The buzz-generating Mad Men Season 5 promo poster is getting tagged inventively in NYC. At Tripped, critics discuss the poster’s relationship to 9/11.
Christina Hendricks has revealed that she was unfazed by her parents’ divorce and even encouraged them to split.
Even before Bryan Batt hit it big in Mad Men, he’d already learned the lesson Sal Romano experienced the hard way: Have a backup plan.
Jared Harris talks to the Wall Street Journal about his first job.
Jennifer Getzinger talks about “The Suitcase” on Radio Boston.
Eric Ladin explains to Grantland how Mad Men helped put him in every show you watch.
SNL looked at what Downton Abbey would look like on Spike. PAPER has a gallery of the Abbey cast on- and off-screen. Polyvore has Abbey-inspired fashion. Architectural Digest has a a behind-the-scenes tour of the sets. And renowned language columnist Ben Zimmer compiles Downton Abbey anachronisms.
Let’s hope for more Jon Hamm in the extended cut of The Town coming to home video.
Janie Bryant is one of eight costume designers turned fashion headliners featured at Entertainment Weekly.
The Walking Dead launched a Facebook app.
The Walking Dead’s new showrunner, Glen Mazzara, talks to Vulture about the departure of Frank Darabont and his vision for the show going forward.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has re-upped with Sony Pictures TV for the duration of the series and beyond, a studio spokesperson confirmed to THR.
At TV.com, Seth Abramovitch has been doing a Mad Men re-watch.
Anybody want a $50 Don Draper pendant?
How Long Do You Give Shows to Get Good? [My rule of thumb has been 5-6 episodes, ever since I read Lorne Michaels told NBC that's how long it would take him to get the balance right on SNL. -K]
PopMatters examines Mad Men’s complex assessment of gender and the ways in which female identity were and remain constructed by patriarchal society.
Familiar faces appear in the Houston Chronicle’s survey of TV’s bad boys.
The Washington Post brings back its Mad Men home decor contest.
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond is the slightly scandalous memoir of a business pioneer.
Basket of News is compiled by Deborah and Karl — and Basketcases contributing in the sidebar.
Regards the Mad Men promo poster, the Gothamist said the ads are:
“so clearly asking to be tagged (seriously, that had to have been part of the marketing plan!).”
I wonder, would AMC formally verify this if asked? Surely by now they know the Sisters and would reply to them?
Jahn, I doubt they’d answer, and the marketing materials and the publicists we speak with tend to be very separate.
Jessica Paré is in GQ just now
http://www.gq.com/video/videos/lust-list-women-jessica-pare
Nice video. You guys are probably disappointed, but I think it’s nice that she kept her clothes on for the video, at least. (don’t know whether the magazine shows more of her great body.)
Months ago when Amazon first allowed me to do so I pre-ordered the DA Series 2 UK-Edition DVD set. A few days ago I got an e-mail this would arrive on 11 February, then another saying under the price-protection clause I was getting a substantial refund since the price when shipped was about half of the pre-order price. Such a deal!
Best of all, it actually arrived while I was having a long lunch. I have opened the package and cut the seal on the DVD case, of I know it is 3 discs.
Since I prefer to not see episodes before they are shown on PBS, I will only look at the early episodes.
I also bought the Series 1 set by pre-order and found big differences between that and the DVD I recorded from PBS-HD. After 19 February when the last of Series 2 is shown, I will know for sure.
CCA, the original S1 aired much curtailed on PBS, but they announced that S2 would not be cut up.
Deborah,
Having been warned while DA Series 1 was still in post production by friends doing that in the UK I jumped that the chance to buy the UK version as Region 1 (Canada and USA) from Amazon.
My sources say the edits for PBS are more subtle for Series 2. Soon I will be able to compare the entire series and not the first 6 parts shown on PBS.
I consider myself so fortunate to have equipment to record off-air or cable product to DVD in real time as it happens. Even with USA series and programs there can be differences between the original showing and subsequent commercial DVD releases.
CCA,
You said that you have:
“equipment to record off-air or cable product to DVD in real time ”
IS this consumer gear? Pro? Would I have to fire my satellite service to use it?