Animated show Grimsburg premieres on Fox Sunday, January 7. Jon Hamm gives voice to Marvin Flute, a pot-bellied detective with a mustache. Flute has solved a lot of mysteries in his career, but can’t quite figure out who he truly is. He returns to Grimsburg to redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow detectives, his ex-wife and his son. The town has some secrets it would like to remain secret. 

Hamm — who, of course, played Don Draper on Mad Men — got on board with Grimsburg when executive producer Gail Berman reached out to his manager, Connie Tavel. Tavel and Berman are old friends, and Berman said
she’d never once pitched Tavel on a project.

 Until she read the Grimsburg script. 

“I was like Con, it’s really funny,” she said. “It’s so perfect for Jon. He will make this character shine.”

Hamm loved the script too, and signed up to voice the main character and executive produce. 

After its January preview, Grimsburg slides into its regular time slot Sunday, February 18. Fox has committed to a second season. 

“I’m really, really excited to be on [Fox’s] Sunday-night lineup,” Berman said. “I think it’s a perfect place for the show. I think the show deserves that kind of quality lineup around us.”

Berman was Fox president of entertainment from 2000 to 2005, then president of Paramount Pictures. She’s now chairman and CEO of The Jackal Group. 

Also in the Grimsburg cast are Erinn Hayes as Marvin’s wife Harmony, Rachel Dratch as his son Stan and Alan Tudyk as Dr. Rufis Pentos and Mr. Flesh. 

Catlan McClelland and Matthew Schlissel created the show. 

Hamm is also on the new season of FX drama Fargo, where he plays ill-tempered North Dakota sheriff Roy Tillman. “I wouldn’t draw too many parallels between my animated character and [Tillman],” he told B+C. “When people get a chance to see Grimsburg they’ll know what I’m talking about.”

Across her long career, Berman said there’s only been a few times when a script that landed on her desk truly blew her and her colleagues away. “I think the only other time I had that happen to me was Malcolm in the Middle, where something came across the desk that was just kind of undeniable,” she said. “This was like that.” 

Fox has ordered the animated comedy Grimsburg, starring and executive produced by Jon Hamm. The show will premiere in 2023. Bento Box Entertainment will produce.

Hamm played Don Draper in Mad Men.

Catlan McClelland and Matthew Schlissel created Grimsburg. It sees detective Marvin Flute, voiced by Hamm, trying to figure out his family. 

“As we continue to expand our animation brand beyond family comedies, Grimsburg’s wildly funny, bizarre and inventive take on the crime genre makes it the perfect next generation Fox comedy,” said Michael Thorn, president of Fox Entertainment. “And with Jon Hamm front and center as Marvin Flute, the deeply troubled detective with very eclectic taste and opinions, we believe this may finally be Hamm’s breakout role as a leading man.”

Flute finds himself back in Grimsburg, aiming to redeem himself with the ex-wife he never stopped loving, and getting to know the son he never really knew. 

“I am very excited to be involved in the Fox animation universe, a universe I have been actively watching since the early ‘90s,” said Hamm. “The opportunity to get to bring a project like Grimsburg to life that is so particular and unique, and to work with its incredibly imaginative and hilarious creators is one I can’t wait to get started with.”

Chadd Gindin is the showrunner on Grimsburg. He executive produces with Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady of The Jackal Group and Connie Tavel.

“The mystery is solved, Grimsburg is a thoroughly original and comedic take on the small-town crime show trope with a mix of the insatiable Jon Hamm and head-spinning plot twists and turns,” said Berman. “Fox, Bento Box and Grimsburg’s genius creators, Catlan and Matthew are taking the animation genre to new heights under the wise leadership of our brilliant showrunner Chadd Gindin in this eccentric comedy with a broad appeal. We are thrilled to be a part of this great team.”

Hamm is currently in production on film Maggie Moore(s), in which he will star opposite Tina Fey. The film is being directed by John Slattery. Hamm's TV work includes Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and narrating Amazon's football docuseries All or Nothing.

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Mad Men actor Jon Hamm finally won the Best Actor in a Drama series award for his portrayal of Don Draper in AMC's Mad Men.

In accpeting the award, Hamm -- who is in his final year of eligibility -- said: "There's been a terrible mistake ... its impossible to have done this hsow with this incredible cast and writers,"

Draper beat out Showtime’s Liev Schereiber of Ray Donovan, AMC's Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul, Netflix’ Kyle Chandler of  Bloodline & Kevin Spacey for House of Cards, and Jeff Daniels of HBO’s Newsroom.

Cable TV favorites Jon Hamm, Amy Schumer, Larry David and John Oliver are among the first group of announced comics who will perform during Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs."

Jon Stewart will host the event, which his company Busboy Productions is producing. Also slated to appear are Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Paul Rudd, Martin Short and Larry Wilmore, More talent announcements will be forthcoming, the network said.

