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Have the feuding TV networks killed off Mad Men?

Have the feuding TV networks killed off Mad Men?

By Stephen Foster on July 2, 2012

I used to think that the biggest threat to the fantastic ‘Mad Men’ TV series about Madison Avenue types in the all-conquering, drinking and bonking 1960′s was the onset of hippiedom (or the bourgeois version thereof). Can you imagine Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s sharp-suited Don Draper (right) in bell-bottom jeans with a droopy Frank Zappa [...]

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Will the old Mad Men magic work for Tina Brown's new Newsweek?

Will the old Mad Men magic work for Tina Brown’s new Newsweek?

By Stuart Smith on January 16, 2012

Creatives, sharpen your pencils. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, has a new challenge for you. Well, not ‘new’ perhaps; more “retro”. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hone those copy skills which you might, if you were extremely lucky, have learned at the knee of David Abbott or, very distantly indeed, Bill [...]

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Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce faces the chop

Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce faces the chop

By Stephen Foster on March 31, 2011

It’s never easy starting an agency of course and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the fictional home of Mad Men, is facing the indignity of budget cuts, more advertising time and (yuk) product placement as producer Lionsgate tries to get the fifth series of the highly-esteemed (although not high rating) show on the road. Mad Men [...]

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