Mad Men’s casting department really has a knack for finding buzzworthy, nostalgia-baiting guest stars. Refugees from Gen Y touchstones like The Secret World of Alex Mack, Saved by the Bell, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have been showing up on the series for years. Last season, Pete Campbell — himself played by a veteran of The WB — romanced Rory Gilmore both on and off-camera. This season, Don Draper’s doing the same with Freaks and Geeks’s Lindsay Weir.
And last night, the show dipped even further into the nostalgia well by bringing in a TV ringer with one of...
And last night, the show dipped even further into the nostalgia well by bringing in a TV ringer with one of...
- 4/22/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Matt Weiner seems to be more into risk-taking than ever this season: Ted McGinley was on "Mad Men" last night.
The man known as "the patron saint of shark-jumping" -- he appeared on several shows including "Dynasty," "Sports Night," "Charlie Lawrence" and more shortly before their cancellation -- appeared on the Sunday, April 21 episode of the AMC drama as Mel, a writer on "To Have And To Hold," who wanted to swing with Don and Megan.
"Mad Men" viewers immediately took to Twitter to express their concern over McGinley's appearance ... though next season is said to be the show's last anyway.
Surest sign that #MadMen is on its way out? The appearance of Ted McGinley.
— Alex M. (@Leupp) April 22, 2013
It's obvious that #MadMen has reached the beginning of the end, because Ted McGinley showed up.
— Brad Trechak (@trechak) April 22, 2013
So is Mad Med cursed now that Ted McGinley has been on it?...
The man known as "the patron saint of shark-jumping" -- he appeared on several shows including "Dynasty," "Sports Night," "Charlie Lawrence" and more shortly before their cancellation -- appeared on the Sunday, April 21 episode of the AMC drama as Mel, a writer on "To Have And To Hold," who wanted to swing with Don and Megan.
"Mad Men" viewers immediately took to Twitter to express their concern over McGinley's appearance ... though next season is said to be the show's last anyway.
Surest sign that #MadMen is on its way out? The appearance of Ted McGinley.
— Alex M. (@Leupp) April 22, 2013
It's obvious that #MadMen has reached the beginning of the end, because Ted McGinley showed up.
— Brad Trechak (@trechak) April 22, 2013
So is Mad Med cursed now that Ted McGinley has been on it?...
- 4/22/2013
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
Malcolm in the Middle co-executive producer Michael Borkow has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner on another edgy Fox family comedy, The Bernie Mac Show, as part of an overall deal struck with Bernie Mac producers Regency TV/20th Century Fox TV. Borkow takes the reins from Bernie Mac creator/executive producer Larry Wilmore, who left the show in March (HR 3/12). The Peabody Award-winning series, starring comedian Bernie Mac, is set to return for a third season this fall in its original Wednesday 9 p.m. time slot. Meanwhile, Twentieth Television said Tuesday that Bernie Mac has been sold to stations covering 30% of the country for the show's syndication launch in fall 2005. Stations buying rerun rights include Fox-owned outlets in New York and Los Angeles, as well as the indie WCIU-TV Chicago. In an effort to bolster the production team for the upcoming season, Borkow has recruited Saladin Patterson (NBC's Frasier) and Rich Appel (NBC's A.U.S.A.) as well as John Riggi (CBS' Charlie Lawrence) as co-executive producers on the show. The three will join co-executive producer Warren Hutcherson and Mac, who has been upped from a producer.
- 5/28/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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