Mad Men

Patsy Palmer plans Mad Men marathon

TV Gossip

9 May 2012

Patsy Palmer will use her break from 'EastEnders' to catch up on 'Mad Men'. The 39-year-old actress - who plays quick-tempered Bianca Butcher on the BBC One soap - will be returning to the show in September but wants to spend a lot of her time off…

Roxanne Pallett wants Mad Men role

TV Gossip

16 Apr 2012

Roxanne Pallett wants to star in 'Mad Men'. The 29-year-old actress - who recently starred as Shelby Dixon in BBC One drama 'Waterloo Road' - would "love" to appear in the US show, which is set in the 1960s, because she is particularly keen to take…

Advertising, Mad Men and the future - John Hegarty interview

Advertising guru set for Edinburgh Book Festival 2011

8 Jul 2011

"In the end, virtually everything I work on is, to a certain extent, irrelevant." After the best part of an hour's chat in which John Hegarty has pretty much sold me on the unparalleled joys and benefits of advertising, it's a refreshing shock to the…

Lorraine Kelly to appear on Mad Men?

TV Gossip

10 Jun 2011

Lorraine Kelly claims she's been offered a part on 'Mad Men'. The TV host has revealed one of the US show's stars, John Hamm, has asked her to appear in the series after she interviewed him following her recent weight loss. Lorraine - who is now a…

Roger Sterling - Sterling’s Gold

A collection of the finest quips from the Mad Men character

9 Feb 2011

(Grove Press) Take away the dry-as-teetotal bon mots of Roger Sterling from Mad Men and that 60s-set drama would be a different beast altogether. The destructive tendencies of Don Draper, stilted ambition of Pete Campbell and Monroe-esque allure of…

Mad about town - Jon Hamm interview

Mad Men's Don Draper stars in Ben Affleck's Town

22 Sep 2010

Jon Hamm says that there is only one downside to playing TV’s best known advertising executive, Don Draper, on Mad Men. ‘Part of the fun of being an actor is that you get to do different things, and that’s the one downside of working in television…

January Jones 'drained' by Mad Men

TV Gossip

5 Aug 2010

January Jones admits 'Mad Men' can be "very draining". The actress - who portrays Betty Draper in the US drama series - had a tough time filming the third series of the show, because of her dramatic storylines and personal problems, but believes…

Mad Men gets second successive Emmy win

Celebrity Gossip

21 Sep 2009

'Mad Men' was named Outstanding Drama Series for the second year running at last night's Emmy Awards (20.09.09). The hit US show, about the advertising industry in 1960s New York, collected one of the top prizes at the annual ceremony at Los Angeles…

Remote Control

28 Feb 2008

What could the worlds of American contemporary mobsters and 1960s ad men possibly have in common? Actually, more than you’d imagine after you’ve seen a couple of episodes of Mad Men (BBC4, Sun 2 Mar, 10pm •••). Creator Matthew Weiner earned his stripes…