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UPDATED: During its portion of TCA, AMC confirmed that the fifth season of Mad Men will debut on March 25. (Star Jon Hamm had let the date slip in an interview late last week.) But in a twist, the Emmy-winning 1960s drama will open Season 5 with a two-hour premiere for the first time in its run. The network also announced that The Killing‘s second season will kick off on April 1, the date of the second season premiere of HBO’s Game Of Thrones. What’s more, after enduring the wrath of fans over closing the show’s first season without solving the murder at its center, AMC’s SVP original programming Joel Stillerman assured critics that won’t happen again in Season 2. “I can stand here and confirm that we heard everyone, and the killer will be revealed in the Season 2 finale of The Killing,” he said. “We explored veering away from the original Danish model (following the controversy). At the end of the day, after significant discussion, we decided that resolving the murder at the end of Season 2 was the best plan.”
Additionally, AMC said that the upcoming third season of The Walking Dead will consist of 16 episodes, up from 6 episodes in Season 1 and 13 in Season 2. The zombie drama’s sophomore season continues on Feb. 12, paired with Kevin Smith’s six-part docu series Comic Book Men. As for AMC’s other returning series, Breaking Bad will be back in the third quarter and Season 3 of Walking Dead will launch in the fourth quarter, along with Season 2 of Hell On Wheels.
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That two-hour episode of “Mad Men” looks interesting. They’ve never done that before, right?
No news of any kind for Breaking Bad Final Season?
It’s too early to start talking dates for a show that’ll probably be on over the summer.
AMC has a ratings shock coming when The Killing comes back.
Fool me once…
Well said.
I can just imagine another season’s full of red herrings. They’ll spend four shows examining whether the mailman did it, then five shows on the cook in the cafeteria. The show was boring long before that dud of a finale.
Seriously? THAT’S what they decided to do after The Killing season finale outrage?
Sorry, but the end of Season 2 is too late to reveal the killer. I’m done. The show moves too slow with the mystery. Not enough intrigue. The drama alone doesn’t carry it. Novelty show at best. I’m out.
The killer should be revealed in the premiere and move on with something else for the rest of the season, I can’t say that that’s what they promised with season one, but it sure as hell seemed that way. We shouldn’t even be seeing people like Michelle Forbes or the other Larsons after the season one finale, much less the premiere of season two and even less in the second season finale. Tell us who killed Rosie Larson already!.
These shows always make you believe, or in the case of American Horror Story actually say, that each season will be different and then they back down.
The way Walking Dead’s story shuffles along, it’ll need the 16 episodes.
FFS, AMC can’t properly make 13 episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ on the budget they’ve set. Unless something drastic happens expect an extra 3 hours a season of people standing in the same place, having the same conversation over and over again whilst more interesting shit happens elsewhere.
Or as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in “Downton Abbey” would say .“I hate Greek drama; you know, when everything happens off stage.”
I would much rather have less but better episodes of walking dead (think season one) vs the draggy stuff we got in season two.
You do realize that season 2 isn’t over yet?
Even if the latter half of season 2 turns up trumps I’ve still had to endure nearly half a season of people looking in the woods for a girl I couldn’t give a shit about whilst repeating the same musings on God. Clearly 13 episodes was too much.
Hopefully AMC will give MadMen and Breaking Bad the liberty to do what they want and not dilute the story to crap like WD and the Killing.
He should’ve said BY THE END of Season 2 to be a little more accommodating.
Good to hear about MadMen and it’s too little, too late for The Killing—at least for me.
The problem with amc is Joel Stillerman. He is the worst.
Explain.
Agree. To Mr. Stillerman – you learned nothing. You should be revealing the killer of last season’s crime in the first episode of S1. Then, have the rest of S2 be about a new murder with that killer being identified in the S2 finale. This show had a lot of potential, but the suits ruined it. I won’t be sticking around for the second season.