Mad Men is coming home. All seven seasons of AMC’s acclaimed period ad agency drama starring Jon Hamm will be available on HBO Max in 4K starting Dec. 1, bringing the series by Matthew Weiner to the place it was originally intended for.
Weiner wrote the pilot script for what would become Mad Men while working on the CBS sitcom Becker. The script got the attention of The Sopranos creator David Chase and, based on it, he hired Weiner as a writer-producer on the groundbreaking HBO mob drama. Weiner, who worked on The Sopranos for its last two seasons, pitched Mad Men to HBO. Despite support from Chase, who lobbied the network to take in the project, HBO passed amid a leadership change, a rejection Weiner had described as disappointing.
The HBO-style drama was subsequently picked up by AMC and helped put the cable network on the original programming map with a 2007-15 run that earned 16 Emmys, including four consecutive for Outstanding Drama Series.
Mad Men, from Lionsgate TV, remains on AMC+ (though not in 4K.) The drama explores the glamorous and ego-driven “Golden Age” of advertising, where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper (Hamm), Madison Avenue’s biggest ad man – and ladies’ man – in the business.
Hamm stars alongside Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Rich Sommer, Aaron Staton, Kiernan Shipka, Jessica Pare, and John Slattery.
