EXCLUSIVE: Mad Men alum John Slattery has been tapped as the lead of neXT, Fox’s AI thriller drama pilot from 20th Century Fox TV. This marks the first broadcast pilot for Slattery since his seven-season run on AMC’s Mad Men as Roger Sterling, which earned him four Emmy nominations. It is his first broadcast series…

Rafe Spall (The Big Short), Mad Men alum John Slattery and Fargo standout Allison Tolman are set as the leads in Hulu’s political, dystopian half-hour comedy pilot Kansas City, from Amblin TV and Sony Pictures TV. Set in Kansas City, the single-camera project, which has yet to get a formal pilot greenlight but already…

The Romanoffs, Matthew Weiner’s followup series to his Emmy winning Mad Men, has started to assemble its cast. Joining the Amazon contemporary anthology series as guest stars are Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and two former Mad Men co-stars, Christina Hendricks and John Slattery. Also cast in the…

There are a couple of ways to go in reviewing a new revival of The Front Page. One could bemoan the demise of hard copy and the glory days of tabloid journalism, not to mention of Broadway itself. One could wax Wiki about the celluloid spawn of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway hit, beginning with the…

Six shows in previews bulked up the new Broadway season and all of them drew audience interest across a wide range of genres, from seasonal songfest (Holiday Inn) to modern classic (The Cherry Orchard) and new work (Heisenberg, The Encounter, Oh, Hello). Leading the pack was a revival of The Front Page, with an…

Broadway’s original odd couple, Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns and his recalcitrant ace reporter Hildy Johnson are returning to heap abuse on one another, producer Scott Rudin announced today. He’s mounting a Broadway revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 testament to testerone tossed tabloid…

As the final season of Mad Men comes to a close, John Slattery's Roger Sterling has remained a firm viewers' favorite. This season the inimitable Sterling has fielded several crises, sold the company and grown a stellar mustache. Last seen playing the organ while Elisabeth Moss roller-skated around the…

Christina Hendricks and John Slattery will present the International Emmy Founders Award to Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner on Monday, November 24 in New York. British comic/actor Matt Lucas hosts the event; other announced presenters include Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (Power, Dream School), Darby Stanchfield (Scandal)…

EXCLUSIVE: Capping a rocking day for deals at the Sundance Film Festival, IFC Films is closing a deal to acquired God’s Pocket, the directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery. The black comedy stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks, and John Turturro. Slattery wrote the black comedy…

BREAKING: Park Pictures Features signed Philip Seymour Hoffman to star in God's Pocket, the upcoming film directorial debut from John Slattery, who adapted the Pete Dexter novel with Alex Metcalf. Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks and John Turturro will co-star. Gersh is selling. Park Pictures Features is producing…

Cloris Leachman today landed her 22nd career Emmy nomination for her role on Fox’s freshman comedy Raising Hope and may add to her haul of eight Emmy Awards, which is already a record for a female performer. But, despite being featured in the main credits of the show before the title card, listed as a cast member on…

It looks like we’re in for another round of drawn-out Mad Men negotiations between AMC and Lionsgate TV and between Lionsgate and series creator/showrunner Matthew Weiner. And while talks on both fronts are underway, another deadline is looming – the options on the cast expire at the end of the month. That certainly…