ABSTRACT
As recounted in TV critic and author Alan Sepinwall’s exceptional book The Revolution Was Televised, AMC was very interested in Mad Men after HBO ostensibly passed on it. AMC was getting into the original scripted one-hour drama business, and being a period piece, Mad Men seemed like a good companion to AMC’s slate of classic movies programming. AMC executive Rob Sorcher read the pilot script, penned by Soprano’s alumnus Matthew Weiner, and wanted to make it.
