We’re finally getting our first look at season 6 of ‘Mad Men’, in black and white! Tell me this doesn’t get you all excited! I’m happy to see Betty back in shape, no more ridiculous fat suit! I can’t wait to see what happens next!!

In case you thought ‘Mad Men’ might be tiring of its peerlessly stylish production values as it gets set for Series 6, these images, just released, should reassure you.

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his acolytes are all looking at their suave, urbane best in these black and white shots, with the girls looking as feminine and shapely as always.

And, as usual, the ladies seem to be involuntarily bound to attend to The Don, all but a pensive-looking Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), while the gentlemen continue to plot their way around New York’s most dynamic advertising agency.

Jon Hamm spoke to HuffPostUK last year, when he told us, “It’s lovely to be part of the success ‘Mad Men’ has been, there’s no denying that – it’s been the singular thing I could point to in my life that I’m most proud of, from a work-related standpoint – and it continues to be a source of pride, and a challenge.

“I love going to work on the show, and I’m incredibly happy to get to it, and the fact that it’s been successful and continues to be, is something that I can say, I’m just very lucky.”

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‘Mad Men’ is coming back! AMC has announced that Don Draper & co. will return on April 7th at 9:00PM with a two-hour premiere! On April 14th it will move to it’s regular 10:00PM timeslot. It was also announced that Jon Hamm directed the second episode of season 6.

“Mad Men” creator and executive producer Matt Weiner revealed some details on the new season. “We’re at the next stage of their lives and I think you really feel that … There’s an attempt to explore an internal dynamic,” he told EW. In regards to Don Draper (Hamm), Weiner added, “I’m sure there’s some version of it in the previous five [seasons], but I want to acknowledge the fact that the audience knows this man very well, so what he does is never going to surprise them. How he does it and why he does it should surprise them.”

When “Mad Men” returns, there’s a time jump, but Weiner declined to say how much time has gone by since Season 5 ended. And fear not, everybody — including Elisabeth Moss — will be back, but in what capacity? You’ll have to tune in.

“I can tell you their names are in the credits,” Weiner told TV Guide. “And none of the cast has been let go.”

The end of the series is on the horizon and Weiner says the writers want to ensure they tell every story they want to tell. “With the shadow of the show ending — and with the world in the state that it’s in, which is far more important than the show — the writers and the actors and I have been able to get into a groove about a season that may be accidentally relevant just because it was in our minds,” he told EW. “We’ve been taking advantage of the 26 episodes we have left to do all the things that we’ve wanted to do, and so far I think that the audience is in for quite a ride.”

I really hope that Season 6 will get back to what Season 1-4 were like. Season 5 was a royal dud for me. The fat suit for Betty? Ugh, really??? The suicide?? Don’s new wife (I know a lot of you like her, but me….not so much.)

I’m ready to see what the new season brings!

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Not sure who’s getting married in these pictures….

Here’s to hoping season 6 of ‘Mad Men’ will be better than season 5!

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Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel are dating in real life!

On Mad Men, Vincent’s character Pete Campbell fell for Alexis’ character, a depressed housewife, and the two had an affair. Looks like they connected off screen as well, as last night the couple made their first public appearance as a couple!

GO HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF ALEXIS AND VINCENT TOGETHER LAST NIGHT!

The couple made their red carpet debut last night at the launch of The Macallan Masters of Photography collection, featuring photographs by Annie Leibovitz in New York.

Alexis was seen getting friendly with her on-screen lover on a flight from New York to Los Angeles back in June.

A source revealed to gossip site Crushable: ‘They came over to the gate right as I was boarding and I saw him first.

‘His hair is fuller and he’s got a beard, but I recognized him right away.

‘Then he walked over and a girl with him sat down and it was Rory Gilmore.

‘They are not sitting in first class but him right in front of her in middle seats. Guess they booked last minute.

‘He was leaning over the back of his seat talking to her and leaned over and kissed her.’

