What is Mad Men?
Q: What is Mad Men?
A: Mad Men is an American television drama series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. It premiered on July 19, 2007 on the American cable television network AMC. The show follows the lives of employees at a fictional advertising agency in New York City during the 1960s.
Q: When did the final season of Mad Men air?
A: The seventh and final season had 14 episodes that began airing in early 2014 and ended on May 17, 2015.
Q: What is the setting of Mad Men?
A: The show takes place in the 1960s at a fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, which later becomes Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later Sterling Cooper & Partners).
Q: Who is the main character of Mad Men?
A: The main character is Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative director at Sterling Cooper and a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
Q: What does "Mad men" refer to?
A: According to the show's pilot, "Mad men" was a slang term started in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves; however this claim has since been denied.
Q: What awards has Mad Men won?
A: Mad Men has received widespread critical acclaim and has won many awards, including fifteen Emmys and four Golden Globes. It is also the first basic cable series to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, winning it in each of its first four seasons.
Q: How highly regarded is Mad Men?
A: In 2013, TV Guide ranked it sixth in its list of sixty greatest dramas of all time and seventh in a list of 101 best-written TV series ever by Writers Guild America.
