Although Jon Hamm is best known for portraying Don Draper on Mad Men, he revealed this week that he auditioned to play another iconic TV dad four years prior to landing his breakout role. Believe it or not, Hamm almost starred in The O.C. as none other than Sandy Cohen. The part ultimately went to Peter Gallagher, of course, and we can't imagine it any other way. Speaking on Rolling Stone's Too Long, Didn't Watch podcast on Jan. 12, Hamm said he auditioned to be on The O.C. when he was around 31 or 32 years old. "I think it was me and Harry Hamlin," Hamm, now 49, recalled of the audition experience. The Golden Globe winner shared, "I remember...
- 1/12/2021
- E! Online
In an interview for Rolling Stone‘s new podcast series Too Long; Didn’t Watch, hosted by Alan Sepinwall, Jon Hamm revealed that if he hadn’t been cast to play his iconic role of Don Draper in Mad Men, he may very well have auditioned to play Upper West Side dad Rufus Humphrey in Gossip Girl.
After all, it wouldn’t have been his first attempt at playing a father in a teen drama, Hamm said: Back in the early 2000s, he actually tried to land the role of...
After all, it wouldn’t have been his first attempt at playing a father in a teen drama, Hamm said: Back in the early 2000s, he actually tried to land the role of...
- 1/12/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
CBS All Access’ Coyote may start with a man of a certain age having an extremely bad day under possibly nefarious circumstances in the desert, but executive producer Michelle MacLaren maintains that Ben Clemens is no Walter White.
And she’d know: MacLaren orchestrated Heisenberg’s downfall for three seasons as an EP on AMC’s Breaking Bad.
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- 12/24/2020
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
It’s been a staying-in kind of year. That New Year’s Resolution you made to travel more? It’s gained 20 pounds, started cutting its own hair and is now in a jigsaw club with your neighbour Ken. The only marathon you’ve completed in 2020 is a Battlestar Galactica rewatch. The only mountain you’ve climbed is the metaphorical one it takes to shower daily. That beach trip you’d planned? It went okay actually. You made some bells by selling coconuts to Nook’s Cranny and dug up a bunch of Manila Clams with a flimsy shovel.
For obvious reasons, escape is on our minds this year more than most. So we started thinking, if you had your wishing socks on, where in the collected imaginations of everyone who’s ever dreamt up a film, TV show, game or book, would you spend the holidays? On the holodeck of...
For obvious reasons, escape is on our minds this year more than most. So we started thinking, if you had your wishing socks on, where in the collected imaginations of everyone who’s ever dreamt up a film, TV show, game or book, would you spend the holidays? On the holodeck of...
- 12/24/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm seeks creative fulfillment in more places than the alpha-male, womanizing life of Don Draper. Whether he’s in budget giants like the upcoming “Top Gun: Maverick” or festival titles like “Lucy in the Sky,” he gravitates toward projects he’s passionate about. In the world of television, too, he prioritizes creative alignment over adherence to a consistent personal brand, landing recurring roles in shows like “30 Rock,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Saturday Night Live.” As the distinction between TV and film has grown more and more blurred, Hamm’s versatility has been an important asset.
Continue reading Jon Hamm Talks ‘Wild Mountain Thyme,’ ‘Top Gun 2’ & The Changing Landscape Of TV [The Fourth Wall] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Jon Hamm Talks ‘Wild Mountain Thyme,’ ‘Top Gun 2’ & The Changing Landscape Of TV [The Fourth Wall] at The Playlist.
- 12/16/2020
- by Griffin Schiller
- The Playlist
“I’ve been wanting to do a menswear line for over a decade,” says Janie Bryant, the Emmy-award winning costume designer behind Mad Men.
In collaboration with Inherent Clothier, the custom menswear brand with a focus on fighting mental health stigmas, Bryant released a line of suits on Dec. 1. The collection is aptly named Bryant Draper: Inherent Clothier founder, Taylor Draper, shares his last name with Mad Men protagonist Don Draper.
“Taylor is such a huge fan of Mad Men, and I’m a huge fan of menswear,” Bryant says of the organic start to the collaboration. “It’s like ...
In collaboration with Inherent Clothier, the custom menswear brand with a focus on fighting mental health stigmas, Bryant released a line of suits on Dec. 1. The collection is aptly named Bryant Draper: Inherent Clothier founder, Taylor Draper, shares his last name with Mad Men protagonist Don Draper.
“Taylor is such a huge fan of Mad Men, and I’m a huge fan of menswear,” Bryant says of the organic start to the collaboration. “It’s like ...
- 12/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“I’ve been wanting to do a menswear line for over a decade,” says Janie Bryant, the Emmy-award winning costume designer behind Mad Men.
In collaboration with Inherent Clothier, the custom menswear brand with a focus on fighting mental health stigmas, Bryant released a line of suits on Dec. 1. The collection is aptly named Bryant Draper: Inherent Clothier founder, Taylor Draper, shares his last name with Mad Men protagonist Don Draper.
“Taylor is such a huge fan of Mad Men, and I’m a huge fan of menswear,” Bryant says of the organic start to the collaboration. “It’s like ...
In collaboration with Inherent Clothier, the custom menswear brand with a focus on fighting mental health stigmas, Bryant released a line of suits on Dec. 1. The collection is aptly named Bryant Draper: Inherent Clothier founder, Taylor Draper, shares his last name with Mad Men protagonist Don Draper.
“Taylor is such a huge fan of Mad Men, and I’m a huge fan of menswear,” Bryant says of the organic start to the collaboration. “It’s like ...
- 12/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
As AMC’s Mad Men approached the end of its acclaimed run, a fringe-but-persistent theory popped up that the show might conclude with the revelation that Jon Hamm’s Don Draper was actually notorious plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.
It was a theory generated from circumstantial clues and had little to do with the actual storytelling of the series — see also the “Is Megan actually Sharon Tate?” quandary — but it pointed simultaneously to how certain viewers treat all entertainment as a puzzle to be solved and to the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper.
This week marks the ...
It was a theory generated from circumstantial clues and had little to do with the actual storytelling of the series — see also the “Is Megan actually Sharon Tate?” quandary — but it pointed simultaneously to how certain viewers treat all entertainment as a puzzle to be solved and to the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper.
This week marks the ...
