AMCtv.com invites Mad Men fans to audition for a walk-on role in  Season 3. We'll fly one person with the best video to L.A. to stay for 4 days and 3 nights - enough time to rub elbows with Don Draper. You don't need to be a professional actor to audition and you can do this with a simple digital camera. We welcome funny, spontaneous home-grown videos.

Just perform pre-selected lines for Don Draper, Pete Campbell, Roger Sterling, Betty Draper, Peggy Olson or Joan Holloway and send us your video. You will receive an email confirmation when we have accepted your entry.  (Note: this will not be an immediate response.) 

ENTER the CONTEST, VIEW and VOTE HERE:  "You Could Be on  Mad Men" Contest Site.

One season in -- and Mad Men has made it onto Entertainment Weekly's list of "The New Classics" (the 100 best TV shows of the last 25 years)... at number 91, thank you very much. Rolling Stone also touts the drama as one of the top 10 musts for summer, noting that Season 2 finds Jon Hamm's Don Draper "struggling with an identity crisis."

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This Sunday's New York Times Magazine devoted its cover and an extensive feature story to the show and its "genius" creator Matthew Weiner.  The author of the article, Alex Witchel spent three days trailing Weiner on the Mad Men set as he auditioned new guest actors, presided over rehearsals, and revised scripts.

The article recounts how the drama landed at AMC after having been passed over by other networks, characterizing it as "one of those stories that give underdogs of all breeds in this town a reason to get out of bed in the morning."   Witchel also covers everything from Weiner's fastidious attention to period detail to his ferocious desire to keep plot spoilers from escaping the set. 

One detail which Weiner did allow to be published was the fact that the show picks up in 1962. "It's too much of a soap opera to pick up with the next month," Weiner said, explaining his decision. "There's more storytelling in moving ahead and taking a season to find out what happened."