- Matt Weiner is one of America’s most influential showrunners (h/t to Whedonesque, because Joss Whedon is too).
- TV Guide’s Matt Roush discusses the ambiguous state of Matt’s Mad Men showrunner status, and also does some horserace discussion of January Jones and next year’s Emmys.
- The Twitter @dondraper outs himself (h/t ProgGrrl).
- John Slattery is protesting the proposed garbage truck facility that Mayor Bloomberg plans for his NYC neighborhood.
- Here’s a homeboy story out of Bradenton, Florida about Mad Men sound engineer Peter Bentley.
- TV.com is asking for your votes for Best TV Show of the Year (I think you should vote for Mad Men), Hottest Actress of the Year (I think you should vote for Christina Hendricks), Hottest Actor of the Year (Jon Hamm, duh), and Best Drama of the Year (hello?).
- The most unusual Don Draper audition video.
- The Gawker wonders if Revolutionary Road is “Too Mad Men.” (H/t to Basketcase Jude.)
- Vogue. Jon Hamm. Video. Yum.
- AMC notes two major Jon Hamm stories: An EW Entertainer of the Year, and a GQ Breakout Man of the Year. Please be sitting down before viewing the hotness.
- A technical article on color correction in Mad Men and other shows may interest some of you.
- This is also slightly technical, only about television advertising, using Mad Men’s short season as an example of advertising challenges.
- We’re starting to think about the Golden Globes on January 11.
7 Responses to “Mad News, November 13-19, 2008”
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Jon Hamm seems like a genuinely nice individual. It is refreshing to see someone who has integrity get attention and become a role model for all of us. Good for him!
I am relatively new to BoK, and I really love it! I don't know if anyone who reads his blog watches How I Met Your Mother, but this week's episode gave a shout out to MM!
I missed HIMYM; I'll have to find it online.
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Addendum:
Jon Hamm makes People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive, though I'm guessing the ladies here will conclude he wuz robbed!
Our Jon was voted One of the sexist men in the world by People Magazine. By next year, he'll win the title!!!!
nickel, welcome and do tell!
Karl, I was just going to check People when I heard the issue had come out. Not that Jackman isn't a GREAT choice.
It was a cute shoutout on HIMYM. Barney and Marshall were doing "conference calls" which basically involved them going to the roof and drinking beers. I think Barney says something like "We're such Mad Men" and Marshall says yeah he loves that show. And Barney asks "What show?" But Barney also apparently was throwing empty beer cans at pigeons at the end of their conference calls which leads to a nice Birds reference at the end but also I thought references Betty's shooting of pigeons in Mad Men.
Thanks Deborah and latenac!
I agree Jon was a little bit robbed, but I'm sure he has years of chances ahead of him!