- 11/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
As AMC’s Mad Men approached the end of its acclaimed run, a fringe-but-persistent theory popped up that the show might conclude with the revelation that Jon Hamm’s Don Draper was actually notorious plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.
It was a theory generated from circumstantial clues and had little to do with the actual storytelling of the series — see also the “Is Megan actually Sharon Tate?” quandary — but it pointed simultaneously to how certain viewers treat all entertainment as a puzzle to be solved and to the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper.
This week marks the ...
It was a theory generated from circumstantial clues and had little to do with the actual storytelling of the series — see also the “Is Megan actually Sharon Tate?” quandary — but it pointed simultaneously to how certain viewers treat all entertainment as a puzzle to be solved and to the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper.
This week marks the ...
- 11/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nostalgia, Don Draper once pointed out, derives from a Greek word for “pain from an old wound.” Television is awash in nostalgic revivals, reboots, and reunions, but they’re borne out of a far more recent pain: the difficulty any program or streaming service has getting your attention in a 500-show universe. If a new title can’t get noticed, best to bring back an old one. CBS All Access dusted off Jean-Luc Picard, after already launching with a Star Trek spin-off, Star Trek: Discovery. Most of Disney+’s programming...
- 11/19/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
As the final season of “Mad Men” weaved its way toward its beguiling and transcendent anti-climax of an ending, people on the internet began speculating that advertising maverick Don Draper would actually turn out to be D.B. Cooper, the pseudo-anonymous sky pirate who hijacked a 727 out of Portland in the fall of 1971 and eventually jumped out of the plane with $200,000 in ransom money, never to be seen again. To this day, it remains the only unsolved crime of its kind in U.S. history, and “Mad Men” ultimately had no interest in speculating about who “D.B. Cooper” might really have been.
While it’s true that Don Draper (née Dick Whitman) was a human disappearing act with a flair for reinvention and a surplus of the god-like confidence required to pull off a mid-air heist, it’s hard to imagine a less satisfying or plausible conclusion to one...
While it’s true that Don Draper (née Dick Whitman) was a human disappearing act with a flair for reinvention and a surplus of the god-like confidence required to pull off a mid-air heist, it’s hard to imagine a less satisfying or plausible conclusion to one...
- 11/16/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Shia Labeouf and Margaret Qualley went full frontal for the new music video from Qualley’s sister, the recording artist known as Rainsford, “Love Me Like You Hate Me.” Shooting earlier this fall during quarantine, the filmmakers kept a tight set, with just a handful of people in the room, to allow the actors to bare their souls (and much more) for a short film that charts the highs and lows of a toxic yet addictive relationship. It released on October 23.
Eagle-eyed viewers might remember Rainsford from “Severance,” the final season premiere of TV’s “Mad Men,” starring as a lithe and slightly mischievous young woman modeling a fur coat for ad executive Don Draper, and looking like she has a secret. She’s also had appearances in “Mighty Fine” and “Ocean’s 8,” and has a role in the upcoming Freeform rom-com series “Love in the Time of Corona,” but...
Eagle-eyed viewers might remember Rainsford from “Severance,” the final season premiere of TV’s “Mad Men,” starring as a lithe and slightly mischievous young woman modeling a fur coat for ad executive Don Draper, and looking like she has a secret. She’s also had appearances in “Mighty Fine” and “Ocean’s 8,” and has a role in the upcoming Freeform rom-com series “Love in the Time of Corona,” but...
- 11/14/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Eels superfan Jon Hamm stars in the band’s new video for “Are We Alright Again,” “the feel-good hit of the feel-worst year” off their latest LP Earth to Dora.
In the video, “a typical Eels fan finds solace in Eels music,” the band says. The “typical” fan, in this case, is the Mad Men actor, who puts on headphones to listen to the track, becoming so absorbed by the music that he’s oblivious to the chaos happening behind him: Home invasion, the theft of all his possessions, and...
In the video, “a typical Eels fan finds solace in Eels music,” the band says. The “typical” fan, in this case, is the Mad Men actor, who puts on headphones to listen to the track, becoming so absorbed by the music that he’s oblivious to the chaos happening behind him: Home invasion, the theft of all his possessions, and...
- 11/11/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
2020 has been a real mindfuck.
I mean, I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. The year has been defined by the world being turned upside down, all while remaining exactly the same. Many Californians are still sheltering in place, caught between the old normal and whatever way we’re living now, but fire season comes regardless. Yes, millions of people are unemployed, driven largely by an insufficient pandemic response made at the highest levels of government, but taxes still have to be collected. People take to the streets night after night to protest systemic racism and police misconduct, but officer-involved shootings persist. Sports leagues have been forced to great lengths to transform their respective games to make environments as safe as possible, playing to empty stadiums, while fans are still as anxious as they’ve ever been to watch athletes play ball, regardless of the circumstances.
I mean, I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. The year has been defined by the world being turned upside down, all while remaining exactly the same. Many Californians are still sheltering in place, caught between the old normal and whatever way we’re living now, but fire season comes regardless. Yes, millions of people are unemployed, driven largely by an insufficient pandemic response made at the highest levels of government, but taxes still have to be collected. People take to the streets night after night to protest systemic racism and police misconduct, but officer-involved shootings persist. Sports leagues have been forced to great lengths to transform their respective games to make environments as safe as possible, playing to empty stadiums, while fans are still as anxious as they’ve ever been to watch athletes play ball, regardless of the circumstances.
- 9/21/2020
- by Libby Hill
- Indiewire
Sarah Paulson has been a longtime favorite performer of this writer, ever since seeing her in the short-lived, but truly awesome, television series American Gothic. And while Paulson has continued to make an indelible mark in both film and television over the last few decades, her collaborative relationship with producer and showrunner Ryan Murphy throughout the 2010s, and now into a new decade, has provided the actress an entirely new trajectory for her career.
Paulson has co-starred in several seasons of American Horror Story, and even played Marcia Clark for Murphy’s The People v. O.J. Simpson, but it’s her latest role as the titular nurse in Ratched that has pushed the actress and her career in a multitude of new ways. Not only is she playing a title character for the first time ever in Ratched, but Paulson also served as an executive producer on the series,...
