Basket of Kisses

This New York Times piece on Matt Weiner and the road to getting Season 5 of Mad Men in production is pretty great, but maybe not as great as this two-part NYT interview with Matt. The return of Mad Men is also this week’s Entertainment Weekly cover story. Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss tease Season [...]

Here’s what you need to know: A) Tickets are not yet open to the general public but are available right now to Paley Center for the Media members, and to you the Basketcases! B) Our readers also get a discount code. Here is how that works– first, go to this page to get all the [...]

The new, enigmatic Mad Men premiere poster stirred discussion all over the internets. The image is “a nonverbal representation of where my head is at and where the show will be,” Matt Weiner said.  Meanwhile, AMC responded to the controversy surrounding the show’s first teaser poster. AMC has restarted its Inside Mad Men video series [...]

In case you missed ‘em, both sets of the Mad Men Season 5 teasers will get your juices flowing. TV Guide notes pranks Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss and John Slattery played on Jon Hamm during his MM directorial debut. The Atlantic suggests that characters like Don Draper and Rick Grimes don’t change. If you ever [...]

Joan and Betty even get their own music. But first, a little roll call…

They’re back, Baby! Almost!

Jon Hamm: The True Hollywood Story?  Esquire’s Tom Ciarella just might be stretching a point or two: Little-known fact: Jon Hamm owns four eagles. They sit on separate perches in his backyard. Four species of eagle: golden, tawny, Spanish Imperial, and short-toed snake. Previously unknown: Every morning, these eagles are fed, then rotated by a [...]

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 [...]

BlackBook teases a Christina Hendricks cover story with a picture and this quote: “I’m a very comfortable naked person…”  The Daily Mail blames CH in part for the rise of the “squoob.”  She talks to Cosmopolitan about coming on too strong to now-husband Geoffrey Arend. Big news for UK Basketcases: Mad Men Season 5 debuts [...]

Matthew Weiner revealed Mad Men’s Season 5 premiere is titled “A Little Kiss” and teased people about its possible meaning.  Jon Hamm tweaked the critics with premiere spoilers while discussing Don, Megan and Peggy. In anticipation of Season 5 (and what isn’t?), Mad Men cast members name their favorite episodes. AMC has pics of the [...]

Matthew Weiner talked to Alan Sepinwall about Season 5, with more nuggets at Collider and some extra flourishes at THR.  That got Jon Hamm to open up a bit at Vulture, including more on his directorial debut. The Mad Men cast toasted the upcoming season at an event with an interesting tagline. The MM Season [...]

Finally! Mad Men Season 5 will premiere Sunday, March 25, 2012. Episode 501 will be two hours long and run from 9 to 11pm Eastern time. Subsequent episodes will run from 10 to 11 Eastern. Season 2 of The Killing premieres Sunday, April 1, with a two-hour episode airing from 8 to 10 Eastern. The [...]

Sky Atlantic’s Mad Men Season 5 teaser trailer is pretty great… and has the show still returning in March. The Downton Abbey Season 2 premiere averaged 4.2 million total viewers, double PBS’ usual prime-time average and 18% higher than the first-season average.  The Week rounds up reax, while Esquire has a guide to the Abbey for men.  [...]