Matthew Weiner

...enjoy the music used in each episode. "I'm not gonna lie, one of my favorite parts of The Sopranos was when the show ended," Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner told me during our recent conversation. "And you're just like, 'This is what's...

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...and two consecutive Golden Globes for Best Television Drama Series. Weiner was an executive producer and writer for the critically acclaimed television series The Sopranos. Graeme Mason, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Film Commission, is...

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So how much has he really changed? That conversation in the car is so interesting to me because it makes me think about "The Sopranos," the show that "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner wrote for. The upshot of "The Sopranos," it seemed to...

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...highly stylized outfits of early 1960s Manhattan. One of the great draws of the show is visual, as its creator, Matthew Weiner (The Sopranos), is obsessive in his attention to period detail. Draper is the ultimate self-made man, an identity...

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...smooth one. Like The Sopranos, the show that reset Weiner's career, Mad Men's ambitions can get the best of it, as with a miscalculated, miscast jaunt to Palm Springs that seemed wildly out of character for both Don and the show. The only...

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...of the ailing economy.) What's more, the heavily hyped series from The Sopranos writer-producer Matthew Weiner, which HBO, Showtime and others famously passed on, has redefined its formerly moribund host network. Once just another movie...

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...shows, Don is still tormented by his past. Hey, sort of like a certain Jersey don. (Mad Men's creator, Matt Weiner, also wrote for The Sopranos.) Pregnancy clearly agrees with Betty (January Jones). She always looks radiant, but...

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It's unclear whether Weiner's original contract prohibited him from moving the show to his old stomping grounds-he wrote and produced on "The Sopranos"- but there are plenty of other options including F/X, Showtime and the major networks.

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...known as one of the top idea men in the business. He was also a bit of a maverick. Matthew Weiner, the producer of the television show "Mad Men" (and previously producer and writer for "The Sopranos"), acknowledged that he based his...

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