The "Night of Too Many Stars" special will tape at New York's Beacon Theatre on Feb. 28 and will premiere on Comedy Central on Sunday, March 8, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

As we welcome in all the promise of the New Year, some viewers are preparing to bid farewell to their favorite series and stars.

A number of marquee shows have already announced they will end their successful runs over the next 12 months. Arguably the most celebrated series departing, after a stellar seven-season run, is AMC’s Mad Men. The Matthew Weiner-produced drama chronicling a 1960s advertising agency has received nearly universal critical acclaim for its storytelling, historical authenticity and style — not to mention terrific acting led by series star John Hamm.

The series has also brought home a ton of hardware — 15 Emmy awards and four Golden Globe Awards since its launch in 2007. The final seven episodes of the series will air this spring.

Other shows also saying goodbye in 2015 include TBS’ Courteney Cox starrer Cougar Town, which debuts its sixth and final season Tuesday (Jan. 5); Showtime’s Nurse Jackie — led by multi Emmy winner Eddie Falco’s portrayal of conflicted emergency room nurse Jackie Peyton — which ends its seventh season later this year; and FX’s critically-acclaimed drama Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant as no-nonsense lawman Raylan Givens. That series will begin its sixth and final season on Jan. 20.

Certainly the loss of these and other quality scripted shows will somewhat diminish what many observers believe is a “golden age” of scripted programming on cable television. Fortunately for the industry and viewers, a number of new series are coming that hope to reach the same lofty heights as those shows leaving the air.

E! and Pivot will both jump into the scripted ring in 2015 with dramas The Royals and Fortitude, respectively; newly branded Pop will roll out comedy Schitt’s Creek; A&E will tap the supernatural genre with Returned; Netflix will ride the superhero wave with Marvel's Daredevil; and AMC will debut the much anticipated Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul in the new year, just to name a few.

Some of these shows, along with a slew of other new and returning scripted, reality and limited series, will be showcased over the next few weeks during the upcoming Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif.; the cable portion of the tour begins Wednesday (Jan. 7).

While viewers will be sad to see a number of cable series mainstays leave their TV schedules, they should be encouraged to know that more than enough new series are launching to keep them entertained throughout the New Year.

Jon Hamm (Don Draper on AMC’s 1960s ad-agency drama Mad Men, a role for which he is in the running for an Outstanding Lead Actor In a Drama Series Emmy tonight) and Daniel Radcliffe (best known as Harry Potter in the movies) play two versions of the same character – one older, one younger – in the dark Russian-based comedy, AYoung Doctor’s Notebook, which returned for a second season on Ovation on Tuesday, Aug. 19. New episodes of the BBC-produced series air Tuesdays at 10 p.m. To help promote the series return, Hamm (who is an executive producer of the series) did a round of interviews in New York City on Aug. 13, including one with Multichannel News. With some editing, here is how it went.

Q. Tell us about A Young Doctor’s Notebookand Other Stories, the second season of this series.

Jon Hamm: It’s called A Young Doctor’s Notebookand Other Stories because we kind of ran out of source material and we had to dip into some of his other stories. But we did that to kind to broaden the world a little bit and bring more of the revolution into the narrative. And it worked, in my opinion. It’s an interesting world, I think. Most people’s connection with revolutionary Russia is probably Dr. Zhivago, and that’s it. So it’s a world that I think not a lot of people know about, so it’s a nice jumping off point. And I think the writers wisely decided that that’s a fun sandbox to play around in a little bit, and they were able to do that. We have two sides of the same coin with Daniel and myself and that character, and it’s also interesting to look at in many ways as a sort of mirror image of season one, where Daniel’s character is then spiraling into addiction and my character is sort of making his way out of it, whereas the positions were reversed in season one.

Q. I think this is one of those shows that it’s maybe hard for the audience to know what to expect, so how would you describe it?

JH: I think it would be: it’s dark, it’s gory, it’s funny, it’s weird. But it’s interesting. Part of what makes watching television these days so exciting is that there exists things like this, and they get made, and they get shown, and people can seek them out and watch them.

Q. There seems to be a bit of a moment now for period medical pieces, with The Knick going on now [on Cinemax].

JH: We did it first! We did it first. Soderbergh, cribbing on our idea. I watched The Knick, I thought it was fantastic and very interesting and very evocative. They had a little more money to play with than we did. And I think you’re right there is a bit of a moment right now for the turn of the century medical. Part of it is just playing with all those awesome instruments like saws and hooks and eye gougers, ugh.

