http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/31/mad-men-three-seasons/
'Mad Men' is a done deal! AMC drama is renewed with Matthew Weiner on boardby James HibberdCategories: Mad Men, Television, TV Biz
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 March of 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. Weiner is also telling media outlets that the seventh season will be the final one for the show.
“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.”
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 April 2011 03:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Keep sleeping, Peggy and Don. You won't be back on until next year.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
shit, that's a while. are there other examples of tv shows w/ prolonged waits like this? do they do anything in regards of plot to compensate for how much they expect their audience to forget things?
― kelpolaris, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
I never watched the Sopranos, but wasn't there a crazy long delay between two seasons once? And then they split the season in two parts? My recollection is hazy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, there was at least a year and a half. same with The Wire, actually.
― Gukbe, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hmmm, seven seasons might be a bit much.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 1 April 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
all shows should end at 5 seasons
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 1 April 2011 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
will people really forget more in the extra 5 months or whatever? i gues they expect everyone to buy the dvds and re-watch the season.
― mizzell, Friday, 1 April 2011 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
they always seem to show the previous season in reruns prior to the start of the new season.
― Jaq, Friday, 1 April 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've been waiting since I heard that the show was only supposed to last five seasons, I was going to ride out the network run until it was over and watch through Netflix. Now that it's running for seven seasons I'm not so sure that I care because shows tend to dip in quality after S5 anyway.
― Simpsons Christmas Boogie (MintIce), Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've completely forgotten what happened in those four seasons
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
thank goodness its all on netflix streaming now
i just started watching on netflix. can you get cancer from watching people smoke all the time? i wish it focussed more on advertising and less on sex and smoking. not sure it's worth watching episode 3. women will be treated poorly, men will smoke inside and race relations will be tense. please tell me those themes aren't the main themes for the rest of the show.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
no, there's also the terrible parenting theme!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh yeah, episode 2 some little girl is playing in a plastic bag. there's too many good shows to devote 50 more hours to this.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay!
― max, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
You're shaking my foundations brotherlovesdub
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am pretty sure that I have never known anyone who watched, say, all of season 1 of Mad Men and then lost interest. People either find it deeply unpleasant based on the first couple episodes, or they are fans.
― (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
they do tone down the lol 60s stuff after a while
― sea jasper, a meteor, rose quartz and quartz (reddening), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
except for like the times when they just pander to it, gloriously
― (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
brotherlovesdub: Virtually every mad men thread ever is peppered with new watchers coming in and (justifiably) complaining about the lol60s shit. That stuff goes away, though, so stick it out until the end of the season and see how you feel. It's a great drama. You won't be disappointed. There really aren't many shows better than this at the moment.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
ad agency, marital infidelity, father hits his grown son with a cane iirc
― sea jasper, a meteor, rose quartz and quartz (reddening), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, i meant what gubke said
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol I totally forgot about the cane
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
gets way better after the first few episodes. then season 2 drags a bit. then it gets all time great TV for seasons 3 and 4 imo.
― the wheelie king (wk), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just watched episode three. Think I'll keep going. I just want the women to triumph over the men and for Draper to get killed/humiliated/die of cancer. I guess he's the star so that won't happen. He's scum though. Guess I should check out the other Mad Men threads.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 05:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I watched the first 3 seasons and 2-3 episodes of the 4th season and then lost interest
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 05:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha yeah was just going to post that i checked out somewhere around the middle of season 3
idk why im reading this either but yknow
― Monstrous TumTum (Lamp), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 05:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I mean I don't hateee mad men...I like the *idea*, I like the lol60s shit...but it's just toooooo slowwwww and repetitive for me and I realized I was pretty much forcing myself to sit through every new episode.
anyway I have no interest in trolling this thread.
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Season three is the worst one IMO. Loved season four.
But to any newbies: When I started watching I thought it was merely interesting until about halfway through the first season, then I realised I love it. Persevere, watch it in order, it's a slow burner.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 07:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i find myself thinking of that NYRB crit of it whenever i think of this recently, maybe because it charged the show with being soap opera-ish & i have reduced don draper to being a moody, glowering, tall dark handsome soap opera figure
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like this show but i kind of dont miss it
― max, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
good riddance to agreeable television drama
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, Sally is going to look like she's 20 when it comes on again.
― *tera, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, they've already had her masturbating, so she is growing up. S5 is shooting now, right?
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep.
― (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Since season 4 was 1964-65, I would think season 5 should be around 1967-68...?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
i would've thought they'd try to go a little slower than that, but that's not based on/might be contrary to whatever's been customary until now. like i woulda thought 66/67. it depends how long the guy envisions it living on for i guess?
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I missed one episode last season, the one where don and peggy get drunk together. My gf summed it up for me at the time so I was able to watch the rest of the eps during the season, and when I watched it for the first time a few days ago, it was alright, like I could see that the only reason I really watched all the eps was momentum
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I met weiner once at the beverly hills hotel, kinda surreal because I was lost and out on the pool deck area when it happened
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
wth
― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp feel free to post that in the posts w/o context thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
this show is pretty great when you can watch 2-3 eps at a time and pretty excruciating on a week to week basis. like, the story arc to season 4 is pretty good (if maddening and depressing) but also pretty annoying when its coming in drips and drabs.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know what you mean about momentum, but I also think "The Suitcase" was the best episode of the season!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ yeah, all-time ep right there
― (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was a really good episode compared to other eps, and I liked it somewhat, and thought there were brilliant parts with brilliant bits of acting, but a lot of the episode, perhaps more than others, I don't know at this point because I haven't seen the show in a while, was don yelling at peggy for work related reasons, and when I was watching it, I guess, because I was removed from the mad men world, I couldn't help but think that I was glad I wasn't exposed to its world as much
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i saw a little girl out to dinner with her family at a mexican restaurant last week that was a dead-ringer for sally. it was so uncanny i almost said something to the parents but i told myself to forget it and finish my nachos.
