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May 9 2012 04:40 PM ET

AMC renews 'Comic Book Men' and 'Talking Dead'

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AMC has officially renewed both Comic Book Men and The Talking Dead. The low-buzz, low-cost series marked AMC’s first foray into the genres of “reality show” and “live after show” and away from its bread-and-butter programming like Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Both newcomer shows will be returning for 16-episode second seasons, which means 16 more episodes of nerdy dudes basically quoting Mallrats without the swearing, and 16 episodes of Chris Hardwick bravely exploring whole new ways to talk about nothing happening on The Walking Dead.

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Read More from EW:
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Mar 19 2012 07:24 PM ET

'Walking Dead': Which major character was lucky to survive this season?

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The final three episodes of The Walking Dead’s just-completed second season were not lacking in fatalities, with Jeffrey DeMunn’s Dale, Jon Bernthal’s Shane, and newcomer Michael Zegen’s Randall among the characters who shuffled off this mortal coil (in some cases twice!).

But Walking Dead TV show exec producer — and Walking Dead comic writer — Robert Kirkman considered one more major death. Who else was set to buy the farm om Hershel’s, uh, farm?

The answer is…

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Mar 19 2012 05:01 PM ET

'Walking Dead' showrunner talks finale and season 3

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Say, have you heard about this Walking Dead finale? AMC’s breakout-sensation zombie drama closed out its second season last night with a slate-wiping hour of television. An undead herd invaded the much-despised farm which has housed the cast of survivors for most of this season. Then, in the episode’s closing minutes, there were two big developments. We got on the phone with Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara, who’s preparing to speak at the 2012 NAB Show in Las Vegas — alongside fellow Dead producers Dave Alpert, Gale Anne Hurd, and Robert Kirkman — on Tuesday, April 17, for a panel called “Walking Dead: Creating a Thinking Person’s Zombie Drama.”

Mazzara famously took the reins of Walking Dead after original showrunner Frank Darabont departed at the season’s halfway point, and he summed up his stewardship of Dead in simple terms: “I had a clear-cut goal to put Rick first, to pay off stories that we had been telling, to make the world around them seem more threatening, and to get them off the farm and out into that threatening world.” Read on for more information about new characters, new storylines, and T-Dog. (A note on spoilers — I’ve mostly kept questions relating to the Dead comic books confined to common-knowledge information, but there’s one plot point in particular that I’ll frame with a spoiler warning. So keep an eye out. Or just read the comics already.) READ FULL STORY »

Mar 19 2012 03:46 PM ET

'Walking Dead' finale draws record ratings

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AMC’s The Walking Dead finale set a ratings record for the network, clocking a truly impressive 9 million viewers.

The second season closer was the show’s highest-rated episode ever (and AMC’s most-watched episode of regular series television ever). A full 6 million of those viewers were among adults 18-49, too, which is quite a trick to pull off. Walking Dead ranks as the top-rated show in cable history among the adult demo. (Watch, now AMC executives will think: “If we cut the budget again, the ratings will go up even higher!”)

I got to see last night’s episode at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin where fans literally cheered Rick saving Herschel and the appearance of Michonne. For more, check out EW’s interview with writer-producer Robert Kirkman about the finale, and see our item about which actress is going to be under the hood to play a sword-wielding badass.

Mar 18 2012 11:22 PM ET

'The Walking Dead' Casts Sword-Wielding Heroine Michonne (SPOILERS)

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On AMC’s post-Walking Dead talk show, Talking Dead, executive producer Robert Kirkman broke the casting news fans of the comics have long been waiting for: Michonne, the fan-favorite, sword-swinging badass, will be played by Treme‘s Danai Gurira.

