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Netflix is teaming up with a TV legend, Norman Lear, for a new series, tentatively titled The Corps. It will be led by 13 Reasons Why and Parenthood alum Miles Heizer. The comedic drama will be executive produced by Lear alongside Andy Parker, Brent Miller, Rachel Davidson, Scott Hornbacher, and Sony Pictures Television. Set in 1990, The Corps follows Cameron Cope (Heizer), a bullied, gay high school student who joins the Marine Corps with his straight best friend, Ray (Liam Oh). The move is a dangerous one as being gay in the military meant jail time or worse. While these two best friends plunge into Marine Corps boot camp, where landmines are both literal and metaphorical, they join a platoon of young men on a harrowing journey of transformation. (Credit: Araya Doheny/Getty Images) Inspired by the memoir The Pink Marine by Greg Cope White, the drama has been ordered to series,...

Vera Farmiga to star in ‘The Corps’ (Wt) – Photo Courtesy of David Needleman

Netflix has given a series order to The Corps (the working title), based on Greg Cope White’s The Pink Marine memoir. Described as a comedic drama, the 10-episode season has Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why), Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Max Parker (Vampire Academy), and Liam Oh (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s The Notebook) on board in starring roles.

Andy Parker (Tales of the City) is writing and will executive produce and serve as showrunner. Television icon Norman Lear, Brent Miller, Rachel Davidson, and Scott Hornbacher are also executive producing, with Peter Hoar (The Last of Us) attached to direct and executive produce the first episode. Greg Cope White is writing and producing.

Miles Heizer stars in ‘The Corps’

Netflix released the following description of The Corps along with the cast and characters:

Set in 1990, The Corps (Wt) is about Cameron,...

Netflix has greenlit a series — which counts the legendary Norman Lear among its executive producers — that will follow a gay teenager who enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The streamer has ordered 10 episodes of The Corps, a drama that will follows Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer), a bullied gay teen who joins the Marines with his straight best friend, Ray McCaffey (Liam Oh), in 1990 — a pre-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell era when being gay in the military could mean jail time or worse. The series comes from Sony Pictures Telelvision and Lear’s Sony-based Act III Productions and is inspired by Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine.

Vera Farmiga and Max Parker also star as, respectively, Cameron’s mother and a Marine sergeant who sees himself in Cameron. The cast also includes Cedrick Cooper, Ana Ayora, Angus O’Brien, Dominic Goodman, Kieron Moore, Nicholas Logan, Rico Paris, Blake Burt,...

Netflix has ordered a Marine comedy drama starring Miles Heizer and Vera Farmiga.

The streamer has greenlit The Corps (w/t), which comes from Andy Parker and Norman Lear.

The series is inspired by Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine.

Set in 1990, The Corps is about Cameron, a bullied, gay high school student who joins the Marine Corps with his straight best friend, Ray — a dangerous move when being gay in the military meant jail time or worse. As these two friends plunge into Marine Corps boot camp, where the landmines are both literal and metaphorical, they join a platoon of young men on a harrowing journey of transformation.

Heizer plays Cameron and Farmiga plays his mother Barbara.

Max Parker, Liam Oh, Cedrick Cooper, Ana Ayora, Angus O’Brien, Dominic Goodman, Kieron Moore, Nicholas Logan, Rico Paris, Blake Burt, Logan Gould, Zach Roerig, Johnathan Nieves, Brandon Tyler Moore, Ivan Hoey Jr.,...

Netflix is giving Miles Heizer new marching orders.

The streamer has greenlit The Corps, a 10-episode, 1990-set dramedy starring the 13 Reasons Why and Parenthood actor as a bullied gay high school student who joins the Marine Corp with his straight Bff (played by newcomer Liam Oh, pictured). As the duo “plunge into boot camp, where the landmines are both literal and metaphorical, they join a platoon of young men on a harrowing journey of transformation,” per the official logline.

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Netflix has ordered a dramedy series inspired by the memoir “The Pink Marine” written by Greg Cope White, Variety has learned.

Currently titled “The Corps,” Netflix has given the show a 10 episode order. The official logline states, “Set in 1990, ‘The Corps’ is about Cameron, a bullied, gay high school student who joins the Marine Corps with his straight best friend, Ray — a dangerous move when being gay in the military meant jail time or worse. As these two friends plunge into Marine Corps boot camp, where the landmines are both literal and metaphorical, they join a platoon of young men on a harrowing journey of transformation.”

