a drama from Jon Hamm from “Mad Men. ...

By Tom Rose Fancast.com Last night on Mad Men the mood continued to be somber. Don and Betty are still on the outs, Pete and Peggy are at each other again and Paul and Sheila strike a blow for the... By Tom Rose Fancast.com Last night on Mad Men the mood continued to be somber. Don and Betty are still on th...

The episode’s last image is Don on that airplane bound for California, face bathed in sunlight, prepping a California arc for the season’s last three episodes. This episode’s a season-end workhorse — setting up plot turns for Pete, Harry, Paul, Don, and Betty — but Betty, again, steals th...

By Tempo Of course, having gotten nothing, neither is able to give anything real to anyone else. Pete and Betty are equally indifferent to the emotions of others. When Betty needs Don in the middle of the night, she reaches out to him. When Pete needs someone to pay attention to him, he reaches out to Peg...

By Myles The result is an episode that doesn’t quite hit as hard as the past few episodes on an emotional level, and feels like it doesn’t really add things to our story; that being said, it also feels distinctly like Matthew Weiner and Co. moving pieces around in preparation for something larger.

By Paul Levinson(noreply@blogger.com) Mad Men 2.10 began tonight with a mention of Ray Bradbury as an attraction for Paul in Pasadena and ended with the Tornados' 1962 instrumental hit "Telstar" playing on the plane as Don and Pete fly to Pasadena... See also: Mad Men Returns with a Xerox and a Call Girl ... 2.2: The Advertising Devil and the Deep Blue Sea ... 2.3 Double-Barreled Power ... 2.4: Betty and Don's Son ... 2.5: Best Montage Since Hitchcock ... 2.6: Jackie, Marilyn, and Liberty Valance ... 2.7: Double Dons ... 2.8: Did Don Get What He Deserved? ... 2.9: Don and Roger And listen to my fabulous 20-minute interview last Fall with Rich Sommer (Harry Crane) at Light On Light Through challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly   [read the full post]

Here's a truth that should be self-evident: There can be a big difference between what you think is great and what you actually like. When it comes to TV, the finest series currently on offer is — in your Uncle Stevie's humble opinion — Breaking Bad (not AMC's other series, Mad Men, which is ju...

By Gillian Reagan Campfire, another independent ad house in New York, which was hired by Alan Ball and HBO to orchestrate True Blood’s entire marketing campaign, shot and recorded all the raw footage for the videos. But Campfire hired Mad.House’s new-media team to assemble the BloodCopy videos for a simpl...

By Peggy Drexler Like many followers of AMC's Mad Men -- all 1.9 million of us -- I have loved the trip back to institutionalized sexism, nose-cone bras, mid-morning office cocktails, ever-present cigarette smoke and, most of all, to a seminal time in the development of modern advertising.

By Media Maven 1. Hoss, The Elevator Operator -- Anytime an African-American actor is featured on this show, its for a reason.  It's August 5th, 1962, and Marilyn Monroe has just died.  Secretaries across the Sterling Cooper office are sobbing, Joan Holloway is isolated in Sterling's office to cope with the pain, and even Hoss, the elevator guy, is affected by the death of this superstar.  Why show us Hoss's reaction?  Because it shows us that EVERYONE feels the effects of Marilyn's death to some degree-- everyone except Roger Sterling and Don Draper, the two guys who pretty much rule the world.  It's a fascinating juxtaposition, and I think it only serves to make Don appear more heartless than he already does.  But more on that later...   [read the full post]

By Paul Levinson(noreply@blogger.com) Don and Roger have had a complex love/hate relationship in the past year and a half of the Emmy-winning Mad Men - mostly professional friendship, which is what I mean by love above, not hate - and in tonight's Episode 2.9 it has never been more compellingly portrayed. Don is as inscrutable - and thus fascinating - as ever. He tells Roger he has no feelings, other than relief, about being apart from Betty. But he clearly loves his kids ... and, I don't know, I think he loves Betty, too. So why is he is saying he feels nothing about the separation. A front for Roger? No, it didn't seem like that. And listen to my fabulous 20-minute interview last Fall with Rich Sommer (Harry Crane) at Light On Light Through challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly   [read the full post]

By Myles On the surface, Marilyn Monroe was the picture of grace and beauty, living the Hollywood dream and conquering the globe in the process. Of course, inside she was emotionally distraught, and her suicide rocked America in August, 1962. In the world of Mad Men, it rocks the secretarial pool at...

