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PETITION: BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011!
AMC has hinted that they may not try to make room on their schedule for Season 5 of Mad Men until 2012 and the prolonged negotiations between AMC and Lionsgate further threaten Mad Men in 2011.
Maybe no Don Draper this year, they say? No Peggy Olson, no Joan?
Oh, really? Well, I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
More pragmatically, Therese Bohn and I have started a petition to urge AMC and
Lionsgate not to take Mad Men fans for granted, and hurry the fuck up and get us our dose of our Mad Men and women in 2011.
And we’ve gathered over 300 signatures in a matter of days.
PETITION: BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011!
Please paste this to your Facebook, My Space, or Linkedin page, Tweet, Reddit up, and do whatever else you can to make this petition go viral.
Maybe no Don Draper this year? I’ll bet you’re mad as hell, and won’t take it
anymore, either: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mm_s5/
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Thanks for posting this freelance. I just wanted to add that we’re hoping to get 1000 signatures before I e-mail the link to AMC and Lionsgate. If a raindrop can start a ripple, let us be 1000 raindrops!
Bring back Mad Men
Did you see that Matt and co. won the WGA for the show? This comes at a really good time. Nice job ladies!!
Just tweeted this and also posted this on facebook. I am a college student and online everyday for multiple hours, I will retweet and post again on fb this post 3 times a day. Thats my promise B.o.K. I have followed ya’ll since the beginning, ya’ll rock. Long Live Don Draper!!
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After reading a review of S4 in the NY Review of Books, I agree with Daniel Mendelsohn that the show is really told from the POV of Sally Draper. Since that character and I are the exact age (to the month, I think), this may explain its deep resonance for me. That being said, I want to make sure Kiernan Shipka is able to age-appropriately play Sally Draper, whose age she is about to be less than, especially if they choose to advance the show 2 years in the script. So if that’s what it takes, I’m good with that.
Thanks for posting Lipp sisters — we racked up 50 signatures overnight. We’re edging up to 500!
Please keep up the tweets, facebook pastings and so on and so forth, ladies (and gents.)
BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mm_s5/
I don’t know if petitions of this sort really make a difference. It doesn’t really make good marketing sense to wait so long unless there were other really compelling reasons. Instant gratification isn’t always such a good thing.
It will be almost a year for Breaking Bad fans, and while it sucks to wait, I’d rather they make sure they have all the principal actors there and apparently, that’s the reason. Cranston has to shave his head, it’s not like he can to anything else while he’s doing BB.
As for MM, it may well be they are waiting for Kiernan Shipka to age a little. It’s a reason I’d happily support. Plus, more Jon Hamm in movies in the mean time.
In the meantime, there’s lots of great shows on Netflix to catch up on, I’m doing Friday Night Lights right now. (Nowhere near as good as MM or BB, but diverting.)
In general, doing nothing gets you nothing.
Especially since the “compelling reason” seems to add up to little more financial wrangling between Lionsgate and AMC, not story considerations.
Kiernan growing up while the show is on hiatus might injure the story line, if several otherwise interesting years of the ’60s have to be skipped.
I like Jon Hamm in the movies, but there’s been at least one stinker. I’d rather see him as Draper.
And I don’t think it does Lionsgate or AMC any harm to be reminded not to take Mad Men fans for granted.
BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mm_s5/
Petition nothing! I say we March on Washington!
Do any of you realize that AMC has to air seasons of Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, The Killing, and Hell on Wheels in 2011? Four years ago, they weren’t even airing a single show. Mad Men CAN’T air because they don’t have the budget for it this year, even when you factor in the money generated by The Walking Dead!
I’m sure MW would rather perform a prostatectomy on himself than quit doing Mad Men. But he’d also rather perform a prostatectomy on himself than admit it during negotiations. This is “stare until someone blinks” time; has there ever been a successful TV show that died just because of a negotiation stalemate? I’ve heard of lots of individual performers, producers, etc., leaving a show, production delays, things like that, but I can’t recall one that got killed entirely, never to be seen again.
I don’t think anyone is predicting the death of Mad Men, or wants it.
But considering that, it’s extremely annoying that the financial fiddling may keep the series off the air for over a year.
I think we should remind Lionsgate and AMC that it may not be in their best interest to screw over loyal Mad Men viewers.
I really don’t think anyone is worrying about losing MM fan base. If anything, the long wait will allow more people to catch up with past seasons. Surely no one really believes “loyal viewers” are going to forgo their favorite show just because of a delay.
Ask BSG fans, we waited out a year hiatus. The fansites got really creative during that time, actually. (And when it finally came back, the show started to suck. Hmmmmm, maybe y’all are right.)
It’s a delicate thing. We don’t want to lose the momentum of greatness. Season 4 already felt very different from the previous seasons. If we have to wait til 2012 for new episodes it won’t ever be the same again and might seem like a has-been show.
This show has been running like clockwork for 4 seasons, compared to The Sopranos. But it is more time-sensitive, because that show was about a gang of mobsters who were relics anyway, whereas Mad Men shows a business on the pulse of popular culture, going through the ’60s where events intruded on the characters’ reality thick and fast.
Still, if shooting is delayed, and Kiernan Shipka has to play a bit young so we don’t miss ’66 or whatever, I am sure she can do it!
It’s not in anyone’s best interest for Mad Men to take more than a year to return. Not for fans or for the people who work for the show. A petition isn’t going to change AMC’s mind, but it’s still nice to have it out there.
Everyone, please, lets stop bickering about the outcome of a future season…I agree with Emily, lets march on Washington, lol. Seriously though, all the rhetoric bounced around in here would do wonders on the petition.
Much love to MM fans just stating my 2 cents fwiw
Emily and Kelly, it might be better to march on Los Angeles!
I love Mad Men and I want Season 5. Few shows end their runs on top;and I want Mad Men to be among them. Everybody Loves Raymond is one of the few that did. That show is still very popular in re-runs and has a very loyal fans.
I hope that what plagued the Sopranos will not plague Mad Men. AMC may have to learn the the same lessons as HBO. The Sopranos did for HBO what Mad Men did for AMC. It changed them. I can only watch Mad Men past episodes for so long; then I need a new season. Get it on Lionsgate and AMC!
The series appears to be covering the same ground. Season four was an attempt to relaunch and now it all seems tired.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
Ecclesiastes 3-1
What plagued The Sopranos, besides Chase’s perfectionism? It was a great show from start to finish.
I hope my signed ipetition went through even though I closed the donation window without giving money. It seemed strange that there was no confirmation nor an option to not donate.
Can MW and cast get picked up elsewhere, or can AMC prevent them from making the show for another station?
#23 – The Sopranos were plagued by long delays between seasons. Fans only had to wait 8 months between seasons 1-2. The delays between seasons 3-4 were 15 months; between seasons 4-5 about the same. The delay between seasons 5-6 was 19 months.
My wife and I used to argue about getting HBO. There were a lot of people who got HBO because of the Sopranos.
Bob K, the long delays were caused by Chase’s perfectionism (or writer’s block) if I recall.
I would like to propose that there should also be a petition for MAKE SURE MATTHEW WEINER IS STILL SHOWRUNNER.
I’m willing to wait years for Season 5 as long as he’s still Executive Producer. If it comes back without him, I won’t watch.