Miles Heizer will star as Cameron Cope. The character is described as “a charming underdog — a gay, bullied teenager living in a chaotic home with his narcissistic mom — he impulsively joins the Marines with his straight best friend in hopes that he’ll finally...

Another new series from Norman Lear is coming to Netflix, but this time around the King of Sitcoms is tackling drama. The streaming service has greenlit “The Corps,” the working title of a new comedy-drama starring Vera Farmiga, Miles Heizer, Max Parker and Liam Oh.

Set in the 1990s, the drama will follow Cameron (Heizer), a high school student who is bullied for being gay. He decides to join the Marine Corps along with his straight best friend Ray (Oh) during a time when being gay in the military could mean jail time. The 10-episode series is inspired by the memoir “The Pink Marine” by Greg Cope White.

Prior to “The Corps,” Heizer is best known for starring in “13 Reasons Why” as Alex Standell. He’s also starred in “Nerves” as well as “Rails and Ties.” He will be joined by “The Departed” and “The Many Saints of Newark” star Farmiga,...

“American Gods” is returning with a new showrunner.

The Fremantle-produced Starz television series based on the Neil Gaiman novel has officially been picked up for a third season and has tapped Charles “Chic” Eglee to lead the season as showrunner and executive producer. The news comes less than a week after the show launched its second season.

Eglee’s credits include “Hemlock Grove,” “The Walking Dead,” “Dexter,” and “The Shield.” He is repped by CAA and Gendler & Kelly.

He will now be the third showrunner at the helm of the series. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green served as co-showrunners during the first season but departed over clashes with Fremantle over the show’s budget and creative direction. Jesse Alexander shepherded “Gods” through its second season, but he was reportedly sidelined during production without being officially let go.

“I’m thrilled ‘American Gods’ has been renewed for a third season,...

Exclusive: Nothing is written on stone tablets yet, but a third season of American Gods looks to be a divine certainty. “We didn’t make Season 2 of American Gods not to make a Season 3,” a source close to the production told Deadline of the Starz series based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning 2001 novel. “It’s a big book.”

With that top of mind, the premium cabler is searching to find a showrunner for a third season, I hear. With some top-tier candidates in the mix and in talks, that quest is centered in many ways on securing someone who can bring the ensemble series led by Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane in on budget and on time.

Starz declined comment on the status of a possible Season 3 of American Gods when contacted by Deadline today.

The No. 1 concern for any third season of the FremantleMedia North America-produced show, we hear,...

Nearly two years since the acclaimed first season of American Gods premiered, the second season of the Starz show is finally set to arrive in 2019.

The fantasy series, based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name, is centered on a war between Old and New Gods as the traditional gods of religious roots are losing believers to a newer brand of gods that reflect on modern technology and globalization.

In the first trailer for American Gods‘ forthcoming season, dramatic shots of Old and New Gods fill the screen,...

An almost two-minute trailer for Season 2 of American Gods is out, showcasing the ongoing squabbles between the Old Gods and New Gods.

Based on the Nail Gaiman novel, the show will have its Season 2 bow on Sunday, March 10 at 8 Pm Et/Pt on Starz.

American Gods stars Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday. The one-hour drama centers on a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods, as the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily lose believers. Their challengers are an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.

In Season 2, the battle moves toward a crisis point, as the destinies of gods and men collide. While Mr. World plots revenge for the attack against him in the first season, Shadow throws in his lot...

American Gods will return for its second season Sunday, March 10 on Starz. Cast member Ricky Whittle shared the news today on Instagram, along with a new poster (see below).

The eight-episode second season of the well-received drama based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel will see Dean Winters’ Mr. Town tasked by Mr. World (Crispin Glover) to find out what Shadow (Ricky Whittle) knows about Mr. Wednesday’s (Ian McShane) plan. His brutal efficiency and technique just may get him the answers to his curious questions.

Jesse Alexander joined American Gods as executive producer and new showrunner for Season 2, replacing Bryan Fuller and Michael Green. He executive produces alongside Gaiman, Ian McShane, Craig Cegielski, Scott Hornbacher and Fmna’s Stefanie Berk. Chris Byrne is directing the premiere episode and will co-executive produce along with Heather Bellson and Rodney Barnes. Lisa Kussner will produce.

American Gods is produced by FremantleMedia North America.

Exclusive: Starz’s American Gods has cast three key roles for its upcoming second season. Dean Winters has been tapped to play Mr. Town; Devery Jacobs is set as Sam Black Crow, while Kahyun Kim has been cast as New Media, a successor to the Media goddess character played by Gillian Anderson in Season 1.

