Mad Men completed its seven-season run on May 17, 2015, eight years ago. However, fans have been curious about a new season of the period drama series, and whether or not they will see Jon Hamm’s Don Draper back in action.
Here’s all the Mad Men Season 8 release date information we know so far and all the details on when it is coming out.
Is there a Mad Men Season 8 release date?
Mad Men Season 8 does not have a release date. This is because there are currently no plans for it to happen.
However, AMC, the channel that broadcasts Mad Men, has neither canceled nor renewed the series. Moreover, viewership ratings for the show spiked during the COVID-19 lockdown, as revealed by Jon Hamm in an interview with TechRadar. Thus, fans of the show and Don Draper do not need to rule out the possibility of an eighth season happening later down the line.
Mad Men is set between 1960 and 1970 and initially begins at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue, Manhattan. Later episodes of the show are set in the new firm of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce near the Time-Life Building at 1271 Sixth Avenue. The main protagonist is Don Draper, initially the talented creative director at Sterling Cooper but faces a decline in his calculative persona in later seasons.
Aside from Jon Hamm as Don Draper. Mad Men also stars Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, January Jones as Betty Draper, Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway, Aaron Staton as Ken Cosgrove, Rich Sommer as Harry Crane, John Slattery as Roger Sterling, and Robert Morse as Bertram Cooper, among others.
Where is Mad Men Season 8 coming out?
Currently, there are no plans for Mad Men Season 8 to come out on AMC.
The official synopsis for Mad Men reads:
“Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized, and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.”
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