Jon Hamm, Mad Men
As Mad Men drew its riveting second season to a close, the world as these characters knew it was coming to an end — both inside and outside of Sterling Cooper. The fears and uncertainties caused by the Cuban missile crisis gave rise to folks getting their lives in order, either by correcting the wrongs of their pasts, growing into the adult they have been pretending to be or confessing a secret and releasing the hidden burden they have been carrying. As death loomed, so did the promise of new life. As confession healed, it also tormented. As power was attained, it was also lost. And the man we've known as Don Draper has accepted that he and Dick Whitman are two sides of the same coin, realizing that his hope (and the hope for the rest of these characters) to see tomorrow rests on finding that comfortable middle ground between the two extremes.
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Sarah Shahi and Damian Lewis, Life
In this tough, low-rated TV season, NBC is the first network to reshuffle its lineup. What's the Peacock's solution? Crime night!
According to the Hollywood Reporter, starting Wednesday Nov. 5, NBC will present a block of crime dramas: Knight Rider at 8 pm/ET, Life at 9 pm (moving in from Fridays at 10), and the return of longtime staple Law & Order at 10 pm.
Details on the other programming tweaks after the jump.
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Jennifer Hudson
The mother and brother of Oscar-winning actress and onetime American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson were found slain in their home on Chicago's South Side on Friday, the apparent result of domestic violence, say law enforcement officials. Police also said Hudson's nephew was missing from the scene; as of Saturday morning the 7-year-old had yet to be found.
Police told the Chigago Tribune that one suspect in the double homicide ...
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Elisabeth Moss
While Don Draper is washing his sins away in the Pacific, Pete Campbell is losing an account over in-law squabbles and Sterling Cooper's partners are allowing the agency to be sold, at least one of Mad Men's characters has it together: Peggy Olsen. Or does she?
One thing we know for sure is that she now has a new office to go with that new hair cut. And while Peggy probably cares most about getting away from that noisy Xerox machine, actress Elisabeth Moss was more than ready for Peggy's new 'do. "I was so glad to be rid of that ponytail," Moss says. "I wore it every day, with a few exceptions. You just have no idea how badly I wanted it gone."
After the jump, Moss teases a "satisfying" answer to viewers' questions and Peggy's big confession.
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Ron Howard thinks Americans should vote for Barack Obama. And so do Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham.
During this campaign season, some celeb messages have been serious, others have featured useless yapping (we're looking at you Hayden Panettiere), but Howard's recent Funny or Die video is the fist to reunite cast members from two TV classics: The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days.
Watch the video after the jump.
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Kathryn Hahn
Former Crossing Jordan star Kathryn Hahn has inked a talent holding deal with Fox.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hahn first drew the attention of Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly with her work on as Lilly Lebowski for six seasons on Jordan. (Reilly ran NBC entertainment during the second half of the show's run.) Marcia Shulman, Fox's head of casting, has also kept an eye on Hahn since first seeing her at Yale School of Drama's annual showcase for TV execs and recently saw her in Broadway's Tony-winning comedy Boeing-Boeing.
Though the deal does not rule out drama, Fox execs will most likely use her in a comedy of dramedy. Talent holding deals have become rare ...
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Nick Hogan leaves the Pinellas County Jail
Nick Bollea, reality TV star and son of professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, has been released from a Florida jail after serving five months for causing a serious car crash.
According to the Associated Press, Bollea, now 18 years old, was released from Pinellas County Jail Tuesday morning, where he served his sentence after pleading no contest to causing the accident in May. He was arrested last year after he lost control of his speeding Toyota Supra and crashed into a tree, permanently disabling his close friend and Iraq War veteran John Graziano.
Bollea could've spent up to five years in prison ...
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Bridget Moynahan
TNT has a way with female movie stars.
The network's latest big-screen recruit is Bridget Moynahan (I, Robot, The Sum of All Fears), who will be joining Donnie Wahlberg in Jerry Bruckheimer's drama pilot Bunker Hill, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tom Brady's ex and baby momma will play the widow of a police officer and sister-in-law to Wahlberg's Mike Moriarty, a Boston cop who is working to protect the streets he grew up on from crime and corruption ...
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Justin Bruening, Knight Rider
A couple weeks ago, NBC ordered more scripts for Knight Rider. Now, the Peacock has ordered the back nine episodes, making Rider the third freshman show to receive a full-season pickup this year behind Fringe and 90210.
The order also marks NBC's first ...
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