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AMC's sister networks to black out programming during Mad Men season finale
All eyes will be on AMC Sunday night as the network airs Mad Men’s series finale. To make sure of it, AMC’s sister networks (BBC America, IFC, Sundance and WE) will suspend regular programing for an hour beginning at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, instead sharing a special message commemorating Mad Men, the network announced Tuesday.
AMC will also celebrate the end of the show’s eight-year run by airing a marathon of every episode starting at 6 p.m. ET Wednesday night.
“Turning AMC over to Mad Men and airing every episode of every season as a lead-in to the finale on Sunday seems a fitting way to continue celebrating what this series has meant to the fans, to television and to our network,” said AMC President Charlie Collier in a statement. “We are also enormously appreciative of our sister networks who are paying tribute to this remarkable program that has had such an impact on our entire company.”
I gotta let this sink in...
I took it as Don returned and took the experiences of the retreat and pitched the Coke commercial.
thats probably what matthew weiner will say in the commentary on DVD,that the ending is one of those"Let the audience interpret it however they want to" ones
Need to rewatch this and soak it all in.
Sidebar: I worked on Coke at an ad agency. Had the idea to bring back the Hilltop commercial - the same one aired on Mad Men – and remix the "I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke" song. Coke actually found the original 45 and sent it to us. We took that shit to the studio, remix it and presented it. Everyone at Coke loved it except Coke's Director of Music. He killed that shit. We were suppose to fly out to London to rerecord the whole record. This was one of my biggest professional disappointments. Seeing the ending brought back some memories.
Man that ending sucked. I took it as Don returned and took the experiences of the retreat and pitched the Coke commercial. Very disappointed with that finale.
One of my homeboys who I worked with previously was an art director at an agency. They needed a copywriter to work an account that was targeting the urban market. He pulled me in despite the fact I didn't know shit about advertising.How did you break into advertising?
One of my homeboys who I worked with previously was an art director at an agency. They needed a copywriter to work an account that was targeting the urban market. He pulled me in despite the fact I didn't know shit about advertising.
God bless, the first script I wrote got bought by the client and I was good money ever since. Worked on national campaigns including Coca-Cola. That Coke shit fucked me up though. Was not only disapointed in that music shit, but we came up with an idea for a Coke TV commercial that everyone loved, but Coke has a health executive who said that our ad was too effective and essentially promoted obesity. Our spot got killed. That shit happened roughly the same week as the Hilltop remix. I almost quit advertising after all that shit.
It sounds shitty, but I didn't go to school for advertising or marketing. I fell into an opportunity and ran with it.What's your advice for those who went to school for it and wants to break in?
I loved the Mad Men ending -
It was nice wrap up of the series from the First Episode to the final scene - we see a shitty cynical guy in a shitty but creative job go forward and become something of a better person -
The last scene represent beginning - happiness and understanding -
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While the rest of the class is saying the mantra Om - Don's is saying his own Mantra HOME - over the last few episodes people have been saying to him Come Home, Go Home, We want you back home - So as he says HOME - you hear the ding (as if an idea comes to him and the Coke Ad begins) - so the first line in the Coke Ad is I like the buy the world a HOME and furnish it with love ...
Bottom line - Don loves advertising - he just hated his life - he hated being a "loser" and a fuck up -
If he can get therapy (even some woo woo stuff like Esalen) then he will like himself more and get back to doing what he love creating ads - working with Peggy and being happy.
So did Don create that ad? Weiner confirmed he did, saying that “the idea that some enlightened state, and not just co-option, might have created something that is very pure” appealed to him. Weiner also rejected the notion that the 1971 ad is “corny”: “The people who think that ad is corny probably see a lot of life like that. Five years before that, black people and white people couldn’t be in an ad together… To me, it’s the best ad ever made."