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EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America hasn't said anything publicly about the savage attack on Israel by terrorists on October 7, and a number of irate showrunners and others will be discussing that silence Friday. Almost a week after dozens of high-profile WGA members put out an open letter reprima…

Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke told the TCA corps Saturday that no further seasons are being planned at the moment for Matt Weiner’s anthology series The Romanoffs or Nic Winding Refn’s cop noir series Too Old to Die Young.  Weiner’s series, about people who are descendants of the famed Russian royal family…

Mad Men creator Matt Weiner appeared right at home alongside former Mad Men star Christina Hendricks on today’s Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys panel on Weiner’s latest creative effort for Amazon Prime Video: The Romanoffs, a wildly innovative eight-part anthology series about modern-day people who either are, or…

Mad Men creator Matt Weiner visited Conan tonight, and brought with him a “clip” from the “finale.” But first, Conan asked him what is the strangest finale theory he’s heard to date. "I'm not going to dismiss it because want people to watch the show, but the strangest theory I hear is this D.B. Cooper theory,” Weiner…

Premiering its two-hour sixth season opener at the DGA theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday night, AMC and Lionsgate’s four-time Best Drama Series Emmy winner Mad Men threw its hat in the ring to retake that Emmy which it lost for the first time last year to Showtime’s newcomer Homeland. The new season, which debuts on…

EXCLUSIVE: What did Hawaii look like in the late 1960s? We’ll get a glimpse in the Season 6 premiere of AMC’s Mad Men. I’ve learned that the New York-set drama series is headed for a secretive two-day shoot on the islands. Sources say it will involve actors Jon Hamm and Jessica Pare, who play husband and wife Don and…

If they don’t always get all the credit they deserve or a lot of time  on the Emmy show itself, this year’s nominated writers in five different categories got a lot of love and all the time they wanted to make a speech while accepting official certificates of nomination at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences…

Mad Men scored big in last night’s ratings race, gaining its biggest season-finale number and finishing its fifth season as the most-watched ever. But it also scored big at the TV Academy on Sunday night, when 150 members and their guests had to be turned away for an event that featured the screening of the final…

Laura Ramsey has been added to the cast of You Are Here, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner's feature directorial debut, set to start production in May 2012 in North Carolina. The film, written and to be directed by Weiner also stars Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler. Ramsey will play a young beautiful widow…

When we began our interview, I asked Matt Weiner, “So all those Emmys aren’t good enough? You’re going for the Oscar now?” He laughed and said, “I don’t expect  to enter at that level but I’m getting to make something really important to me. So I’m really excited.” As previously reported, the multiple Emmy winner (7…

Matt Weiner wrote and will make his feature directing debut on Gilbert Films’ You Are Here, a road-trip movie starring Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis that begins shooting in May in North Carolina. Amy Poehler is in negotiations to co-star. Weiner, who has directed several episodes of his Emmy-winning Mad Men, will…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline's TV coverage. Two weeks before the premiere of Mad Men's delayed fifth season, series creator Matthew Weiner is already looking ahead to the series’ seventh and likely final season. "I think the plan is for (Mad Men to run for) seven years,” Weiner said tonight at a PaleyFest…