NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) — AMC says it will air a marathon of all seven seasons of Mad Men in consecutive order beginning Wednesday.
AMC’s sister networks — BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and WE tv — will forego regularly scheduled programming for one hour timed to Sunday’s Mad Men series finale and instead air a special message commemorating the advertising-themed program.
“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,” Charlie Collier, AMC’s president, said in a statement Tuesday. “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.”
Created by Matthew Weiner, the period drama is the first basic cable series ever to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series four consecutive years. It stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Jessica Paré, Kiernan Shipka, Christopher Stanley, Jay R. Ferguson, Kevin Rahm and Mason Vale Cotton.
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