Mad Men has been off the air since October 2010–a lengthy absence prolonged in part due to protracted negotiations between creator Matthew Weiner and AMC over the show’s budget. Perhaps Mr. Weiner could have cut a few characters to save money, after all? If there happens to be another struggle before season six, we have a few suggestions! Read More
Mad Men, whose fourth season concluded with Don happily affianced to a wrong-for-him-in-all-the-right-ways secretary on October 17, 2010, is set to return on March 25, all disputes between creator Matthew Weiner and network AMC settled for now. And AMC’s promoting the show with a nod to just how long it’s been away: the Read More
The writer Gloria Steinem, who went undercover as a scantily-clad Bunny in order to report on conditions at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Clubs, is encouraging viewers to avoid NBC’s new series The Playboy Club. The show, which seems to crib from Mad Men‘s retro-cool style while depicting the trials and tribulations undergone by a Read More
This morning, AMC’s head of original programming, Joel Stillerman, apologized to journalists, after a fashion, for The Killing, a show about a murder investigation whose first season featured no conclusive solution to the mystery. “For everybody who was frustrated, we hear you. We would have taken a different approach to managing the expectations about Read More
AMC’s Madison Avenue drama Mad Men received 19 Emmy nominations this morning, including one for Outstanding Drama Series; it would be the show’s fourth consecutive win in that category. The show’s stars Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss were nominated as best Actor and Actress in a Drama, respectively. No performer from that series has ever Read More
Mad Men is still mired in renewal talks between network AMC and production company Lionsgate (show creator Matthew Weiner, pictured at right, has indicated it may never return), and fans are getting restless. So, too, actors! As delays run on indefinitely, it’s unclear to what degree the stars of the show should be seeking Read More
Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasies
Mad Men is currently mired in contractual disputes between its network, AMC, and its production company, Lionsgate — only Matthew Weiner knows what’ll happen next! Some fans are rewatching their show DVDs, some are plotting blood feuds against the critic Daniel Mendelsohn, who called the show a faux-highbrow soap opera, and some are Read More
Fast Company published a sprawling feature today on the seismic disruptions underway on Madison Avenue, where traditional firms and players are finding themselves overthrown by digital upstarts. As writer Danielle Sacks puts it:
Most of the men and women here — average age: 38 — have worked at agencies for more than a decade. Read More
Beautiful women bombarded The Observer this past week at the premiere for Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman‘s directorial debut) and a screening of Desert Flower (which tells the story of Somalian model Waris Dirie), despite less-than-optimal weather at both screenings. Makeup guru Bobbi Brown came to Desert Flower prepared with tips for dressing in Read More
At Charlotte Ronson‘s show yesterday, we ran into Alison Brie, who was enthusiastic about Ms. Ronson’s grunge-revival designs. “The music and everything kind of sent you to that era as you’re watching those clothes go by,” Ms. Brie said (the music: plucked straight from ’95 college radio by Ms. Ronson’s sister Samantha; the designs: nose Read More
