Hilarious. This was sent to me from Joe Bua of I am a TV Junkie, who is my life partner (well, maybe in some other life). He keeps up with Mad Men and with us as well as anyone.
Just read it. It’s perfect as is. No need for me to chime in.
Well, okay. Except to say that I keep finding errors in all these articles. I left a comment on one of them. I can’t remember which ones say what, because there have been so many. One called Pete ‘Paul’ about sixteen times and, as funny as that is, especially for those that remember Sterling’s line in Red in the Face, this wasn’t meant to be funny; it was an article from a country who was just discovering the show and was only a review of the pilot. Another article said that the DVD release date was July 7th, when it’s the 1st. And that’s a big blunder.
I do remember Remember WENN, and most people don’t. It seems like AMC is starting a new chapter with Mad Men and Breaking Bad, so I never feel compelled to make that correction.
Point is, they clearly need the direction of the know-it-alls.
And that, my friends, concludes this week’s episode of No Need For Me to Chime In.
the end by rkl.
June 25, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Good thing I checked, I was just about to write this up!
Coincidentally, I was just researching Remember WENN yesterday. There’s a thread on IMDb’s Mad Men board asking the very question the “know-it-all” asked: Why is AMC touting Mad Men as their first original series?
I did a bit of research. The IMDb doesn’t list a production company; I thought perhaps it was a re-broadcast situation as with AMC’s “original” series Hustle (an excellent series that is actually from the BBC with American rebroadcast rights on AMC). It took a bit of digging, but it does appear that AMC was the sole producer of Remember WENN.
However, AMC are the ones promoting Mad Men as their first (except for that Robert Duvall Western miniseries), and Remember WENN is mentioned nowhere on their website. The copy editor who apologized would have found it difficult to find out that Remember WENN was an AMC production—I did, and I had the show’s title to work from.
June 25, 2008 at 12:54 pm
And that’s fine.
You know what’s not fine? The shitty things they said about know-it-alls. Know-it-alls are not trolls. We get corrected in here all the time.
But you know what is fine? That they got busted being mean. Stupid and mean is my favorite combination.
June 25, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Joe Bua is a Sarah Brown fan. Yaaaaay him! Sarah Brown was THE Carly on GH, and I stopped watching when she left. They now, apparently, have her back as a different character, like THAT makes sense. She won Emmys for the role.
Okay, that’s all!
June 25, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Absolutely, Roberta. Know-it-alls are passionate and interested. When that’s a problem, You’re Doing It Wrong.
June 25, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Very funny article. You gotta love Gawker! Makes you wonder what’s up with AMC, though? I know this is a question we ask everyday, but how do you just ignore a show that was part of your history? Actually two shows, as there was another one called “The Lot,” which was similar to “Remember WENN,” except it took place at a movie studio during the same era. I think both those shows were well-regarded, and may have received EMMY nominations and Cable ACE awards. Is that indicative of their future treatment of Mad Men?
June 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Bwwaaaaaaahahahahaha!!!! That funny.
Look 1996 was ages ago, so AMC wanted to reclaim their virginity with MM. Makes sense – sounds better than: “Mad Men: Our first original series since 1999″.
Plus there’s no way anyone responsible for that show is still with the network, so …
June 25, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I recall both Remember WENN and The Lot! I guess AMC has selective memory….
June 25, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I “Remember Wenn,” too.
Young whipper-snappers with no sense of history, which is ironic connsidering that the forgotten shows and the new darling are all period pieces. Oh, and they won’t stay off the lawn… and they keep stealing from my apple tree.
July 3, 2008 at 6:40 am
PS – this correction runs alongside the NYTMag article on NYTimes.com …
Correction: June 29, 2008
An article last Sunday about the TV series “Mad Men” referred incorrectly to the history of original series on its network, AMC. “Mad Men” is AMC’s first scripted drama series; the show is not AMC’s maiden voyage in original programming. (That occurred with “Remember WENN,” a comedy about a radio station that ran on the network from 1996 to 1998 when it was known as American Movie Classics.)