The daily gossip: Mad Men won't end until 2015, and more

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last updated 8 January 2015

1. The Mad Men series finale won't air until 2015

With the endings of both Mad Men and Breaking Bad on the horizon, AMC is facing a future of nothing but Hell on Wheels, Low Winter Sun, and increasingly tired Walking Dead spin-offs. How best to cope with a future that doesn't include its two most acclaimed shows? The answer, as it turns out, is shamelessly delaying that future as long as possible. On Tuesday, AMC announced that it will split the final season of Mad Men in half, airing seven episodes in 2014 and seven episodes in 2015 — unless, of course, Don Draper sneaks into the office in the middle of the night, steals the remaining episodes, and starts his own network. [Los Angeles Times]

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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.

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