― (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
"hey uh I dunno if you know this but your daughter looks a lot like a child star that some nerds on the internet really can't wait to see grow up into a teenager!"
― (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah nachos was probably the better move
FYI I recommend that everyone into this show watch the movie version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with Robert Morse
― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2011 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dj-jaffe/fda-considers-caving-to-s_b_346741.html
― brony ver (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
This last episode was pretty much perfection, I think. Far surpassed any film I've seen in the last... 3 years or so. Just... really great.
― homosexual II, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2012/06/mad_men_memories_ghosts_doppel.html#more
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
that's good.
― goole, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
watched this again last night - my opinion of Megan's mother is unchanged. when she comes in to find Megan in bed she's the one who starts going on about how the world can't fulfill all the dreams of little girls, that she's being lazy. Megan lashes back with the "is that what you tell yourself" comment but then her mom calls her "an ungrateful little bitch".
this is shitty parenting.
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Tough love
― *tera, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
megan got to marry a cool rich guy instead of a pissy communist
― goole, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
...and she's never had to blow Roger!
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
to complicate things further, am i the only on who got a sense that the chemistry between don and marie was somehow livelier than with megan?
― goole, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
uh they hate each other...?
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
yes but
― goole, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
leave your fan fiction for livejournal.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
^applies to 80% of this thread honestly
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
from the op: "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."
Did this actually happen? Every episode (ads included) seemed to run longer than an hour this season.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
The eps on itunes were 47 minutes (credits included).
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 June 2012 05:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
All episodes this season ran past the hour
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 June 2012 08:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
I just watched season 5, all 13 episodes, in four days, for the first time. Saw the last four episodes last night. A lot of things still not letting me go, haunting and enticing me, and I think this was by far the best MM season.
Went to read all the comments here after every episode which has been a treat :-)
Bit melancholy there's no more now. Do we know when season 6 will be aired? Next year?
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
i like that there will be a yearlong break (or more). this kind of takes up a lot of time, watching and thinking about etc. moving on to other things.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Lady Lazarus closing montage w/ other songs from Revolver:
http://vimeo.com/44437420
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
i give that another half hour of existence
― goole, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
Eleanor Rigby works a little too well.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
A college professor of mine had a 1968 XKE, and told me about how he once defiantly stormed out of a faculty meeting only for his Jag to hilariously not start. As soon as Lane connected the hose I thought, yep, not gonna start.Plus, didn't Roger have some line about how they never start in the previous episode?
Plus, didn't Roger have some line about how they never start in the previous episode?
My mom still has her '67 XKE she bought new and the electrical problems are indeed legendary. By the early 70s, the faults with the Lucas-built electrics were so bad that Lucas became better known as "The Prince Of Darkness" - striking down innocent cars without warning. Lucas Electrics jokes are everywhere among gearheads from the basic "Q. Why do the English drink warm beer? A. Because they have Lucas refrigerators." to complicated eBay auctions for Lucas magic smoke. There's a page of this stuff: http://www.mez.co.uk/lucas.html
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 July 2012 00:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
lmao those are great
― call all destroyer, Friday, 20 July 2012 02:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
nice to see jared harris get an emmy nom on his way out! also lol for days @ jon hamm being nominated for both don draper and his racist caricature "abner" from the 30 rock live episode
― deist mountain dew (reddening), Friday, 20 July 2012 13:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
Jon Hamm: able to offend EVERYONE, remain sexy whilst doing so
his first 30 Rock Live show was better imo but either way, the man deserves some credit for his comedy chops! He's consistent gold on 30 Rock.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 20 July 2012 13:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
jon hamm stole both of those 30 rock episodes, either way.
― phantompenguin, Saturday, 21 July 2012 06:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
BANJO
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Saturday, 21 July 2012 12:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
Peggy to remain as central character
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
phew!
― computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Saturday, 28 July 2012 03:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
feel like the "what is happiness? it's just the moment before you want more happiness" line is kind of a major signpost for where Don is going next season
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 September 2012 17:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
to lots more happiness!!!
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 September 2012 17:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 September 2012 17:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
Season 6 is happening next spring/summer right?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
I don't think they've said yet, but hopefully they'll keep going with the spring season so I don't have to wait over a year for new eps.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think AMC is sticking w/spring rollouts for this show from here on out. I just hope they don't split the last season into halves like Breaking Bad.
― Instagrams of Lily on My Facebook Wall (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's not as plot intensive/obsessed with tying up loose ends as BB, so you'd think a thirteen ep final season should be fine.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
I thought there were two more seasons planned
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah there are 7 total seasons planned iirc
― Clay, Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
yum spring rolls
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 September 2012 20:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 March 2013 23:05 (2 months ago) Permalink
o man
― balls, Monday, 11 March 2013 23:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/11/mad-men-new-series-new-hire
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 00:00 (2 months ago) Permalink
MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 01:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
Thanks! I’m a lazy ILXor who relies on Bookmarks.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:28 (2 months ago) Permalink
ugh, fat betty
― j., Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
fat betty was amazing. i think the scene where she goes to sneak a little whipped cream from the fridge, aerosols it into her mouth, gets disgusted with herself and spits it out in the sink is maybe the best scene in the entire series
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:34 (1 month ago) Permalink
best scene of the series tbh vv
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:47 (1 month ago) Permalink
otm
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
Fat Betty was solid, I thought. Better than hiding the pregnancy by holding bags and pots of flowers or what have you.
^^it also allowed them into an early Weight Watcher's meeting.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 03:43 (1 month ago) Permalink