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Mad Men Receiving Two-Year Sendoff, To End in 2015

Shell — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:57:44 +0000

Mad Men will be sticking around just a little bit longer…more or less, as AMC is planning to give the period drama a two-year final season.

Per The Huffington Post, AMC will be splitting Mad Men‘s 14-episode seventh and final season into two pieces. The first 7 episodes, titled as a group “The Beginning,” will air in spring of 2014, and the second, ‘The End of an Era” will air in spring 2015.

“We plan to take advantage of this chance to have a more elaborate story told in two parts, which can resonate a little bit longer in the minds of our audience,” said the show’s creator Matthew Weiner in a statement. “The writers, cast and other artists welcome this unique manner of ending this unique experience.”

AMC has followed a similar strategy with Breaking Bad, successfully, and also airs The Walking Dead in split seasons for fall and spring.

Mad Men premiered on AMC in 2007, and has been the winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series four times.

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Christina Hendricks

TVHackr — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:25:56 +0000

Christina Rene Hendricks never found much stability during her childhood, as her father, who worked for the United States Forest Service, moved them around the country for his professional obligations. As a result of the constant traveling, which took her everywhere from Idaho to Virginia, she found her sense of peace in children’s theater and eventually transitioned to being a model when she was 18, a profession she was in until the age of 27. The modeling led to minor television roles and in 2000, she got her first series regular role on Showtime show business satire Beggars and Choosers, which lasted 42 total episodes. In addition to appearing in music videos for Everclear (“One Hit Wonder”) and Broken Bells (“The Ghost Inside”), Hendricks has guest starred on episodes of Angel, Without a Trace, and Las Vegas, while recurring on ER, Life, and Firefly. But it was her role as Joan, office manager at advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, on AMC’s Mad Men that proved to be her breakout, earning her several Emmy nominations and widespread critical praise, both for her performance and her curvaceous body; Hendricks found herself being compared to the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Veronica Lake for her look on the show, which is said to have inspired a rise in British breast augmentation surgeries in 2010. The actress has since transitioned into film with roles in Nicolas Winding Refn’s action-thriller Drive, Katherine Heigl/Josh Duhamel romantic-comedy Life as We Know It, and Sarah Jessica Parker comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It.

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Mad Men

Carissa Pavlica — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:56:13 +0000

Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The focal point of the series is Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative director at Sterling Cooper and a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and the people in his life, both in and out of the office. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States in the 1960s.

Other characters include:

Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss)
Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser)
Betty Francis (née Hofstadt, formerly Draper) (January Jones)
Joan Harris (née Holloway) (Christina Hendricks)
Roger Sterling (John Slattery)
Lane Pryce (Jared Harris)
Bertram “Bert” Cooper (Robert Morse)
Kenneth “Ken” Cosgrove (Aaron Staton)
Harold “Harry” Crane (Rich Sommer)
Sally Beth Draper (Kiernan Shipka)
Megan Draper (née Calvet) (Jessica Paré)

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