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Article: Call me Mad, but '60s ad show a masterpiece
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- July 18, 2009
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With the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on this weekend -- and that strange yellow orb having returned to the sky -- it seems vaguely dirty to talk about television.
But those Emmy Awards nominations released Thursday provide a good excuse.
I was heartened to see that my favourite show of the moment, Mad Men, copped 16 nominations, the most of any hour-long drama.
In case you have gone back to rabbit's ears (as a valid protest against too much change in the broadcast world), Mad Men is American writer-producer Matthew Weiner's specialty cable masterpiece set in an upscale Manhattan advertising agency in the early 1960s.
The second season aired last year on the AMC network (available only to Shaw ...