Reuters - On the heels of its 16 Emmy nominations, including best drama series, AMC's "Mad Men" opened its second season with 2 million viewers Sunday.

Reuters - The paradox of Starz's "In the Gutter," a semi-academic look at gross-out humor in the movies from its slapstick origins to the likes of "Borat" and "Knocked Up," is that many of those most enamored with the genre are probably least likely to be attracted to a lesson in its history.

E! Online - Break out the baby toys for Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell.

Reuters - When it debuted as AMC's first original weekly drama series July 19, 2007, "Mad Men" could not have started out further from the TV industry's consciousness. Its premiere was pretty much a spectacular non-event.

Reuters - The Israeli actor playing Saddam Hussein in a new television series once narrowly escaped a missile fired by the late dictator's army.

AP - In the latest expansion of her culinary empire, celebrity chef Rachael Ray has launched a charity-driven line of dog foods based on recipes she has created for her pit bull, Isaboo.

AP - NBC News could rent a small plane just for the top news personalities going to Beijing to cover the Olympics: Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry, Lester Holt, Richard Engel, and Kevin Tibbles among them.

AP - Melissa Gilbert has finally come home to the prairie — or at least to the big city near the prairie. She has yet to sink her feet into Plum Creek, next to the dugout where the real-life Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in the 1870s.

AP - Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced Monday he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian with his Corvette and drove away.

AP - Every evening for the past four months, a tall young man with soulful blue eyes has been stealing hearts across the Middle East, from the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip to the gated mansions of Riyadh.