Jon Hamm is the latest (and greatest) actor to be speaking about the recent Mad Men contract disputes that caused the next season of the show to be pushed into 2012.

He said to BBC’s Newsbeat:

“It was nobody’s fault really, it was the network and the studio. When billionaires fight it tends to take a lot longer than when normal people do.”

He added that there would only be three more series of the hit show, with series seven being the last.

Hamm, who’s also starred in films like The Town and The A-Team, says the delays were all down to the recent success of the show.

‘It should end’

He said: “The show has garnered a lot of interest and is worth a lot of money worldwide now.

“They all realise that, so they want to fight about that. God bless them. That’s what corporations do.”

He also spoke about how work is going for season 5:

“We’re going to start the fifth series here, I think late July or August. I’ll be directing the first episode.”

However, it seems that the scripts have yet to make an appearance.

“I don’t think they exist,” he said.

“The way Matthew [Weiner] writes the show is very organically. He starts when he starts and eventually there are scripts but I certainly haven’t seen them.”