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‘Mad Men’ Season 6 Debut Set For April 7

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 6:35am PSTTags: AMC, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner

The season will start with a two-hour movie written by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and directed by Scott Hornbacher that will air at 9 PM, AMC announced this morning. Series star Jon Hamm will direct the season’s second episode a week later as it settles into its regular 10 PM time slot. When last we left Hamm’s Don Draper and company, the firm of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was still recovering from Lane Pryce’s suicide, Peggy Olson had joined a rival agency, Roger Sterling was all tripped out and Don was sitting on the sidelines of wife Megan’s first big break — and contemplating a proposition by two pretty young things (or was he?). Weiner, speaking to The New York Times, would not be led as to just where the story will pick up April 7. “It will advance in time, as it does… I can’t say how much or how little. We’re coming off a period in Don’s life where he’s trying to normalize, and trying to have this relationship — a real relationship with this woman that he fell in love with. She expressed her desires and that was a surprise for him. On this show, it’s a very rich, full orchestra, and we like to follow what is the next stage in these people’s lives.”

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NATPE Brass Tout Rising Attendance For 2012 Conference After Decade-Long Slump

By RAY RICHMOND | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 12:26pm PSTTags: Matthew Weiner, NATPE, Rick Feldman

The world is beating a path back to NATPE after the annual TV programming conference spent the better part of the last decade fighting for its survival. When NATPE’s 2012 Market & Conference unfolds January 23-25 in Miami Beach at the Fontainebleau Resort, it will feature in excess of 600 buyers, more than 200 exhibiting companies and some 5,500 attendees, NATPE president and CEO Rick Feldman estimated during a conference call with reporters this morning. That’s significantly greater interest than there was for the confab as recently as five years ago, Feldman stressed. “It’s not going to look like it did 15 years ago,” he was quick to add. “But relative to the market as it is today, we’ll be featuring the best contingent of domestic broadcasters that we’ve had in a very long time. From every single perspective — distributors, total attendees, buyers and advertisers — we’re either slightly to really nicely ahead of where we were. And a lot of the companies participating this time are new ones. If you look at the list, so many of them didn’t exist five years ago.” Also flocking back to NATPE after lackluster participation in recent years are the bigger agencies like UTA, CAA, WME and ICM, Feldman noted. Read More »

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NATPE’s Tartikoff Award To Foursome

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 9:47am PSTTags: Matthew Weiner, NATPE

FreemantleMedia North American CEO and American Idol producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Colombian producer Fernando Gaitán, Fox president of station ops Dennis Swanson and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner will receive the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award at the next NATPE Market & … Read More »

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Backstage At The Emmys: Martin Scorsese, Kate Winslet, Melissa McCarthy And More

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 5:09pm PDTTags: 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, Bertram van Munster, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, Emmy Winners, Eric Stonestreet, Game of Thrones, Guy Pearce, Jeffrey Richman, Jim Parsons, Julian Fellowes, Julie Bowen, Justified, Kate Winslet, Mad Men, Margo Martindale, Martin Scorsese, Matthew Weiner, Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly, Mildred Pierce, Modern Family, Rebecca Eaton, Sarah Hyland, Sofia Vergara, Steve Levitan, The Amazing Race, The Big Bang Theory, Ty Burrell

Emmys Live-Blog; Emmys By The Numbers; Emmy Analysis: Broadcast TV’s Big Awards Comeback; Red Carpet Executive Arrivals

Deadline’s Diane Haithman and Ray Richmond were backstage at the Primetime Emmy Awards tonight to hear what the winners had to say.

Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell came backstage together after winning the awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The Modern Family stars were asked first about being part of a show that is breaking ground for gays. Burrell said, “I don’t know, in terms of America, it feels very, very good to be on a show that seems like it’s slowly changing a lot of minds. Eric [Stonestreet] and Jesse [Tyler Ferguson] deserve all of the credit for that, and our amazing showrunners. It’s a great thing to just peripherally go to events and just basically start to talk about those characters like any other characters, relating to their life — it’s pretty cool.” Bowen joked, “As a straight woman, and part of a straight couple on the show, I feel marginalized.” On a more serious note, she added: “It’s absurd that it’s even an issue, but where it’s an issue, I’m glad that we are part of helping change minds.” Using the word “straight” in a different context, Burrell praised Bowen: “It’s even greater credit to what Julie does that the straight-person wins an Emmy, I don’t think that happens very often. In a couple there’s usually a straight-man and a wilder character. It’s due to her resourcefulness as an actor.” On going back to the set with an Emmy when other cast members were also nominated, Burrell said: “Eric won last year, and Ed [O'Neill] actually just said something really sweet right before the award, ‘whoever wins deserves it.’ I feel like we’re trying to enjoy this moment more than anything — we know this doesn’t last forever; we’re having a lot of fun.” Bowen said about her surprise win, “I kinda thought it was a lock on Betty White. If I didn’t have a dog in this fight, and I had two, I would have voted for Betty White. Claire is not necessarily fall-down funny every time.” She credits the writers for having found ways to make her character have many dimensions and “not just be the mom.” …

Later, Steve Levitan and Jeffrey Richman, winners for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, were asked how it feels for Modern Family to be sweeping the awards so far, with wins in every category they’ve been eligible for. Levitan: “We’re beyond thrilled with the way things have gone, obviously. It’s an embarrassment of riches, and from the bottom of our hearts we feel that Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen deserved to win. (Outstanding Director in a Comedy Series winner) Michael Alan Spiller, not so much. To tell you the truth, it’s a little surreal.” They were then asked what they did to ramp up the stories and quality of Modern Family in Season 2. Levitan: “We feel like we know the characters a little bit better this year. There was such dedication this year to keeping the quality up. We all live in fear of the quality dipping so we work extra hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. … I’ll also tell you that our kids are the unsung heroes of the show. What they do on this show is amazing. We ask them to do such complicated turns and they nail it constantly. They’re playing at the same level as the adults and that’s a rare thing.” … Read More »

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AMC, Lionsgate Close To Deal With Matt Weiner For ‘Mad Men’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 9:15am PDTTags: AMC, Lionsgate, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner
Nellie Andreeva

Cable networks having the freedom to develop, greenlight and schedule projects on their own schedule is great, but sometimes it might be better to have the pressure of a looming May broadcast upfront presentation to get big deals done. Like … Read More »

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AMC: There Will Be 5th Season Of ‘Mad Men’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 7, 2011 @ 11:10am PSTTags: AMC Mad Men, AMC Mad Men Renewal, Cable TV, Joel Stillerman AMC, Lionsgate TV, Lionsgate TV Mad Men, Mad Men Negotiations, Mad Men Season 5, Matthew Weiner, TV
Nellie Andreeva

AMC didn’t hold an executive Q&E session at TCA, just a panel for upcoming drama The Killing. But at the beginning of that panel, the network’s executives addressed the big question: the future of the network’s flagship series Mad Men. … Read More »

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‘Mad Men’ Cast Options Set To Expire Amidst Series Renewal, Matt Weiner Talks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 17, 2010 @ 4:51pm PSTTags: AMC Mad Men, Cable TV, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Lionsgate, Lionsgate TV, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, TV
Nellie Andreeva

It looks like we’re in for another round of drawn-out Mad Men negotiations between AMC and Lionsgate TV and between Lionsgate and series creator/showrunner Matthew Weiner. And while talks on both fronts are underway, another deadline is looming – … Read More »

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And In Other Film Deals…

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 5:52pm PDTTags: David Berenbaum, Jack Black, Matthew Weiner, Movie Deals, Movies, You Are Here
Mike Fleming

Despite reports that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is gearing up his feature directorial debut You Are Here with a cast of Jack Black, Renee Zellweger and Matt Dillon, don’t dress for it. Weiner’s reps tell Deadline the project is indefinitely postponed and there is no cast set…

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EMMYS: Do Cable Dramas’ Scheduling Patterns Give Them An Emmy Advantage?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 11:32am PDTTags: AMC, Breaking Bad, Cable TV, Cable TV Scheduling, Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Dexter, Emmy, Emmy Ballots, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Sopranos, True Blood, TV Scheduling
Nellie Andreeva

emmyIt’s hard to look around and not come across an ad for the upcoming fourth season of AMC’s drama Mad Men. There are billboards, promos, reviews, stories, and interviews with the cast and creator Matthew Weiner seemingly everywhere this week, which leads … Read More »

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