Basket of Kisses

Matthew Weiner did a five-plus hour interview with the Archive of American Television. Zap2It embeds an 11-minute segment in which MW discusses Pete, Peggy, Joan, Roger, Betty, Sally… [From the comments to last week's Mad News, and highly recommended. -K] Christina Hendricks got good reviews for her turn with Neil Patrick Harris in Stephen Sondheim’s musical [...]

If you subscribed to Variety, you would be reading this: Break out the cocktails: AMC and “Mad Men” creator/exec producer Matthew Weiner have reached an agreement for a new contract that will keep the showrunner at the helm of Emmy winning drama series for as many as three more seasons. Deal comes after a week [...]

The fate of the show remains uncertain, but Variety hints that AMC bringing in top entertainment attorney Jim Jackoway means the negotiations are about to get serious.  That seems likely, given that AMC’s option expires this month. Matthew Weiner went to Paris, where he was awarded the Vermeil medal for cultural and other contributions to society.  [...]

Straight from the Associated Press: Paris is formalizing its fascination with “Mad Men” by giving a medal to the hit series’ creator and executive producer, Matthew Weiner. Two of the series’ stars, Christina Hendricks, who plays officer manager Joan Harris, and John Slattery, who plays ad agency partner Roger Sterling, flanked Weiner at the ceremony [...]

British plastic surgeons say demand for breast enlargement operations is rising sharply in part to the popularity of Christina Hendricks.  Oh, please.  At least the Telegraph quotes Christina’s viewpoint.  Beverly Hills plastic surgeons say patients want the cheeks of January Jones. On a better and lighter note, Christina looked gorgeous at the SAG Awards. (She also looked [...]

I saw Jon and Christina on the red carpet–Christina may well have nailed it (her look, that is). Watch, enjoy and comment!

The big story of the week has to be Matthew Weiner’s comments on Mad Men being a bit in limbo at the moment. Eye Weekly covers ”January Jones and the slutty double standard.” January can be seen next in Unknown, which has a new trailer online. AMC offers the Jon Hamm Ultimate Fan Quiz. Could Jon [...]

Discuss: BEST PICTURE: Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The King’s Speech 127 Hours The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone DIRECTING: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan David O. Russell, The Fighter Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech David Fincher, The Social Network Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit ACTOR [...]

EW has the scoop, from an interview with Matt on the Producer’s Guild of America red carpet. “I think all of AMC’s decisions about their scheduling and so forth have nothing to do with me, and I don’t have a deal yet,” Weiner told EW, while walking the red carpet for the Producers Guild of [...]

Rich Sommer blogs a bit on the Golden Globes, with photo. Christina Hendricks lost an $850,000 diamond bracelet on the red carpet at the Globes, but the story has an amusing ending. Jon Hamm confirmed that Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot is a “young man’s game.”  MTV’s Kyle Anderson pitches Hamm as successor to Regis Philbin.

AMC is up for five nominations this year: Three for Mad Men (Best Drama Series, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss), one for Breaking Bad (Bryan Cranston), and one for The Walking Dead. Sorry, Arthur, but if Walking Dead beats Mad Men for Best Drama Series, I’ll be highly disgruntled. I’m a red carpet junky. Jon Hamm [...]

The busy award season weekend kicked off with the annual AFI Awards in Los Angeles… and it was suggested by e-mail and blog comment that we warm up for the Golden Globes tonight with these adorable pics of Jon Hamm and Kiernan Shipka. They were also snapped with other stars at the event. PS: The [...]

AMC officially announced Season 5 during the Television Critics Association press tour, but still no premiere date. [I'm not sure this is different from the Sepinwall story that led last week's round-up, but better safe than sorry. -K] Christina Hendricks was in Playboy in July 1999. [We'll be here when you return. -K] Matthew Weiner comments [...]