The hit show included many surprises in its action packed second season finale: Rick’s revelation to the survivors that they’re all infected with the zombie plague; the ominous sight of the prison where some of the most pivotal action in Kirkman’s Walking Dead comics take place; the expulsion from the farm; Hershel’s transformation from misguided softie to gunslinging badass; the fact that T-Dog had a line. But one twist stood out above all the rest. Laurie Holden’s Andrea getting saved from a pack of zombies by a hooded warrior wielding a sword and leading a chain of leashed walkers. That’s right, Michonne made her jump from the page to the screen at last. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 16 2012 03:33 PM ET

Sam Witwer on Darth Maul's 'Clone Wars' Resurrection: 'He's going to be around for a little bit' -EXCLUSIVE

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Last week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, “Brothers,” featured a canon-shattering revelation: Darth Maul had survived being cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi and was hiding out on the garbage planet Lotho Minor. His reentry into that galaxy far, far away is one of the creepier things we’ve ever seen from the Star Wars saga, not just because of the spider legs Maul’s somehow conjured for himself from the dark side of the Force, but because his shattered mental state hinted at the deepest, murkiest kind of psychological darkness.

Who better to play that than Sam Witwer? He’s already literally embodied the dark side with his character The Son on The Clone Wars’ third season and voiced Darth Vader’s secret apprentice Starkiller in The Force Unleashed videogames. Not to mention that he plays sexy vampire (do they come any other way these days?) Aidan on Syfy’s Being Human and portrayed the decidedly unsexy tank zombie that Rick kills in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead. In a far more awesome alternate universe, he was also the star of Frank Darabont’s ambitious original idea for the Walking Dead Season 2 premiere.

EW caught up with Witwer about Maul and what exactly his resurrection means for the future of the Star Wars saga as we know it. He’ll also be joining us, along with Obi-Wan voice actor James Arnold Taylor, for our live chat of The Clone Wars Season 4 finale starting at 7:40 p.m. ET/4:40 p.m. PT tonight. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 15 2012 03:41 PM ET

'Walking Dead' showrunner talks finale, controversies: 'There's more bloodshed coming'

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In a conference call with reporters, The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara took questions about Sunday’s second-season finale, recent character deaths, the show’s pacing, and what to expect for season 3:

– On the upcoming finale: We’re proud of this finale, we’ve been building to it all season, and we cant wait for you to see it … There’s more bloodshed coming. They thought they were safe on this farm, they were wrong … We’re on a killing spree here … There are answers about the nature of the virus in the finale … I will guarantee people will watch this finale and want to know what comes next. People will have a lot of questions, but in a good way.

– On Shane becoming zombie, much faster than Amy, and not getting bit: We worked hard to make sure that revelation landed. We knew what we were doing there. We knew it would land a punch. We’ve never had a main character become a zombie to this extent. Those [rapid flashes of zombie mayhem] represent the storm in Shane’s brain to some extent … Amy was a weaker character. Shane is in a murderous rage … he’s going to reanimate quicker. There’s just more life in that zombie, believe it or not. We do have internal rules for that. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 11 2012 10:01 PM ET

Jon Bernthal (a.k.a. Shane) talks about the latest 'Walking Dead' shocker -- EXCLUSIVE

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Another week, another jaw-dropping shocker on The Walking Dead. So stop reading right now if you have yet to watch Sunday’s episode of the zombie drama. [SPOILER ALERT! Seriously, stop reading now if you have not already watched Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead.] READ FULL STORY »

Mar 1 2012 11:15 PM ET

AMC website runs 'Walking Dead' spoiler by mistake

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Walking Dead fans were treated to one heckuva spoiler on the AMC website Thursday.

An ad touting the release of the season 2 DVD inadvertently revealed a major plot point in an upcoming episode, in addition to promising other features like an extended zombie gut scene and the making of the barn. The set of 13 episodes doesn’t ship until August, but you can order it now (and for only $99.99!)

The snafu prompted an AMC spokesperson to release this statement: “The post on the AMC store was completely unauthorized. The matter is currently under investigation.” By late Thursday, however, the spoiler still existed on the website. Yikes! (Update: It’s been removed, but you can still see it in our link below.)

