No More Of Joan Holloway's Magnificent Chichis Until 2012
AMC announced today that Mad Men's fifth season has been pushed into early 2012 and there's a chance the show's creator Matthew Weiner might not be the one pulling at Betty and Don's strings anymore. In a conference room in L.A. somewhere, AMC and Matthew both have their pants around their ankles and are dick fighting over three things. AMC will pay Matthew $30 million over a 2 year period if he agrees to whore our products in each episode, fire or demote two regular cast members and cut two minutes off of each show to make way for more commercials. Product placement? You know, this isn't such an awfully whorey idea, because I really want to see Betty Draper reenact this classic scene:
Deadline Hollywood says that Matthew is prepared to wok (Wanchai Ferry product placement alert) if AMC doesn't drop the cheap fuck act. You know, I have a solution! AMC can save money by: a) stripping a few millions off of Matthew's insane $30 million salary and b) stripping the clothes off certain characters since that's what most of us are doing with our eyes anyway. Re-title it NUDE MEN and we're off!
But Mad Men has to come back, because if it doesn't AMC will play even more "classic films" like 1990's Back to the Future Part III. Way to make me feel like I'm standing next to the O in OLD. At least with Mad Men, I can tell myself, "HAHAHA! That's silly old timey stuff that I never lived." But when I see Back to the Future Part III on AMC, I am reminded about how I watched it for the first time on opening night in the theaters. And a theater that didn't have stadium seating. No, stadium seating didn't always exist. Nuts, I know.
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Idk about the negotiations, money, blah, blah (and I don't think the full story behind these stories really make their way to us).
However, this show is SO well-written and I'm really disappointed to hear that it will be a year until we get to see next season.
Yes, that salary is nuts, but they're asking him to cut two characters? Wtf? Way to fuck with the integrity of the show, AMC.
Also, as insanely jealous as I am of the actors who get the privilege to be on this show, I feel kinda bad for them after hearing this news. Nothing like being jerked around and competing for your job years into it.
The show should be on a real network like Showtime or HBO, and not fucking low budget AMC.
Mad Men filmed scenes in the lobby of my office building last year. Once word got around on what show was filming downstairs, there was literally a stampede of women heading to the lobby. I had to push my way through the huge crowd but I got to watch Jon Hamm film a scene. In person, he is beyond HAWT...sigh.
Agreed with everyone else that Betty needs to be cut. I fucking hate that bitch. I was glad she was barely on the last season. Child abusing cunt.
They're both greedy assholes. They already do a shit load of product placement, but duh they're a fucking as agency. How hard is it to insert some more companies? MW should have moved this show to HBO.
Less bewbs and more Jon Hamm. Thanks.
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maybe they could add a medium to the cast, who would go into spells where she predicts products from the future:
"tiny little hand held musical devices and phones that plug straight into your brain through your ears!"
"foam that removes blemishes!"
etc.
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I'm not sure why, but I love the way the Wanchai Ferry panda talks on those commercials. I'm positive that in real life, I'd think he was scary as shit!
I don't understand part of this. Mad Men already uses real product names (Heineken, Utz potato chips and Maidenform to name a few off the top of my head). What would really have to change in that regard? I hope they would not super-cheese it out like they did on Days. I was actually watching that day (yup, I still watch Days sometimes) and I couldn't believe my eyes or ears. I thought I was dreaming!
Stefano would not approve of this fuckery.
Submitted by badwolf: "This dispute with Weiner does not bode well. I just have the impression Mad Men is on the verge of jumping the shark. I'm still not sure I liked where the storylines were going in the season ending."
Same here.
Know what also jumped the shark for me? "30 Rock". I know. I half-watched the last episode because the bubble-blasting game on my phone was equally or more riveting, and I didn't laugh out loud once. :(
Submitted by catfight357:"How the fuck do you have product placement for 2012 in a series set in the 1960s? weird."
I was kind of thinking that they already DO product placements when they are coming up with ads for shit. Like Hilton Hotels.
And then they have those ads for stuff (Pepsi, maybe? I can't remember so it didn't work on me) that are done in a style and set so similar to the "Mad Men" set that if you're FFing through the commercials you stop, because you think the show has started again.
If I watched any show, even one I loved, and it had a scene like that mess of a commercial in it posing as a scene, I would turn the channel and never watch again.
Hollywood best check itself before it totally wrecks itself.
@Vern - that episode with the tractor made me LMAO, and then I felt bad for it! Dark humor at its best.
This dispute with Weiner does not bode well. I just have the impression Mad Men is on the verge of jumping the shark. I'm still not sure I liked where the storylines were going in the season ending.
Submitted by Datura on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:30pm.
Submitted by LA on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:24pm.
I've loved Mad Men since day one, but I'd be absolutely fine with it if they dropped Betty from the show entirely. She was barely on last season, and no one missed her. January Jones has always been the weak link of the cast.
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I agree. She's just a terrible actress. Beautiful and looks like the perfect wife, but just not very believable.
I have to admit before watching Mad Men, I could not understand her appeal. After watching the first two seasons on video on demand, I totally dig her. She plays her part well and she does have an unusual beauty.
Submitted by johnnysgirl on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:53pm.
Yes! Y&R and B&B. And they're still on!!!!! Lol.
"not so fast tom ryan..."
OMFG, soaps suck. Allison Sweeney does better mope face on The Biggest Loser (on tonight on your local NBC channel; check local listings).
What products would they place in a 1960s world that would have relavance today? Brylcreem? Wall-mounted phones from Ma Bell? Giant stereo hi-fi's in a wooden cabinet? TV dinners that take 45 minutes to heat up in a stove?
