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Returning: Mad Men

Showcase now has a killer line-up on Mondays with fast-tracked Mad Men following fast-tracked Game of Thrones.

2013-04-05_1322Mad Men is back on Monday for its sixth season, express from the US, with a two-hour episode.

It will screen at 4.45pm on Showcase, just hours after is US premiere and there is a 9:45 primetime replay following fast-tracked Game of Thrones.

Killer-line-up.

Ironically this pits it straight against the Free To Air screening of Mad Men season 4 on SBS.

The eagerly-awaited sixth season will follow the scandal, adultery and devastation that plagued the partners of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce at the end of last season. Don Draper (John Hamm) and his fellow partners will continue to juggle their personal and professional lives in a world of temptation and greed.

Series creator and executive producer, Matthew Weiner, revealed that the new season will reflect contemporary society in some unexpected ways. “There’s always the intention to have it have something to do with the world we’re in right now,” Weiner stated. “That’s only because I only can write from what I know. And for some reason or another, this season feels particularly related to where I feel that we are right now, as a country and as a society…”

Returning cast members will include John Hamm as Ad man Don Draper; Elizabeth Moss as the talented creative practitioner Peggy Olson; Christina Hendricks as the ever-enticing Joan Harris; January Jones as Don’s ex wife Betty Francis; John Slattery as agency partner Roger Sterling; Jessica Pare as Don’s current wife Megan and Kiernan Shipka as his daughter, Sally; Vincent Kartheise as the cunning Pete Campbell; Aaron Stanton as Ken Cosgrove and Rich Sommer as Harry Crane.

5 Responses

  1. Afternoon play is good. With Game of Thrones last week, I just taped it at 4.20.

    Then that evening around 8 when I wanted to watch it I could.

  2. Yes Foxtel is targeting the unemployed who can afford Foxtel demographic on Monday afternoons. They will still get smashed by Hot Seat in the afternoon and by reality TV, Revenge, House Husbands and Q&A in the evening.

    My IQ will spool them and I will get around to watching them, along with Top Of The Lake, once I am caught up on The Walking Dead, Justified, Bunheads and Sons of Anarchy S2 and the NCAA basketball finals.

    Mad Men is the best written, acted and directed show since the Sopranos.

    1. I like the afternoon plays. It puts them out there within hours, subscribers can easily IQ them if they are at work, plus there is still a prime time replay. It’s the equivalent of having your cake and eating it too.

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