The eight-episode second season of the well received drama based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel of the same name, from FremantleMedia North America, is set to return in 2019. It will have Winters’ Mr. Town tasked by Mr. World (Crispin Glover) to find out what Shadow (Ricky Whittle) knows about Mr. Wednesday’s (Ian McShane) plan. His brutal efficiency and technique just may get him the answers to his curious questions.

First Nations actor Jacobs will recur as a college student named Sam Black Crow.

Exclusive: American Gods has started work on its second season and according to Neil Gaiman, they are ready to rock – literally.

As you can see from the behind-the-scenes video above and the photo here, Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Orlando Jones and more members the self- described God Squad have began production this month on the sophomore run of the Starz series at Wisconsin’s famed House on the Rock. Featured in Gaiman’s 2001 award-winning mythological novel on which the drama is based and glimpsed briefly via signage at the end of Season 1, the real-life Badger State tourist attraction is a major player in the tale along with McShane’s perpetually shifty Mr. Wednesday and Whittle’s Shadow Moon.

With its premiere directed by Hannibal and Star Trek Discovery alum Chris Byrne, the eight-episode second season of American Gods is expected to air in 2019, as Whittle says in the Bts clip.

Show business — is there any other? Not for Monroe Stahr and Pat Brady, the warring producers at the center of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1933 novel, “The Last Tycoon,” now a major motion picture series from the folks over at Amazon Prime.

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Dreamy Matt Bomer and slick Kelsey Grammer play the two moguls vying for power and influence in 1930’s Hollywood. Stahr is the young hot shot; Brady his risk-averse mentor. Lily Collins, soon appearing in Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja,” plays Brady’s daughter, Celia, an aspiring producer herself. The trailer plays up the drama and intrigue, as the two men battle over Celia’s interests even as she is intent on forging her own path. Indie darling Rosemarie Dewitt makes a shining appearance as Brady’s scorned wife, and ’80s icon Jennifer Beals...

The Big Short

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture, long-form television, digital series, sports programs and additional television nominations for the 27th Annual Producers Guild Awards.

The categories include: The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures; The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures; The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television; Outstanding Sports Program; and Outstanding Digital Series. The feature documentary film category and other television category nominations were previously announced by the PGA in late 2015.

All 2016 Producers Guild Award winners will be announced on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. This year, the Producers Guild will present special honors to Jim Gianopulos (Milestone Award), Shonda Rhimes (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), David Heyman (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), The Hunting Ground (Stanley Kramer...

The Producers Guild of America has announced the nominations for its 27th annual Producers Guild Awards! 10 films are vying for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. And sorry "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Carol," you did not make the cut :sad

The PGA Awards winners will be announced on January 23. Here's the complete list of nominees of the 27th annual Producers Guild Awards:

Theatrical Motion Picture nominees

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

The Big Short

Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

Bridge of Spies

Producers: Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger

Brooklyn

Producers: Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey

Ex Machina

This film is in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility

Mad Max: Fury Road

Producers: Doug Mitchell & George Miller

The Martian

Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam

The Revenant

Producers: Arnon Milchan,...

The miniseries saga of Don, Betty, Roger, Joan, Peggy and Bert deserved a terrific finish, and at the end of seven plus one seasons, creator Matthew Weiner delivers in fine style. The agency undergoes a major transformation, but each of our favorites moves on to a thoughtful, better-than-acceptable resolution -- all except for Don. He is given one of the more interesting character finales in TV history, even better than Robert Morse's topper at the end of Season Seven Part 1. Mad Men: The Final Season Part 2 Blu-ray Lionsgate 2015 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 352 min. / Street Date October 13, 2015 / 39.98 Starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, Kiernan Shipka, Jessica Paré, Jay R. Ferguson, Julia Ormond, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Kevin Rahm, Christopher Stanley, Maggie Siff, Diana Bauer, Alison Brie, Caity Lotz.. Written by Matthew Weiner, Tom Smuts, Jonathan Igla, Erin Levy, Semi Chellas, Carly Wray. Creator...

Mad Men, Season 7: Episode 8 – “Severance”

Written by Matthew Weiner

Directed by Scott Hornbacher

Airs Sunday nights at 10 on AMC

When Don Draper stops to wonder if he knows the waitress Diana, it’s more than an eerie foreshadowing of learning about Rachel’s death. Don has a type. There are usually exceptions to rules, but for the most part, Diana represents the myriad brunettes that Don’s been tangled up with in the history of Mad Men (and if you thought she looked an awful lot like Rosemarie DeWitt’s Midge in particular, you weren’t the only one). This is The End of an Era for AMC’s long-running drama, whose series memory and use of echoing and repetition have always been some of its greatest assets when making a point. It’s no surprise, then, that “Severance” is haunted by the ghosts of Mad Men‘s past...

