Nothing begats nothing: AMC's Mad Men. My father, on those gratefully rare and unnerving occasions when he was even around, used to do it, too, like the protean Don...

The cast of Mad Men stepped out of the 50s and into 2008 for the red carpet season two premiere party in LA earlier this week. Gorgeous January Jones and Jon Hamm looked...

I thought it was bad when I could no longer smoke a cigar in an outdoor stadium while watching a football or baseball game. But Apple's move to photoshop the ad for Mad...

Washington Post business section editors thought it might be fun to gather some present day ad people in a room and ask them about AMC's "Mad Men" while taking their...

I thought it was bad when I could no longer smoke a cigar in an outdoor stadium while watching a football or baseball game. But Apple's move to photoshop the ad for Mad...

Only 5 more days until the new season of Mad Men premieres on AMC. And God, how I wish I was getting paid for these shameless plugs. Here's part of the impossibly good...

DWIGHT PRECIPITATION: Rainn Wilson fulfills his lifelong dream of giving the weather on CNN, though he does not answer the question of "which bear is best?" (CNN) IF SAW...

In what can only be described as supremely idiotic, the cigarette in the hand of the man who appears in the famed Mad Men promotional image was digitally removed when...

A look at who got nominated for television's highest award. Did your faves make the cut? The 2008 Emmy nominations are out! While many are the usual suspects, some...

AMC's ad agency drama Mad Men, from the producer of the Sopranos, is beginning its second season. Like The Sopranos, the show finds human drama in an unexpected setting....

Timing of the Emmy nominations (read: this week) could not have been drawn up any better for the second season of Mad Men (read: next week-and-a-half).  The build-up...

Today we are honored to have a Guest Blogger joining 5 Blogs Before Lunch. Derek Gordon, senior marketing executive and currently the Interim President & CEO of...

Are you familiar with Very Short List? If you are, you can stop reading here. If not, check it out. I personally think it's one of the best online services out there. ...

“Good designers are a dime a dozen, he said. Coming up with a great design solution is the easy part. The hard part, he said, is getting the client to accept the...

The nominations for the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Thursday in Los Angeles. The surprise was that basic cable programs cleaned up. AMC's Mad Men...

In what can only be described as supremely idiotic, the cigarette in the hand of the man who appears in the famed Mad Men promotional image was digitally removed when...

Mad Men will make you a happier person. It’s the US show about a 1960’s Madison Avenue ad agency that will make your teeth whiter and it’s coming to the UK on BBC4...

"You're born alone, and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget." Such is the...

Chronicle / SFGate TV critic Tim Goodman on the impact of Mad Men's $25 million advertising campaign in advance of Season 2: Now, to the worry and the inherent...

The moral equivalent of clearing the browser tabs, here are some recently starred items. (And yes, I realize that along the way I could have Shift-S shared these items...