Gotta agree, z....hope they (AMC) read that and respond -- and DO all that!

Am I crazy, or did MM start out coming on at 9PM?

We are central time here so I definitely recall it coming on then....and then there was an immediate encore following, so one could watch it twice in one night all by 11PM...sigh...wha' hawpen'????

They do seem to be sabotaging their own show.
Sad but true...it's just so obvious!

Hi Maddicts!

I agree with everything you say Zeralda. Except that here in AZ (Mountain time) we have been getting 2nd season MM at 9 p.m. But no repeats. I got the distinct impression that AMC is promoting Breaking Bad (which is also terrific) instead of MM. BB is shown numerous times during the week.

Now, here is what I believe about the comment from Zeralda about how many people she knows have never heard of MM. Despite its supposed noteriety in the news and numerous awards, this is hard to believe. But, I have had the same experience! Perhaps it is because AMC is not affliated with a proper Network (that everyone with a TV can get) and so there are no promotions there. Add to that - that Satillite providers do not put AMC on its first, and more affordable tier, and perhaps that is even true of some Cable providers -therefore there would be many people UNABLE to see Madmen even if they wanted to. Not even NBC bothered to mention that John Hamm was from "the award winning show, Madmen" when he appeared on 30Rock - boo!

So, let me join Zeralda in asking AMC to PLEASE promote the show before the 3rd season begins and to re-run Season 1 and 2 in numerous time slots before then. Just DO IT! I tell everyone I know to watch the show but cannot convert large numbers.

.....Thank you, dear z, for posing this viewpoint once again.....sigh.....I've grown weary.....being a big ole beyotch is not easy.

I just don't get the Win/Lose mentality here. Like they have to sacrifice Mad Men to promote Breaking Bad.

Or WHATEVER the pathology.

Believe yourself when you say it's unbelievable, and it is. I'd love to be an insider on this.

.....Actually, the person I'd like to hear from on this is Matt himself. A lot of questions there.

Remember last month when Mad Men was completely omitted from the e-mailed monthly viewing schedule?

They never even bothered to reissue the corrected version, and I haven't received one AT ALL for this month!

Apparently AMC has UNsubscribed me from that mailing.

SCfan, have you received your AMC monthly viewing schedule e-mail yet?

Believe me when I say I'm also sick of this same conversation over and over, but is sweeping it under the carpet really the right thing?

Nope, Dry, I've not received mine yet either.

I think they are under the mistaken notion that with all the awards, publicity, praise from hither and yon that MM has received, that they can safely focus all their attention to the other AMC original productions (BB mainly). That, I think is a big mistake, AMC. I know you think that MM is safe to rest on it's laurels, but the Maddicts do not agree.

Oh well, talking to the same ol' brick wall.....

sigh

My AMC newsletter/schedule e-mail just came, Dry...looks like Lonesome Dove is a'comin' down the trail for us this month....that's always a plus.

"Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute" (Dan A.) is coming in Ghostbusters, too, kinda fun.

No matter how many times I see Lonesome Dove, I still enjoy it...Augustus and Woodrow are beyond great.

Well, z....looks like AMC does NOT "care to respond".....

......how RUDE!

That's the only way to put it....plain ol' flat out rude, and that's the truth.

.....Oh, I've been reminding myself - You loud ladies have been SO very into that discussion one or more months ago, I've been meaning to bring it up - sorry!

I saw it in the AMC program schedule, but am laxe in the matter....

I did not see it the first time around, and you have spurred me on about it.

.....Long Story Short: I didn't see Lonesome Dove the first time - I guess it's quite the hang?

Dry, if you like Robert Duvall, you'll enjoy it. Or classic westerns in general...

Also, the book by Larry McMurtry is worth a read for sure.

He says it's his favorite role (and that's even over Tender Mercies, which is saying something!) -- I don't think you'll be sorry.

Dry and others interested, here's a clip of the original CBS trailer for Lonesome Dove (1989) ~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiFpjPNNH1I

.....Thanks, SCfan.....That will be fun, and then I'll know what everyone is talking about.

Fred Garvin - heh! Your comments about that always remind me of the trip I took through Mexico, and one of the legs was on a rural train from Mexico City to Guadalajara.

We were all a bit hung over from the festivities of a late night prior to that, so many of us just wanted to sleep.

HA!!

This was like a 6-hour train trip, all the way through the desert in the middle of a summer day, and there were kids, families, dogs, grandmas, chickens, and backpack-laden touristas.

One old lady and her chicken seemed to like me very much and we spent a lot of quality time together, with her staring at me intensely for the entire six hours. No talking, just staring. (And clucking, squawking and pooping.)

Anyway, apparently, one of our group had latent ADD issues or something, because the entire, hot, very wiffy, crowded ride, all I heard was "Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute." Over and over.

It was like a bad Fellini movie!

Sigh. Good times........

(Sorry - way OT.....)

.....Came across this little interview with Jon Hamm.....He really does seem like a nice, contemplative, mindful, down-to-earth person, which is the thing I think I like best about him.

I saw another comment by a writer on the internet describing Don Draper as 'deeply sad,' and it struck me that we talk about a lot of things, but haven't really framed his personality as tragic or sad, so much, at least not in an overt way.

That might be the most important thing that Jon has in common with his character, having withstood some of those "early knocks" someone mentioned here a few months ago.

Anyway, here is the little interview from The Envelope.....

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/env-en-hamm3-2009jun03,0,5104460.story

Jon Hamm's a calm 'Mad Men' guy
The actor puts the excitement over his breakout role in perspective.
June 3, 2009

Jon Hamm is one of those overnight sensations that took only two decades and one plum role to discover. He was born and raised in St. Louis and has been acting in theater since college. He landed his first television role about 10 years ago. But nothing he's done has hit like Don Draper, the sad ad exec at the center of "Mad Men."

