Mad Men: Season Five Blu-ray

In October, Lionsgate Home Entertainment will bring Mad Men: Season Five to Blu-ray. The latest installment of the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning television program examines the employees at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency, with a particular thematic focus on how the marriage between ad executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm, The Town) and his former secretary Megan (Jessica Paré, Lost and Delirious) impacts the company.

The series also features standout performances from a cast that includes Elisabeth Moss (Get Him to the Greek), Vincent Kartheiser (In Time), Christina Hendricks (Drive), Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Rich Sommer (The Devil Wears Prada), and John Slattery (Flags of Our Fathers).

In addition, the series has just received seventeen nominations for the 2012 Emmy Awards Ceremony, such as:

• Best Drama Series
• Best Actress in a Drama Series: Elisabeth Moss
• Best Actor in a Drama Series: Jon Hamm
• Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Christina Hendricks
• Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Jared Harris
• Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Julia Ormond
• Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series: Ben Feldman
• Best Casting for a Drama Series: Laura Schiff and Carrie Audino
• Best Directing in a Drama Series: Phil Abraham
• Best Writing in a Drama Series (Three Nominations): Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner; Andre Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton; and Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner
• Best Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series: Dan Bishop, Christopher L. Brown, and Claudette Didul
• Best Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series: Christopher Manley
• Best Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series: Chris Gay
• Best Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic): Lana Horochowski, Ron Pipes, Ken Niederbaumer, and Keith Sayer
• Best Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series: Theraesa Rivers, Lucia Mace, Arturo Rojas, Maria Sandoval, and David Blair

Lionsgate's three-disc Blu-ray set presents all thirteen Season Five episodes in their 1.78:1 broadcast aspect ratio with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio tracks. The discs also contain the following bonus supplements:

• Twenty-six cast and crew commentaries
• Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
• Mad Men Says the Darndest Things
• The Uniform Time Act of 1966
• What Shall I Love If Not the Enigma?
• Party of the Century
• The Music of Mad Men
• Newsweek Magazine digital gallery
• Mad Men Easter Eggs

Mad Men: Season Five is expected to street on October 16th.