This post has more SPOILERS than our usual Mad Men posts, so stop reading now if you haven't seen last night's episode. Previously: The Rolling Stones play Forest Hills, Queens, the Charles Whitman shooting spree in Austin, the Richard Speck murders, that "thing'"happened in Bed-Stuy, Roger takes LSD, and Peggy goes to Minetta Tavern. more ›

Last night's episode of Mad Men, At The Codfish Ball (a reference to this Shirley Temple tune), included more nods to the city and 1966. Here are some of the hightlights (no real spoilers!). more ›

Hey Pat Kiernan fans, the NY1 anchor was asked to return to guest host LIVE! With Kelly. Kiernan hosted one show with Kelly Ripa last month, and we were just told that he was asked to return on April 30th and May 1st. more ›

Ikea is set on infiltrating your lives a little more: The Swedish furniture retailer and Swedish meatball pusher is rolling out a line of all-in-one entertainment systems, complete with flatscreen TV, WiFi, Blu-Ray/DVD player, speakers, and USB and HDMI ports... and the one remote will work through the cabinets! more ›

Tomorrow Don't Trust The B— In Apartment 23 will premiere on ABC, but you can already watch the first two episodes on Hulu, which we have—we've got that soft spot for Dawson Leery after all, and Krysten Ritter most recently won us over with her role as Jane on Breaking Bad. In Apartment 23, the two play best friends, with James Van Der Beek playing a more Hollywood playboy version of himself. more ›

Looking back on it, Frasier was a truly unique show: it was the most successful spin-off ever, lasting as many seasons (11) as Cheers. The show (mostly) never dumbed down its comedy for the audience, yet remained a critical and commercial success on primetime Thursday's for the majority of its run. It made Kelsey Grammar a star, despite allowing him to sing its theme song. All six main characters (including dog Eddie) stayed with the show for its entire series, while another main character (Maris) was never seen. Oh, and the show had countless "secret" celebrity guest cameos. more ›

According to a couple of sources that spoke to Us Weekly, Saturday Night Live is about to lose some major players. Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis are all rumored to be leaving at the end of the season—an insider told them, "It will be a huge blow to the show." But really... it's about time, no? Wiig is too big for the show now post-Bridesmaids, Sudeikis has been doing just fine outside of studio 8H, and Andy Samberg has been there since the beginning of time! We will miss Samberg's Digital Shorts... but we're not really going to miss Wiig's Gilly character. more ›

Brooklyn 11223 started airing on Oxygen last night and we watched it so you wouldn't have to. The show is a transparent rip-off of the soul-sucking yet mind-bogglingly successful Jersey Shore. Except this one is set in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The first thing you see are flashes of parts of Brooklyn that are mostly nowhere near Bay Ridge, all soundtracked by music that will make the viewer think Brooklyn is a tough place. They show shoes hanging on telephone lines at least three times during scene transitions. BROOKLYN! more ›

At Matthew Weiner's request, and due to our hatred of spoilers, we can assure you nothing below will ruin your enjoyment of watching the two-hour season premiere of Mad Men this Sunday. But since we're entitled media d-bags, we got sent an advance copy and watched it the other night at the office while skateboarding in the Gothamist HQ half-pipe pounding promotional alcohol and Tweeting all about it. It's a really strong start, and very funny! Here are some juicy hints—mere intimations—of what you have to look forward to. Look at these not like spoilers, but like one of Don Draper's ladies slowly loosening one button of her blouse. more ›

Have you heard? Mad Men is finally returning this Sunday after 18 long and lonely months away from our television screens. Should you choose to soak up the two-hour premiere with some friends and era-appropriate cocktails, we've got you covered below... more ›

We have not seen an episode of 2 Broke Girls since the first one aired—you know, the one where Greenpoint was portrayed as some sort of dangerous neighborhood. Since then it has had its share of criticisms, especially regarding the rampant racial and ethnic stereotypes on the show. If you glazed over all of the reviews and the criticisms and have generally ignored the show, like us, then you can catch right up in this two minute video: more ›

You may have heard mumblings about Aereo recently, which brings television to people without television sets. And on this gorgeous spring day, we are here to tell you that you can now utilize the service! Who needs this sunshine when you can have some screen time? Head over to their site to sign up for a free 90-day trial (it's $12/month after that). Here's the deal... more ›

Aww, look at Peggy Olsen, getting all provocative! Mad Men actress Elisabeth Moss is the cover girl for this week's Page Six Magazine, "I don't walk around in a Burberry trench coat and bra all the time, but it's fun to embrace that part of yourself. I think every woman has a sexy, adventurous side.... Sometimes you just wanna wear somethin' real tight and show it all off. Lately I've been in that mood." more ›