“Look at yourself,” Don Draper tells an auditioning young model in a fur coat as she stares at her reflection in a mirror. “You like what you see.” The first bit of direction is physical, the second emotional. Not many characters on Mad Men like what they see when they look in the mirror. There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of their discomfort stems from a mix of cultural conditioning and psychology. Some is a matter of looking at that face, however old it is, and thinking about the life that led up to this moment, and perhaps going over past choices and wondering how things could have been different. Written by series creator Matthew Weiner and directed by Scott Hornbacher, “Severance” is one of the series’ deepest episodes because it’s about all of these factors and how they reinforce and glance off of each other.

A review of the final "Mad Men" season premiere coming up just as soon as I try your veal... "That's not a coincidence! It's a sign!" -Ken "Of what?" -Don "The life not lived." -Ken A handsome man in a grey suit once asked, "But what is happiness? It's a moment before you need more happiness." And at a moment in time when that man and many of the people he worked with seem to have acquired a boatload of professional happiness — or, at least, money — a ghost danced in front of him and sang about how the best things in life are free. And as "Mad Men" returns from its last hiatus, having carried its characters out of the 1960s altogether, "Severance" is a reminder of how elusive happiness is for everyone, and how the life not lived seems at once far more appealing and impossible to actually explore.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of tonight's Mad Men Season 7 midseason premiere. If Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner had a right-hand man for the seven seasons of his acclaimed AMC series, it certainly had to be fellow executive producer Scott Hornbacher. Having worked with Weiner on The Sopranos, where he was a co-producer, Hornbacher has been behind the scenes for the whole run of the tales of Don Draper and what has become Sterling Cooper & Partners. He also…...

Matthew Weiner of Mad Men fame is coming you way with his feature film writing/directing debut, Are You Here. The bizarre-sounding story is brought to you with a cast you might expect isn’t difficult for someone with Mad Men under his belt to get into his film.

Ben (Zach Galifianakis) inherits a sizable fortune when his father dies, despite the fact that Ben lives off-the-grid and had been estranged from his father. Steve Dalls (Owen Wilson), a womanizer and local television personality, is a friend of Ben’s, and decides to join up with Ben to fight the legal battle brought by Ben’s sister (Amy Poehler), but there’s a lot more going on than that. Check the trailer below for more of an idea of the ins and outs of friendship that are explored in this one.

The comedy certainly has the talent, including an impressive supporting cast,...

Matthew Weiner has been working on Are You Here, an ode to and examination of what he calls the “myth of male friendship,” for over a decade. He started writing the film between his first two years at The Sopranos, just around the point in his life when he started looking around and wondering where all his friends had gone.

It took Weiner nearly eight years to get the script to Owen Wilson, two breaks from Mad Men to shoot it, and two more seasons to edit and finish the film. But after showcasing an in-progress cut at the 2013 Toronto...

Mad Men, Season 7: Episode 4 – “The Monolith”

Written by Erin Levy

Directed by Scott Hornbacher

Airs Sunday nights at 10 on AMC

“The Monolith” is one of many Mad Men episodes that shows how certain characters react to change. Rather than limit those ideas to the new Ibm computer being installed at the offices, the episode focuses more on how Don Draper and Roger Sterling deal with changes in status quo. They’d be very content to live their lives as they always have, but both characters have made certain decisions in their respective pasts that have come back to bite them in their asses. It’s strange and wonderful to see a Mad Men episode do this in such a classic way in its seventh season, since the Don-Roger parallel episodes were mostly the things of the show’s early days. And while it’s great to get that here,...

"When will Don fall off the wagon?" (or is it on the wagon?) was the big question on everyone's mind last week, after what --  for Matthew Weiner's "Mad Men" -- was quite the cliffhanger. Well, we got our answer Sunday night when Don, frustrated with his unofficial demotion and creative limitations at work, walked into Roger's office, stole a bottle of booze, and slunk into his office where he got hammered  alone. While one would think this scenario would create its own sense of suspense -- after all, if he's caught, he's fired -- writer Erin Levy, director Scott Hornbacher, and the all-knowing Weiner provided no indication that Don would or even could be caught and punished, eliminating suspense in favor of their favorite method of communication: metaphor. Unlike successful past efforts to convey more with inaction than action (see most of season six), "The Monolith" came across...