This is the first high profile relationship among the cast of the show since it began in 2007.

I finally watched the last season of ‘Mad Men’ (never before have I been so behind on TV shows!), and while I liked it, I definitely don’t think it was a very good season. The last several episodes were pretty good, but other than that – I thought it was kind of a dud season. I didn’t like Betty’s “fat” character, and I’m starting to realize I don’t like the show as much when Don and Betty aren’t together. Not a huge fan of Don’s new wife. I don’t know, the new season is going to really have to pick up the pace for me.

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The Season 5 Premiere is under two weeks away, and since you’ve already taken a look at Mad Men’s Season 5 poster, you’re probably more than ready for something new. Here you go: 14 Season 5 portraits of the iconic characters of Mad Men, courtesy of AMC.

Pictures include: Joan Harris (Christina Hendricks), Roger Sterling (John Slattery), Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), Don Draper (Jon Hamm), Bertram Cooper (Robert Morse), Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) and Betty Draper (January Jones).

“Mad Men” just released this brand new poster for the highly anticipated return of their hit show. Season 5 is set to return March 25 after a long hiatus!

The new poster shows the silhouette of a man falling out of the sky, and the premiere date. Honestly, I didn’t think anything of this poster when I saw it – in the opening sequence of Mad Men, there’s a man falling out of the sky. No big deal!

Well apparently some viewers are comparing the poster to images of 9/11. What!?

Do you agree? What do you think of the poster – is it offensive?

PS: Cannot WAIT for the show to return! It’s just been too dang long! ALSO: Just learned that the March 25th season premiere will be 2 hours long!

As one of the most highly anticipated season premieres of the year, AMC announced today that the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning drama Mad Men will be back with a two-hour Season 5 Premiere on Sun., Mar. 25 at 9pm ET/PT. Written by Matthew Weiner and directed by Jennifer Getzinger, the season premiere episode will also be available on AMCtv.com the Monday after air.

Following the premiere, on Sun., Apr. 1, Mad Men will return to its regular timeslot at 10pm ET/PT with an episode written by Erin Levy and Matthew Weiner and directed by Jon Hamm.

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Season 5 of ‘Mad Men’ is finally getting ready to premiere, in 2012, much later than previous seasons.

Matthew Weiner, creator and writer of the hit show, says he already knows how the show will end at the end of season 7! Weiner sat down with Grantland.com to talk about his struggles with AMC – and his visions of how the show will end.

It’s not over yet – we have three more seasons of ‘Mad Men’ coming up – and the series will come to a close at the end of season 7. The last episode, Weiner says, will be more than just a look back at the show’s history.

“I do know how the whole show ends,” he told the site. “It came to me in the middle of last season. I always felt like it would be the experience of human life. And human life has a destination. It doesn’t mean Don’s gonna die. What I’m looking for, and how I hope to end the show, is like … It’s 2011. Don Draper would be 84 right now. I want to leave the show in a place where you have an idea of what it meant and how it’s related to you.”

To see Don Draper, still working and trying to sell digital ad space, based on laser-targeted focus group and audience segmentation, would truly be a sight to behold. Of course, one gets the feeling that Weiner is more interested in looking at how the Jon Hamm-portrayed character would have handled the coming decades and changes in his life, not technological changes in his industry.

But it’s not just Don’s arc that concerns Weiner; both the seventh season expiration date, as well as the setting he intends for it, are also opportunities for him to reflect on the job he did with the show, as well as go out on his own terms. Just like one certain little band out of Liverpool did over forty years ago.

“It’s a very tall order, but I always talk about ‘Abbey Road,’” he said, referring of course to the final album The Beatles recorded together (though “Let It Be” would be released after “Abbey Road”). What’s the song at the end of Abbey Road? It’s called ‘The End.’ There is a culmination of an experience of people working at their highest level.”

Given that the series won its fourth straight Best Drama Emmy, Weiner certainly is on pace to end on top.

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