'Mad Men' has not caught 'Lost' fever: no end date in sight, says AMC

The creator of "Mad Men" has created a mad stir with some innocuous comments he made at the National Association of Broadcasters convention last week.

As reported by no media outlets other than theweeklyblend.com, Matt Weiner apparently said that he could not see writing or continuing the advertising-centric series beyond its sixth season. The fourth season will premiere in July.

That came as a big surprise to fans, but no one was more surprised than the network that airs the show, AMC.

A spokeswoman for AMC assures that no end date has been set for the show and issued this statement on behalf of the network: "No one wants to see Don Draper wearing a leisure suit.  We trust Matthew's vision and that he knows where to take the show.  But with that said, M*A*S*H figured how to stretch the Korean War for more than a decade, so stay tuned! "

--Maria Elena Fernandez (follow me on Twitter @writerchica)

Photo: "Mad Men" cast showing off the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce agency revealed in the season three finale. Credit: Carin Baer/AMC

Comments

[boilinabag]

man i am so waiting until they hit 67, and the hippies days, the change in society from 63 to 67 was amazing, and so will madmen art direction..... you know peggy is going to try acid and become a flower child!

[JR]

I'd love to see how this show handles the events between 1967-1970. You can almost predict how some of the characters are going to end up. There is so much material to play with that this show can go in just about any direction. Keep it going!

[C. Ratliff]

I don't get why people would say things like "No one wants to see Don Draper wearing a leisure suit" or "I don't think we want to see ['Mad Men'] at the disco," as if Mad Men can only be interesting in its 1960s setting.

This type of thinking seems to totally misunderstand the show, which is not just about "the 60s" but about how things change. Personally, I'd be FASCINATED if the show chose to go further along in time. And I'd love to know what Don Draper was like in the 1970s. Although it would surely be less glamorous...