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On June 3, New York Magazine's Vulture blog took TNT's series Men of a Certain Age to task for upping "the Product-Placement Ante." Men of a Certain Age, Vulture wrote, is "getting cocky" because "in the new episodes, they've found a brand-new way to sell an infinite number of new products."

On Twitter, Mike Royce, the series' co-creator and showrunner, took umbrage and tweeted back at Vulture, "We did almost no placement RT @christinadowney: Brilliant or Blatant" and "Hey @vulture FYI only 1 yes ONE of those products was product placement. Can you guess which?"

Royce filled us in for an exclusive interview.Continue reading...