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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC

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biosnake20

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Leona Lewis said:
Nope.



My initial enthusiasm for a split season has now vanished.
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God damn it AMC.
 
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giga

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The show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, will shoot all the episodes in one production cycle, so in effect, AMC will simply be storing away the last seven episodes for a year.

Wow.

So done with AMC after this.
 
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CassSept

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I really think even as far as critics go it's a bad choice. Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like Mad Men lost a lot of steam following 1.5-year hiatus and since then became overshadowed by other shows. I doubt splitting a slow show like this will do any good.
 
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Cornballer

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- THR: 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Explains Split Season, Says No to Spin-Off
"It's a strategy from the network and I was told about it," he told THR at the West Hollywood event on Thursday night.

While the decision may not have been in his hands, Weiner told THR he's making the best of it.

"I found a way to work with it. That's all I can say. I think it's an opportunity," he added.

However, Weiner is very convinced that he won't be following in the footsteps of AMC's other shows The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, which are both getting spin-offs on the cable network.

"There's no chance," he told THR with a smile. "No judgment against anybody else -- but this is it. This is the story. When it's done, it's done."

Weiner's show will air the first seven episodes, dubbed "The Beginning," in the spring of 2014 and the final seven, "The End of an Era," in spring 2015.

"Every season is a new story, and I don't want to get bored but I also don't want to let the audience down," said Weiner. "For me, I start over. And there's this kind of thing that happens with the audience every year where it's like they're very happy to see us back in the premiere and when the new story starts around episode two they start getting antsy and then they get with it by episode three when they see it's a new story."
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RatskyWatsky

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Cornballer said:
- THR: 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Explains Split Season, Says No to Spin-Off

"It's a strategy from the network and I was told about it," he told THR at the West Hollywood event on Thursday night.

While the decision may not have been in his hands, Weiner told THR he's making the best of it.

"I found a way to work with it. That's all I can say. I think it's an opportunity," he added.
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Urgh, AMC...

"There's no chance," he told THR with a smile. "No judgment against anybody else -- but this is it. This is the story. When it's done, it's done."
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Thank. God.
 
Jackben

Jackben

bitch I'm taking calls.
Never seen any so far so I think they are cast only for the wrap parties and may be saved for later or not released at all. They do have some Easter eggs for example in the season 5 blu-ray they had hidden footage of news reels showing real events and culture at the time.
 
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johnsmith

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The season 6 blu-ray is only 9.99 at Target. Just grabbed it today. Great deal, the cheapest it's been on amazon is 19.99.
 
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sixteen-bit

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johnsmith said:
Universal and its definitely the blu (both actually). Bought it myself, but saw it on the blu-ray.com forums. It's not online but the website stock checker should work.
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Thanks for the heads up then.

Target doesn't censor their blurays do they? It's just music, right?

If not I'll definitely jump on this.
 
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lobdale

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I have ignored so, so many deals for ten bucks a season because I am waiting to rewatch the entire series once the whole thing's over and the super mega ultra Blu-ray set with all the goodies comes out.

I really hope it doesn't end up being like 200 dollars even though I totally know it will.
 
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Dance Inferno

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Hmm tempting, but I think I'm going to hold off until I can get the entire series on Blu-ray. Netflix will have to do in the meantime.
 
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Cornballer

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- 'Better Call Saul,' 'Mad Men' Get Premiere Dates; 'Talking Dead' Renewed
Better Call Saul, which focuses on the evolution of Bob Odenkirk's Saul Goodman before he became Walter White's attorney, will debut in November. (A specific date has not yet been determined.)

The first half of Mad Men's final season will bow Sunday, April 13 at 10 p.m., one week after the series debut of Revolutionary War drama Turn, which will get a 90-minute premiere starting at 9 p.m. on April 6.

Fellow freshman series Halt and Catch Fire, which centers on the personal computing era in the early 1980s, will launch in the summer at a specific date to be determined later. Western Hell on Wheels will also return later in the summer.

On the unscripted side, Game of Arms will premiere Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 10 p.m. followed by the May returns of Small Town Security and Freakshow.
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Valhelm

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Pardon, but is the season beginning on April 13th or taking a mid-season break on April 13th? I'm not sure what "bow" means in this context.
 
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Cornballer

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Marketing for S7 is slowly starting to ramp up.

AMC released two character recaps on their youtube channel:

- Mad Men in Less Than 2 Minutes: Don Draper Edition
- Mad Men in Less Than 2 Minutes: Peggy Olson Edition


Also, The Saturday Evening Post did a special cover this week along with a Q&A with some of the cast. Link here, though most of the Q&A is paywalled. Regarding the cover:
Here's the big version:

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and here's a comparison to the original:

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There's some more background here:
"Mad Men" gets the Rockwell treatment on cover of The Saturday Evening Post

In anticipation of "Mad Men's" seventh and (*sob*) final season, The Saturday Evening Post is giving AMC's hit the Norman Rockwell treatment.

The magazine's March/April issue features some of the characters fans have loved/hated as the employees of Sterling/Cooper and their families lived, loved, grew, imploded and fab-fashioned their ways through the 1960s.

In the artwork, Don, Betty, Joan, Pete, Roger and Peggy are being observed, appropriately, by series creator Matthew Weiner. He's the one literally hanging in the background as a window washer. (The original is below)

Cover artist Sharif Tarabay is a master of the Rockwell look. Besides a feature on "Mad Men," the Post also examines the "new" look of vintage 1960s-era art in advertising.

"Mad Men" returns Sunday, April 13 and will have two, seven-episode parts to its last season. Break out the Hershey bars.
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There should be more (vague) information about Season 7 coming soon, and I'll keep things updated here as best I can.
 
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