AMC’s Plan for Life After Mad Men

As Don Draper says goodbye, the network looks to 2 Walking Dead series and Better Call Saul

As Charlie Collier, president, gm of AMC, makes the rounds during this year's upfronts, one question keeps popping up over and over again: "What do you have for me now?" While it's a typical upfront query, the question has taken on an added urgency as AMC looks ahead to life without Mad Men, the series that put the network on the map—establishing it as a home for quality drama that rivaled anything on premium cable—when it debuted in July 2007.

Yet Collier has no concerns about losing momentum after Mad Men airs its series finale on May 17.

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