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AMC clearly has a soft spot for spinoffs at the heart of its TV network, as The Walking Dead has about a thousand and Better Call Saul has (arguably) soared to higher heights than the show it spawned from, but the network has to still pull the proverbial trigger on any kind of Mad Men sequel — even as more networks surrender to the siren chant of “Just do what was successful again” and after AMC+ framed its entire launch on Mad Men’s appeal Has .
Well, if anyone ever calls out for more Mad Men, Kiernan Shipka would be happy to answer. The former ‘Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina’ star played Don Draper’s daughter Sally on the original series, and speaking to ET recently, she mentioned that she’s “not done with Sally yet” and would love to do more stories with her. As for what those stories would entail, Shipka says only that she doesn’t think Sally would stay in New York, but “I think she would do LA” and that she’s “not done with her at all.”
Beyond that there isn’t much to say. Doing a TV show about Sally Draper would require more than Shipka’s involvement (like writers and such), but the door is relatively wide open in terms of the kinds of stories they could tell. Maybe Sally Draper is playing her own ad agency with other Mad Men characters’ kids? Maybe she’ll create “Where’s The Beef?” or the 1984 Apple ad as she goes on her own interesting adventures and learns and grows as a person?
Maybe Jon Hamm emerges as an old man and eventually falls down and can’t get up, inspiring his daughter to create another iconic advertising concept? (We know that “classic commercial references” wasn’t really the point of the original, but Mad Men ended with the implication that Don did the “Buy the World a Coke” commercial, so we’ll stick with it.)