Mad Men and Jon Hamm Win Globes
Pretty unexpected stuff, huh?
All of my Mad Men posts from the season are at this link.
Canadian broadcaster CTV said Thursday it has acquired rights to the first two seasons of Mad Men, the dramatic series about 1960s advertising executives that was a breakout hit for AMC last year.
CTV said it would say “soon” when it would begin airing the first 13-episode season, which debuted on AMC in July 2007. No other terms were announced, other than that CTV had also acquired broadband and video-on-demand rights to Mad Men’s second season. The second season hasn’t yet been produced.
I'm sure that other international markets will follow suit. Quickly, if they're smart.
And about Jon Hamm, Austin 360 has a great profile piece on the actor (and boyfriend of Jennifer Westfeldt from Notes From the Underbelly and Kissing Jessica Stein) and says:
If times were hard for Hamm, he was used to it. His mother died when he was 10. His father followed 10 years later. "What my mother had left me was a trust that was used to pay for my high school and a little bit for college," he says.
"And my father had nothing when he passed away.
"My mother — it sounds very Dickensian and romantic — but my mother's dying wish was that I go to this particular private school, John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Mo., because friends had gone there. I have to say it was the single most profound, resonating decision ever made in my life. It wasn't made by me, but it's what every mother should want for her child."
They would be very proud of their son, Jon.