Paulson has co-starred in several seasons of American Horror Story, and even played Marcia Clark for Murphy’s The People v. O.J. Simpson, but it’s her latest role as the titular nurse in Ratched that has pushed the actress and her career in a multitude of new ways. Not only is she playing a title character for the first time ever in Ratched, but Paulson also served as an executive producer on the series,...
- 9/14/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
InterPublic Group CEO Michael Roth said the company will occupy less office space because of Covid-19.
“The footprint of the agency business is going to change,” he said during an earnings call with Wall Street analysts Wednesday. “Period.”
Already, the parent company of McCann, Weber Shandwick and dozens of other media companies has eliminated 500,000 square feet from its global total of about 11 million, Roth said. As advertising has declined during the pandemic, any company connected to it has had to slash expenses.
“We’ve taken a very serious look at what offices are required,” Roth said. “There is no question that the use of offices will change in the future and we’re taking advantage of it. When we talk about positioning Ipg for 2021, we’re anticipating a change in the footprint of our organization, significantly.”
Ipg on Wednesday reported revenue in the quarter of $1.85 billion and earnings of 23 cents a share.
“The footprint of the agency business is going to change,” he said during an earnings call with Wall Street analysts Wednesday. “Period.”
Already, the parent company of McCann, Weber Shandwick and dozens of other media companies has eliminated 500,000 square feet from its global total of about 11 million, Roth said. As advertising has declined during the pandemic, any company connected to it has had to slash expenses.
“We’ve taken a very serious look at what offices are required,” Roth said. “There is no question that the use of offices will change in the future and we’re taking advantage of it. When we talk about positioning Ipg for 2021, we’re anticipating a change in the footprint of our organization, significantly.”
Ipg on Wednesday reported revenue in the quarter of $1.85 billion and earnings of 23 cents a share.
- 7/29/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
It took Jon Hamm ages to finally win his Emmy. “Mad Men” won Best Drama Series four times, but voters were notoriously stingy to its cast. It wasn’t until the last season that Hamm claimed Best Drama Actor for playing ad man Don Draper, which made him the first and only actor to win for the show. But while Don was brooding through 1960s New York, Hamm also proved adept at comedy and earned additional nominations for guest starring on “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2015). This year he has two more chances to be recognized for comedic performances.
He returned to “Kimmy Schmidt” as diabolical doomsday cult leader Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in the interactive film “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend.” It’s a final reckoning between Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) and her former kidnapper as she tries to solve one last mystery connected to her captor.
He returned to “Kimmy Schmidt” as diabolical doomsday cult leader Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in the interactive film “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend.” It’s a final reckoning between Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) and her former kidnapper as she tries to solve one last mystery connected to her captor.
- 7/22/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Jon Hamm is set to make a new advertising pitch, one that will see him taking on the deadpan, stumble-bumming 1980s-era comedy mantle of Chevy Chase with a reboot of Fletch.
Miramax has announced its development of a new Fletch movie, which will see star Hamm co-produce with the studio. The film will be a reboot of the franchise launched by 1985 hit detective comedy Fletch and continued with 1989’s Fletch Lives, which starred Chevy Chase as Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher, an eccentric-but-tenacious L.A. Times reporter who gets scoops the dangerous way while donning an absurd variety of disguises. Like the 1985 hit, the reboot will be a loosely-comedic adaptation of author Gregory McDonald’s 1974-launched series of Fletch detective novels.
As Miramax CEO Bill Block expresses in a statement:
“Fletch’s duration over audiences — whether told on paper or the big screen — entertains all and we could not be more thrilled...
Miramax has announced its development of a new Fletch movie, which will see star Hamm co-produce with the studio. The film will be a reboot of the franchise launched by 1985 hit detective comedy Fletch and continued with 1989’s Fletch Lives, which starred Chevy Chase as Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher, an eccentric-but-tenacious L.A. Times reporter who gets scoops the dangerous way while donning an absurd variety of disguises. Like the 1985 hit, the reboot will be a loosely-comedic adaptation of author Gregory McDonald’s 1974-launched series of Fletch detective novels.
As Miramax CEO Bill Block expresses in a statement:
“Fletch’s duration over audiences — whether told on paper or the big screen — entertains all and we could not be more thrilled...
- 7/15/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Despite being off the air for half a decade, AMC’s classic period drama Mad Men has found itself in the middle of quite a busy week.
On July 1, Lionsgate, the production company behind Mad Men, cut deals with Amazon and AMC (the show’s original network) for streaming and re-run rights to the series. All 92 episodes of the show will be available to stream on Amazon Prime’s IMDb TV channel on July 15. Amazon Prime also received international rights to the show and will make it available to stream around the world soon. Meanwhile, AMC’s portion of the deal will begin in the fall and will mean that the network will be able to re-air episodes and also host them online for streaming video on demand purposes.
Additionally Starzplay will host the series in Europe, Latin America and Japan beginning Oct. 1.
Of course, Mad Men re-enters the streaming...
On July 1, Lionsgate, the production company behind Mad Men, cut deals with Amazon and AMC (the show’s original network) for streaming and re-run rights to the series. All 92 episodes of the show will be available to stream on Amazon Prime’s IMDb TV channel on July 15. Amazon Prime also received international rights to the show and will make it available to stream around the world soon. Meanwhile, AMC’s portion of the deal will begin in the fall and will mean that the network will be able to re-air episodes and also host them online for streaming video on demand purposes.
Additionally Starzplay will host the series in Europe, Latin America and Japan beginning Oct. 1.
Of course, Mad Men re-enters the streaming...
- 7/2/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Mad Men is returning to streaming via Amazon and coming back to its original TV home, AMC, as Lionsgate has completed licensing deals for one of the signature series in its TV library.
The complex agreement includes global licensing pact with Amazon. The company’s IMDb TV will become Mad Men‘s exclusive free-streaming platform in the Us, starting July 15. Amazon Prime will begin carrying all 92 episodes of the series in Europe, Australia, Latin America, and more onJuly 3, Japan, Israel, Indonesia and Thailand on July 15, Canada on October 1 and in the Netherlands starting November 1.
Amazon/IMDb will have Mad Men exclusively from July 15 until Oct. 1 when the entire seven-season run of the series also will become available on a variety of AMC platforms, including the company’s linear networks and SVOD services. Also starting Oct.1, Lionsgate-owned Starzplay will have the 1960s drama across their European and LatAm footprint as well as in Japan.