When this week’s episode of Mad Men ended and the “sneak preview” for next week’s hour began, the ominous voice declared that there were only three episodes left this year. How unfair. It seems like we are just settling into the Sc&P offices, barely a drink into the intoxicating madness that a season of Mad Men can bring. “The Monolith” is an episode that is busier with showing how the 1960s have progressed, on both the cultural and counter-cultural zeitgeist, than how the characters have progressed.

Emmy-winning writer Erin Levy, with the help of some creative choices from director Scott Hornbacher, uses the hour to explore Don and Roger, two pals that have not yet managed to share a lot of time onscreen this season. (That “off-campus” drink that Roger refers to at the start never materializes, or at least is not shown.) Don is anxious about the future,...

Review Frances Roberts 14 Apr 2014 - 16:55

Mad Men returns for its seventh season an episode that deliberately dissipates the momentum of last year's finale…

This review contains spoilers.

7.1 Time Zones

What does revolution change? Depressingly little, if Time Zones is anything to go by.

1968’s political disquiet simmered underneath Mad Men’s sixth run, erupting at key history book moments to spill into its characters’ lives. It culminated in a finale that severed Don Draper from his job, his wife, and from the fictions he’d woven around himself. “This is where I grew up”, he’d told his children outside that dilapidated bordello, having confessed the same to Hershey mid-pitch. After a season of witnessing tumult and protest on the world stage, Dick Whitman had his own personal revolution. Everything was going to change.

And then, it didn’t.

Time Zones dissipated the momentum built in the season six finale.

Accutron: It’s not a time piece. It’s a conversation piece. The first Accutron hit the markets long before Freddy Rumsen was pitching it in such surprisingly elegant language. Actually, it had been selling for about ten years, debuting in October of 1960 (just around the time Mad Men‘s first season was drawing to a close). Watches of the time, and for several centuries previously, were built around a “balance wheel,” a little pendulum that shifts back and forth and keeps the watch’s hands moving. Watchmaking company Bulova did away with the balance wheel for their Accutron watch, inserting a fancy electric tuning fork and cementing Accutron as the first electronic watch in history. Those tiny metal forks also made the Accutron the most accurate wristwatch ever made, and a “horological revolution” (thanks, Wikipedia!). At least until 1969, when Astron debuted the quartz-powered Astron and Joel Murray, as Rumsen, sat...

Mad Men, Season 7: Episode 1 – “Time Zones”

Written by Matthew Weiner

Directed by Scott Hornbacher

Airs Sunday nights at 10 on AMC

As the United States swears in its new president, Richard Nixon, the country finds itself in a transition period, caught between the two worlds of its past and uncertain future. “Time Zones” splits is central characters up in a similar way that exposes just how noticeable the precipices are that they stand on. Don Draper isn’t just living an existence that has him dividing time between his New York life and the Californian one he shares with his wife, Megan. He’s also in a rough limbo, biding his time until Sterling Cooper & Partners calls him back to the office. Roger Sterling is even more lost at sea. Our re-introduction to the man–completely naked in a room full of post-coital men and women–poses plenty of questions...

"Mad Men" is back for the start of its seventh season — which is or isn't the final season depending on whether you value contractual language (which says it is) over scheduling (which will give us seven episodes this spring and seven more next year) — and I have a review of the premiere coming up just as soon as I'm seated next to a man in a hairpiece eating a banana... "Why are you making it so hard? Open the door and walk in." -Lou Avery We return to the world of "Mad Men" a scant two months after our last glimpse, late in January of 1969. It's by far the shortest time gap between seasons, but almost as much has changed in those two months than in the 11 months between the heist of Sterling Cooper and our first look at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. It seems only appropriate given the period.

Exclusive: Millennium Entertainment is near a deal to distribute You Are Here, the film written and directed by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner that premiered at the last Toronto Film Festival. It is the first film Weiner directed since What Do You Do All Day, the 1996 helming debut Weiner made before he developed his edgy voice on The Sopranos and then Mad Men, the celebrated AMC drama which begins its final season Sunday. The film stars Owen Wilson as bored TV weatherman Steve and Zach Galifianakis as eccentric shut-in Steve. The two childhood best friends embark on a road trip back to their hometown after the latter learns he has inherited a large sum of money from his recently deceased estranged father. There they do battle against Ben’s formidable sister (Amy Poehler) and deal with his father’s 25-year-old widow (Laura Ramsey). No confirmation on the deal, but I...

