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The twists and turns that creator Matthew Weiner’s Season 3 
of Mad Men took behind the scenes biz-wise these many months were probably better than any plotting which starts tonight on AMC. (Heck, Weiner almost got replaced, more ads almost meant less show, the top AMC exec overseeing the series exited abruptly, and — god forbid! — mainstream media were incredulous that women make up 7 of the 9-member writing staff.) So it’s apt that the Lionsgate series is this time around being promoted with the slogan “The World’s Gone Mad” and an ad depicting Jon Hamm’s Don Draper sitting in his office, calmly smoking a Lucky Strike, as floodwater rises to his waist. It’s 1963, when Beatlemania breaks out, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr marches on Washington, and President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Will ratings finally reach the high level of hype this season? On a lighter note, the first episode is to be simulcast on the big screen in Times Square along with a costume party where fans can parade their swankiest Sixties attire.
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Very quietly, Lions Gate now has two of the finest shows on TV Mad Men and Nurse Jackie.
Breaking Bad. That show is the best show on TV. If you haven’t watched it..watch it.
I just think it’s funny the random and arbitrary coverage MAD MEN gets on this site. It’s a fantastic show, don’t get me wrong. Probably the best on TV. And yet there are other good shows.
If only Nikki were obsessed with them, too. Balanced coverage my ass.
Nah, I think True Blood is better than Mad Men. It has better writing, more interesting characters and a more riveting storyline. It is the best show on tv right now. Nikki, why don’t you True Blood and how it’s getting record viewers for HBO. It’s HBO’s highest rated show since The Sopranos.
Does Phillip Morris underwrite this show? Just curious. I thought the whole martinis ‘n’ swing b.s. went out in the mid-90s. And 7 of the 9 writers are women? Anything for a buck, eh ladies?
LOL at TVGuy.
If you think True Blood is a show that not only compares favorably to Mad Men, but also surpasses it, you are out of your mind. True Blood is a piece of shit from a once good showrunner based on a series of bad romance novels. And saying it’s better because it has good ratings proves nothing since most bad shows have good ratings. True Blood is everything that is wrong with the current HBO.
True Blood isn’t fit to suck the teat of Mad Men.
Alan Ball is, and has always been, overrated.
They alway have campaigns for fancy stuff on madmen. What about Brillo? Steel wool not cool enough for Jonny Hamm?
Nikki, remember your ‘”Julie and Julia” is getting too much coverage’ post? “Mad Men” is a better target for that. Look at the media’s (and the industry’s) obsession with the show vs. its pathetic ratings. There’s a well-deserved backlash coming – you should get in front of that.
Mad Men is one of the best shows on tv. It feels like forever since there’s been a new episode.
True Blood is entertaining, but ultimately a silly show with plotholes and inconsistencies galore. I enjoy watching it and it’s fun, but doesn’t MOVE me to think about it long afterwards the way any given Mad Men episode will do. For me at least, Mad Men is on par with The Sopranos, Deadwood and The Wire in terms of creating fascinating characters, amazing scripts and a welcome determination to thwart audience expectations at every turn.
True Blood has way too much bought & paid for hype (ask the journalists over at ASSME.org about that), Mad Men’s hype is way more broad based. Mad Men’s fans are generally moneyed (so many $75,000+ viewer households, the most of any show on the air), powerful (many famous peoople dig it, also it’s a critical darling), & influential (advertisers obsessively follow it) but they’re real fans. And no they don’t hang at Comic-Con.
Even though I’m hardly moneyed, powerful or influential, I’m psyched about Season 3. Looking forward to the most interesting show on TV getting into its groove yet again.
Can’t wait for the press release…5,000 people tuned in for the triumphant return of the Emmy Award winning series MAD MEN!
Anna Paquin beat out Mariska Hargitay, Sally Field and January Jones for her role as Sookie at the Golden Globes. TB was even nominated for Best Drama I disagree entirely about True Blood. I agree that the 1st 4 episodes of the 1st season. But, it’s become HBO’s best program since the Sopranos. It even beats Big Love in the writing department.
1st 4 episodes were horrible. Anyway, a lot of the tv critics seem to like True Blood now.
Mad Men should be on HBO. If it was it would be destroying everything and True Blood would be about as interesting as your typical installment of Gossip Girl.
On a final note, True Blood has organic hype in addition to the paid for advertising. If people didn’t like the show, they would ignore the paid for advertising. I mean True Blood was one of the most talked about panels at Comic-Con.
The show got 900K the first 13 run season, around 1.5 million the second 13 run season. That’s niche, less than “Gossip Girl” and basically a prestige product for people to try and win Emmys or polish their reputations. The show probably barely breaks even — AMC makes money off cable fees not ad rates, with those numbers it would take Bill Gates cloned a million times and all watching the show to make money.
The show is the worst sort of derivative junk and female Hollywood writers ideas of men: hunky and abusive bad boys that beautiful victim women fall for despite themselves. It’s a more polished “Tru Blood” but as soapily bad in the female Michael Bay way as that show. To do “dark and edgy” takes almost no talent.
The best shows on TV were: “Life,” “Monk,” and “Burn Notice” because they were much harder to do (light and positive), were about something, and had more realistic and complex characters, not bad boy hunks and beautiful, tragic female victims.
The art direction and acting on Mad Men are stunning though. Never have we seen such craftsmanship in service to such pedestrian attempts at “hip/edgy” content.
“Californication”
Zero Emmy nominations.
Zero.
What a world.
season premiere tonight owned (as usual)
haters gonna hate…no one gives a shit about your retarded vampire soap opera, mad men is programming for adults not whining twentysomethings who still don’t understand why the world is unfair
did someone just act like anna paquin’s golden globe win was about anything other that the foreign press giving it to the youngest girl in the room. i mean this is an award jennifer garner and keri russell both won. NOT an accomplishment.
Who cares? Nobody watches this show. Why so much press about it from this site?
Now you’re attacking Jennifer Garner and Keri Russell? Also, True Blood won the TV Critics Association’s Outstanding New Program of the Year, the No. 1 Ladies Agency, The Mentalist and Fringe. I rest my case?
Mad Man is like Breaking Bad: a good, but not great show that a relatively tiny number of people love and they are utterly baffled that the great mass of people don’t feel the same way. Ten years from now Mad Man will be Northern Exposure: a critic’s darling that will be forgotten and pushed aside by the critic’s darling of the moment.
Correction: It beat out the No. 1 Ladies Agency, The Mentalist and Fringe for Outstanding New Program of the Year at the TCA. I apologize for the double post. I only did make the correction.