The complex agreement includes global licensing pact with Amazon. The company’s IMDb TV will become Mad Men‘s exclusive free-streaming platform in the Us, starting July 15. Amazon Prime will begin carrying all 92 episodes of the series in Europe, Australia, Latin America, and more onJuly 3, Japan, Israel, Indonesia and Thailand on July 15, Canada on October 1 and in the Netherlands starting November 1.
Amazon/IMDb will have Mad Men exclusively from July 15 until Oct. 1 when the entire seven-season run of the series also will become available on a variety of AMC platforms, including the company’s linear networks and SVOD services. Also starting Oct.1, Lionsgate-owned Starzplay will have the 1960s drama across their European and LatAm footprint as well as in Japan.
- 7/1/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
In a move that even the great Don Draper might not have seen coming, the new streaming home for “Mad Men” will be Amazon’s IMDb TV.
All seven seasons, 92 episodes of the iconic drama will be available to stream for free on the platform starting July 15. Amazon has also acquired the international rights to the series from producer Lionsgate Television, and will begin streaming it on Amazon Prime Video around the world later this week, according to sources.
The rights have been packaged in what sources describe as a “complex, bumper deal” which sees AMC, the network which originally aired the show between 2007 and 2015, win the linear rights, and Starzplay (Lionsgate’s streamer) take a portion of the streaming pie for its European and Latin American footprint.
In other “Mad Men” news, Variety has learned from sources that the season 3 episode “My Old Kentucky Home,” in which Roger Sterling...
All seven seasons, 92 episodes of the iconic drama will be available to stream for free on the platform starting July 15. Amazon has also acquired the international rights to the series from producer Lionsgate Television, and will begin streaming it on Amazon Prime Video around the world later this week, according to sources.
The rights have been packaged in what sources describe as a “complex, bumper deal” which sees AMC, the network which originally aired the show between 2007 and 2015, win the linear rights, and Starzplay (Lionsgate’s streamer) take a portion of the streaming pie for its European and Latin American footprint.
In other “Mad Men” news, Variety has learned from sources that the season 3 episode “My Old Kentucky Home,” in which Roger Sterling...
- 7/1/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
When Peggy Olson first started her career at Sterling Cooper, the fledgling advertising superstar was hired as Don Draper’s secretary, a gig that Joan Holloway wryly deemed “something between a mother and a waitress.” Of course, the beloved AMC series wasn’t far off — not about that, and not about a lot of things — but it’s still striking when a clip of this interaction pops up early in Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s “9to5: The Story of a Movement.” Following the rise of a group of female office workers who began to organize in the early ’70s, the filmmakers’ followup to their Oscar-winning “American Factory” handily lays out the specific conditions that led to this essential, if little-known chapter of American history. For many, it was being treated like Peggy: an “office wife,” an invisible “girl,” an underestimated force to be reckoned with.
Bognar and Reichert...
Bognar and Reichert...
- 6/25/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Thompson on Hollywood
When Peggy Olson first started her career at Sterling Cooper, the fledgling advertising superstar was hired as Don Draper’s secretary, a gig that Joan Holloway wryly deemed “something between a mother and a waitress.” Of course, the beloved AMC series wasn’t far off — not about that, and not about a lot of things — but it’s still striking when a clip of this interaction pops up early in Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s “9to5: The Story of a Movement.” Following the rise of a group of female office workers who began to organize in the early ’70s, the filmmakers’ followup to their Oscar-winning “American Factory” handily lays out the specific conditions that led to this essential, if little-known chapter of American history. For many, it was being treated like Peggy: an “office wife,” an invisible “girl,” an underestimated force to be reckoned with.
Bognar and Reichert...
Bognar and Reichert...
- 6/25/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Last year only Christina Applegate received an Emmy bid for her role in Netflix’s dark comedy series “Dead to Me,” but this year we’ll likely see co-lead Linda Cardellini nominated as well. According to our recent poll results, 89% of fans think Both ladies will show up in Best Comedy Actress when the 2020 Emmy nominations are unveiled on July 28. As for the other voters, 9% think Applegate will be recognized solo while 2% believe Cardellini will be the only leading nominee. What do You think, Derbyites? Give us your Emmy predictions right now.
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We know what you’re thinking: with so much great television out there, will the Emmys really nominate co-stars against each other from the same show, as opposed to spread the wealth? Well, “Dead to Me” would actually be the 7th show with co-nominees in Best Comedy Actress. Recent examples include Jane Fonda...
See 2020 Emmy Best Comedy Series Predictions
We know what you’re thinking: with so much great television out there, will the Emmys really nominate co-stars against each other from the same show, as opposed to spread the wealth? Well, “Dead to Me” would actually be the 7th show with co-nominees in Best Comedy Actress. Recent examples include Jane Fonda...
- 6/17/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Emmys trivia: Linda Cardellini (‘Dead to Me’) eyes second career nomination, but what was her first?
Linda Cardellini is back in the awards conversation for her emotional performance in Netflix’s “Dead to Me.” The dark comedy only nabbed a single nomination last year for Cardellini’s co-star Christina Applegate, but now many of Gold Derby’s Emmy Experts think both ladies will show up in Best Comedy Actress for Season 2. Should Cardellini hear her name called on Emmy nominations morning, it would actually be her second career bid. Do you remember her first?
Cardellini originally earned a hug from the TV academy in 2013 for her fan-favorite turn in “Mad Men,” where she played Sylvia Rosen, one of Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) final mistresses. At the Emmys Cardellini faced off against eventual Best Drama Guest Actress winner Carrie Preston (“The Good Wife”) as well as Joan Cusack (“Shameless”), Jane Fonda (“The Newsroom”), Margo Martindale (“The Americans”) and Diana Rigg (“Game of Thrones”).
See 2020 Emmy Best...
Cardellini originally earned a hug from the TV academy in 2013 for her fan-favorite turn in “Mad Men,” where she played Sylvia Rosen, one of Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) final mistresses. At the Emmys Cardellini faced off against eventual Best Drama Guest Actress winner Carrie Preston (“The Good Wife”) as well as Joan Cusack (“Shameless”), Jane Fonda (“The Newsroom”), Margo Martindale (“The Americans”) and Diana Rigg (“Game of Thrones”).
See 2020 Emmy Best...
- 6/12/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Amazon has acquired the rights of Anna Paquin-led “Flack,” three months after it was canceled by Pop TV.
