All Things:AMC television

IceDogsFan said:
'Small Town Security' is one of the stupidest shows I've ever seen, why renew garbage?
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AMC has to build a lineup. It's not my cuppa tea neither but apparently it was one of the reality(ie:cheap) shows that got some viewers. I still think that Freakshow deal they had was good(better if they would get more into the lives and backgrounds and normal day to day of some of the folks. How do you live being just a torso f'rinstance). Really curious about Hell on Wheels. That article I posted a ways back said that it did well, but with an older demographic. Not the coveted 25(?)-35(?) crowd. They left a LOT of questions going forward and it would be a real drag if the show ended on such an open note.

God Low Winter Sun was bad though. You have to care even a little bit for characters in order to make a show enticing. It just seemed the more you learned about the principles the more you DIDN't like them.
 
RE: TWD
KingInTheWest said:
It was very good. Nice of them not to drag out Rick's "I'm done killing" phase for too long. And it did seem to rub off on Carl enough to bring him out of his sociopath phase.

I still am not impressed with anyone who leaves any zombie alive when it can be killed. If they killed every zombie that came to the gates when it came to the gates, they wouldn't be able to pile up like that against the fence. Also there would be fewer zombies to stumble into when people go outside.
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There you go gettin' all common sensical on us.
 
jerseydevil said:
...God Low Winter Sun was bad though. You have to care even a little bit for characters in order to make a show enticing. It just seemed the more you learned about the principles the more you DIDN't like them.
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Exactly. I kept waiting for something to make us care, but they kept going in the opposite direction. With all of them. The female cop was the only decent person but I gave up with 2 episodes left so maybe they ruined her, too?
 
Yeah, but DVR strangely still isn't the factor it should be. Don't know if it's reluctance or tech issues with measurement but 'live' ratings still determine the fate of a show. I would gather that there are some shows that have better dvr ratings/hulu/iTunes etc than they do old scholl watch as it plays ratings, but those shows get cancelled more often than not.
 
jerseydevil said:
Yeah, but DVR strangely still isn't the factor it should be. Don't know if it's reluctance or tech issues with measurement but 'live' ratings still determine the fate of a show. I would gather that there are some shows that have better dvr ratings/hulu/iTunes etc than they do old scholl watch as it plays ratings, but those shows get cancelled more often than not.
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Advertisers don't care about DVR numbers because people skip the commercials. Also, what's recorded and what's actually watched are 2 different things, which basically makes the viewing numbers a guessing game.
 
Even before his little hit show, Cranston has been in the voiceover field. Done numerous bits on Robot Chicken/Archer/etc.
 
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best episode of Walking Dead in forever. Very sad and I am actually concerned for all of them. Well done, I care again. Still sure that the season will end in disappointment but damn if they arent showing just how good this show can be. And I heart Carol!!!!!!!!!!
 
Finished HoW S3 last night. Wow; total curveball ending. I thought for sure he'd go stabby stabby on 'you know who'. And Elam: double woah, but you know he won and will be back!
 
jerseydevil said:
best episode of Walking Dead in forever. Very sad and I am actually concerned for all of them. Well done, I care again. Still sure that the season will end in disappointment but damn if they arent showing just how good this show can be. And I heart Carol!!!!!!!!!!
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It is getting a little bit of that season 1 feel, but not quite there yet. Excellent episodes so far. I really hope they keep it up.
 
Does George A. Romero Like "The Walking Dead"?! -

Bizarre as it sounds, four seasons into “The Walking Dead”, and this is the first time I can recall George A. Romero commenting on the adaptation. What he says is pretty harsh, depending how you take it…

“They asked me to do a couple of episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ but I didn’t want to be a part of it,” Romero told The Big Issue. “Basically it’s just a soap opera with a zombie occasionally. I always used the zombie as a character for satire or a political criticism and I find that missing in what’s happening now.”

He’s exactly right. “The Walking Dead” makes no statement.

Outside of this shocker of a statement, the magazine also talks about the origin of the “zombie” with Romero, who has some really interesting things to share.

“I guess Zack Snyder started that with the remake of Dawn of the Dead – fast-moving zombies, but the zombies in World War Z, my God, they’re like army ants! But in all the adverts here they never called it a zombie film,” Romero said.

Confirming that he never actually called his Night of the Living Dead ‘zombies’. “No, never did. I never thought they were zombies,” he explained. “To me back then, zombies were those voodoo guys who were given some sort of blowfish cocktail and became slaves.

“And they weren’t dead so I thought I was doing a brand new thing by raising the dead. Not that the dead haven’t been risen before… It goes back to Jesus, doesn’t it?”
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