Mad Men
After an interminable 17-month hiatus, AMC's Mad Men is finally back! Because it's been so long since we last visited the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, we'll be playing catch-up with the show's most important story lines all week before the show's two-hour premiere on Sunday, March 25 at 9/8c. First up: Did Don really propose to that Megan girl? ...
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Jon Hamm
And you thought we weren't going to get any Mad Men dish before the Season 5 premiere.
So what if only some of it pertains to future episodes? You already know that they don't do spoilers. Does that mean you don't you want to know who series boss Matthew Weiner considers to be the healthiest person at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce? Not curious about the real basis for Don's diary last season? And what about Kiernan Shipka's take on whether or not little Sally is doomed with parents like hers? Isn't it just fun to hear Weiner and the cast talk about making the show?
Exactly. To further whet ...
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Mad Men
It's been so long since Mad Men was on the air that it feels as though the show actually shot in the 1960s. We don't care to dwell on the contract negotiations that delayed it. What's important is that Don, Roger, Peggy, Pete, Joan, Betty, Lane, Sally and the rest of that impeccably groomed, highly dysfunctional crowd are back. With Season 5 premiering in a two-hour episode on March 25, TV Guide Magazine sat down with the cast — and creator Matthew Weiner — in Los Angeles to try to pry some secrets out of them and chat about why the wait was worth it.
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Jon Hamm
It's appropriate that Jon Hamm's directorial debut — the second episode of Mad Men's fifth season — will air on April Fool's Day, as I hear the Mad cast hammed it up at his expense. When Jon instructed Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete, to take three beats before delivering a line, "Vinnie took the...
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Josh Charles and Julianna Margulies
TV's biggest night is here: the Primetime Emmy Awards. Will Julianna Margulies finally win a lead actress Emmy? Or will Connie Britton finally earn Friday Night Lights' ...
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Peter Dinklage
With reigning champ Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) out of contention this year, the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Emmy is up for grabs.
Emmys poll: Who's your pick to win drama supporting actress?
The six who are in the running this year include ...
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John Slattery
Cheers to John Slattery for his sidesplitting turn as a true madman on 30 Rock.
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Following in the wingtipped footsteps of costar Jon Hamm, the Emmy nominee hammed it up hilariously as Steve Austin — not the wrestler, or the Six Million Dollar Man, unless you're blind or senile — a Rhode Island congressional candidate/owner of a local paintball facility. Sure, his literally infantile platform (and his even-less-authentic-than-Julianne-Moore's accent) might have seemed silly, but is "I'm a baby" any more ridiculous of a campaign-commercial theme than Christine O'Donnell's "I'm not a witch"?
Still, Alec Baldwin's Jack Donaghy...
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John Slattery
"Who is Don Draper?" was the opening line of Mad Men this season. As it concludes, will dapper Don (Jon Hamm) be any closer to the answer? "Absolutely, conclusively," insists John Slattery, who plays fellow adman Roger Sterling. "Don came through his divorce, started the new business and survived his own personal cauldron. He ends the year transformed."
Beyond that...
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Mark Moses and Emily Bergl
Cheers to Desperate Housewives for revisiting the intersection of Wisteria Lane and Madison Avenue.
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Mark Moses, who terrorized Housewives as psycho killer Paul Young from 2004-2007, moved back in last night as the ...
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John Slattery took a spin in the director's chair this season on Mad Men, though he says the cast just wouldn't take direction. "Elisabeth Moss couldn't stop laughing," Slattery says. "I would try to tell her something and she couldn't really take me seriously for a while."
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Still, the whole cast doesn't need much direction, he says. "They're so good."
Check out the full interview below:
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