Mad Men (Seasons 1&2) on RTE Player!

Conor108

You read that right folks, Mad Men seasons 1 and 2 are on the RTE player. You can watch them right now for free! Until June next year!

Fair play to RTE!

(It says Seasons 1 and 2, yet only season 1 is up. I assume Season 2 will be added soon)

Linky!

aidan_walsh

Sweet find, thats my evenings sorted!

Season 2 starts here.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Haven't seen Mad Men before, but I've been meaning to watch it, so looks like here's my chance...

Aidric

CaptainNegative wrote: »

Haven't seen Mad Men before, but I've been meaning to watch it, so looks like here's my chance...

Do yourself a favour and watch it, superb show.

Firetrap

Nice find. I missed this due to RTE's showing it at an ungodly hour

Basq

Sweet... meant to watch this!

I read it's VERY slow.. so I've a feeling it'll be one of those shows I'll quit on - like Sons Of Anarchy and Big Love.

Hope not though!

Skid

Just when I had lost all faith in RTE, well done to whoever arranged this. All that's missing is an apology for putting Mad Men on at a crazy time slot in the first place.

That RTE player is a nice bit of kit, I hope they copy 4OD and put some archive material on it as well. A few more full series like Mad Men would also be sweet.

Nathan251

great, i just bought seasons 1 and 2 on dvd, thanks a lot RTE

Dman001

I was so p*ssed when I missed this on TV and was gonna buy the DVDs. Im so surprised at RTE to do this, season 3 must be coming soon so. Thanks OP.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Dman001 wrote: »

season 3 must be coming soon so.

June 2010, I'd imagine... Good chance they'll put it in a very decent timeslot (probably wherever LOST is put this year), hence the serious promotion on the RTÉ Player...

Mad_Max

Well thats helps the insomnia

Great show. 7 episodes in and looking forward to picking back up already.

Fair play to RTE. A nifty piece of kit that aul player.

steve 0

Can not recommend the show enough, don't think I've ever enjoyed a drama as much as this. The makers seem to be unrestricted in what they do, there are numerous scenes that are completely unnecessary in the context of plots but they always add to the characters and its all the better for it.

Basq

Mad_Max wrote: »

Well thats helps the insomnia

That message is a bit misleading!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Watched the first episode last night - love it already.

Mossy Monk

Perhaps if enough people watch this on the RTÉ Player they might show it at a decent time. To think ****e like Podge & Rodge is shown at before midnight.

Mad_Max

basquille wrote: »

That message is a bit misleading!

Quite the contradiction indeed

Elmo

We must all watch this several times over to insure that it is put on at a good time on RTÉ. Recommend that your friends, co-workers and relatives watch

Mad_Max

Well after 2 seasons in a touch over 2 days I think I can safely say I love the show.

Not a hope in hell I'm waiting until January for season 3. Off to stream-land I go...

The Black Oil

Was a little worried about the quality of series 2, but episode 4 was very good.

The team attempting to salvage American Airlines, Don's children acting up, Don and Betty fighting...nice little scene between Don and his son towards the end. And Peggy's storyline with her family and the priest.

Swarles Barkley

Without trying to sound like a Wire-evangelist, if you haven't yet seen Mad Men get to it pronto.

It's probably the best ensemble show I've ever seen. Don Draper may be the show's centre but it's really all the smaller storylines floating around him that makes the show tick.

Although, now that the 3rd season has ended there is a gaping void in my life. Damn you TV, for you are a double edged sword!

The Black Oil

Finished series 2 courtesy of RTE over the weekend and rather enjoyed it. The revelation of

two pregnancies (current (Betty) and past (Peggy) in the finale might have been a little much, but that's a minor complaint.

Just need to check out the third series now.

Aidric

New series starting tonight at 11.30 on RTE1.

Elmo

Aidric wrote: »

New series starting tonight at 11.30 on RTE1.

Mad Men, Rescue Me, True Blood and..... Play TV.

I will have to PLUS play TV tonight.

Rob_the_cat

Elmo wrote: »

Mad Men, Rescue Me, True Blood and..... Play TV.

I will have to PLUS play TV tonight.

I hope they'll have this series of Mad Men on RTE player, can't be missing Rescue Me!

drunken_munky52

I love this show!!!

