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Austin Film Festival (AFF), also known as 'The Writers Festival,' is pleased to announce that its original television show, the Lone Star EMMY Winning On Story, will premiere its 5th season tonight, April 18th, 2015. On Story is a weekly public television series broadcast on 129 stations in 65 markets including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and more. On Story is co-produced by AFF Co-Founder and Executive Director Barbara Morgan and Miguel Alvarez and is distributed by KLRU.

Austin Film Festival (AFF), also known as 'The Writers Festival,' is pleased to announce that its original television show, the Lone Star EMMY Winning On Story, will premiere its 5th season on April 18th, 2015. On Story is a weekly public television series broadcast on 129 stations in 65 markets including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and more. On Story is co-produced by AFF Co-Founder and Executive Director Barbara Morgan and Miguel Alvarez and is distributed by KLRU.

“Mad Men” returned Sunday night for the second half of its seventh and final season with a mid-season premiere that delivered 3.6 million viewers and 1.9 million adults 25-54 in live+3 ratings

Austin Film Festival (AFF), the premier film festival that recognizes the writers' and filmmakers' impact on film, television, and new media, is thrilled to announce Norman Lear as the recipient of the "Outstanding Television Writer" Award at the 22nd Annual Austin Film Festival, this October 29-November 5.

Including historically-accurate pieces such as Lucky Strike cigarettes, authentic alcoholic beverage bottles, as well as a slew of costume pieces, a collection of the artifacts has been donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Stars Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, and John Slattery attended the official donation ceremony along with creator Matthew Weiner and AMC president Charlie Collier. Check out photos of the event below!

MAD MEN: THE MUSICAL? Maybe!

The first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles officially opened last night, March 19, 2015, at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). BroadwayWorld was there for all the festivities and you can check out photos from the red carpet arrivals below!

In anticipation of the final seven episodes of AMC's iconic series Mad Men, which will debut on Sunday, April 5 at 10pm ET/PT, AMC has launched the Mad Men Carousel Facebook App.

In anticipation of the final seven episodes of 'Mad Men,' which premiere on Sunday, April 5 at 10pm ET/PT, AMC released a series of tributes about the iconic series.

During the 87th annual Oscars telecast Sunday night, AMC released a touching trip down memory lane in anticipation of the final episodes of Mad Men, premiering Sunday, April 5 at 10pm ET/PT, with the video entitled 'Nostalgia.'

In celebration and anticipation of the final seven episodes of the series hailed by Rolling Stone as “the greatest TV drama of all time,” AMC, in conjunction with Lionsgate and cultural institutions from coast to coast, will honor Mad Men through exhibitions, screenings, events and discussions. A complete list of Mad Men activities, which will be updated regularly with additional details, is available on www.amctv.com/madmenevents.

AMC's Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning drama “Mad Men” kicks off its final seven episodes on Sunday, April 5 at 10:00PM ET/PT. Created by Emmy® Award winner Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate, “Mad Men's” highly anticipated series conclusion will, for the last time, follow the complex lives of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty and Pete, and their families, colleagues, rivals and love interests, as their stories come to an end.

The final episodes of AMC's MAD MEN have finally received a release date. The Emmy Award-winning drama will return for the second half of the final season on April 5, as writer Matthew Weiner revealed this weekend at the Television Critics Association.

Enduring Arizona Theatre Company's current production of Murder for Two is like watching two cute hamsters incessantly rolling on a wheel, keeping pace with its speed but going nowhere fast. It's curious, but, in the end, unsatisfying. While Joe Kinosian and Ian Lowe make a great team and are, each in his own way, versatile and immensely talented performers, this murder mystery musical whodunnit s laborious.

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, new media, news, radio, and promotional writing during 2014.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 42nd International Emmy Awards tonight at a Gala event attended by over 1,000 international television professionals and hosted by British Comedian and writer Matt Lucas at the New York Hilton.

The nominations for the 2014 International Emmy Awards, were announced today by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at Mipcom.

The New Museum is pleased to announce that Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky will be featured as this year's Visionary speaker. Aronofsky (b. 1969, Brooklyn) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Now in its sixth season, the annual Stuart Regen Visionaries Series honors leading international thinkers and creators in the fields of art, architecture, design, dance, film, literature, and technology, and marks a commitment by the New Museum to consider their effects on culture at large. Aronofsky will be in conversation with novelist and critic Lynne Tillman tonight, September 30, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. in the New Museum Theater.