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By: dansj

dansj — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:40:09 +0000

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.)

By: Glass Darkly

Glass Darkly — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:42:41 +0000

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.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:27:51 +0000

I recall both Remember WENN and The Lot! I guess AMC has selective memory….

By: dansj

dansj — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:30:43 +0000

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 …

By: hullaballoo

hullaballoo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:01:29 +0000

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?

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:44:08 +0000

Absolutely, Roberta. Know-it-alls are passionate and interested. When that’s a problem, You’re Doing It Wrong.

By: Glass Darkly

Glass Darkly — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:27:07 +0000

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!

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:54:04 +0000

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.

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:32:38 +0000

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.