It's going to be a busy weekend for Mad Men star Rich Sommer.
Before the AMC drama wraps up its third season Sunday night (10/9c), Sommer will appear in a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of Law & Order (Friday at 9/8c on NBC). "The episode is sort of inspired by the woman who drove the wrong way down the Taconic [Expressway]," Sommer tells TVGuide.com. "I play her boss, and after some investigating, they begin to suspect him a little bit, that somehow he may have been involved."
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Although the role sounds significantly darker than Harry Crane, the bumbling nice guy he plays on Mad Men, Sommer says the two characters have more in common that one might expect...
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Weve gotten to know Rich Sommer as the likable if sometimes forgettable Harry Crane a media buyer at Mad Mens Sterling Cooper advertising agency But on the season premiere of The Office Thursday Sept 25 at 9 pmET NBC Sommer will be punching in with Michael Scott co at Dunder Mifflin We chatted with Sommer about his Office role Harry Cranes promotion on Mad Men and what it is about shooting the AMC hit that brings him to tears each day on the set Adam BryantTVGuidecom You landed an upcoming role on The Office What can you tell us about itRich Sommer It started on the writers strike lines I met [Office writeractorproducer] Mindy Kaling who is a fan of Mad Men And somehow it just happened that about a month ago I got an e-mail for a partTVGuidecom Any chance of it becoming a recurring gigSommer I cant really say anything about what the role is or how it incorporates into that world but its been phenomenal What its going to be bey
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