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via twitpic.com Something seems deeply strange and wrong to me, seeing Betty Draper (January Jones) in a pic with John McCain.

via sfgate.com Sports geeks are well familiar with the concept of “power rankings,” which ranks teams relative to one another each week. Tim Goodman’s Bastard Machine has long been one of my favorite TV blogs. It has earned even more respect from me by rolling out its own version of TV power rankings. Geeks of TV land, [...]

via latimes.com I had a similar reaction to the initial television coverage of the LA fires as this TV critic. In fact, I spent much of Sunday anxiously scouring TV and the webs looking for updates on evacuations going on in my area. LA Times online was just about the best resource I found, along with [...]

via salon.com “Community” looks promising. I grew up loving Chevy Chase movies, particularly Spies Like Us. And Trudy from Mad Men!

RDF to debut interactive cartoon series ‘Sleuths’ allows viewers’ avatars to appear onscreen By James Hibberd Aug 24, 2009, 08:04 PM ET RDF is looking to launch the U.S.’ first interactive animated series. The reality production company behind such shows as Fox’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” and ABC’s “Wife Swap” is teaming with new-media company Artificial Life to design a [...]

via slate.com It’s one of my (not so) secret ambitions to be invited to partake in one of Slate’s TV Club sessions, where writers and subject experts are brought in to gab — in pleasantly old school letter/e-mail format — about selected shows… and can you get much better than Mad Men? Posted via web from [...]

via tvsquad.com The Kids are back! I wasn’t a big fan of Brain Candy, but I’m really looking forward to this. Posted via web from Eric Berlin\’s posterous

via thinkprogress.org Uh… beg pardon? Posted via web from Eric Berlin\’s posterous

If you haven’t had time to catch up on Mad Men or just need a quick chance to refresh yourself ahead of the new season (Sunday night!), here’s your chance. The entire second season, recapped in four minutes: Possibly the best line of the season: “I don’t have a contract.” Of course, in four minutes so many [...]

via slate.com Slate\’s TV Club is always great, so I\’m thrilled to see it back in action for this season\’s premiere of Mad Men. Well, I\’m *more* thrilled to see Mad Men *finally* back for this season. Sunday night at 10pm on AMC, but who\’s counting (the hours)? Posted via web [...]