Q. Is there a reason why maybe there’s a look back at that?

JH: I think part of it is what I was talking about a little bit – at least in the television medium it’s an underexplored time and people don’t have a working knowledge. Maybe the Sixties was that before Mad Men came along and people said, ‘Well, I’ve never thought about that period in American history and oh my gosh.’ And then this show came along and kind of redefined it for a lot of people. People don’t know much about what happened at the turn of the century, especially in New York City. I remember reading the book Gangs of New York and learning about post Civil War New York City and then following up and going to the city museum and looking at maps of the city and what the city looks like. It’s no version of the city you think of as New York City. It was not a frontier town but it was very old timey. I think that turn of the century sensibility – is more people have one foot in the modern world and one foot very much in the old world, especially in Russia. When you’re way, way, way out in Russia you might as well be in the 16th century because that’s the technology that they’re dealing with

Q. Give us the high concept pitch about why to watch the show.

JH: I should be better at this by now, at distilling this into a sound bite, but I don’t have one. Maybe its weirdness is its attraction, the fact that its difference is its attraction. It’s not like anything else on. It’s certainly not like The Knick, other than there are amputations and blood. It’s got humor, it’s got sadness, it’s got really beautiful performances, myself excluded. Great cast. Really, really smart writing, clever funny. And fart jokes.

Q. Why did you want to do a second series of A Young Doctor’s Notebook?

JH: Part of it was that it was received so well. I was pleasantly surprised. We kind of did this, I don’t want to say on a whim because everyone got paid and we did this very much as a business proposal, but we were hoping that people would see it, we didn’t want to just navel gaze for four episodes. So we were incredibly delighted when it was received as well as it was. I believe it was at the time Sky Arts' number one thing in the thing. So you go great, now what? And obviously success breeds success. So we did [a second season]. And it was a challenge – an exciting challenge, though, because we were able to kind of work off of the template of the first one and at least know what we were getting into and it was easier to maybe structure a four-episode arc and what will it be, and where will we end up. The revolution is sort of ramping up, and what’s it going to be like? That part was exciting.

And you know, it was fun to go back. Part of the joy of TV is getting to hang out for a little while and play that character for a little while. I did Don Draper [on AMC’s Mad Men] for eight years, eight seasons basically. And I’m glad it’s over, I’m glad it’s in the rear view in many ways, but it was exciting while it lasted, to be able to do that for that long. I think any of my contemporaries, whether it’s Bryan [Cranston] or Tina Fey or any of those folks that have played these people that we identify them so readily with, would say, yeah, it’s a blast, and it’s also nice to have it in the rear view.

Q. It’s also nice to be able to do these stories in a compact way.

JH: Yeah, significantly shorter chunks. Which I knew was sort of the U.K. model of television. They don’t make long running. I mean they do, they have their Coronation Street or East Enders or whatever it is. But if you look at The Office or you look at Spaced or A Touch of Cloth or these other ones, Rev., they’re these little short runs. And it’s more interesting for me as an actor but also as a viewer to kind of – the meal seems more filling that way?

Q. Do you want to do more in that vein?

JH: I’d love to. I’m glad that American TV is sort of falling into that model, as well. Mad Men was 13 [episodes], and I think Orange is the New Black is 10 or something like that. It’s exciting. And it also gives you more time to do other stuff, which is also fun.

Q. What about more of A Young Doctor’s Notebook?

JH: I don’t know. We would have to get very creative with what we’re adapting from. It would be a challenge for our writers. Our writers – Mark Chappell, Sean Pye and Allan Connor -- are tremendously talented guys, very, very clever. So I bet they could rise to the challenge. But part of it is that we have a very busy star. Mr. Radcliffe is a busy boy.

Q. Have you seen him in The Cripple of Inishmaan [note: the Broadway run of the play ended on July 20]?

JH: I saw it over [in London] when we were shooting, or actually before we started shooting I got a chance to see it. That should also be highlit, by the way, the fact that he was doing a full-length production of Cripple of Inishmaan while we were shooting this show. Suffice to say I did not complain about being tired. I’d have no leg to stand on.

Q. O.K., here’s the set piece question: do you ever wish you could go back in time and intervene in young Jon Hamm’s life and if so where and when and what?

JH: I’ve been asked this question and I think the answer is no. First of all, I’ve been a teacher also and I remember trying to tell young kids that they were doing the wrong thing and 100% of them told me I was stupid and to shut up. So I think that’s most young people’s response to older people giving them advice: shut up, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Q. But this would be you to you.

JH: Right, so maybe that would have a little more weight to it. But I don’t know. I doubt it would. I think that is the nature of being young is to make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. I think that’s the larger lesson, to learn from your mistakes and don’t keep repeating them.

Q. Have you done that well?

JH: Boy, I hope so. I hope so. Life is long and mistakes are many.

Q. If not another short-form TV project, what is next for you and would you want do get back to something longer running?

JH: I don’t think there’s a good answer to that. First of all I wish I had 500 things to choose from but I don’t. But we’ll see. There could be five different versions of the next five years of my life and I think I’d be pretty happy with all five of them. What I’m trying to say is I’m very easy to please.