AMC has announced that Season 5 of its popular hit Mad Men will appear in 2012. The official statement came from the network and said the following:
“AMC has officially authorized production of season 5 of Mad Men, triggering our option with Lionsgate (Mad Men‘s production company),” reads the statement. “While we are getting a later start than in years past due to ongoing, key non-cast negotiations, Mad Men will be back for a fifth season in early 2012.”
The delay comes after several rounds of negotiaons between the show’s creator Matthew Weiner and Lionsgate productions. The network had anticpated the delay and will be air other shows during the time Mad Men’s new episodes would normally appear. New series The Killing begins April 3 and Breaking Bad is slated to for a fourth season premiere in July.
