Vince Gilligan on 'Breaking Bad' Season Three

'Breaking Bad' comes back for its third season this Sunday on AMC (10PM ET / 9PM CT), and after watching the last few episodes of season two, the new season can't come soon enough. The dramatic ante was upped for meth-making science teacher Walter Wh

Jon Hamm Gets New Gig with Mercedes

Don't you just love it when life sort of imitates art? Jon Hamm, who plays the chain smoking Don Draper on TV's 'Mad Men,' has been hired by Mercedes Benz as a pitchman for their car commercials, which will premiere during the Academy Awards. This m

AMC Picks Up Cheri Oteri's Mini-Comedy 'Life Coach'

AMC has done wonders with dramatic series like 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' but hasn't really tried to crack the comedy bubble yet. Their first and biggest attempt to date comes in the form of a "mini-com" called 'Life Coach' starring former 'SNL'-e

Well Good Morning!

I was flipping through the news this morning, and I was going to post about something really important, then something caught my eye. Well, actually it was two things attached to Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks, and boy are they racktacular! Now I ca

This post has a major spoiler about Mad Men, so don't read it

So there's a major character leaving AMC's Mad Men, and this is probably one of those casting decisions that's going to make dedicated Mad Men fans very upset. They might even Twitter or text "OMG!" to their friends. But I'll put the announcement aft

Could Rich Sommer be Ugly Betty's new man?

Oh, dear Betty, where is the love? I'm speaking of ABC's Ugly Betty, naturally. Despite the braces, the red glasses and the questionable fashion sense, the vivacious Betty Suarez remains a popular date. I can think of only one time this past season w

Michael C. Hall, Mad Men score Golden Globe awards

Did your favorite actors and TV shows score Golden Globe awards tonight? Let's take a look at how things shook out in the TV categories at the 67th Annual Golden Globes. Mad Men, Best Television Series - Drama. With competition from Big Love, Dexter,

Breaking Bad returns in March

On March 21, Breaking Bad is back. That's right, AMC is bringing back one of the best dramas on television that's not Mad Men when Breaking Bad returns for Season Three with an episode starring and directed by Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston. The episode

What happens when you combine Star Trek and Mad Men?

Some of these "let's combine one show with another show" ideas never quite come together because the cast of one show doesn't necessarily fit into the cast of the other show, but this pic that puts the cast of Mad Men into Star Trek: TNG uniforms is

Best TV of the '00s: Dramatic Actor

More of our best of the decade coverage, which started on Tuesday. You can read the other posts at the link above. Here, we talk about the best dramatic actors of the decade. And, boy, was it a tough choice. From a meth-making chemistry teacher to a

Glee and Breaking Bad top the Satellite Awards

The winners of 2009 Satellite Awards were announced on Sunday in Los Angeles, and when you look at the winners on the television side, you have to like the choices. Most of these shows and actors have been on our year-end "best" lists, and if I were

Comcast launches new online video service today

Buying NBC isn't the only big news from Comcast happening at the end of the 2009. Today they're launching a new online on-demand service. It's only for Comcast customers, but I'm a Comcast customer, so I'll be able to watch it! It's called XFinity, w

Best and Worst TV of 2009: Jason's List

2009 was a good year for television. It offered the resurgence of the comedy on network television, and the continuing growth of original programming on cable. In all honesty, I don't think I could just do a list of what was great and what was horrib

January Jones' Mad Men contract and other news

When we last saw Betty Draper, she was on a plane to Reno with Henry Francis by her side. Was that the end of her story, especially since Don Draper's undoubtedly going to go on without her? Well, Matthew Weiner doesn't like to give away much about t

Best and Worst TV of 2009: Joel's list

I don't think I did one of these lists last year, and I have no idea why. The election all by itself would have generated a pretty fun best/worst list. Maybe we were all suffering from information overload, and were just exhausted. Not sure. But 2009