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Review: AMC’s “The Walking Dead”

October 29, 2010 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison The Walking Dead is a zombie show for folks who wouldn’t be caught dead watching a zombie show. AMC, the network of Mad Men and Breaking Bad, isn’t slumming with this handsomely produced, well-written grotesquerie based on the Robert Kirkman comic-book series. On the contrary, they’ve taken the zombie genre — which usually makes its hay with clever social commentary and wry satire — and made it the subject of heartfelt drama and relentless thrills. With writing and production help from Frank Darabont, who also directed the pilot, the humanity of the characters and the hopelessness of […]

“The Walking Dead” trailer from AMC — scary good

August 24, 2010 Jeff Pfeiffer

AMC is getting us excited (and creeped out) with this trailer for its new series The Walking Dead, from producer/writer/director Frank Darabont and based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book about a zombie apocalypse. The series debuts, fittingly, on Halloween at 10pm as part of AMC’s Fearfest horror marathon. The premiere is 90 minutes; subsequent episodes will be an hour long.

AMC, Darabont team up for “Walking Dead” series

August 12, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Frank Darabont is delving back into the horror genre, but this time Stephen King is nowhere in sight. Having made his bones adapting some of the scare master’s most respected work (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist), Darabont will serve as writer, director and executive producer of a new series for AMC based on The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman’s acclaimed comic book series about survivors of a zombie apocalypse. “Robert Kirkman has created a world in The Walking Dead with real characters, real human emotion, and great stories that paint a very smart, sophisticated, and layered picture. In […]

“Digging” Josh Bernstein

April 12, 2006 Channel Guide Contributor

When a series on The History Channel spawns its own comic book, you know that the times, they are a-changing. With Digging for the Truth and host-turned-comic-hero Josh Bernstein, the network has proved that history can be hip. Beyond the obvious comparisons to Indiana Jones and his rugged good looks, Bernstein is the real deal when it comes to smarts about “stones and bones.” A survivalist expert and graduate of Cornell University, Bernstein logged more than 100,000 miles during Digging‘s first season, and is in the process of upping that number in Season 2. “This time [I visited] 21 countries, […]