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"Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has admitted that he briefly quit the show. Weiner was involved in a dispute with AMC and Lionsgate TV, which led to the fifth season of the &amp;#039;60s-set drama being delayed. &amp;quot;I quit, at the negotiation,&amp;quot; the showrunner told The New York Times. &amp;quot;And in the end, everything worked out.&amp;quot;   Weiner added that he had &amp;quot;come to terms with the fact that [Mad Men] was over&amp;quot; after four seasons. &amp;quot;I always end every season like it&amp;#039;s the end of the show,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;There was a terror in me that someone else would come in and do it. And I don&amp;#039;t know how they would do it, but I would have to live with that.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I did not feel that it was worth going back to work to make a show that was not the show I&amp;#039;d been making.&amp;quot; Mad Men star Jon Hamm (Don Draper) recently criticised the &amp;quot;billionaires&amp;quot; he believed to be responsible for the 18-month gap between Mad Men&amp;#039;s fourth and fifth seasons. &amp;quot;When billionaires fight, it takes a lot longer to... settle,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;So we had some very wealthy people determining how long we would be off the air.&amp;quot; Mad Men returns to AMC in the US on March 25 and will air in the UK two days later on Sky Atlantic. &amp;gt; Mad Men star Jon Hamm &amp;#039;knows exactly how show will end&amp;#039; Watch a trailer for the new season of Mad Men below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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