He's won a number of awards for his acting, and his movie star looks recently earned him Salon's "sexiest man living" title.

At 38, he's able to view the hoopla surrounding his breakout role with calm perspective. "Being older definitely gives you a sense of appreciation," he says, "because you realize how lucky you are, and you may not have another shot left, so to get one like this is a real honor."

It wasn't long ago that Matthew Weiner had to fight AMC for Hamm to get the job because the network was hoping to land a bigger-name actor. That attitude seems laughable now; the role seems as tailored to Hamm as Don Draper's suits. And it makes his recent comedic turns that much more entertaining. After hosting "Saturday Night Live" last fall, he was offered a role for a few episodes of "30 Rock" as Liz Lemon's ( Tina Fey) suspiciously handsome and wonderful boyfriend. Though it wasn't the first time he didn't have to audition for a role, "it was definitely the first time for something that I actually really wanted to do," Hamm notes wryly.

He recently finished working on the film "Howl," about the obscenity trial that followed publication of the Allen Ginsberg poem. He's been in negotiations to star in "enormous films that have just been exciting and huge and could be amazing and could be miserable flops," none of which he can mention yet.

He's also using the momentum to start his own production company, Points West, with girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt, the writing-directing-starring dynamo behind the indie charmers "Kissing Jessica Stein" and "Ira & Abby." "We decided to attempt to take our future in our own hands a little bit."

Weiner is thrilled to watch Hamm's career take off. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer person," he says.

-- Lisa Rosen

Jon's description of his upcoming movies is pretty funny, and so true. By the time the producers and editors get done with a movie, it can be great, or unrecognizable.

Jennifer just got a role on "24," if I'm not mistaken, and with the production company and his cinema films roles, it looks like both she and Jon are doing well, which is saying something in in this economy.

Wonder if those crazy kids are ever planning on getting married?

Neat article, Dry...enjoyed it immensely.

It could be that some of the "sad/brooding material" JH brings to his role of Don Draper stems from his own early losses...his mother died when he was 10 and his father 10 years later (from IMDB) .... I know he has to wish they'd lived to see his great success. They do "see" it, of course....but he doesn't get to SEE them see it....gotta hurt in addition to just missing them, which no doubt, he still does.

He talks about having "a lady that he loves and that loves him" and he and (Jennifer) being "on the same page" and that "if the time ever comes when they are not on the same page", they "will move forward with it"....so that means there still could be some (minute) hope for the JH smitten out there.

...just bide your time, girls....something tells me that if he hasn't married her in this 10+ years' time span they've loved each other....he might be the kind that will suddenly get hit with a bucket of love out of the blue, for someone he didn't even see coming... and it will be curtains for Ms. W...it could happen.

I do wish they'd marry already, and have some gorgeous babies, however, if they're ever going to.
Something is preventing it from happening (marriage) even if it is subconcious.

BTW, that's a cute, contemplative expression he has there, isn't it?

He looks like he could be "remembering" possibly.

Or.....could it just be the old standby:

Why buy the cow ~ when you're getting the milk for free ?

hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

.....I think his parents would be indisputably proud.

.....Jon, ya big dummy!

Get off the pot.....er.....!

......The thing that interests me there is the fact that, like he said, 38 is an age where you have become the man that you will be..... forever more.

He hit it,exactly when he should have, in every which way.....

The thing I keep stumbling upon, is that this guy, who is clearly a WINNER, had to audition no less than like SEVEN TIMES for this role?

Did I get that right?

......The thing that interests me there is the fact that, like he said, 36-38 is an age where you have become the man that you will be..... forever more.

He hit it,exactly when he should have, in every which way.....

The thing I keep stumbling upon, is that this guy, who is clearly a WINNER, had to audition no less than like SEVEN TIMES for this role?

Did I get that right?

.....Pretty sure it's me, not you with the glitch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMlXfgABgM&feature=PlayList&p=63D00F5605890DB5&index=24

One of many....

Seven times, huh?

You'd think, with MW being so smart and all, that the minute JH walked in they'd have known they had their Don Draper....go figure.

I find it interesting that MW had that (Mad Men) story for years and years (before The Sopranos,even, so the story goes) and shopped it around...the only takers being AMC (famously by now) -- which speaks for fate being a big part in the way things fall into place -- JH would not have been the right age had the delay (intentional or not?) not happened -- to play Don Draper....a part he was born to play, as we all know.

.....Okay, I'm officially busted. I forgot I wrote that up there, and just posted it again on another thread!! Scary!

Sorry.

I see that others previously have voiced the same concerns/questions I had about AMC's showing of Mad Men. I, too, am in Central time zone, and if I happen to miss or forget about watching an episode (almost never), then I'm out of luck. There is one showing and no more, unlike Breaking Bad, which seems to repeat a couple of times, at least. I usually watch it, too, but am not really a devoted fan. As for Mad Men - I'm so addicted (thus, I can relate to "Maddicts")! Please - please, AMC - hear us! Bring MM on a little earlier and repeat it at least once - maybe even on another night during the week. We are your loyal fans and will always be here every week, eagerly awaiting the next exciting episode! Did I read someplace that taping for next season has already begun? Any date yet for the first episode? Anyone??? Thanks!

Yes, LAMag, they used to show a new epi back to back the first showing and then at least once more during the week (Thurs. I think?) We Maddicts would generally watch all (me anyway) showings to catch nuances and details we might have missed in the first viewing.

Welcome to the frustrated masses ~~ from your post to AMC's eyes....don't hold your breath, though....sadly

"Sometime in August" is as specific as they'll get for the first episode.

.....Wasn't it August 16?