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Hot Dog!! Mastermind Matt Weiner Signs For MAD MEN’s Third And Fourth Seasons!!
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We’ve known since October that AMC had renewed “Mad Men” for a third season, though creator/showrunner Matt Weiner was not yet contracted to oversee it.
Today comes word that Weiner has just signed to steer the adventures of ad agency staffers Don Draper, Peggy Olsen, Roger Sterling, et al for another two seasons.
Season three is slated to hit AMC this summer.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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that's what I truly wish I would be
And if I were an Oscar Myer weiner
Everyone would be in love with me.. -
shut the fuck up.
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I'm glad Lionsgate saw reason and gave Weiner a package he could be happy with. Shows like MAD MEN come around very, very, very seldom.
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Jan 16, 2009 9:27:56 PM CST
Looks like Lionsgate saw the light after his Golden Globe win
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The idea that they were even *thinking* of ditching the series creator just to save money was pretty bone-headed.
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so I will give MAD Men a chance.
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Such good news!!!
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Christina Hendricks and her incredible assets will be back... sweet!!!!!!!
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...and I'm an atheist.
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Lionsgate would be so stupid not to let him continue his creative vision because of money.
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how did they get to run the studio???
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it will be interesting to see the show when he finally enters the counterculture era.
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I was beginning to worry this wasn't going to happen!
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Life can now continue unabashed.
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Now please hear me out before you get angry; I don't mean this post in a mean-spirited way, I'm actually genuinely curious. I *loved* the first season of "Mad Men." I only saw one episode of the second season, which I thought was decent (I hope to catch the rest of it via Netflix). What I mean when I ask whether Weiner has a vision is this: in general, I think *most* (not all, but most) series have a concept or conceit that they start out with, but not a vision or an arc per se. So the first few seasons are usually the best. But as time progresses and the show goes on, the power of that vision starts to peter out, become diluted, and the quality of the episodes tend to decline. So I haven't done a lot of background research on this show, and I don't even know what about it attracted Matthew Weiner in the first place, but my question is, Did he have a "vision" for the show? An "arc," per se? Or was his initial attraction to the project the conceit of an examination of gender roles in the late '50s/ early '60s, and the further the show progresses in time, the more it deviates from its original appeal? Anyway, I really do like the show and I wish him well. I also wish AMC well, which, between this, "Breaking Bad," that new pilot Darren Aronofosky is directing, and probably more stuff I can't list off the top of my head, seems to be producing some top-shelf entertainment of late. Also, fun fact: apparently Matthew Weiner used to write for the CBS sitcom "Becker" (starring Ted Danson as a cantankerous M.D.), which I have to admit is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. The show's pretty stupid, but Danson is brilliant in it, and, not surprisingly, the episodes that Weiner primarily scripted are the most decent.
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ty amc for not wrecking the best show on american tv
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I think most show creators have an idea of where they want their show to go for at least the first few seasons (the exception being the creators of HBO's Tell Me You Love Me), because they'd have to share that information with the studio/network to prove there's enough of a story to sustain the show if it succeeds, but I doubt most creators really work out arcs much longer than that. The reason being, writing for a TV series is a lot different than, say, writing a novel. When you write a novel, you decide how many pages it will be. But when you write a TV series, the network decides. You could start off thinking you're going to write a 500 page novel, and be forced to write 300 pages (or 700 pages) instead. That's apparently what happened with The Sopranos. Chase reportedly only planned a 3-year series. When he was asked by HBO to extend the series, because of its success, he had some problems doing that. Your post didn't get me angry, by the way. You raised a legitimate question.
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i guess after their win at the globes this past weekend helped amc to get their shit together and sign weiner. i shudder to think what the show might have turned into without him.
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anchor? Not that you're really improving the connotation with that pronunciation. ("No, it's pronounced 'Fronkenshteen'.")
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He has said that he wants to go 5 seasons and cover around ten years (basically, the historical highlights of the sixties). He's also said he doesn't want to cover JFK's assassination because he thinks it's been done to death (pun clearly intended). My guess is Mad Men will focus more on the creative (drugs, music, & art) side of the sixties, sexual independence and feminism, so there should be plenty worth watching.
