Mad Men

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Rake's on a plane

TV News | Ed Williamson | 7th March 2014

No, I've got nothing else; I just like that pun. Mad Men season seven is back on Sky Atlantic on Wednesday 16 April.

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Top 20 TV shows of 2013

TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Matt Looker, Rob Young, Luke Whiston, Iain Robertson, Neil Alcock | 31st December 2013

In years to come, we will remember 2013 as the year everything changed. Danny Dyer is now in Eastenders, and across the land all else has ceased to matter. But look upon the works of this medium, now so wholly transformed, and you will see more than this. And you might think it handy that some berk put it all in a list and bid you read it.

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Another reason to love Mad Men: the preview vids tell you nothing

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 30th May 2013

I read a Matthew Weiner interview recently in which he confirmed something I've long suspected: that the end-credits teaser videos for the next episode deliberately tell you nothing whatsoever about what'll be in it. They're basically just to humour the network's demands: collections of random dialogue snippets from which it's impossible to derive any meaning, let alone plot spoilers. I applaud this.

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This is ... yes, I'm fairly sure this is a Mad Men season five recap

TV Feature | Ali Gray | 10th April 2013

Season five of Mad Men was ages ago. With season six starting up tonight, it's fair to say my priorities have shifted a little in the intervening time, and I'll be stone plum buggered if I can remember what went on. And yet it says 'recap' at the top. How did I ...

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Mad Men season six exclusive: Harry Crane to present Bullseye

TV News | Ed Williamson | 13th March 2013

This is about as much as I can infer from the 'sneak peek' trailer anyway. Confirmation on rumours that Ken Cosgrove will settle in the contestants at the oche still pending.

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I have DEFINITELY found meaning in the Mad Men season six cast pics

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 23rd January 2013

Awash is the internet with articles called 'Here's what these new cast pictures tell us about Mad Men season six'. Awash. Most of these ignore the fact that they in reality tell us nothing at all about Mad Men season six. This one does not. Ignore it, that is.

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Top 20 TV shows of 2012

TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Matt Looker, Luke Whiston, Rob Young | 2nd January 2013

We spent 2012 doing what we do best: watching TV and putting off writing about it. And my stars, the things we've seen. If only there were some way to convey our preferences of one thing over another through hierarchical structuring. Wait a minute ...

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TV actors talk about TV acting on TV for like an hour

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 25th September 2012

I went looking for Damian Lewis's Emmy acceptance speech, and came away with so much more. Some of the best TV actors around, just shootin' the shit.

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Mad Men: season five

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 16th June 2012

Several times during the interviews before Mad Men's fifth season premiered, we heard the mantra from Matthew Weiner when asked for the season's theme: "When is everything going to get back to normal?" This being Mad Men, this could've meant any number of things: some sort of high-minded allegory for cultural upheaval, a warning not to expect the characters to revert to type, or one of those loose ideas they throw in from time to time that seem meaningless, then significant once you've spent three hours and a couple of Old-Fashioneds thinking about it. Now we've seen the whole thing, it makes a lot of sense.

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Mad Men blooper: that's the wrong song, Don

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 9th May 2012

Don Draper, you goof. Your wife hands you a new copy of one of the greatest albums ever made, and the only thing you had to do was put the needle in the right place.

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