and give it some chili pepper. advertising is based on one thing, happiness. is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling, and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their full lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. right. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, and in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edg
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of amc day because they were looking to do scripted programming for the first time a managers that oh, i have this great script set in the advertising world in new york. it s been around for eight years and nobody s bought it. everybody s past advertising is based on one thing happiness don draper is a master of the universe ad executive in early 1960s, manhattan. but he is actually secretly a man named dick whitman. he has stolen the identity of the real don draper due to an incident during the korean war. who s living another man s life but he s battling his own demons at the same time. and we re seeing him rise and fall over the course of the 1960s it a lot of ways the most interesting ark of the show is peggy olsen s career she goes from his little church mouse secretary to a really tough and bold and confident career woman. i liked the way she s handing out the pups.
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