Pop TV canceled the drama, which stars Anna Paquin as a Don Draper-esque PR maven Robyn, days before it was supposed to premiere its second season. Amazon will get both seasons.
“Flack” also stars Sophie Okonedo, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Genevieve Angelson, Rufus Jones, Arinze Kene. Other Season 2 guest stars include Jane Horrocks, Giles Terera and Amanda Abbington, reprising her role as Alexa. Season 2 also features Sam Neill and Daniel Dae Kim.
Also Read: Pop TV Cuts Three Series Including Anna Paquin's 'Flack'
“Flack” is written by Oliver Lansley, produced by Debs Pisani and executive produced by Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams of Hat Trick Productions. Pete Thornton executive produces for UKTV with Paquin executive producing for Casm alongside Stephen Moyer, Cerise Hallam Larkin and Mark Larkin. Season...
Pop TV canceled the drama, which stars Anna Paquin as a Don Draper-esque PR maven Robyn, days before it was supposed to premiere its second season. Amazon will get both seasons.
“Flack” also stars Sophie Okonedo, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson, Genevieve Angelson, Rufus Jones, Arinze Kene. Other Season 2 guest stars include Jane Horrocks, Giles Terera and Amanda Abbington, reprising her role as Alexa. Season 2 also features Sam Neill and Daniel Dae Kim.
Also Read: Pop TV Cuts Three Series Including Anna Paquin's 'Flack'
“Flack” is written by Oliver Lansley, produced by Debs Pisani and executive produced by Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams of Hat Trick Productions. Pete Thornton executive produces for UKTV with Paquin executive producing for Casm alongside Stephen Moyer, Cerise Hallam Larkin and Mark Larkin. Season...
- 6/11/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Anna Paquin’s Flack has found a new home in the U.S. after Amazon picked up the dark comedy drama.
This comes after the series, which was created and written by Oliver Lansley, was surprisingly dropped by ViacomCBS’ Pop TV, a week before the second season was set to air. Seasons one and two will air via Amazon in the U.S. and Canada
Deadline understands that Amazon’s deal also gives it the right to consider a third season of the show, which is produced in association with British broadcaster UKTV.
Set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations, Flack stars True Blood’s Paquin as a master of the dark arts of PR. It is produced by Episodes producer Hat Trick Productions and Paquin and Stephen Moyer’s Casm Films.
It marks a nice turnaround for the show, a 45-minute series that sees Paquin take on an anti-hero role,...
This comes after the series, which was created and written by Oliver Lansley, was surprisingly dropped by ViacomCBS’ Pop TV, a week before the second season was set to air. Seasons one and two will air via Amazon in the U.S. and Canada
Deadline understands that Amazon’s deal also gives it the right to consider a third season of the show, which is produced in association with British broadcaster UKTV.
Set in the world of high-stakes celebrity public relations, Flack stars True Blood’s Paquin as a master of the dark arts of PR. It is produced by Episodes producer Hat Trick Productions and Paquin and Stephen Moyer’s Casm Films.
It marks a nice turnaround for the show, a 45-minute series that sees Paquin take on an anti-hero role,...
- 6/11/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“We see how far we haven’t come” confesses Don Cheadle about the themes explored in the 1980s set “Black Monday.” In our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video above), he adds, “This show is all about looting; they are white collar looters. Smuggling in messaging is one of the gifts of doing a crazy comedy like this. You turn off the set and think ‘wait a minute. Is that funny? Should we be laughing about that?’ The tightrope is trying to find how to smuggle those things in but still do it under the protection of this farcical comedy.”
In its second season on Showtime, “Black Monday” explores the excesses and greed of Wall Street in the wake of the Black Monday crash of 1987. Cheadle explains “It’s unfortunately a very cyclical process. These systematic and institutionalized events change their face but at the bottom they are always about the same things.
In its second season on Showtime, “Black Monday” explores the excesses and greed of Wall Street in the wake of the Black Monday crash of 1987. Cheadle explains “It’s unfortunately a very cyclical process. These systematic and institutionalized events change their face but at the bottom they are always about the same things.
- 6/2/2020
- by Matt Noble
- Gold Derby
Some great titles are leaving Netflix in June 2020, so make sure to add them to your watchlist before they expire. Netflix departures this month include the exquisitely written 1960s period drama Mad Men, starring Emmy winner Jon Hamm as dissolute advertising executive Don Draper; a suite of library
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- 6/1/2020
- by Liam Mathews
- TVGuide - Breaking News
When some people see actress Linda Cardellini, they think of the intelligent, angsty teen Lindsay Weir from the short-lived cult classic Freaks and Geeks. Others remember her long stint as Samantha Taggart on ER, or maybe the neighbor Don Draper had an affair with on Mad Men or even Velma Dinkley from the Scooby-Doo films. These characters have little in common with each other. According to the actor, that was the intention.
“What I tended to do, and what I think I still do, is try to take a left...
“What I tended to do, and what I think I still do, is try to take a left...
- 5/8/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The truth is, the right hair product can improve any hairdo. There are several varieties of men’s hair products out there, and each offers a completely different style. Many new products offer laid-back stylizing that’s barely noticeable to the untrained eye, which bucks the tradition of shiny, sticky hair gel that many guys were using in the mid-20th century (although some guys still rock that look).
Looking to nail a messy ‘do, à la Timothée Chalamet? Pick up some texturizing paste. Going for that clean-cut Don Draper look?...
Looking to nail a messy ‘do, à la Timothée Chalamet? Pick up some texturizing paste. Going for that clean-cut Don Draper look?...
- 5/2/2020
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
The Performer | Mandy Moore
The Show | This Is Us
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Neil Brown Jr.Performer of the Week: Lauren GrahamOn a Lighter Note: TV's Best and Worst Wigs of the Past Decade
The Episode | “New York, New York, New York” (March 10, 2020)
The Performance | Viewers tuning in to this week’s This is Us were treated to some fine art courtesy of Moore, who made Rebecca Pearson’s decades-in-the-making trip back to The Met an event worth waiting for.
After missing out on two previous opportunities as an adult to revisit the iconic museum (as chronicled via...