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can't forget about civil rights!
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....it's just a little boring....
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That could have been a colossal fuck up.
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for once. Good job AMC. You did good.
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Isn't it obvious, given the time the show's set in, that the show is on one level very much about change, and if it "deviates from its original appeal" maybe the thing that appealed to you isn't truly Weiner's "vision" for the show? I strongly suspect this is the case if you are mainly attracted by the lifestyles of these characters, cause they are definitely not gonna end up where they started. They will either change or be extinct, I figure.And though this contract was probably a fait accompli, it's still terrific news.
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I just burrowed all of Season One of Mad Men from the public library and am thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks for your extensive DVD collection, Farmingdale Public Library! Next up: Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, I know it's ending, but I figured I'd get into it now with the DVDs.
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I'm not sure what's up with the passive-agressive quotes. I didn't say "Mad Men" has 'deviated from its original appeal,' just saying that tends to happen to series in general. As for what Weiner's 'vision' (which, by the way, is not my word: look farther up the TalkBack) or the show is about, yes, they are now in the '60s, which means change. But that doesn't mean Weiner's obvious attraction to the story was the idea of a nation in flux (although it may have been, I don't know). For me the appeal of the first season wasn't that I desired their lifestyle or whatever you're accusing me of, but that it examined the tensions of a country on the verge of change. And maybe that was what Weiner thought was interesting as well, I don't know. Either way, that obviously goes out the window as the series progresses, which is why I asked in the first place.
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Now he does.
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Is the point of the show that Don is good at advertising because he is good at presenting an outer image while what's inside is very much in question? Don is a master of presenting himself as being well turned out, cool, smooth, etc and yet underneath the cool is a mess. He cheats on his wife, he's irresponsible, he's careless with other people. He doesn't know who he is, or what he wants, and yet at the same time he can make everyone else either want him, or want to be like him. Does that make some sort of statement about America? I'm so confused, but at least the show makes me think.
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I don't know if I'd say that's the point of the show, but it's a fairly accurate description of Draper's character.
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So glad to hear this. That Pete and Peggy scene in the finale is so fucking wonderful.
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You're getting a little too psychological here. Use of quotes doesn't equal passive-aggressive. Usually it is for the sake of clarity; for instance above you allude to me saying you desired their lifestyle, which I didn't say. Hence, the absence of a quote, perhaps.Your last two sentences answer your own original question and pretty much echo exactly what I said so I don't know what is bothering you.
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But I also wouldn't mind seeing something new from this man.
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...I'm detecting a little hostility here. My bad, you didn't say I desired their lifestyle; you said (and I quote) that I was "attracted to their lifestyle." Big difference. Anyway I don't have a problem with you per se, the main reason I replied was because it seemed like your post was a response to mine and I just wanted to clarify my viewpoint, which I guess I haven't done too good a job of. You say I echoed your sentiments but that's not true; we're sort of different wavelengths here. What I *think* you're saying is that the characters are supposed to be changing because that's the turbulent time they live in, and if you don't like it, then the show isn't deviating from its original vision so much as *you* are. Well, obviously a lot changes over the course of the '60s, but that doesn't mean that's Weiner's vision for the show in the sense that it's *always* where he wanted to go with it. He may not have thought farther ahead than simply the idea of writing about Mad Men in the late '50s/ early '60s, and is making the actual story up as he goes along. Or not. Either way I don't really have a problem with it (deviating from its original "appeal" was probably a poor choice of words) as long as it stays good; I was just asking whether anyone knew if there was a general outline for the series. Anyway, that's it.
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My point was only that if the show begins on the precipice of social turbulence and change, it's safe to assume the creator or showrunner - whomever - had an idea that that would factor into the trajectory of the characters and show in general. Are we still on different wavelengths? So sad if so, because not enough people wanna talk Mad Men!Oh and I guess I wasn't too clear either because when I said "attracted to their lifestyle" I meant to WATCHING it, not actually wanting it or even admiring it from afar. It's more like attracted in the same way one might be attracted to a movie about mobsters.
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Part of me is still curious to see what would have happened if that alleged offer to Sorkin actually happened...
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