matthew weiner

Unsigned ‘Mad Men’ Creator Sounds Ominous Season 3 Alarm

8:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Though AMC recently set an optimistic US summer return date for the next season of Mad Men, show mastermind Matthew Weiner (whose contract dispute remains unresolved) has a much gloomier forecast, he tells E! More »

10:01AM Seth | The Future of Weiner. A rumour that Lionsgate is approaching various agencies in search of a Mad Men showrunner to replace a too-rich-for-their-blood Matthew Weiner was shot down by an insider, who told Defamer the negotiations had just begun, and that while he asked high, they were absolutely “not looking to replace him. He IS the show.” Fret not, Mad Men fans still in mourning over the end of Season 2 and sweating the fate of Season 3: the studio is confident the deal will close before Christmas. (And without the celebrity dancing competition Jon Hamm promised in his SNL monologue.) More »

‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Knows How To Sell Himself

4:20AM Seth | So Mad Men creator/EP/spiritual shepherd Matthew Weiner realises he’s sitting on something pretty special with his cast of desk-hopping, Brylcreemed creatives over at Sterling Cooper. Perhaps it was the 16 Emmy nominations that tipped him off. (”Don’t think of them as Emmy awards,” his inner Don Draper will intone on the big night, “Think of them as tiny angels, flapping their pointy wings to a place where fear doesn’t live. They’re saying, ‘You are OK, Matt…It’s all…OK.’”) Weiner’s contract with the show’s studio, Lionsgate TV, is up at the end of this season, and Variety reports he’s been shopping himself around town to the highest bidder: More »