Creator Matthew Weiner Talks 'Mad Men' Season 6; Show Will Premiere April 7th

One of the best shows on television is returning soon. AMC announced today that season six of the hit show will have its premiere April 7th, with a two-hour episode.

While speaking with The Daily Beast, Weiner confirmed this will be the penultimate season of the show:

“I’m going to confirm that,” said Weiner

He also talked about preparing for the upcoming season:

“I came in with my plan for the season, I was like, ‘I want to save that for the last season, I want to save that; I want to wait on that’ and I was pulled aside by Maria and Andre Jacquemetton, my executive producers, who said, ‘Don’t do that. You’ve never done that before. Let’s just use all the story that we have and we’ll deal with it on the other side of it.’ It really helped. Because I don’t want to change—part of it is superstition and part of it is the only way I know how to do it."

“I never had the guarantee of even one more season for the first few seasons I did the show. So I would just use all the story I had. And it’s a much better way to do it. It’s much better for the audience. It’s much more satisfying for us than going through some half-measure and wasting 13 episodes on a set-up. For what? For 13 more? I was told by my trusted co-workers that we should do the show the way we’ve always done it. And I think, as usual, I will probably be painted into a corner by the end of the season.”

He also addresses the time jump that happens in seasons six:

“I am going to skip ahead in time. I won’t say how long, but the first two episodes are a movie unto themselves. And they do foreshadow what’s going to happen in the season. They do tell a story of the period and root you where you are in these people’s lives. But a lot has changed when the season opens up. A lot has changed.”

Mad Men will return Sunday, April 7th at 9:00 p.m.