Exclusive: Millennium Entertainment is near a deal to distribute You Are Here, the film written and directed by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner that premiered at the last Toronto Film Festival. It is the first film Weiner directed since What Do You Do All Day, the 1996 helming debut Weiner made before he developed his edgy voice on The Sopranos and then Mad Men, the celebrated AMC drama which begins its final season Sunday. The film stars Owen Wilson as bored TV weatherman Steve and Zach Galifianakis as eccentric shut-in Steve. The two childhood best friends embark on a road trip back to their hometown after the latter learns he has inherited a large sum of money from his recently deceased estranged father. There they do battle against Ben’s formidable sister (Amy Poehler) and deal with his father’s 25-year-old widow (Laura Ramsey). No confirmation on the deal, but I...

Sneak Peek new images from Season 7, episode #1 of AMC's "Mad Men", titled "Time Zones", airing April 13, 2014, written by series creator Mathew Weiner and directed by  Scott Hornbacher:

There will be 14 episodes total for the final season, with seven being in 2014 and the other seven in 2015:

"...set in 1969, Season 7 will focus on 'Don', 'Megan', 'Peggy', 'Pete', 'Roger' and 'Joan'. The most time will be spent on Don and Megan. Megan's acting career is going strong. Pete is relishing his new move to L.A..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Mad Men" Season 7...

My favorite moment at the "Mad Men" Season Seven premiere: when AMC president Charles Collier asked the sprawling ensemble to rise from their seats in the Arclight Theatre, Jon Hamm (Don Draper) and Kevin Rahm (Ted Chaough) caught sight of each other standing in the same row and waved. The Emmy-winning series is being celebrated by Time and Variety cover stories, Diane Sawyer's World News Tonight and Good Morning America before "Mad Men" returns on April 13. (Trailer, poster and review round-up are below.)  These days big cable premieres are as starry as any  Hollywood event, complete with red carpet media, photographers and in this case, a Lionsgate/AMC Chateau Marmont afterparty. As show creator Matt Weiner (who wrote the Season Seven first episode "Time Zones" with executive producer Scott Hornbacher, who directed) said in his introduction, this last season of "the rocket ship we've all been on for the last few years" is "bittersweet.

AMC threw a Hollywood premiere Wednesday night to kick off what was termed “the beginning of the end.” AMC president Charlie Collier, Mad Men creator Matt Weiner and cast and crew were at the Arclight Theatre for the “Time Zones” episode that begins the first half of Season 7 premiering April 13th. The season marks the final go-round of the landmark four-time Emmy-winning Best Drama Series. The protracted goodbye will be split between seven episodes this spring and the final final episodes in spring 2015. It was all very bittersweet last night as production actually was just beginning on those even as the premiere was kicking off. In fact, executive producer Scott Hornbacher, who directed the “Time Zones” episode, was late to this party as he is also directing the first of those backend episodes. He told me later at the Chateau Marmont afterparty that it’s going to be tough to end it,...

Mad Men Season 7: Mad Men’s seventh and final season will be split into two parts, with the first of seven episodes premiering on AMC Sunday, April 13, at 10pm Et and the last seven episodes premiering in spring 2015. Executive producer Scott Hornbacher talked about how the cast and crew are coming to grips with the show ending, as well as what he hopes the show’s legacy will be. Longtime fans of AMC’s Mad Men have waited out lengthy hiatuses before. With the show entering its final season, they’ll have to do it again, though with the knowledge that all … Continue reading →

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The show Mad Men was created by Matthew Weiner through Lionsgate Television, and produced by Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher, and Andre and Maria Jacquemetton. The show has been broadcast on AMC since 2007, and deals with Sterling Cooper, a marketing agency, and the characters employed there (“Season 1”). Mad Men is like a time machine. The show is extremely effective due to the believable setting, the lifestyle, the musical score, and the development of the main character, which all exemplifies the glitz and glamor of the 1960s.

Mad Men revolves around the introduction of the main characters, but more importantly, an account that main character Don Draper becomes baffled over. Lucky Strike, a cigarette company, is coming into the office to see how they can still market and sell cigarettes to the consumer after the federal government begins to throw out positive smoking claims. Don remains unsure over what he will present...

Emmy nominations are nothing new for Elisabeth Moss. She’s been racking up nods for her role on Mad Men every year since 2009, once in the Supporting Actress category and thrice in the Lead Actress category — so today’s fifth citation can’t have been much of a surprise.

