• The Hollywood Reporter, Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:15 PM

"Get ready to set your DVRs, people," writes The Hollywood Reporter's TV critic Tim Goodman. "It's summer, and you know what that means: the return of 'Mad Men'! What? Oh, right. It's not coming back this summer. It's coming back in the spring of 2012. Unless there are delays."

Donald Draper fans might be pissed, but they'll still watch the cult hit when it does reappear, Goodman says. But other shows may not be so lucky: "Struggling series do not resuscitate themselves after an unexplained absence. They die," says Goodman in this argument against the extended TV series hiatus, which ends: "Year after year, season after season, the networks (primarily) and cable channels don't learn this simple lesson: Don't play the shell game with viewers."

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