News and Linkage

Season 3  of Mad Men will be premiere on August 16th in the States, with production beginning yesterday.  Excitement.  Overload.

Fox has picked up JJ Abrams' Fringe for a second season.  This comes as no surprise since it was the second-highest rating new show in 2008-9 behind The Mentalist.

There's a really interesting interview with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.

No news yet on whether Dollhouse is going to picked up for a second season, although it seems unlikely at this point given its poor ratings.  Here's an interview with TV Guide's Matthew Roush that helps explain some of the reasons why the show might not have been successful.

Here's an early review for Sarah Michelle Gellar's new TV show, The Wonderful Maladys.  I'm officially excited now.

Rather belatedly, here's the trailer for Emma Caulfield's new romantic comedy TiMER:

Where Are They Now? Part 1

It's been 5 years since Buffy The Vampire Slayer left our TV screens. The cast have had varied degrees of success but what have they got in the pipeline as we speak?

Sarah Michelle Gellar

After a string of so-so horror movies such as The Grudge and The Return, Sarah Michelle Gellar has a different film due out later in the year. Her new role, in Paul Coehlo adaptation Veronika Decides To Die (trailer below), looks like it plays to her strengths, i.e. sad and lonely, rather than scared or ditzy. SMG will also be returning to the small screen sometime next year in The Wonderful Maladys, a new dysfunctional family drama for HBO. An early reviewer of the pilot script claims it's the best thing they've read in years.