She was, however, pleasantly shocked to discover that she’ll also be competing for Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie alongside heavy hitters Jessica Lange, Laura Linney, Helen Mirren, and Sigourney Weaver. No wonder she calls her competitors “ridiculously intimidating” — Moss, cited for her work in the BBC Two/UKTV...

Sneak Peek Season Six of AMC's Emmy Award-winning, 1960's set TV drama series "Mad Men" returning April 7, 2013 with a 2-hour premiere.

The premiere episode was written by series creator Matthew Weiner and directed by Scott Hornbacher.

Cast includes Jon Hamm as 'Don Draper', Elisabeth Moss as 'Peggy Olson', Vincent Kartheiser as 'Pete Campbell', January Jones as 'Betty Francis', Christina Hendricks as 'Joan Harris', Aaron Staton as 'Ken Cosgrove', Rich Sommer as 'Harry Crane' and Kiernan Shipka as 'Sally Draper'.

Also returning are Jessica Paré as 'Megan Draper', Christopher Stanley as 'Henry Francis', Jay R. Ferguson as 'Stan Rizzo', Ben Feldman as 'Michael Ginsberg', Robert Morse as 'Bert Cooper' and John Slattery as 'Roger Sterling'.

"Its really constructed like a film, " said Weiner about the opening episode, with portions lensed in Hawaii.

"It is its own story and hopefully it foreshadows the rest of the season.

Review Frances Roberts 8 Apr 2013 - 18:30

Mad Men returns with a packed multi-stranded two-hour opener brimming with quotable dialogue and existential angst...

This review contains spoilers.

1.1 & 1.2 The Doorway

After waiting ten months to hear Don Draper speak, Matthew Weiner made us hang on a little longer. Eight and a half minutes longer, to be precise, during which time Jon Hamm frowned, smiled, chastised, got high, and drank, but said not a word. While Draper wasn’t talking, director Scott Hornbacher’s camera was saying plenty, mostly about Jessica Paré, and with an overriding take-home message of ‘humina humina’. The now-bearded Stan wasn’t the only one excited about the idea of Megan zou bisou-ing around the beach in a bikini.

Don’s taciturnity continued throughout the two-hour opening episode, broken only to decry over-use of the word “love” in ad-land (let’s hope he never lives to see that McDonalds...

Mad Men, Season 6, Episodes 1 & 2: “The Doorway”

Written by Matthew Weiner

Directed by Scott Hornbacher

Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on AMC

When Don was asked “Are you alone?” at the end of Mad Men’s fifth season, there was a moment when I expected him to respond “Isn’t everyone?” Season six opens as Don reads Dante’s Inferno on a Hawaiian beach, surrounded by people but desperately alone, even his own wife (now a star on a soap opera) appears alien to him. Seemingly in response to the question left hanging at the end of season five, the voiceover, quoting Dante, intones “Midway through our life’s journey I went astray from the straight road and awoke to find myself alone in a dark wood.” Later in the episode, in a drunken stupor, he asks his doorman what he saw when he died (a shot of Dr. Rosen...

Now in its sixth season, Mad Men is probably one of the only shows on television that never jumped the shark – it remains as thoughtful and sophisticated a show since its first season. Sure, there have been some mistakes made along the way. But if I’m to judge from this two-hour premiere episode alone (sorry, this will likely therefore be on the long side), entitled “The Doorway,” I don’t think that there’s much to worry about in terms of the show not living up to expectations. In the premiere, a lot of recurring themes from seasons past are revisited – impending death, times that are a-changin’, infidelity, identity – though are these themes should be ever-present, as the show wouldn’t exist without them. Especially now since Vietnam looms even more heavily over the show’s landscape and harbingers of death become even more pertinent. And, yes, the premiere was pretty damn good. Written...

Since the Mad Men Season Six screeners were sent out to reviewers, series creator Matthew Weiner has kept an iron fist wrapped tightly around any spoilers (which, for him, means pretty much everything).  Maybe he's earned that right, but it means that until now, no one has been able to speak one specific word about the return of this cultural juggernaut of a show.  I am breathing a sigh of relief to finally talk about all of the redacted things, because there are many.  This two hour movie-like premiere threw in everything about the series, touching on every major person and every theme we've come across over the past six years.  It's no small feat, and the writing (Weiner wrote the premiere) and directing (by Scott Hornbacher) were as top-notch as ever.  So where exactly do we find Don now, after that suffocatingly bleak end to Season Five?  Hit the...

Sneak Peek new images from Season Six of AMC's Emmy Award-winning, 1960's set TV drama series "Mad Men" returning April 7, 2013.