WTF? I love Mad Men and think the creator of the show should have some creative control. Jesus! Would you tell Da Vinci to put more trees on the Mona Lisa? It's his picture, let him paint it the way he wants to. The show is massively hot and AMC was a suck-ass channel before.
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LOL@that clip...poor distraught little girl and memaw's tryna sell her frozen foods. LOL!
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I don't even watch that overrated drivel and I respect this dude for giving up 30 mill in an attempt to preserve the integrity of his show.
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Don't drop Betty - she's a bitch of an ex wife and I'm sure she could continue to torture Don and those kids in all different ways! And if they got rid of Betty - then you have to get rid of the kids too ... who will be around to care for them? Don's new wife?
I say get rid of Joan. Seems her sole purpose is to flaunt her huge tits. She constantly looks as though she just sucked on a lemon. I see no further use for her. Her story line with Roger is dead and her husband is a non issue on the show. Take her hip hugging curves and GO.
Microwaved Chinese food is so horrible. I also have to admit that I'm tired of Christina Hendricks. She looks good in the retro getup, but I would prefer seeing less of her otherwise. I think if she was arching her back any farther in that picture she'd be breaking it.
Submitted by LA on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:49pm.
Datura - I would agree with you except the way I read the article, AMC wants to lose two REGULARS, meaning two people from opening credits. Joan's terrible husband isn't a regular. That said, they should kill him anyway, on principle alone.
They could send Lane Pryce back to England, Harry to a job in Los Angeles, or Ken Cosgrove back to the other agency he was working for. As much as I like all three of those characters, they are probably more expendable than the other regulars.
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so should double posts!
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Product placement should be outlawed!
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I have to like a show where they cut off a guy's foot at his welcome party. That was fucking funneh!
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I am so bummed. I fucking love this show.
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How the fuck do you have product placement for 2012 in a series set in the 1960s? weird.
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excellent point.
Submitted by ISprainedMyUvula on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:23pm.
I think this show is boring as hell.
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I do too! The characters annoy the hell out of me. My friends always want to gush about Mad Men and Glee, and I hate them both.
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When life gives you lemons...slice 'em up, eat 'em. - Aunt Barbara http://www.youtube.com/user/AuntBarbara
it's a brilliant show and i get, in a way, why weiner wants to stand his ground, but ... if he's THAT into his artistic integrity not being compromised, why not shave a few mil off his outrageous pay cheque to save the two cast members who would be otherwise let go? when you're making $25 or $30 million, there's really not that much of a difference, is there?
I never watched Days, it was just too silly (and for a soap that's saying something because they all are). My sis and I used to watch Guiding Light.
My mom was a Y&R fan - the theme music ("Brian's Song") is still super mommy-nostalgic for me. VICTOR!! That craggly-faced ghoul is still going strong.
Anyone remember that mess The Bold and the Beautiful they created to air after Y&R? How dreadful LOL!
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I've seen ONE episode and I was NOT bowled over.
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Datura - I would agree with you except the way I read the article, AMC wants to lose two REGULARS, meaning two people from opening credits. Joan's terrible husband isn't a regular. That said, they should kill him anyway, on principle alone.
They could send Lane Pryce back to England, Harry to a job in Los Angeles, or Ken Cosgrove back to the other agency he was working for. As much as I like all three of those characters, they are probably more expendable than the other regulars.
So sick of this clown-ass bitch's face.
They should have a mysterious stranger from the future hand Conrad Hilton a copy of his granddaughters (or whatever his relation is) sex tape.
He'd be all... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
I hope AMC doesn't do this to Vince Gilligan.
‘Breaking Bad’ is much more superior to the now rather boring ‘Mad Men’.
I couldn't with Days of Our lives. Once i was hooked on All My Children, General Hospital and Passions though.
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How the fuck do you have product placement for 2012 in a series set in the 1960s? weird.
I remember the days when I would rush home from school to watch DOOL or I'd hit record on the VCR. I was obsessed with that shit.
Once Marlena became possessed by the devil I quit watching.
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But that was the best part! Stefano manipulating everyone. I quit watching when he left.
And yes, I know I should be embarrassed, but no.
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Guys!!!! You need to come BACK to DOOL. Not only is Stefano back (as is Vivian) but EJ (his son) is so fucking hot that you will burn your fucking eyeballs off. And he's a cheating, lying douchebag, which makes him hotter. I watch that shit on DVR every night with a bottle of wine & a vibrator.
snowy - in her younger years when she first was on Days she was chunky.
She's since dropped the weight, even after 2 kids.
Submitted by snowpiece on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:21pm.
I can't find any real FAT pics of her, she got pretty chubby tho
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she did when she was pregnant the second time around (pass for me), otherwise she looks healthy to me.
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Why when I type in "Alison Sweeney 1990" into my Yahoo image browser, Johnny Depp pics appear?
Is this a sign...should I book a flight to France right now?
*goes to read horoscope*
*orders pf changs to go*
"not so fast tom ryan..."
WE ALREADY LOST SAL WE CAN'T LOSE ANYBODY ELSE.
Cept Betty, fuck her, she can go.
Submitted by LA on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:24pm.
I've loved Mad Men since day one, but I'd be absolutely fine with it if they dropped Betty from the show entirely. She was barely on last season, and no one missed her. January Jones has always been the weak link of the cast.
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Seems like they ran out of ideas for Betty two seasons ago, and now they're just trying to make her as awful and needy as possible.
They could axe Joan's rapey husband by killing him off at war. They could chop Pete's annoying wife and her family for all I care.
Sucks that they have to compromise when the show is, presumably, the channel's biggest hit.
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M.E. I am talking about from The Brady Bunch, if that's the family name in the soap I wouldn't know, I'm a former ABC soap girl....
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