The Business

Mad Men is a series on the cable network AMC, set in the New York ad world of the 1960's.  While the show showcases a variety of real world products, not all of them pay for the privilege.

The William Morris mailroom is the high-stress, low-pay, sanctum sanctorum of show biz. It can lead you straight to the top or leave you in strait jacket. Plus, what does it mean when a writer takes his name off a film?

A conversation about the vital, essential, but ultimately disposable Hollywood writer with Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman.  Plus, an agency assistant says 'goodbye, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu' in an e-mail that got Hollywood's tongues awaggin.'

Samuel Goldwyn said, "The harder I work, the luckier I get." We catch up with writer/director Richard Shepard who got "lucky" at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.  Plus, residuals, revisited.

The $37 billion business that mainstream journalists and Hollywood can no longer afford to ignore--it's a look at the burgeoning video game industry.  Plus, we revisit our chat with agent to the (underage) stars, Bonnie Liedtke.

Who gets paid what and why in Hollywood? We talk back-end, quotes and

It's a case of life imitating art imitating life! We talk with a filmmaker who had to convince U2 to OK his movie about a man trying to convince U2 to play a concert. Plus, are we seeing the last residuals of residuals?"

We talk to former studio chief and super fundraiser Tom Sherak

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at

What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble? We speak with the producers of Scrubs and Jericho about coming back from the brink of extinction.