The 2-hour premiere was written by series creator Matthew Weiner and directed by Scott Hornbacher.

Cast includes Jon Hamm as 'Don Draper', Elisabeth Moss as 'Peggy Olson', Vincent Kartheiser as 'Pete Campbell', January Jones as 'Betty Francis', Christina Hendricks as 'Joan Harris', Aaron Staton as 'Ken Cosgrove', Rich Sommer as 'Harry Crane' and Kiernan Shipka as 'Sally Draper'.

Also returning are Jessica Paré as 'Megan Draper', Christopher Stanley as 'Henry Francis', Jay R. Ferguson as 'Stan Rizzo', Ben Feldman as 'Michael Ginsberg', Robert Morse as 'Bert Cooper' and John Slattery as 'Roger Sterling'.

"Its really constructed like a film, " said Weiner about the opening episode, with portions lensed in Hawaii.

"It is its own story and hopefully it foreshadows the rest of the season.

Mad Men’s Don Draper returns for his penultimate season on AMC Sunday—and he’s as down in the dumps as ever. I write about the dark mood hovering over the show’s brilliant sixth season. Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, "Mad Men Season 6 Review: Triumphant, Lyrical, and Way Existential," in which I review the fantastic sixth season premiere of AMC's Mad Men, which returns on Sunday at 9 p.m. for its penultimate season: "Don isn’t so much a person as a reflection, a shadow, the wet ring left on a bar by a glass of Scotch." Spoilers are funny things. It’s tricky enough to write about a show without delving into the plot mechanics, and even more so when you can’t even touch upon certain aspects of the plot in even a cursory way. But that’s always been...

Sneak Peek new images from Season Six of AMC's Emmy Award-winning, 1960's set TV drama series "Mad Men" returning April 7, 2013 with a 2-hour premiere written by series creator Matthew Weiner and directed by Scott Hornbacher.

Cast includes Jon Hamm as 'Don Draper', Elisabeth Moss as 'Peggy Olson', Vincent Kartheiser as 'Pete Campbell', January Jones as 'Betty Francis', Christina Hendricks as 'Joan Harris', Aaron Staton as 'Ken Cosgrove', Rich Sommer as 'Harry Crane' and Kiernan Shipka as 'Sally Draper'.

Also returning are Jessica Paré as 'Megan Draper', Christopher Stanley as 'Henry Francis', Jay R. Ferguson as 'Stan Rizzo', Ben Feldman as 'Michael Ginsberg', Robert Morse as 'Bert Cooper' and John Slattery as 'Roger Sterling'.

"Its really constructed like a film, " said Weiner about the opening episode, with portions lensed in Hawaii.

"It is its own story and hopefully it foreshadows the rest of the season.

AMC's critically acclaimed Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning drama, "Mad Men," is set to return this weekend for its sixth season. Today, AMC has revealed ten new stills from the two-hour premiere that you can check out below. Written by creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner and directed by executive producer Scott Hornbacher, the premiere will see the return of stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, Jessica Paré, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Robert Morse, Jay Ferguson, Chris Stanley, Ben Feldman and Kiernan Shipka. The sixth season of "Mad Men" premieres April 7 at 9/8c returning to its regular timeslot at 10/9c on April 14 with an episode written by Jonathan Igla and Weiner, and directed...

We already knew Mad Men's sixth season premiere would involve a Hawaiian vacation, but it appears we'll get some Christmas in the bargain as well. A bunch of new images posted Monday evening show a slew of holiday decor as well as a possibly jovial, definitively older-looking Pete Campbell. Check out a few photos here, more at AMC, and proceed to speculate wildly. The Matt Weiner-written, Scott Hornbacher-directed two-hour episode is called "The Doorway."...

The ramp-up to the new season of "Mad Men" continues with AMC's latest teaser for the acclaimed series, below, which per tradition contains only footage from the past season and no glimpses of the upcoming sixth one. The spot, which is set to Elle King's catchy "Playing for Keeps" (a song that, incidentally, also served as the opening theme for VH1's "Mob Wives Chicago"), provides reminders of the dramas the show left off on, including Peggy's (Elisabeth Moss) departure from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and Don's (Jon Hamm) volatile marriage. The two-hour premiere of "Mad Men," written by the show's creator Matthew Weiner and directed by executive producer Scott Hornbacher, will air on Sunday, April 7 at 9pm. Hamm directed the second episode, which will air the following week at 10pm.brightcove.createExperiences();...