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How “The Walking Dead” Changed My Life

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I can’t even begin to explain how baffling the popularity of the hit AMC series, “The Walking Dead” has become.  As an avid viewer and enormous fan of the show, I struggle to find words to explain why the show has gained so much popularity.

Aside from the fact that the show is so unbelievably gory that it is impossible to enjoy popcorn and my favorite soda while I watch, there are dozens of other reasons the show is almost unwatchable, yet anyone who I suggest the show to will watch it with the same intensity as my wife and I.

Hopefully, by me pointing out all of the reasons you shouldn’t watch the show, I will gain some insight of exactly why I can’t stop watching it.  Whatever the conclusion is, I’m sure I’ll keep watching in the end.  [Read more…]

Miss ‘The Walking Dead’? This Marathon’s For You

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Feeling left out? Uncool? Not part of the in crowd?

Then you must’ve been unable to catch the most talked-about new show of the season when it first aired. To soothe your outsider-y pain, AMC is giving you a second chance to get caught up. Only without that pesky week-long wait between episodes.

This Friday, March 4th, at 8:pm, AMC will air a back-to-back marathon of all six episodes of The Walking Dead‘s first season. Even if you saw the show when it first aired, there’s good reason to tune in: each episode will include exclusive behind-the-scenes content, including interviews with showrunner Frank Darabont, source comic book creator Robert Kirkman, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, and special makeup effects designer Greg Nicotero.

The marathon will also include a first look at AMC’s new series, The Killing, which will air at 9:30pm and again at 12:45am.

Get the complete first season of The Walking Dead on DVD

First Look at AMC’s ‘The Killing’

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Riding high on the success of The Walking Dead, AMC’s marketing department has kicked into high gear for its next new drama, The Killing, which is actually an American remake of a Danish hit called Forbrydelsen (which literally translates as “crime”). The Seattle-set series follows the murder investigation of a girl named Rosie Larsen from three different perspectives.

The detectives assigned to the case comprise one perspective, the victim’s grieving family is another, and the third is made up of the suspects. The twist-filled story is layered with secrets on top of secrets, most of which come from local Seattle politicians, with much more at stake in Rosie’s murder than it initially appears. Mireille Enos stars as Sarah, the lead homicide detective investigating Rosie’s death. Joining her are Billy Campbell, Michelle Forbes, Joel Kinnaman, and Brent Sexton.

The Killing debuts with a 2-hour premiere on Sunday, April 3rd. AMC clearly has high hopes for this one, having given the series a 13-episode first season order.

EW.com got the exclusive on the series’ movie-style poster, which you can view above. A pair of trailers for the show are below.

AMC Re-Airing Breaking Bad

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Starting tonight at 12:30am, AMC is running an encore presentation of Breaking Bad. There are 33 episodes of Breaking Bad in all, and if you’ve never seen the acclaimed drama, this is the perfect chance to get caught up on all three seasons. Every Wednesday night, two episodes will be shown back-to-back, all the way through March of 2011, when the season 3 finale will re-air.

If you’d like reminders of each week’s encore eps, you can follow Breaking Bad on Facebook or Twitter, where you’ll also get advanced information about Season 4.

Walking Dead Fires Writing Staff

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The Walking Dead has let go of its entire writing staff, per what sounds like Frank Darabont’s personal instructions. Darabont, who’s best known as the writer/director of movies like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, is the primary creative force behind bringing The Walking Dead to the small screen, where he serves as producer, head writer, and occasional director.

According to Deadline, Darabont’s plan for Season Two of the show is to not use an on-staff group of writers, but instead to hand out assignments to freelance writers. The Walking Dead would not be the first show to use this method; many British shows are known to do the same, including the upcoming BBC/Starz coproduction of Torchwood.

If this is Darabont’s plan for the show’s second season, it could be problematic for the Writers Guild of America, which is known to be fiercely protective of its members’ treatment and wages. Is this the first hint of a paradigm shift for how TV screenwriting works? Only time will tell.

In related news, The Hollywood Reporter says that the first season of The Walking Dead will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray sometime next Spring. The first season finale premieres this Sunday, December 5th.