TVR: Mad Men

paper · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:51 pm

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'Mad Men' is a done deal! AMC drama is renewed with Matthew Weiner on board

Don Draper might make it to the 1970s after all. After a protracted standoff, AMC, Lionsgate and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner have reached an agreement for seasons five and six of the Emmy-winning drama.

Weiner, who will return as showrunner, has also signed a new long-term deal with Lionsgate. As a result of the negotiations, however, season five isn’t expected to air until next year.

Weiner signed a deal that’s worth about $10 million per year. The creator compromised slightly on issue of the show’s running time, agreeing to the show running two minutes shorter in all epiosdes (45 minutes) when on AMC except the fifth season’s premiere and finale (47) — with an option for Weiner to turn in 47-minute episodes for other platforms like VOD and DVD. The main cast is signed on for two more season and no more cuts are expected there.

The deal was originally supposed to be for three seasons, but the cast isn’t yet signed for a seventh season so that’s being tabled for the time being. But everybody thinks that now that Weiner is on board, a seventh season will happen.

“I want to thank all of our wonderful fans for their support,” Weiner said in a statement. “I also want to thank AMC and Lionsgate for agreeing to support the artistic freedom of myself, the cast and the crew so that we can continue to make the show exactly as we have from the beginning. I’m excited to get started on the next chapter of our story.”

“AMC’s original programming began with a mission to create bold storytelling of the highest quality, and Mad Men was the perfect expression of that commitment,” Charlie Collier, president of AMC, said in a statement. “We’ve been proud to support this show from the day we read Matt’s ground-breaking pilot script and have loved building it with Matt and Lionsgate into the cultural phenomenon it has become. For everyone involved in the show and its passionate fans, we are thrilled to announce that the series will continue on AMC under the exceptional vision of Matt Weiner.”

FT · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:32 pm

yeah, i am really hoping this series makes it to the '70s

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:25 pm

If I was AMC I would have okey-doked him, and had a separate writer jam out a season of Sterling's origin stories.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:50 pm

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

If I was AMC I would have okey-doked him, and had a separate writer jam out a season of Sterling's origin stories.

I'd love Pete Campbell, the Princeton years.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:24 pm

FT Wrote:

yeah, i am really hoping this series makes it to the '70s

Don Draper is Patient Zero.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:26 pm

Kingfish Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

If I was AMC I would have okey-doked him, and had a separate writer jam out a season of Sterling's origin stories.

I'd love Pete Campbell, the Princeton years.

It's basically the same, but with less forced sexual encounters and more masturbating in coffins.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:18 pm

Reading thing's like "seventh season" actually makes my stomach turn a little bit; not a great track record for shows going that deep.

mutty · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:58 am

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Reading thing's like "seventh season" actually makes my stomach turn a little bit; not a great track record for shows going that deep.

oh c'mon - two and half MEN anyone?!? :rawk:

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:58 am

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Reading thing's like "seventh season" actually makes my stomach turn a little bit; not a great track record for shows going that deep.

Yeah, i can't wait until they bring in a hot young star as Roger's long lost so. His zany antics are just what we need to liven this up!

FT · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:12 am

Tee Wrote:

FT Wrote:

yeah, i am really hoping this series makes it to the '70s

Don Draper is Patient Zero.

my money's on lee garner, jr.

FT · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:32 pm

discostu · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:13 pm

I was wondering why there was no chatter.

Megan Draper Wrote:

Don't look at me. You can't have this!

mutty · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:37 pm

Wife and I sat silently through the first 40 minutes before I got up the nerve to say "this really sucks, doesn't it?" to which she quickly agreed. Admitting it was like a dull weight was lifted from our shoulders. It felt too self-aware of it's long hiatus, too obsessed with showing us what's changed, and what was still the same. Look! Pete is still a prissy bitch! Look! Roger is still the office's misogynistic leech! Look! Don is still the golden boy of mad ave, everyone wants his opinion, although nobody wants his business. And he's complicated, oh so very complicated... you'll never know WHAT he will do! Except we did. We see his temper coming from a mile away.

By the end of the 2-hour episode I'd fallen right back into it's spell, though. Damn you, Mad Men!

two guns holla · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:34 am

I thought it was a masterful 2 episodes. It reintroduced us to the characters without holding our hands, which would have been too easy to do after 17 months away. And it was fucking laugh out loud funny at parts, too. Perfect way to start the season.

paper · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:02 pm

agreed with two guns, thought it was great.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:29 pm

two guns holla Wrote:

I thought it was a masterful 2 episodes. It reintroduced us to the characters without holding our hands, which would have been too easy to do after 17 months away. And it was fucking laugh out loud funny at parts, too. Perfect way to start the season.

Cosigned

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:17 pm

I enjoyed it. I wasn't riveted, but we had guests and there was some talking. I'll watch it again, we bought it on the ituneses.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i thought it was very good as usual. good set up for conflit this season. interestingly, i read that the story about the water baloons being thrown on the civil rights marchers was taken almost verbatim from a real news story.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:51 pm

Guess somebody's got to do it:

discostu Wrote:

Megan Draper Wrote:

Don't look at me. You can't have this!

FT · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:21 pm

"It's always darkest before the 'Dawn'..."

Best Roger Sterling line ever?

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:39 pm

FT Wrote:

"It's always darkest before the 'Dawn'..."

Best Roger Sterling line ever?

I watched this after my flight home and woke my wife I was laughing so hard. Fucking Sterling.

paper · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:30 pm

Fat Betty is pretty frightening.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:41 pm

paper Wrote:

Fat Betty is pretty frightening.

Someone should overdub her scenes with an Adele song. #sexyfat

pinehurst · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:45 am **Posts:** 1526

I was hoping she'd hit her doctor with a "Holy Shitsnacks" after finding out about the tumor.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:41 am

I immediately turned to my gf after the first appearance of the enlarged ex-mrs. draper, and sang, "WHOOOH-OH FAT BETTY, AMBA LAMPS"...it's a meme within a meme!

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