You can now read a review of the pilot script for AMC’s The Walking Dead over at Corona Coming Attractions. But here’s your warning- if you want absolutely no spoilers, no matter how minute, read on cautiously.
Last August we reported that a television series based on the seminal comic book series The Walking Dead was in the works, and today Grim Santo wrote in to let us know that AMC has given the green light to create a pilot. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) will be directing with Gale Ann Hurd producing. With big names like this, it’s clear AMC is putting in the effort (and presumably cash) to do the series justice.
My inbox was full of news alerts concerning the possible MTV Dawn of the Dead TV show, but there is really little to report on this. Apparently, it was a Bloodydisguting.com exclusive, but I have looked all over their site, followed numerous links and could not find the original artcile/ news bite. So…that being said, this sounds like a shit idea from a shit channel. We’ll keep looking for more info on this possible future project. Here’s the piece of PR that everybody is quoting:
Zack Snyder, who directed the 2004 remake, will not be involved at this time. For those of you wondering about what kind of zombies will be used, talk indicates a wide variety (running and slow). It will be more of a spin-off than original production…
Although we have no idea when it’s going to be available in the U.S., the British zombie “reality show” Dead Set has had its broadcast rights sold to four territories around the world. According to Variety, it will be aired on Canal Plus and a major free-to-air channel in Spain, SBS in Australia, BBC Entertainment in Africa, and TV400 in Sweden.
It’s great that so many more people will be able to watch this superb zombie TV show. Soon I’ll have to start petitioning Endemol, the makers of Dead Set, to work out a U.S. release!
Last month we reported on a new British zombie mini-series called Dead Set. The series premiered on UK channel E4 this week and they are putting the episodes online! Unfortunately, like most of you I get the error message “You need to be within the UK or the Republic of Ireland to watch Channel 4 programmes” when trying to view them. :( I’m sure there is a way to use a proxy server to get around this but so far I haven’t been able to find one that works.
This year’s Treehouse of Terror episode of the Simpsons (the name for the annual Simpsons Halloween special) will feature the dysfunctional family turning into zombies after eating some bad meat at Krusty Burger. The episode will air later this month on Fox.
ZRC’s always interesting, eloquent commentor Kelly King sent us notice of Dead Set – a new zombie 5 part mini-series on Britain’s E4 channel late this year. Described as “Big Brother meets Night of the Living Dead”, the series will focus on a group of reality show contestants stuck in a house while a zombie pandemic sweeps the country. The show launches late this year. Check out the trailer below:
Turner Classic Movies, as part of their TMC Underground series, will be showing the zombie cult classic The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? on Friday September 5th, at around 2am (that’s what their website say…hilarious). Also, you can read a new comic of a lost scene from the film. Set your TiVos!
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