The 9 Best Things About Mad Men 3) John Slattery 8) The title sequence and theme song. I don't really know enough about such things to even break down why they're so great. if I tried, I imagine I'd use a word like "spare." Maybe, "pristine" if I was feeling bold. Oh, also "bold."

By Tom Lewis 9:00pm Dexter Showtime - Season Premiere. 9:30pm American Dad FOX - Season Premiere 10:00pm Mad Men AMC - Freddy Rumsen gives a disappointing pitch; Pete exploits an opportunity; Don proves his loyalty; Betty finds a welcome distraction. Pic of Chris Rock via HBO

By Nick Plowman Outstanding Drama Series – “Mad Men” Outstanding Miniseries – “John Adams” Outstanding Lead Actress, Drama Series - Glenn Close, “Damages” Outstanding Lead Actor, Miniseries - Paul Giamatti, “John Adams” Outstanding Writing Drama Series - Matthew Weiner, “Mad Men”

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By Paul Levinson(noreply@blogger.com) Peggy has a good comeback, after Pete insincerely apologizes. No problem, you saved me 50 cents, she says. (I'm pretty sure I paid a quarter to see the movie at the Allerton Theater in Bronx, but prices were a little higher in Manhattan and maybe in Brooklyn where Peggy lives.) Peggy doesn't do so well with the other men at Sterling Cooper, though, who shut her out of their planning of a bra campaign. It's based on the premise that all women want either to be Jackie Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe, and Peggy looks like neither. Joan - unknowingly building on Bobbi's good advice from last week - sets Peggy straight. Stop dressing like a little girl if you want to be taken seriously, Joan tells Peggy. And, lo and behold, Peggy gets taken very seriously after she...   [read the full post]

By Paul Levinson(noreply@blogger.com) We already know that Don Draper is really Dick Whitman, who took Draper's identity in the Korean War. Pete knows this, too, and so does Cooper. And, as we saw last season, Pete's attempt to blackmail Don about this fell flat - the inscrutable Cooper took it all in, and left Don and Pete still employed in his company. The double life of Don continues, and sandwiches the story in Mad Men 2.7 tonight. About to buy a Cadillac in 1962, Don flashes back to the early 1950s, and his first appearance as Don Draper since the war - selling used cars. Fast forward to the end of 2.7, in which Bobbi's husband, comedian Jimmy, lets Betty know Don that has been schtupping his wife, and lets Don know that he doesn't appreciate it, not one bit. The episode ends with another unc...   [read the full post]

By David Kronke Consider: HBO's "The Sopranos" didn't win the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy until its fifth season, and won only twice in its seven seasons. It took a long time to for ATAS to acknowledge that HBO truly belonged on the same landscape as the broadcast networks when it came to the major awards.

By Myles Describing Betty Draper to the representatives from Heineken, Duck Phillips identifies her as “well off and educated.” Now, in the context of the scene, we breeze right by it: they’re selling this pitch, so it’s not like anyone’s going to put on the brakes. However, let’s be frank: to this p...

By Wayne Friedman Still, did Entertainment Weekly get it wrong to put "Gossip Girl" on the cover of a recent issue - instead of the mixed-reviewed, Steven Bochco-produced TNT legal drama? One could argue that. To its defense, it's tough to keep pace with the public tastes — or lack thereof.  No matter. None of t...

By Alan Sepinwall(noreply@blogger.com) • Bobbie tells Jimmy that she checked into a fat farm, which was one of the many theories around the Sterling Cooper offices about why Fat Peggy disappeared for three months and returned as Slim Peggy. (Pete from the season premiere: "I thought we had verification!")

That Sunday the agency rallied together to prepare for the American Airlines pitch, and more importantly to give us all an eyeful of their favored weekend wear. (Oh, Pete, your thighs.) Joan, who couldn't get a break this episode, got stuck with the ignoble task of keeping an eye on Sally Dra...

Mr. Kors began watching the show last summer and eventually met creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner. The meeting led to a private screening of the season premiere for friends and fans of Michael Kors, as well as a newly launched gift-with-purchase promotion.

