Crisis averted on Mad Men. Trade reports confirm that Mad Men creator and exec producer Matthew Weiner has closed a two-year deal with Lionsgate that’ll keep the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning scribe on the AMC drama for seasons 3 and 4.
For months, Mad Men’s fate seemed uncertain because Lionsgate had yet to close a deal with Weiner, whose previous pact expired at the end of the show’s second season in October. Then word surfaced that Weiner was taking meetings at competing studios while Lionsgate was not-so-quietly looking for his replacement. Now it won’t have to; one source familiar with the talks said Lionsgate was prepared to pay Weiner $8 million over two years to keep him on the show that has singlehandedly put AMC back on the map. The cable network also reportedly stepped up to help fund Weiner’s new deal.
Mad Men just won a Golden Globe last Sunday for Best TV Drama, almost four months after it won an Emmy in the same category last September.
YES, tonight is a great night. I get this news and Battlestar Gallactica was awesome.
Mad Men dont ever do that to me again! I couldnt take losing you to tv heaven.
Yay! That is amazing News! Mad Men is the greatest TV show on right now. Season 2 was amazing. Can’t wait till the summer.
The best news I have heard all week. Mad Men is one of the greatest television shows of all time. Matt Weiner is a flat-out genius.
Watchmen and Mad Men are safe! I can finally get some sleep.
a wave of relief has washed over me…. i love mad men
Are you kidding me with this two and a half paragraphs of luke warm reporting! Where’s the champaign and streamers and kazoos?! This should now be an observed national holiday! This news should be page one before the Presidential Inauguration! I’ll let you pass on this article when you finally splash ‘Mad Men’ on your next weeks cover, EW. Make it happen!
Yay!!!
Only two years of January Jones. I…don’t…think…so!
Mad Men is the best tv drama in years –I watch reruns On Demand just to study the acting and revel in the time period when secretaries had to make the coffee and hand the boss his coat, hat & brief case when he left for the day—hard to believe but true —I went to a secretarial school where they had only recently abandoned wearing white gloves to work! lets hear it again for Women’s Liberation—Yeah!
This is GREAT news. Mad Men is the absolute best show on television, and the thought of it all ending after only two seasons was not good. Thanks for making my day with this news.