News
August 31, 2007
- The government is planning on intervening in the subprime mortgage crisis. READ MORE HERE
- The Hyundai union prez calls for a strike. Not good. READ MORE HERE
- Apple to unveil new touch screen video iPod. READ MORE HERE
- NBC to pull its TV shows from iTunes. READ MORE HERE
- The Universal Music Group’s downloads double. READ MORE HERE
- Nokia’s iPhone competitor is on the way. READ MORE HERE
- Dell’s profit jumps. Was it the new spots? READ MORE HERE
- Skype spam has arrived. READ MORE HERE
- Disney kicks off it’s Highschool Musical marketing blitz overseas. READ MORE HERE
- Mad Men has officially tanked. READ MORE HERE
August 31, 2007 at 3:40 pm
re: Mad Men
The review was written by ad columnist Lewis Lazare.
Everyone in our business seems to hate the show, for despite the anal-retentive attention to period detail, it seems to get just about everything about the ad business wrong.
That said, the rest of the world seems to regard it as a well-written soap opera with excellent period details. It’s still getting rave reviews in places like Entertainment Weekly and the NY Times.
My take? It’s a moderately-well-done soap opera that’s interesting for the period details. And that the latter factor is what’s seducing the critics.
September 1, 2007 at 4:01 pm
The show itself is unwatchable. I write better than this stuff.
So much for advertising it as the “best written new drama”.