That Beatles Moment on 'Mad Men' Cost a Cool Quarter Million

The title of tonight?s ?Mad Men? episode was but it should have been called ?Tomorrow Never Knows.? AMC and LionsGate ponied up and paid for a Beatles master recording??Tomorrow Never Knows? from Revolver. Wow. That couldn?t have been cheap. Pete cheated for the second time this season, this time with a Gilmore Girl?Alexis Bliedel, stretching ...

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It doesn?t seem like a lot, but the producers of ?Mad Men? may have paid a record price for a single master recording for a TV show. Sources tell me that Lions Gate and AMC paid ?upwards of $250,000? for use of ?Tomorrow Never Knows,? a John Lennon song from the Revolver album. In order ...