Archive for March, 2010
Today I would like to celebrate the programming prowess of AMC - it’s so much more than a channel showing classic american movies. If you’ve got your finger on the pulse of entertainment buzz you should already know of, and be avidly watching, AMC’s first breakout original progam Mad Men. I would like to now boldly declare that cool cat Don Draper isn’t [...]
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Tags: AMC, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Emmys, James Gandolfini, Mad Men, The Sopranos
Spotlight on: Donald Glover
Thanks goes out to one of my faves in the blogosphere, Wacky (he of Wacky on the Junk, who commands not only my utmost respect in music selections but also television choices), for bringing to my attention this New York Times article on Community‘s Donald Glover. While seeming little more than the token black guy in the misfit [...]
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Tags: 30 Rock, Community, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, NBC
He’ll just take his funny on the road. In a move that had been speculated for awhile, Conan O’Brian announced this week via Twitter (which he officially discovered and has since embraced like a fiend post-Tonight Show) that he will headline a two-month, 30-city tour beginning April 12. “It was either a massive 30-city tour [...]
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Tags: Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show
Could Don Draper sell this?
Mad Men enters a new realm of the pop-culture pantheon very soon that its creator, Matthew Weiner, says has surprised even him: Mattel plans to bring out versions of Barbie and Ken styled after four Mad Men characters. Part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults the set would not be the first dolls modeled after a TV series, among [...]
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Tags: Mad Men
This is the face of post-ageist Hollywood, gentlereaders! After months of love for the golden girl of comedy have been flying all over the interwebs, it’s now officially confirmed that Betty White will host a special Mother’s Day edition of Saturday Night Live on May 8th. The show’s creator-producer, Lorne Michaels, told USA Today that the Facebook campaign, which [...]
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Tags: Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Betty White, Lorne Michaels, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, Rachel Dratch, Saturday Night Live, The Golden Girls, Tina Fey