Tomorrow is the big day: as we reported last month, NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan will be charming viewers nationally as guest host on LIVE! With Kelly. This also means that those without Time Warner and NY1 will be able to get their Kiernan fix, and word is he may even read the papers. So, consider this your reminder to set your DVR to record the show, which will air on ABC from 9 to 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Even Kiernan himself, who was in the studio today learning some guest host techniques, Tweeted, "must admit I got a little thrill setting the DVR today." more ›

Vanity Fair is publishing "The First-Ever Oral History of The Sopranos" in its upcoming issue, and one of the topics is the HBO's series' legendarily abrupt finale, which earned mixed reviews at first but is now considered as being groundbreakingly anticlimactic. James Gandolfini, Tony Soprano himself, says, "When I first saw the ending, I said, ‘What the f--k?’. I mean, after all I went through, all this death, and then it’s over like that?" more ›

The Carrie Diaries, a prequel series to Sex and the City, is happening, whether we want it or not. It will be airing on the CW, and they just casted a young Carrie Bradshaw (not taking any of our suggestions). more ›

The countdown is on to the long-awaited return of Mad Men, which will start up again with a fifth season on March 25th (the premiere will basically be a two hour movie). We've seen their first promotional campaign already (the falling man image), and now they've released round two, which is very different. The show's creator, Matthew Weiner, discussed the new poster—which features Don Draper staring into a Manhattan storefront featuring a nude mannequin—telling the NY Times: more ›

HLN news anchor Jane Velez-Mitchell has noticed that there sure is a lot of garbage in America, but where some people see repellent waste, she sees a solution to the nation's poverty. The poors should just pick food out of the garbage! Haven't they ever thought about that?! In a segment on dumpster diving, Velez-Mitchel gets a self-proclaimed freegan to teach viewers how to forage food from dumpsters and make "fresh" dinners. Pass those yellow gloves and hazmat suit over, and let's go diving! more ›

In 1975, a year before the show as you know it premiered on television, a half-hour variety show titled The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence piloted on ABC. It was meant to “parody the proliferation of sex and violence on television." Dangerous Minds revisited the old pilot on YouTube, and note, "watching this pilot it’s clear that Henson and co. were aiming for a more adult-orientated, risqué edge to the material, akin to the sketches they provided in the very early years of Saturday Night Live (and which were deemed, in the end, not to work.)" more ›

At a Community Board 1 meeting in Greenpoint last night, local residents hemmed and hawed about the television show Smash, which has been filming in studios in the area. This is nothing new, as New Yorkers have long complained about Hollywood disrupting their lives (even if the shoots bring money to the city, and creates jobs). According to the Brooklyn Paper, last night locals had a long list of complaints against the production, from noise to blocking the bike lanes. more ›

In November, Regis Philbin left his post at Live! With Regis & Kelly (née Kathie Lee), after co-hosting for over 20 years. Since then, the search has been on for a replacement, and of course, we've been rooting for NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan. Last March he told us about being a dark horse contendor for the show, and now nearly a full year later, he's been booked to guest host. more ›

Snooki & Co. have gotten a little too mainstream, so it's time to get back to the roots of scripted reality television, with some fresh meat. The latest in the attempt to recreate the "magic" of Jersey Shore comes from the Oxygen network, who are pointing their cameras at a group of girls from Bay Ridge. The show will be called Brooklyn 11223, and the NY Post reports that it will follow a "once tightknit group of girls from the Brooklyn ’hood [who] are still at each other’s throats over an alleged heinous act of betrayal years ago." Spoiler: there will probably be hair pulling. more ›

Last night James Van Der Beek Tweeted, "Valentine's gift for you—first poster for my new show..." which is sort of a self-promotional "gift" but whatever. DAWSON FOREVER. We hadn't heard of this show yet, which is based here in New York and is called Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, so we clicked. And guess what? In the sitcom, which will air on ABC starting on April 11th, James Van Der Beek plays James Van Der Beek! Which is only slightly less intriguing than if he were to play an older Dawson Leery. more ›

Even though it's almost entirely filmed out in Los Angeles, How I Met Your Mother does a pretty great job of portraying the city and its inhabitants—with episodes introducing us to the cockamouse and zeroing in on when someone's a real New Yorker. So, it only makes sense that the character Ted Mosby, who plays an architect-turned-professor, has a Rate My Professor page. There are actually a few (over at NYU he's got a 4.3), but on the show he teaches at Columbia, where students have given him a 4.4 for "overall quality." more ›

We love few things at Gothamist as much as we love the OG Law & Order and maps (pretty much only one thing, in fact: Pandas). So we'd be remiss not to mention Very Small Array's latest bit of awesome: A map of all of the (non-fictional) street addresses listed in the first season of Law & Order. more ›