Matthew Weiner

We're the first ones that are usually on the front lines of whatever trend there is in society.

You think of Matthew Weiner in Mad Men.

He's affected fashion.

He's affected the way that we look at men back in the 60s.

So he had that on Fox years ago.

But, um, he's coming back to TV and it's gonna be Matthew Weiner's The Chairman.

Uh, let's see.

Sh- uh, the comedy legend is returning to TV.

Eddie Murphy will star in The Chairman, a new TV series at Peacock from Mad Men's Ma- Matthew Weiner.

So we'll see.

That's all that's known about it right now, but by it being done by the guy from Mad Men, I'm wondering how stylistically this is gonna be.

So, yeah, brilliant show.

And I was really intrigued to see that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is developing a new show called The Chairman that Eddie Murphy is going to star in on Peacock.

Those are words.

It's

1980 to 1984 end quote.

So yeah, this is extremely exciting.

I think whenever someone like Matthew Weiner makes something or David Chase makes something like they have made generation defining TV shows,

right? These people.

I wouldn't have thought so, but it wound up being newsy.

Danielle wrote in, and it was a very simple one: Where the hell did Matthew Weiner go? Matthew Weiner obviously, um, somewhat back in the news because of Mad Men's high ranking in The New York Times top 100 Shows of the Century list.

Uh, I believe Mad Men came in second or third.

Um, and you know, he has not really been in the mix since 2018 when he did the Romanoffs.

It essentially was, like, the backbone of Paramount+.

And 101 Studios moved to Universal Peacock, as did Taylor Sheridan, and this is the first announced project that they're working on.

And it, it's kind of fascinating because, like, 10 years ago, I think I would've, like, lost my mind if Matthew Weiner was gonna make a TV show with Eddie Murphy.

And now I am too, but in a different way 'cause I kinda think Eddie Murphy needs something like this.