Mad Men Season 3 details starting to leak!

Little by little, details are starting to leak about Mad Men Season 3 details.

Check out lots of fun bits and (little) hints from this long Q&A with Rich Sommer, who plays Harry Crane.

And lots of talk about how the first episode is going to take place in Baltimore.

And word across the webs is that there will be lots going on right off the back. We're probably starting out in 1963, and the theme of the season is change...

Dexter Season 4 trailer

Dexter Season 4 trailer, and it's a good and long one!



One of the best shows currently on TV, hands down. Can't wait for more fun.

Hell's Kitchen is still entertaining as...

I'll admit it. I hated on Hell's Kitchen when it first came on the air. But Gordan Ramsey's antics kind of grew on me over time. I like sitting back and watching the fireworks, realizing the entire ordeal is a heavily edited, highly contrived and manipulated reality-circus fest.

But it's fun. The people on the show express real dismay and real joy as they're put through the gauntlet.



So while we can all feel good (and I do) about feeling good about digging Top Chef, we can still feel good about the fact that Hell's Kitchen is still fun as... well, hell.

This season looks to be no different. The expected "cliffhanger" is rather cliff-y after Week 1, with some military-ish moron left willing to take Gordan "outside" to box, for seemingly no reason.

"First choice, and why?"

Dude, have you ever watched the show? If the first choice ain't you, that means you're safe as long as you keep your finger off the Meltdown switch.

From the official site's recap:

At elimination, Joseph flames out, refusing to answer Chef Ramsay's simple question of "first nominee," then goes on a rant, drawing the ire of Chef Ramsay, who confronts Joseph, who completely loses it, claiming he's "nobody's bitch." He then tears off his chef's jacket, approaching Chef Ramsay and asking him to take it outside. The episode then ends in a dramatic face-off.

Ah, that's right. Nobody's bitch. He may be that, but he is now everyone's buffoon. Way to go, laddy buck.

And even if this dude is straight out of the military, I'd tread lightly in pushing Ramsey into a fistfight on national television. The dude looks like he can take a punch and would come at you with British Bulldog fury.

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

Party on.

Interview with 30 Rock's Tracey Morgan

The always hilarious Tracey Morgan, aka Tracey Jordan on hit show 30 Rock, talks about the show, Tina Fey, fame, and a bunch of other cool stuff.



(via TV Squad)

Mad Men Season Three: Interview with Jon Hamm, John Slattery

If you're anything like us, you're seething for anything Mad Men Season Three related.

Well, as anything goes, this interview with Jon Hamm and John Slattery is pretty great.



Mad Men returns to AMC on August 16th at 10pm.

If you have:

a) a soul

And:

b) you like good television at least a little bit

You:

c) owe it yourself and Humanity to watch

Oh, and:

d) just do it

Seth Rogen doesn't like Entourage

Looks like whereas the fictional Entourage crew has a beef with Seth Green, in real life there's some static with Seth Rogen.

"Entourage" chewed up comic actor Seth Rogen in Monday night’s episode. Now Seth is biting back.

The writers had their characters referring to Seth's “ugliness... oddly fascinating” in a comic debate over whether Rogen could get a Katherine Heigl babe in real life.

Rogen fired back to E!'s Daily 10:

“Yeah... I actually ran into Matt... Kevin Dillon in a Starbucks. And he’s like ‘You know, I’ve got to kind of apologize because apparently the guy who created our show doesn’t like you so much.' "

"And I said, ‘Well, I have reason to believe because I think Doug Ellin is a moron from all I can understand, so it makes sense he doesn’t like me.’

"And I’ve kind of said some disparaging things about the show. Although in our defense, ["Entourage" producer] Mark Wahlberg called us misogynistic in an interview, so I think they kind of started that. … It’s on. Luckily, I never have and never plan on watching 'Entourage.' "

(via The Dish Rag)

Rogen seems very laid back, but I suppose no one likes being called ugly, even if it's in an "oddly fascinating" way.

Mad Men Season 3: the Don Draper underwater poster behind-the-scenes

Any Mad Men news is news that must be consumed thisfreakingquick.

And in this case it's great stuff as is often the case.

Check out this behind-the-scenes video of the making of the Season 3 poster, in which Don Draper is seemingly sitting in a tank of water within his own office.



It's a great and fascinating shot and brings up all kinds of interesting questions about how Season 3 will play out.

Kings should have been given more of a chance

NBC's Kings was given the hype treatment early on, only to be subsequently put on hiatus and then burned off on Saturday nights.

While there has been some inconsistency during its first (and only) season run, it shows/showed much promise and in fact is ending on many high and thrilling notes.



After several "one-offs" in the middle of the season that got a bit soap-y and snoozy, the emphasis on larger themes as things are building to a climax -- loyalty, family, destiny, ambition, self vs. something more noble -- is pretty terrific.

Probably it's quite remote, but Kings is the type of show that deserves to live on on another network. Showtime, perhaps?

The Bacherlorette: who will Jillian choose?

Who will The Bachelorette's Jillian choose?

Here's a preview of tonight's reunion show:

The biggest Emmy snub in history?

TV Squad asks a good question: Is The Wire the biggest Emmy snub of all time, forever and ever, amen?

Calling the last season of David Simon's show groundbreaking would be like calling War and Peace a little long-winded. It was everything you hope a show could be, short of a round-the-clock marathon of Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders reenacting The State's "$240 Worth of Pudding" sketch.

So why did it not earn a single nomination from this year's Emmy list? The problem lies in the process. The last season was technically eligible for a nod, but the committee that oversees such nominations had already compiled their list of the year's ten best dramas and The Wire didn't make the cut. That and smart shows that challenge conventional thinking about society make the committee's brains feel all "hurty."

Snubbing The Wire ought to be reason to just cancel The Emmies (and all awards shows for good measure) outright.

Further, I don't know if there are "technical reasons" why The Shield was snubbed for this year's nominations, but take the snubby pair together and it's reason to declare the whole shebang ludicrous outright.

Then you wonder why shows like According to Jim get renewed year after year while Firefly and Wonderfalls, et al are killed young and realize the world is often an unfair place.

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