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It’s the last series of Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic in the UK (wait for endless prequels) so perky PR firm Taylor Herring has orchestrated a surprising experience for visitors to the Tower of London with GoT’s Night’s Watch ...

In the UK Mad Men has returned to Sky Atlantic, infuriatingly for those of us who aren’t Sky subscribers. Wieden+Kennedy London managing director Neil Christie (left) analyses the advertising bits – there are still some – in the new episodes ...

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 ...

According to the Daily Mail it is anyway: BSkyB is paying £250,000 per episode for series five of Mad Men but audiences have slumped to 47,000 for the third episode (in stark contrast to the 355,000 it garnered on BBC ...

We’re not going to show all of them (you’ll be relieved to know) but some UK advertisers are digging old ads out of the cupboard to run in Sky Atlantic’s current showing of Mad Men 5. Here’s one from the ...

Amongst other things, obviously it was. The fifth series of Mad Men starts Sunday in the US, and probably on Sky Atlantic in the UK. I wouldn’t know because I’m a Virgin customer in the UK and don’t have Sky ...

Everybody knew that ITV faced a hard summer after last year’s recovery – no World Cup and a UK advertising market being buffeted by little or no growth with the prospect of worse to come as coalition government public sector ...

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 ...

Executives at UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB, about to announce yet more stellar sales and profit figures, must be so wishing they could do away with Rupert Murdoch, 39 per cent owner News Corporation, The News of the World, Andy Coulson ...