If you don’t watch Dead and want to see what all the hubbub’s about, click here to check out the spoiler. But if you do tune in regularly, stay the heck away.

Episode 11 of Dead airs Sunday.

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The Walking Dead recap

Feb 21 2012 02:15 PM ET

'Walking Dead' ratings hugeness continues

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Sunday’s The Walking Dead continued to shamble towards ratings victory.

The “Triggerfinger” episode (where — hey — stuff happened!) delivered 6.9 million viewers for its first airing and a total of 8.5 million for the night including its repeat. Among the adult demo, a total of 5.7 million tuned in.

Yes, this is down 16 percent from last week’s mega-rated sorta-premiere episode, where WD picked up after its winter hiatus. But these numbers are still huge so…

Read more:
‘The Walking Dead’: Writer Robert Kirkman talks about tonight’s show, ‘Triggerfinger’
InsideTV Podcast: Andrew Lincoln dishes on ‘intense, brutal, and incredibly shocking’ upcoming episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’
‘Walking Dead’ return delivers monster ratings 

Feb 20 2012 02:01 AM ET

'The Walking Dead': Writer Robert Kirkman talks about tonight's show, 'Triggerfinger'

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Tonight’s episode of the Walking Dead had something for everyone — well, everyone who likes shootouts, facial woundings, and grotesquely impaled limbs. Yes, season two of AMC’s hugely successful zombie show finally put the mayhem pedal to the metal as Rick, Hershel, and Glenn blasted their way out of the bar and Lori put the skewered zombie head into driver’s ed. Below, Walking Dead comics scribe and TV show executive producer Robert Kirkman talks about the episode, the show’s record ratings, and the disgusting politeness of Andrew Lincoln.

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Feb 17 2012 12:00 PM ET

InsideTV Podcast: Andrew Lincoln dishes on 'intense, brutal, and incredibly shocking' upcoming episodes of 'The Walking Dead'

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The Walking Dead returned this past Sunday and promptly broke cable ratings records…again. And while hero Rick Grimes may have shot down two shady individuals in a saloon, the man who plays him, Andrew Lincoln, tells us that threat may be far from over. It’s an undead explosion as Lincoln joins zombie aficionado Clark Collis and yours truly on the latest addition of the InsideTV Podcast. What does Lincoln think of complaints that the search for Sophia took too long? Why was he itching to start shooting people again? And how come he is telling us that “I spent most of my first 10 years with my ass out”?

Not only that, but Lincoln teases us on what we can expect coming up on the show in the weeks ahead. “There is a resolution to the love triangle,” the actor reveals about the Rick–Lori–Shane relationship. And people who said the first half of the season moved too slow will be overjoyed to hear Lincoln’s promise that, “There’s more blood, there’s more action, there’s more zombies. And not everybody gets out alive.” But will Lincoln make it out of the room alive without telling us what the hell was whispered into his ear at the CDC? READ FULL STORY »

Feb 13 2012 03:59 PM ET

'Walking Dead' return delivers monster ratings

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AMC’s midseason return of The Walking Dead broke the show’s previous records.

On Sunday night, the zombie drama had 8.1 million viewers and 5.4 million viewers among adults 18-49. That’s TV’s biggest drama series telecast in the adult demo in basic cable history. That’s up 12 percent in the demo compared to the show’s previous record, October’s season 2 premiere. Combined with its encore, Walking Dead had 10.1 million viewers for the night.

Which is awesome and all, but … you realize it’s only going to encourage the writers to do more chatty-chat farm-based episodes, right? Lot of fans feel like the show is in danger of turning into, uh, Little House on the Zombie Prairie (sorry, best I could do). Here’s our interview with writer Robert Kirkman about last night’s episode where he promises, “Things just keep getting worse from here” (meaning in a fun way, of course).

At 10 p.m., AMC’s new series Comic Book Men executive produced by Kevin Smith had 2 million viewers. That’s not bad for an unscripted show on AMC, but it would be a lot more impressive if not for its massive Walking Dead lead-in.

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