Its just so cool... in a manly kind of way. These should be teenagers role models.

lostexpectation

and heres season three
http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1063925
the british invasion

Aidric

Solid start to Season 3 last night.

Dman001

Lovely, cheers RTE. But the least they could do for puttin it on a bad time schedule. If only htey could put Lie to Me and The Life and Times of Tim on it which are on at 2/3 o clock in the morning.

Elmo

Dman001 wrote: »

Lovely, cheers RTE. But the least they could do for puttin it on a bad time schedule. If only htey could put Lie to Me and The Life and Times of Tim on it which are on at 2/3 o clock in the morning.

I think we are going to see more and more serials put up on the player in the coming months. They may need to renegotiate the terms of the licences to allow them on the web. They seem to have all of their English programming on the player.

dr gonzo

Yeh this is great news, Mad Men is absolutely amazing. No spoilers but series 3 is unreal.

lawyer?

Does anyone know why Mad Men was removed from the RTE player? It was up yesterday, thought it was available until June? Have contacted them but no reply!

Kai

No idea but its dissappointing as i only found this thread today

Barna77

Typical RTE.... I had nearly finished season 2

Barna77

Removed because of copyright :mad:

Dman001

Can you expand on that Barna? Did you contact RTE?

Barna77

I did. Asked why it had been removed it, this is RTE's answer

"Thank you for contacting RTÉ Player with your query.

Due to copyright restrictions we had to remove Mad Mad Season One and Two from the RTÉ Player before the intended date of June 2010. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

We hope you continue to enjoy using the RTÉ Player."

Well, I won't be enjoying the RTE player any more....

Mindkiller

Man, Mad Men is cool. I wish I was as cool and stylish as the characters in Mad Men.
Mebbe I should take up drinking, smoking and philandering.

On a serious note, does the series get better? I watched the first 10 eps and found it dull. Everything looks so pretty though....

Barna77

Yeah, it does get better. And you're right, it's so cool. Wouldn't like to live in the 60s though. No internet? :eek:

Mindkiller

I think I could live without internet if it meant lazing about all day, drinking on the job. Decent trade-off.

catlovesmike

Any idea where the show has gone? I was taping episodes via my ntl box but havent picked any up for two weeks...where has it gone! I miss it!

R P McMurphy

catlovesmike wrote: »

Any idea where the show has gone? I was taping episodes via my ntl box but havent picked any up for two weeks...where has it gone! I miss it!

BBCHD finished showing season 2 about three weeks ago. Not sure if they are going to show season 3. Was on Wednesday nights

coylemj

catlovesmike wrote: »

Any idea where the show has gone? I was taping episodes via my ntl box but havent picked any up for two weeks...where has it gone! I miss it!

Season 4 has recently finished on BBC4, you should have picked up episode 13 on either Wed. Dec 1st or if that slot on your DVR was already taken you should have recorded it on Sat. Dec 4th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tqm9d

JonathanAnon

This is good news.. something to watch late at night when there's nothing else on the box..

Feckfox

****ing bollocks. I just read the start of this thread, went to RTE Player, couldn't find Madmen, came back and read the rest of the thread

Poochie05

For anyone who's been waiting, Season 4 starts on RTE1 on Monday 10 Jan at 23:45 according to Digiguide.

bellucio

Feckfox wrote: »

****ing bollocks. I just read the start of this thread, went to RTE Player, couldn't find Madmen, came back and read the rest of the thread

You and me both:(

amdublin

I'm watching mad men on DVD at the moment - couldn't be keeping up with rte's ridiculous late night scheduling.

I'm on season three.

:eek: Eeeeeeeeek!!! Joans leaving party when the Brits are over!!! Holy jebus I ws not prepared for that!!!

amdublin

Godd@mnit Don Draper is so goddamn hawt.

Our man in Havana

amdublin wrote: »

I'm watching mad men on DVD at the moment - couldn't be keeping up with rte's ridiculous late night scheduling.

I'm on season three.

:eek: Eeeeeeeeek!!! Joans leaving party when the Brits are over!!! Holy jebus I ws not prepared for that!!!

One should learn not to drive farm machinery in an office.

The Scientician

On one of the RTÉ pages it still says "Catch up on seasons 1 and 2 of Mad Men on the RTÉ Player On your PC, simply visit www.rte.ie/player to start watching both seasons now!"

Annoying!