Seems the 2012 death date for “Mad Men” is not hard and fast, after all.
AMC, the cable network that airs the hit series, yesterday explained that show creator Matt Weiner was not saying “Mad Men” would end after six seasons — it’s now filming Season 4, which premieres July 25 — but that was as far as he’d plotted the series so far.
“No one wants to see Don Draper wearing a leisure suit,” AMC said in a prepared statement.
“We trust Matthew’s vision and that he knows where to take the show,” itsaid. “But with that said, ‘M*A*S*H‘ figured how to stretch the Korean War for more than a decade, so stay tuned!”
Speaking to an industry group last week, Weiner reportedly said that the seriesabout life at an ad agency during the 1960s would end after Season 6.
Officials from the network, speaking yesterday on background, said he meant only to say that he could “see” the story right now through three more seasons — but that nothing prevented the series from going on after that.
Weiner himself was in LA yesterday and did not issue a statement.