The Show | This Is Us
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Neil Brown Jr.Performer of the Week: Lauren GrahamOn a Lighter Note: TV's Best and Worst Wigs of the Past Decade
The Episode | “New York, New York, New York” (March 10, 2020)
The Performance | Viewers tuning in to this week’s This is Us were treated to some fine art courtesy of Moore, who made Rebecca Pearson’s decades-in-the-making trip back to The Met an event worth waiting for.
After missing out on two previous opportunities as an adult to revisit the iconic museum (as chronicled via...
- 3/14/2020
- TVLine.com
This Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 6 Review: The Stakeout
There are limits. Whatever Time Lord technology Inside No. 9 uses to pack its 30-minute episodes fuller than a foie gras goose, there isn’t always room for everything.
Take ‘The Stakeout’. It managed to cram police procedural, car chase, meta-commentary, comedy, poignancy and a supernatural rug-pull into the precise amount of time it used to take Mad Men’s Don Draper to light and smoke a single cigarette, but that left no space to explain why and how the application and training process to become a volunteer Special Constable might be undertaken by… a vampire.
(Even if not specifically referenced on the Met’s ‘precluded occupations’ list, would vampirism not at least present a hurdle come, say, the medical?)
An explanation for the how is imaginable. Perhaps Special Constable Varney (as he identified himself on the Oscar...
Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 6 Review: The Stakeout
There are limits. Whatever Time Lord technology Inside No. 9 uses to pack its 30-minute episodes fuller than a foie gras goose, there isn’t always room for everything.
Take ‘The Stakeout’. It managed to cram police procedural, car chase, meta-commentary, comedy, poignancy and a supernatural rug-pull into the precise amount of time it used to take Mad Men’s Don Draper to light and smoke a single cigarette, but that left no space to explain why and how the application and training process to become a volunteer Special Constable might be undertaken by… a vampire.
(Even if not specifically referenced on the Met’s ‘precluded occupations’ list, would vampirism not at least present a hurdle come, say, the medical?)
An explanation for the how is imaginable. Perhaps Special Constable Varney (as he identified himself on the Oscar...
- 3/9/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Linda Cardellini has left ICM Partners for CAA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Linda Cardellini has left ICM Partners for CAA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “BoJack Horseman” Season 6, Part II, including the finale and its ending.]
Even by Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s high referential standards, there are a lot of connections between the ending of “BoJack Horseman” and the beginning. In the first episode, BoJack eats cotton candy at a house party. In the finale, he eats cotton candy at Princess Carolyn’s wedding reception. Mr. Peanutbutter’s first in a long line of Erica jokes pays off in the finale with the sheer implication of Erica’s always-offscreen presence forming the punchline. The episode of “Horsin’ Around” playing when BoJack is discovered facedown in the pool is the same episode playing in the hospital when, during an Episode 1 panic attack, he thinks he’s dying.
From a thematic standpoint, the series finale also works as an homage to the genre “BoJack” loves and the genre it is; the flash-forward, the seminal event, the reunion of characters,...
Even by Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s high referential standards, there are a lot of connections between the ending of “BoJack Horseman” and the beginning. In the first episode, BoJack eats cotton candy at a house party. In the finale, he eats cotton candy at Princess Carolyn’s wedding reception. Mr. Peanutbutter’s first in a long line of Erica jokes pays off in the finale with the sheer implication of Erica’s always-offscreen presence forming the punchline. The episode of “Horsin’ Around” playing when BoJack is discovered facedown in the pool is the same episode playing in the hospital when, during an Episode 1 panic attack, he thinks he’s dying.
From a thematic standpoint, the series finale also works as an homage to the genre “BoJack” loves and the genre it is; the flash-forward, the seminal event, the reunion of characters,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a one-stop shop for cinephiles who are looking to stream essential classic and contemporary films. Each of the prominent streaming platforms caters to its own niche of film obsessives.
From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on Film Movement Plus and Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide highlights the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for January 2020.
“Midsommar”
Despite its ritualistic terrors, slasher-inspired structure, and “Hostel”-like affinity for butchering self-obsessed American tourists, “Midsommar” is clearly a film that uses horror tropes as a means to an end. The sun-blasted story of a grieving young woman...
From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on Film Movement Plus and Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide highlights the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for January 2020.
“Midsommar”
Despite its ritualistic terrors, slasher-inspired structure, and “Hostel”-like affinity for butchering self-obsessed American tourists, “Midsommar” is clearly a film that uses horror tropes as a means to an end. The sun-blasted story of a grieving young woman...
- 1/13/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Everybody wants to be their own God in the thrilling, satisfying conclusion to HBO's Watchmen.
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Watchmen Episode 9
Near the end of “See How They Fly,” the superb Watchmen finale, Angela Abar leaves all the silliness behind.
Frozen baby squids rain down from the sky - the latest destructive gambit from a genius vrigin to save the world. Angela picks up a surprisingly resilient lid container, holds it above her head and makes her way to the Dreamland Theater in Downtown Tulsa. She leaves behind a truly impressive tableau of chaos: two dead would-be gods in the streets - one turned into a slushee of blood and another crushed under the weight of her own egg-like quantum subterfuge. Another dead god, who Angela loved, is out there somewhere in the ether - or wherever gods go when they die.
Slowly but surely...
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This Watchmen review contains spoilers.
Watchmen Episode 9
Near the end of “See How They Fly,” the superb Watchmen finale, Angela Abar leaves all the silliness behind.
Frozen baby squids rain down from the sky - the latest destructive gambit from a genius vrigin to save the world. Angela picks up a surprisingly resilient lid container, holds it above her head and makes her way to the Dreamland Theater in Downtown Tulsa. She leaves behind a truly impressive tableau of chaos: two dead would-be gods in the streets - one turned into a slushee of blood and another crushed under the weight of her own egg-like quantum subterfuge. Another dead god, who Angela loved, is out there somewhere in the ether - or wherever gods go when they die.
Slowly but surely...
- 12/13/2019
- Den of Geek
Sneaking in before the end of the year, nearly buried in the glut of award-contenders based on or inspired by true events, comes an intimate profile that’s also a cautionary fable that’s still relevant to today. Perhaps with the advent of social media, it hits home now more than in the late 1990s. Yes, unlike those films based on very recent headlines, like Bombshell, Dark Waters, The Two Popes, and The Report, this one rolls back the clock more than two decades (as opposed to the century plus of 1917). But it also evokes the themes of classic fiction thrillers with a man (or in this case a trio) facing impossible odds in order to clear his name and prove his innocence ala The Fugitive of TV and film. But, this is very real, dominating the news media for many days. And the very unlikely hero at the center...
