MM Removed From Fall AMC Lineup? What the What?

I know this is old news (and the second time I've written about the topic) but the wound is still fresh...

“Mad Men” fans have been loosening their neckties, readjusting their cone-shaped Maiden Form braziers, patiently waiting for the return of Donald Draper and his Sterling Cooper crew. Season four wrapped up on October 16. Almost immediately following Mad Men’s finale, AMC premiered a new, surprisingly lively series – “The Walking Dead.”

“The Walking Dead” is a post-apocalyptic gore fest that follows a small group of citizens bent on evading a Zombie infestation. The survivors are led by Rick Grimes, a former small-town Georgian Sheriff. Shotgun in hand, Grimes splatters Undead brains with purpose, propelled forward by the idea of an obscure, corpse-free land that exists just over the ravaged horizon. “The Walking Dead” did more than keep eyes on AMC – it broke records. The show took on multiple rating titles, the most impressive being “Most-Watch Drama in Basic Cable” for the 18-49 year old age bracket. (The Futon Critic) No doubt the Executives at AMC were thrilled by the show’s success. With the addition of “The Walking Dead,” the network inadvertently secured the missing piece necessary to form an unstoppable entertainment triune - the other two components being “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” another popular drama centered on a High School science teacher-turned-drug dealer. But, as many know, three is often a crowd. Television series are no exception. AMC now faces a hard decision – how to fit each into their overcrowded lineup. According to Hitfix.com, “ AMC (will not air) ‘Breaking Bad’ season 4 until summer, and will likely try to launch ‘The Walking Dead’ season 2 around Halloween again. (‘Mad Men’) may not have a Sunday window in which to air a fifth season until perhaps early 2012.”

2021?! A whole year is far too long to wait. Hopefully AMC will come to a better solution by Fall. If not, in order to maintain “The Walking Dead,” “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” ’s audiences, I proposed a splicing. My series would be titled “The Bad, Mad Dead.” Examples of episode summaries would be as follows:

Episode 13: “While developing a campaign for Lucky Strike, Don discovers that the company’s manufacturers have secretly been lacing their tobacco with Meth, thereby making their product more addictive. Don is unsure of whether to report his findings. Later, he arrives home to find Betty furiously scratching herself with a spatula from the kitchen. When he questions her behavior, she throws a meatloaf against the wall and shrieks, ‘I am out of cigarettes and the grocery store is closed, okay?’ ”

Episode 20: “Peggy is finally ready to date again. She is excited when David, a pale, slobbering man from Accounting, asks her to dinner. The evening progresses well until David takes a bite out of Peggy’s shoulder. Humiliated, Peggy flees from the restaurant. The next morning she wakes to find a cardigan soaked in blood and is disturbed by her sudden appetite for human flesh.”