If you remain in denial that Mad Men is coming to an end when the second half of its seventh and final season airs on AMC in Spring 2015, key cast members joining other shows confirms that it will soon be time to move on.
Christina Hendricks — best known as Joan Harris, an account executive at Sterling Cooper & Partners — has found her Mad Men follow-up, signing on for the pilot of the upcoming Showtime comedy titled Roadies. The series focuses on a rock band and its tour, with the story largely told from the view of the road crew. Hendricks will play the band’s production manager.
If this sounds anything like Almost Famous to you, you’re not wrong. Cameron Crowe is writing and directing the Roadies pilot and is an executive producer for the hour-long show. (He might need this gig to succeed, as it sounds like his latest movie didn’t impress the higher-ups at Sony Pictures.) Hendricks joins Luke Wilson, Imogen Poots, Keisha Castle-Hughes, and Rafe Spall in the cast, each playing a part of the behind-the-scenes crew for the fictional band.
No word on when Roadies is set to premiere on Showtime, but the pilot is scheduled to shoot in Vancouver in early 2015.