- 12/12/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Midge’s efforts to balance work and family are brought to the fore in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s just-dropped third season (read our review), but the storyline was not designed to blunt criticism the show has received regarding its depiction of her as a parent.
Exec producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino would “never write [something] in response to what anybody thinks about what they’re doing,” maintains leading lady Rachel Brosnahan, adding that the decision to play up Midge’s challenges as a working mother “was a natural evolution of Midge’s story. She is balancing multiple worlds at once,...
Exec producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino would “never write [something] in response to what anybody thinks about what they’re doing,” maintains leading lady Rachel Brosnahan, adding that the decision to play up Midge’s challenges as a working mother “was a natural evolution of Midge’s story. She is balancing multiple worlds at once,...
- 12/6/2019
- TVLine.com
Oh, there will be Reprisal against some very bad men, and Abigail Spencer is gunning to deliver it via Hulu’s palpably pulpy hyper-noir revenge drama.
Created by Josh Corbin (StartUp) and releasing all 10 episodes on Friday, Dec. 6, Reprisal stars Spencer as Katherine Harlow, a bold brunette who in the very first scene is brutally punished for undisclosed transgressions, and left for dead. Years later, she resurfaces as Doris Quinn, a soft-spoken blonde who is furtively unfurling a dark revengenda. The stylized thriller’s ensemble also includes Rodrigo Santoro (Westworld), Mena Massoud (Aladdin), Rhys Wakefield (True Detective), Madison Davenport (From...
Created by Josh Corbin (StartUp) and releasing all 10 episodes on Friday, Dec. 6, Reprisal stars Spencer as Katherine Harlow, a bold brunette who in the very first scene is brutally punished for undisclosed transgressions, and left for dead. Years later, she resurfaces as Doris Quinn, a soft-spoken blonde who is furtively unfurling a dark revengenda. The stylized thriller’s ensemble also includes Rodrigo Santoro (Westworld), Mena Massoud (Aladdin), Rhys Wakefield (True Detective), Madison Davenport (From...
- 12/5/2019
- TVLine.com
Television's so-called Golden Era could also be labeled "The Age of Bad Men." For the first 15 years of the new millennium, volatile and abusive antiheroes dominated the prestige TV landscape: Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White, Vic Mackey and a handful of imitators fascinated as much as they frightened. These characters flourished when cable was still king, but as the deluge of streaming content continues to flood the entertainment marketplace, there's finally room for more than just charismatic scoundrels to mesmerize us.
It's now the women's turn to breathe fire.
The year 2019 ...
It's now the women's turn to breathe fire.
The year 2019 ...
- 11/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Internet trolls don’t troll. Not the professionals at least. Professional trolls don’t go on social media to antagonize liberals or belittle conservatives. They are not narrow minded, drunk or angry. They don’t lack basic English language skills. They certainly aren’t “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,” as the president once put it. Your stereotypical trolls do exist on social media, but the amateurs aren’t a threat to Western democracy.
Professional trolls, on the other hand, are the tip of the spear in the new digital,...
Professional trolls, on the other hand, are the tip of the spear in the new digital,...
- 11/25/2019
- by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Dinklage is the biggest winner in the Best Drama Supporting Actor category at the Emmys, but he could become the biggest loser at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The “Game of Thrones” star, who won his record fourth drama supporting actor Emmy last month, has long been the sole recipient of awards among the series’ sprawling cast. But he has never taken home the drama actor SAG Award — “Game of Thrones” has never won a SAG Award outside of stunt ensemble — despite five previous nominations. Should he receive a sixth bid for the final season, as he’s expected to, and not win yet again, he would tie Jon Hamm as the category’s biggest losers at 0-6.
Adding insult to injury, Hamm has a leg up on Dinklage since he has two drama ensemble SAG Awards for “Mad Men”; he just never won individually for bringing Don Draper to life.
The “Game of Thrones” star, who won his record fourth drama supporting actor Emmy last month, has long been the sole recipient of awards among the series’ sprawling cast. But he has never taken home the drama actor SAG Award — “Game of Thrones” has never won a SAG Award outside of stunt ensemble — despite five previous nominations. Should he receive a sixth bid for the final season, as he’s expected to, and not win yet again, he would tie Jon Hamm as the category’s biggest losers at 0-6.
Adding insult to injury, Hamm has a leg up on Dinklage since he has two drama ensemble SAG Awards for “Mad Men”; he just never won individually for bringing Don Draper to life.
- 11/10/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
“It was often thought that nostalgia was a bad thing,” Jeff Goldblum intones in his new Disney Plus documentary series, “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.” “It was thought to be an illness. But nostalgia can be a potent psychological force for uplifting.”
He’s talking, here, about ice cream. “It’s like a time machine,” he says, sounding like Don Draper describing a photo carousel, “this lovely sweet treat, in that it can take us back to a time when we were happy, when we first enjoyed it.” But he could as easily be providing the pitch for Disney Plus itself. The streamer, which launches Nov. 12, promises viewers something that delighted them in youth no matter what their age now: The Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar libraries are represented, with “The Simpsons” and National Geographic TV brand thrown in for good measure. Disney Plus’s catalog offerings are unmatched — indeed,...
He’s talking, here, about ice cream. “It’s like a time machine,” he says, sounding like Don Draper describing a photo carousel, “this lovely sweet treat, in that it can take us back to a time when we were happy, when we first enjoyed it.” But he could as easily be providing the pitch for Disney Plus itself. The streamer, which launches Nov. 12, promises viewers something that delighted them in youth no matter what their age now: The Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar libraries are represented, with “The Simpsons” and National Geographic TV brand thrown in for good measure. Disney Plus’s catalog offerings are unmatched — indeed,...
- 11/4/2019
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for world history between 1964-1977 and Season 3 of “The Crown.”]
In the year of our lord 1969, man landed on the moon. American men, to be specific.
The momentous event occurred 16 years into the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the supreme monarch of the United Kingdom as well as assorted realms, territories, and a commonwealth that spanned the circumference of the planet from which those men came.
