AMC has become a leading cable brand when it comes to quality TV dramas, and with that higher profile comes the opportunity for greater fallout when the audience is disappointed. Viewers have expressed frustration that “Mad Men” is not back this summer. But at a news conference Thursday, Joel Stillerman, AMC senior vice president of original programming, assured TV critics that production on the 1960s drama will begin in a couple of weeks with a new season airing early in 2012.
Writers for AMC’s “The Killing” will regroup to plot the second season of that series in the next month, and Stillerman promised a resolution to the “Who killed Rosie Larsen?” question. He acknowledged that some viewers — mostly a few hysterical TV critics — were put off by the lack of resolution in the show’s first season.
