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Small Screen
Mad Men: The Night Betty Found The Box
4:00AM Brian Moylan | Is it blue or is it yellow or is it both? When no one can agree not just on the colour but how to see it, you’re headed for a whole bunch of conflict. And secrets. And drama. Oh, my! More »
Small Screen
Why Did Matthew Weiner Fire Mad Men’s Kater Gordon?
7:15AM Foster Kamer | Nikki Finke reports today that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has fired Kater Gordon, his personal assistant, turned writers assistant, turned Emmy-winning staff writer. But why? Gordon had a metoric rise to the top, peaking with an Emmy win. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Your Zac Efron Dreams Are About To Get Thrilling
11:59PM Richard Lawson | Some strange casting decisions plague us today, while others intrigue us. Also, MTV ponders a terrible idea, AMC picks up an interesting show, and everyone watched Jon & Kate Plus Hate. More »
Unsigned ‘Mad Men’ Creator Sounds Ominous Season 3 Alarm
8:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Though AMC recently set an optimistic US summer return date for the next season of Mad Men, show mastermind Matthew Weiner (whose contract dispute remains unresolved) has a much gloomier forecast, he tells E! More »
8:45AM Kyle Buchanan | No One Escapes the Emmys Unscathed: You might think that after becoming the first basic cable show to win the Emmy for Best Drama, AMC’s Mad Men would receive a bump in ratings from first-timer curious to see what all the fuss is about. You would be wrong: the series fell from 1.9 million viewers to 1.6 million for its first episode since the awards ceremony. In the words of defiant Emmy figurehead Josh Groban, “Really? Really?!” [THR] More »
‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Knows How To Sell Himself
4:20AM Seth | So Mad Men creator/EP/spiritual shepherd Matthew Weiner realises he’s sitting on something pretty special with his cast of desk-hopping, Brylcreemed creatives over at Sterling Cooper. Perhaps it was the 16 Emmy nominations that tipped him off. (”Don’t think of them as Emmy awards,” his inner Don Draper will intone on the big night, “Think of them as tiny angels, flapping their pointy wings to a place where fear doesn’t live. They’re saying, ‘You are OK, Matt…It’s all…OK.’”) Weiner’s contract with the show’s studio, Lionsgate TV, is up at the end of this season, and Variety reports he’s been shopping himself around town to the highest bidder: More »
‘Mad Men’ TwitterGate: Honest Brand Management or Savvy Network Plug?
8:40AM STV | For the 987 readers (whoops — make that 988 and counting since starting this sentence) following “Don Draper”’s Twitter feed, today was an unusually turbulent day at Sterling Cooper Ad Agency. Same thing for the 1,207 folks following “Peggy Olson.” You might have been among them, frozen out when AMC reportedly turned to Twitter with complaints about the Mad Men characters posting regular “updates” on the service — discussions which, for whatever reason, resulted in Twitter admin suspending a handful of feeds today until the a fan and media backlash supposedly helped whip them back into place a few hours later. More »
Natalie Portman Turns Scream Queen: An ‘End of Ideas’ Roundup
5:10AM STV | Another day, another windfall of remakes, updates and adaptations requiring attention on our End of Ideas scorecard. It could be worse, we suppose, than Natalie Portman allegedly signing on for a graphic horror re-do, or yet another movie-to-TV serialization that could possibly make Dennis Hopper’s own new show a folly in comparison. Even staffers at the LA Times are getting in on the recycling act today. It’s never been hotter!
7:10AM Seth | Ask Don: Confused? Conflicted? Lingering regrets? Maybe everyone’s favourite Madison Ave. iceberg—10% cool exterior, the other 90% lurking beneath the surface—can help you at What Would Don Draper Do: “Dear Don Draper, I was thinking about getting the 3G iPhone. Thoughts?: Stop thinking about it as a phone with a touch screen. Start thinking about it as a way to touch each other.” [What Would Don Draper Do?] More »
