Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:36PM - By traviswoods
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Now that Breaking Bad is off the air, it’s time to focus on our other television obsession — Mad Men. Recently, series creator Matthew Weiner spoke about the show’s dramatic return and its unexpected ending. Warning: Several spoilers regarding Mad Men’s series finale are after the jump!
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Monday, September 19, 2011 9:15AM - By traviswoods

Well, last night was television’s big night, the 2011 Emmy Awards, in which the luminaries of the small screen gathered together to pat each other on the back, stare vacuously on the red carpet before the show, and proceed to make horribly, horribly unfunny jokes before arbitrarily handing out awards.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 9:15AM - By traviswoods

There’s been a deluge of Mad Men news of late—between AMC forcing the show’s fifth season into production with or without creator Matthew Weiner to Weiner and AMC finally coming to a compromise concerning product placement and episode length, it’s been a rollercoaster of a month for Mad Men fans. And now, there comes a bit of payoff for all of the stress—Mad Men is coming to Netflix Instant.
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Friday, April 1, 2011 7:15AM - By traviswoods

Well, knock back a scotch and loosen that tie a little bit, Mad Man fans, as it’s time to rejoice—the protracted contractual bickering between Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and the AMC network have come to an end.
We recently reported that negotiations had stalled over the fact that AMC wanted two minutes cut from each episode to allow more commercial time, wanted more product placement in the show, and insisted that two regular characters be cut to save money. Essentially, every bad decision a network could possibly make when trying to meddle with something that was already perfect and insanely popular in an effort to squeeze just a little more money out of the situation.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:41PM - By Andrew Payne

Everybody’s favorite arthouse Blockbuster hits shelves this week as Natalie Portman’s oscar-winning role in Black Swan dances its way onto DVD. But that’s not all for the art film set. There are two movie so tiny, that you may not even know they exist. Or, you could just enjoy Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi in the kiddie hit Tangled. It’s all for the laser-aided spinning.
But it’s not just movies this week. Finally, we get the return of TV on DVD with HBO’s Treme and AMC’s Mad Men bringing the cable heat.
All that, plus a movie I’m pretty sure Hilary Swank wished didn’t exist.
Check it out below…
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:08AM - By traviswoods

As the battle between Mad Men creator/ showrunner Mathew Weiner and AMC continues—AMC wants Weiner to agree to “integrating product placement into the series, cutting 2 minutes from each episode’s running time in favor of more commercials and eliminating/reducing two regular cast members to save money,” according to Deadline, while Weiner is taking the opposite, ‘why don’t you pay me $30 million over the next two years to make creative/ business decisions that ensure the show doesn’t suck,’ stance—AMC is skipping over Weiner by exercising a contractual option with Lionsgate TV to launch season five of the series in early 2012.
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Monday, October 18, 2010 7:49AM - By danseitz

When we last left Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, going into the finale they’d lost Lucky Strike, fired half the staff, and variously shown that all of them except Pete Campbell, Pete Campbell of all people, and Bert Cooper lacked a spine in some respect or another. How do we cap that off? Oh, “Mad Men” knows how to do just that. Be warned, this is going to be a spoiler-heavy discussion, including speculation on Season 5, so catch the episode before you continue reading…
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Monday, October 11, 2010 6:40AM - By danseitz

Last week, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce took the bad news of Lucky Strike leaving about as well as you’d expect. They had to start looking for more business, and figure out how to contain the fallout. How’s that going?
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Monday, October 4, 2010 7:57AM - By danseitz

Last week on “Mad Men,” Roger got some terrible news about his one account, Lane got a beat down courtesy of dear old dad, and Don nearly made another bad decision. Do things get any better for the crew this week? Not so much! Check out our review and see what happened…
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