'Mad Men' cleans up. AMC's Mad Men, which returns for its second season next Sunday, won three of the 11 Television Association Critics Awards Saturday night. Stars Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss got so excited, they were smoking real cigarettes at the after-party.

The show, set in the '60s, features extensive retro dress and behavior, including billows and billows of smoke from herbal cigarettes. But a lot of the actors puff the real ones when the cameras stop.

The critics named Mad Men - top drama in the Emmy race with 16 nominations - as outstanding new program, outstanding drama, and program of the year.

HBO's John Adams took down two TCA awards, for outstanding achievement in movies, miniseries and specials, and individual achievement in acting, for star Paul Giamatti.

NBC's 30 Rock matched that performance. It was named best comedy, and star and chief cook and bottle washer Tina Fey got the best comic-acting award.

"It's a great time to be in broadcast television, isn't it?" she enthused. "It's like being in vaudeville in the '60s."

Later, when accepting the best-comedy show award, she apologized: "The rest of the cast could not be here tonight because NBC is broke."

Two PBS programs got prizes: The War, for news and information, and WordGirl, for best children's program. Saturday Night Live impresario Lorne Michaels won the career achievement award, and HBO's The Wire received the Heritage Award, which is given to a program that ran at least five seasons and "whose content has had a positive impact on TV, society and popular culture."

John Adams executive producer Tom Hanks showed up to accept the show's award, which gave everybody a thrill.

Mad Men's Hamm underscored the current celestial vs. swampy duality of TV when he accepted the drama prize. He thanked Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? "for pushing the envelope so far that way, that there was a place . . . where we could sneak in."

Going to the dogs. Who wants to hang out with puffed-up actors and moneybags producers at the big Hollywood party when there are cool dogs in the house?

Several contestants from CBS's

awwwww-inspiring Greatest American Dogs showed up with their humans this weekend at the big star party thrown by the network at L.A.'s latest trend-central club, Boulevard3.

From Rancho Santa Margarita, down in Orange County, there was little Beacon, the miniature schnauzer, with his momma, Brandy Yant.

And Bella Starlet Dog, who flew all the way out from New York City with her buddy, Beth Joy Knutsen. Bella has her own business card ("Professional Dog Actress Extraordinaire"). She's a Chihuahua, Labrador, Pomeranian, shih tzu mix, with a little Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever thrown in, said Knutsen, who traced her ancestry via DNA.

Also there was Tillman the English bulldog, who is equally at home on skateboards and snowboards, said his daddy, Ron Davis of Oxnard, Calif.

"Tillman may be chunky, but he loves to go fast," said Davis.