Matt Weiners Legacy
Many times during interviews and commentaries our beloved Matt Weiner has made it clear he encourages all his writers to step up to be producers and eventual show-runners. During Season One the writer's assistant got to write and produce an episode. The same happened in Season Two, plus a long-time script supervisor directed an episode.
In The Hollywood Reporter of 30 July, it is announced that MM consulting producer and author of "The Inheritance" has a comedy, "Untitled" at the moment, in the works for HBO. Diane Keaton has signed as star and executive producer. Her character will be a Gloria Steinem-icon type. That sound so Mad Men.
This January Marti Noxon joined with talented writer/producer Dawn Parouse to form Grady Twins Productions. She will be the third executive producer. This show brings Diane Keaton to a TV series.
Just think, given the creative potential on the MM staff, what future projects we can anticipate from all these talented folks.
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Mea culpa. While starting this topic in paragraph 2 I failed to make it clear Marti Noxon wrote "The Inheritance" for MM.
Sorry about that, Marti.
That's an interesting post, Dr. Adams. It seems that "our" Matt is a magnet for up and coming talent. Not only with writers, producers but also with actors. He has the ability to pick the right actor for the right role. The new fall shows are being advertised now on the big three channels and the cable networks, but it looks like nothing is going to come up to the high level of Mad Men.
As one who was part of the advertising milieu ``back then," in the 60s, I am drawn to the MM episodes like a new business guy to a blue-chip ad account/budget.
And in reading the book that Adweek's Barbara Lippert wrote about,``Nobody's Perfect: Bill Bernbach and the Golden Age of Advertising," I was delightfully reminded of many amazing and dramatic events of those days/years.
In fact, one might say that Mad Men, great as it is in its fictionalized fashion, still can't top the real-life stuff that was going on, at every level of Madison Avenue's agency offices, back then.. as recounted via the ``oral histories" on which this remarkable book is based.
As one who was part of the advertising milieu ``back then," in the 60s, I am drawn to the MM episodes like a new business guy to a blue-chip ad account/budget.
And in reading the book that Adweek's Barbara Lippert wrote about,``Nobody's Perfect: Bill Bernbach and the Golden Age of Advertising," I was delightfully reminded of many amazing and dramatic events of those days/years.
In fact, one might say that Mad Men, great as it is in its fictionalized fashion, still can't top the real-life stuff that was going on, at every level of Madison Avenue's agency offices, back then.. as recounted via the ``oral histories" on which this remarkable book is based.