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After getting 17 nominations at last nights Emmy awards, AMC’s Mad Men left with no hardware at the end of the night to show for it.
The show, that has become AMC’s viewers choice, was overlooked on TV’s biggest stage and even lost to Homeland, in Best Drama Series, Best Actress in a Drama and Best Actor in a Drama categories.
Looks like the Emmy committee didn’t want to make history for Mad Men, which easily won Best Drama Series four consecutive years. | Full Story
Jon Hamm, the star of AMC’s Mad Men is not too famous to get a little star struck from time to time. In an interview with AV Club the star spoke about his first encounter with Hip-Hop Mogul Jay Z.
“I was in New York City and going down an elevator when the elevator stopped, and Jay-Z got on,” Hamm said. “This was a long time ago. It was pre-Beyoncé. And definitely pre-Mad Men. | Full Story
Jon Hamm has landed his first leading role on the big screen.
The Mad Men star has been picked to play the lead in Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, where he will play sports agent J.B. Bernstein, who discovers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, (a pair of Major League Baseball pitching prospects) in unconventional territory, India.
After growing tired of the usual baseball scouting in America, Bernstein realizes while watching a cricket game on TV, that major league baseball players could be discovered in the sport. | Full Story
NBC’s 30 Rock took a break from its usual filmed format to put on a live broadcast of the show on Thursday night. The move appeared to go over well with fans, rising 7 percent and hitting a six-week high in ratings (3.5 million, 1.6)
This marks the second time in history Tina Fey’s Emmy-winning sitcom went live. There were two broadcasts for each coast. Depending on which coast you lived on, the guest stars included Paul McCartney, Jon Hamm, Amy Poehler, Kim Kardashian, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Glover and more. | Full Story
After observing the way Mad Men fans flocked to the series’ premiere in record numbers after waiting 17 months, it’s clear that absence must make the heart grow fonder.
According to AMC, season 5′s two-hour premiere drew record ratings, making it the most watched episode ever for the series. The network says from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., Mad Men drew 3.5 million viewers, a 21% improvement from the season 4 premiere. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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