"It's a very exciting challenge that I'm looking forward to with a mixture of utter fear and excitement,'' Hamm said earlier this year about his directorial debut.

Hamm's renegotiated contract extends it a year and aligns it with Matthew Weiner's three-year renewal, promising a total of seven seasons of the popular show.

Season Five won't debut until next year. Come ON. By the time they get season five up and running, it'll be 2012 at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Peggy and Pete's baby will be a grandfather, Sally will have married, divorced and remarried Glen (they ARE Baby Boomers, after all).

I've been waiting for-fucking-EVER for Mad Men to return and this is the thanks I get.

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