The Don Draper Bench is the Latest Promo for the Final Mad Men Episodes

https://twitter.com/MadMen_AMC/status/580023740685111296 With the final episodes of Mad Men to begin airing on April 5, the show's PR machine is in full effect. But it's not just your run-of-the-mill posters and social media that's being used to bring out viewers. In New York City, you can sit next to Don Draper on a bench that features his iconic outline. Located in front of the Time & Life Building where the fictional Sterling Cooper & Partners is located, "The Draper Bench" will be in place through the summer. There's also Mad Men Ave and Don Draper Way in front of the famous Radio City Music Hall. https://twitter.com/RadioCity/status/580105282644246528 Of course, you have the traditional television morning show appearances, magazine interviews and late night guest spots (the Mad Men Twitter feed is just link after link to all of the stops on the media tour), but there's also a museum exhibit about the show. The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York has an excellent show going on right now, featuring costumes, set design and writing room details for the biggest die-hard fans. The cast has dropped by and Matthew Weiner gave a talk. From Instagram: We had some special guests drop by to check out our MAD MEN exhibition...you might recognize them!@madmen_amc (Photo: Marion Curtis / Starpix for MoMI) (And an unintentional tie-in, news that Jon Hamm just announced that he's finished a 30-day stay in a rehab facility for alcohol addiction just broke. A terse statement asking for privacy was all the additional detail provided.) As one of my colleagues pointed out, the fact that the show is about media and it's so popular among media is helping to generate more attention for the program. After all, when the last season debuted last year, it actually lost one million viewers versus the previous season. So it's not sheer popularity, as in the case of Empire, that's driving all the activity. And perhaps it's another case of New Yorkers living in their own bubble. We're in Manhattan, the show is largely set here and we're excited to see it and relate to many aspects of it. We're surrounded by Mad Men stuff where people in other cities probably are not. But largely, Mad Men is a damn fine show and to see it go is difficult, even with a ton of other shows still to keep up with. We'd bet a whole dollar that those ratings for the April 5 premiere will jump back up. We can't wait.

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The Don Draper Bench is the Latest Promo for the Final Mad Men Episodes

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