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Re: TV Buzz
« Reply #230 on: May 29, 2009, 06:49:00 PM »
AMC doesn't deserve Mad Men.
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Re: TV Buzz
« Reply #231 on: May 29, 2009, 07:49:26 PM »
AMC doesn't deserve Mad Men.

Isn't that the truth.  They don't deserve Breaking Bad either.

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Re: TV Buzz
« Reply #234 on: June 08, 2009, 01:26:33 PM »
AMC doesn't deserve Mad Men.

Isn't that the truth.  They don't deserve Breaking Bad either.

However, at the same time, Gilligan said:

I've gotta say, AMC and Sony are ballsy. AMC particularly, they don't ever second-guess us. They don't ever say, "Gee, is this too out there? Is this too raw-boned or rough-edged?" Having said that, the one time this season they were a little freaked out was when we sent them the outline, they went, ***season 2 finale spoiler***"Wait, Walt lets her choke to death on her own vomit?" They were right to worry about the audience losing their desire to want to watch the guy: "Are they going to lose their empathy for him forever?" I said, "I don't know." We danced around it, talked about shooting multiple endings where he leaves and she chokes to death out of his sight. But then we said, "Go big or go home." That was our ethos for last season: go big or go home. We figured in for a penny, in for a pound. We've come this far, let's be honest about it. I give 'em great credit. We talked about it and talked about it, and they almost convinced us not to do it. They didn't give us any grief about it, they raised their concerns, we said, "This is the way we want to go," and they said, "Go for it."

I think he also said that AMC didn't ask for any changes around the time of pitch meetings and the pilot production.
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Re: TV Buzz
« Reply #235 on: June 10, 2009, 09:09:22 AM »
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Re: TV Buzz
« Reply #236 on: June 10, 2009, 09:16:55 AM »
Mad Men time issue resolved

Man. AMC is the best. They better not be CINECAST!ing up The Prisoner though.
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« Reply #237 on: June 22, 2009, 04:47:14 PM »
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« Reply #238 on: August 01, 2009, 07:05:37 PM »
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Re: TV Buzz
« Reply #239 on: August 15, 2009, 11:13:26 AM »