Earlier in the month, I spent too many nights staying up late watching episodes from the first season of Mad Men, trying to catch up before the second season premiered.  As kind of a counterbalance, I watched a bunch of episodes of the old crime show, Naked City, often alternating---one epi...

What does one have to do with the other? Last night's episode of "Mad Men," written by series creator Matthew Weiner, ended with a deeply ruminative moment in which Don Draper (Jon Hamm) walks the book to a mailbox to send to someone - Rachel? - having scribbled on the title page that it remin...

For its efforts, the show has been rewarded with a Peabody Award, two Golden Globes and 16 Emmy nominations, the most of any drama series this year. It was also, with "Damages," the first show on basic cable to receive an Emmy nod in the best drama series category. Mad Men:" 10 tonight; AMC.

Capping a week in which it got 16 Emmy nominations, "Mad Men" snared three TV Critics Association Awards Saturday. Said cast member John Slattery, "I'm glad our message of smoking, drinking and whoring has registered with the TCA."

By Tempo At a “Mad Men” set visit for TV critics on Tuesday, I managed to corner three young Sterling Cooper employees, or rather the trio of actors who play them: Rich Sommer (who plays Harry Crane), Aaron Staton (published author Ken Cosgrove) and Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey; all three are pictu...

By Tempo Below is an interview with Jon Hamm, who plays Don Draper on "Mad Men," which returns to AMC July 27. (A reminder: A "Mad Men" marathon of all 13 episodes of Season 1 airs July 20 on AMC, starting at 11 a.m. Central Time.) Don Draper is the man who...

Not being at the press tour, and thus not having an opportunity to ask all the big questions at yesterday's Matthew Weiner sesh - Matthew is the show-runner and creator - then I'm going to have to ask them, and answer them myself. It's a lonely and somewhat delusional task, but someone's gott...

By Myles The storyline also gave us a bit more insight into the Kennedy/Nixon battle currently ongoing, one that Sterling Cooper wants a part in and that Helen Bishop introduces to Betty. Really, the introduction is for us: Betty immediately concedes her vote to her husband’s will (such an obedie...

By Deborah Lipp I just found this great interview with Christina Hendricks from June 28. My favorite part is that she doesn’t realize that Joan speaks in a higher voice than she does in real life. How funny! No backlash from Newsweek, which calls Mad Men “must-see TV.”

By Tempo Later in the season, when Roger Sterling (John Slattery) finally returned to his ad agency, Sterling Cooper, after a heart attack, no one was more glad to see him than head secretary Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks), with whom he’d been having an affair. Episode 12: “Nixon vs. Kennedy”

By Deborah Lipp A 16-page July Preview section of Entertainment Weekly mentions Mad Men’s ratings war with Burn Notice, but doesn’t give Mad Men its own page, which confuses me. AMC is allowing that the beginning of season 2 in 1962 is officially leaked, and has posted a 1962 trivia quiz on their Mad Men blo...

By Tempo One final note about "Mad Men" -- the great AMC series will arrive on DVD July 1. If my recommendations haven't convinced you to check this show out, perhaps the Peabody Award will? Winners include NBC’s “30 Rock,” AMC’s “Mad Men,” Bravo’s “Project Runway,” ABC News’ Bob Woodruff

By Tempo “The Sopranos” (HBO): We’ll be debating that ending until the end of time, but even before Tony Soprano’s abrupt exit from our lives, jaw-dropping episodes such as “Kennedy & Heidi” and “The Blue Comet” proved that this mob drama is one of the all-time greats.

By Tempo Mad Men is a smart and cinematic drama about advertising executives on Madison Avenue when the industry was at its height of glamour, power, and prestige. The setting is the Sterling Cooper agency, which sells everything from cigarettes to political candidates. The protagonist, Don Dra...

By Tempo FR:   The Sterling Cooper Offices at AMC Don Draper (Jon Hamm), Creative Director Peggy Olsen (Elisabeth Moss), Secretary to Don Draper Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), Account Executive Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks), Secretary Roger Sterling (John Slattery), Partner

The best thing on tonight is Mad Men, AMC's beautifully detailed series about advertising executives in Manhattan circa 1960. I review it in more detail on the cover of this section. Much of the rest of the lineup is repeats -- but in many cases, they're well worth a second (or first) look.