Today's News: Our Take - Castle's Creator Discusses the Show's Double Identity

Adam Bryant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:00 -0500

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On Monday's episode of Castle (10/9c, ABC) Detective Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) investigate the murder of a man who appears to have a double identity, a concept not unfamiliar to the show's creator, Andrew W. Marlowe.

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No, Marlowe doesn't lead a double life, but his show is increasingly a mix of cops-and-robbers procedural fun and good ol' family drama...

Today's News: Our Take - Exclusive: Mad Men Creator Discusses the Kennedy Assassination

Adam Bryant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:23:00 -0500

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Before Mad Men's third season, fans wondered when, as in what year, series creator Matthew Weiner would resume the story.

There was reason for the anticipation: In the Season2 finale, Betty (January Jones) revealed to reformed womanizer Don (Jon Hamm) that she was pregnant, and viewers were curious how that would play out. But more significantly, everyone wondered whether or not Weiner would skip over the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy. After all, Weiner said more than a few times that he didn't think he had anything to add to the historical landmark.

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But Weiner changed his mind. "My attitude about the assassination changed as I got deeper and deeper into the period and after I wrote the first two seasons," he tells TVGuide.com "I thought it was a melodramatic trope the way it had been treated...

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Today's News: Our Take - Castle's Creator Discusses the Show's Double Identity

Today's News: Our Take - Exclusive: Mad Men Creator Discusses the Kennedy Assassination