One would think that the most powerful woman in the world would have some thoughts about her former colony achieving one of the most stunning achievements of humankind. Less than 200 years after the U.S. kicked England to the curb, they put together a space program out of, essentially, spit and twigs provided by the lowest bidder, and landed on the moon.
Season 3 of “The Crown” takes place during this time period, and Episode 7, “Moondust”, centers on the mission of Apollo 11. So how does Elizabeth feel about the literal eclipse of the British Empire?...
In the year of our lord 1969, man landed on the moon. American men, to be specific.
The momentous event occurred 16 years into the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the supreme monarch of the United Kingdom as well as assorted realms, territories, and a commonwealth that spanned the circumference of the planet from which those men came.
One would think that the most powerful woman in the world would have some thoughts about her former colony achieving one of the most stunning achievements of humankind. Less than 200 years after the U.S. kicked England to the curb, they put together a space program out of, essentially, spit and twigs provided by the lowest bidder, and landed on the moon.
Season 3 of “The Crown” takes place during this time period, and Episode 7, “Moondust”, centers on the mission of Apollo 11. So how does Elizabeth feel about the literal eclipse of the British Empire?...
- 11/4/2019
- by Ann Donahue
- Indiewire
“BoJack Horseman” is coming to an end with Season 6, but like many great antihero dramas, it’s extending the final season as long as possible. Netflix announced Thursday morning that Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s award-winning animated comedy will end with a 16-episode final season. Part 1 will premiere on October 25, while Part 2’s release date is set for January 31, 2020. (The dates can also be seen at the end of the new trailer below.)
Season 6 was written and produced as the final season of the series, so “BoJack” fans will get an ending conceived as such by the show’s creative team. Moreover, anyone paying attention to the creator’s recent efforts could have anticipated a transition period. Bob-Waksberg executive-produced the short-lived but beloved Netflix animated comedy “Tuca & Bertie” (created by “Bojack Horseman” supervising producer and production designer Lisa Hanawalt). The series premiered in May and was canceled in July, only two...
Season 6 was written and produced as the final season of the series, so “BoJack” fans will get an ending conceived as such by the show’s creative team. Moreover, anyone paying attention to the creator’s recent efforts could have anticipated a transition period. Bob-Waksberg executive-produced the short-lived but beloved Netflix animated comedy “Tuca & Bertie” (created by “Bojack Horseman” supervising producer and production designer Lisa Hanawalt). The series premiered in May and was canceled in July, only two...
- 9/27/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
A large-budget, medieval war movie that’s loosely based on Shakespeare’s “Henriad” and the historical events that inspired those plays, David Michôd’s “The King” is . It’s hard for a good man to be king, and it’s even harder for a king to be a good man — that idea only feels relevant to the modern world because it’s been true for every one of the last 600 years, and “The King” has nothing especially new or insightful to say on the subject.
What “The King” does have is Timothée Chalamet as a soft prince who would rather sleep in his bed than sit on the throne, and Robert Pattinson (if only for three scenes) as a hilariously sociopathic dauphin who looks like Klaus Kinski and talks like a castrated Pepé Le Pew. It has “Leave No Trace” star Thomasin McKenzie in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role as the Queen of Denmark,...
What “The King” does have is Timothée Chalamet as a soft prince who would rather sleep in his bed than sit on the throne, and Robert Pattinson (if only for three scenes) as a hilariously sociopathic dauphin who looks like Klaus Kinski and talks like a castrated Pepé Le Pew. It has “Leave No Trace” star Thomasin McKenzie in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role as the Queen of Denmark,...
- 9/2/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Once upon a time in Hollywood, antiheroes dominated television, but now more traditional heroes with well-defined moral compasses stand shoulder-to-shoulder with characters willing to be ruthless to meet their goals.
For years, characters including Tony Soprano, Walter White and Don Draper reigned supreme, helping their respective series rack up dozens of Emmy nominations. HBO’s “The Sopranos” received seven noms (two wins) in the drama series race alone between 1999 and 2007, while AMC’s “Breaking Bad” scored five drama series noms (two wins) between 2009 and 2014, and the same cabler’s “Mad Men” nabbed eight drama series noms (four wins) between 2008 and 2015. Morally ambiguous protagonists were all the rage and certainly had everyone talking.
Now, even though characters are never painted as perfect, dramas such as NBC’s “This Is Us” and FX’s “Pose” are leaning further into the aspirational.
“Just by definition, a hero is someone who folks admire,” says...
For years, characters including Tony Soprano, Walter White and Don Draper reigned supreme, helping their respective series rack up dozens of Emmy nominations. HBO’s “The Sopranos” received seven noms (two wins) in the drama series race alone between 1999 and 2007, while AMC’s “Breaking Bad” scored five drama series noms (two wins) between 2009 and 2014, and the same cabler’s “Mad Men” nabbed eight drama series noms (four wins) between 2008 and 2015. Morally ambiguous protagonists were all the rage and certainly had everyone talking.
Now, even though characters are never painted as perfect, dramas such as NBC’s “This Is Us” and FX’s “Pose” are leaning further into the aspirational.
“Just by definition, a hero is someone who folks admire,” says...
- 8/8/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Scott Collins, who joined AMC Networks in 2008 and has been president of ad sales since 2017, will step down at the end of the month.
The company’s official announcement of the move said Collins is leaving to “pursue other opportunities.” It did not mention plans for his replacement.
During Collins’ tenure, ad sales revenue has grown threefold across AMC and the company’s other networks, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and We tv, the company said.
“Scott has played a critical role in driving ad sales over more than a decade at AMC Networks,” CEO Josh Sapan said. “The growth of our company and ability to entertain and delight fans with original programming across five networks has been made possible in large part by our expanding relationships with leading advertisers, and Scott has been at the center of those relationships and conversations for more than a decade. We wish him all...
The company’s official announcement of the move said Collins is leaving to “pursue other opportunities.” It did not mention plans for his replacement.
During Collins’ tenure, ad sales revenue has grown threefold across AMC and the company’s other networks, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and We tv, the company said.
“Scott has played a critical role in driving ad sales over more than a decade at AMC Networks,” CEO Josh Sapan said. “The growth of our company and ability to entertain and delight fans with original programming across five networks has been made possible in large part by our expanding relationships with leading advertisers, and Scott has been at the center of those relationships and conversations for more than a decade. We wish him all...
- 8/5/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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