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“Walking Dead” cast talks about season 2 midseason finale

February 11, 2012 Barb Oates

With the second half of Season 2 of The Walking Dead finally making its return on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 9pm ET on AMC, the cast took some time to reflect on a cast member who won’t be returning. For the cast, as well as fans of the show, the midseason cliffhanger was simply heartbreaking when, after weeks of searching for Sophia (played by Madison Lintz), the survivors find her when she’s the last to stumble out of Hershel’s barn of walkers. Melissa McBride who plays Carol, Sophia’s mother, said: “Madison and I are both from Atlanta and I’ve known […]

“Walking Dead” Season 2 premiere scores record ratings for basic cable

October 17, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Last night’s Season 2 premiere of The Walking Dead pulled in record ratings for basic cable in two key demographics, besting last year’s season average by more than 35%. Here’s how it breaks down: 4.8 MILLION VIEWERS ADULTS 18-49 4.2 MILLION VIEWERS ADULTS 25-54 7.3 MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS 11 MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS FOR THE NIGHT A very happy Charlie Collier, AMC president, says in a release, “The Walking Dead is one of those rare television programs that reaches both a core genre fan as well as broad audiences simply looking for a great, character-based story. We’re so proud of and […]

Frank Darabont did sound kinda burned out on “The Walking Dead”

October 14, 2011 StayTuned Staff

On Friday, July 22, the cast and producers of The Walking Dead assembled in San Diego to bask in the adoration of fans at Comic-Con. Among them was Frank Darabont, the Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, who shepherded the zombie-apocalypse drama from the black-and-white pages of Robert Kirkman’s comic book to television, where it became the highest-rated show on AMC. Darabont met with hordes of reporters, including myself, and appeared on the brink of exhaustion at times. Understandable, given the show’s relentless production schedule, and the rumblings we’d all been hearing about behind-the-scenes conflicts […]

AMC resurrects “The Walking Dead” for Season 2

October 14, 2011 StayTuned Staff

While the drama going on behind the scenes — the ousting of creator/showrunner Frank Darabont, and how the decision might have been linked to AMC spending too much money on Mad Men — is the stuff of bad soap operas, there’s no denying the quality of what gets onscreen in The Walking Dead, the network’s highest-rated show. More than 10 months will have passed between the debut season’s abbreviated six-episode run and the premiere of Season 2 — which begins Sunday at 9pm — and anticipation has only grown in that time. Several storylines were left dangling, including the complicated […]

Season premiere of “The Walking Dead” expands, as well as AMC’s original programming slate

September 1, 2011 StayTuned Staff

by Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuide Well, AMC may be having to sit on production of Mad Men for the moment, but that hasn’t stopped the network from broadening its assets. Today, AMC announced that another of its ambitious series, The Walking Dead, will commence its 13-episode Season 2 with a special 90-minute premiere Oct. 16 as the start of its annual two-week Fearfest celebration. More spectacularly, AMC has also announced the greenlighting of two new original series. Both are still only provisionally titled, but are as conceptually compelling as anything the network has dished out so far, from Breaking […]

AMC’s statement on Frank Darabont and “The Walking Dead”

July 28, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

This morning, AMC released this statement on Frank Darabont stepping down as showrunner for the hit series The Walking Dead, and answered some other questions about possible changes and replacements: “The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara, writer and executive producer, is expanding his responsibilities to assume the role of showrunner. AMC is grateful to executive producer, writer and pilot director Frank Darabont whose contributions to the success of The Walking Dead are innumerable. We continue to discuss his ongoing role with the series. Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead graphic novels, executive producer and writer on the series, will remain […]

AMC pumps life into zombie genre with “The Walking Dead”

October 31, 2010 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Let’s face it, the words “zombie apocalypse” aren’t often associated with quality drama. Despite the respect paid to the works of Night of the Living Dead auteur George A. Romero, who never fails to infuse sharp social commentary and allegory into the genre he essentially created, it’s more often than not the terrain for hackneyed horror flicks filled with excessive gore and scantily clad coeds. For every Dawn of the Dead that brings credibility, there’s a Zombie Strippers lurking to take it all away. As for its TV prospects, the horror genre overall has not gained much […]

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 […]