TV Shows

Welcome to a Mad New World. In 1960s New York, alpha male Don Draper struggles to stay on top of the heap in the high-pressure Madison Avenue offices of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency.

Season Four of Mad Men, 3-time Emmy® winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of 3 consecutive Golden Globes®, returns for a new year rife with possibilities.

Last season stunned fans with its cliffhanger finale, as Don Draper’s professional and personal lives unexpectedly imploded. In Season 4, Jon Hamm and the rest of the breakout ensemble continue to captivate us as they grapple with an uncertain new reality.

Mad Men has received critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity and visual style, and has won multiple awards, including thirteen Emmys and four Golden Globes. It is the first basic cable series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, winning it in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

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A television program or television show is a segment of content broadcast on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or part of a periodically recurring television series.

A television series that is intended to be broadcast as a finite number of episodes is usually called a miniseries or serial. A short run lasting less than a year is known as a season. This season or series usually consists of 12–26 installments. United States industry practice tends to favor longer seasons than those of some other countries.

A single instance of a program is called an episode. A one-off broadcast may be called a "special". A television movie is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in cinemas or direct-to-video, although many successful television movies are later released on DVD.

The content of television programs may be factual, as in documentaries, news, and reality television, or fictional as in comedy and drama. It may be topical as in the case of news and some made-for-television movies or historical as in the case of many documentaries and fictional series. They could be primarily instructional, the intention of educational programming, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, reality TV, or game shows.

Common television program periods include regular broadcasts, television series, or television miniseries, which is an extended film, usually with a small predetermined number of episodes and a set plot and timeline. Miniseries usually range from about 3 to 10 hours in length.

While television series appearing on TV networks are usually commissioned by the networks themselves, their producers earn greater revenue when the program is sold into syndication. With the rise of the DVD home video format, box sets containing entire seasons or the complete run of a program have become very popular. Many of the prime-time comedy shows and Saturday morning cartoons were digitally remastered for United States television, as there will be more original and reissued DVD sets of television programs containing either entire seasons or complete series runs to come in the future as box sets.

Television has changed throughout the years, from the classic family sitcoms, to reality shows. Television started out, one per household; now households have multiple sets. Television was something that the family watched together. Many channels have deviated from their original programming focus throughout the years as well because of channel drift.