Mad Men is coming home. All seven seasons of AMC’s acclaimed period ad agency drama starring Jon Hamm will be available on HBO Max in 4K starting Dec. 1, bringing the series by Matthew Weiner to the place it was originally intended for.

Weiner wrote the pilot script for what would become Mad Men while working on the CBS sitcom Becker. The script got the attention of The Sopranos creator David Chase and, based on it, he hired Weiner as a writer-producer on the acclaimed HBO mob drama. Weiner, who worked on The Sopranos for its last two seasons, pitched Mad Men to HBO. Despite support from Chase, who lobbied the network to take in the project, HBO passed amid a leadership change, a rejection Weiner had described as disappointing.

The HBO-style drama was subsequently picked up

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