Last night’s episode had the series’ most disgusting moment yet. Yes!
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The Walking Dead Recap: ‘Bloodletting’
For an episode titled “Bloodletting” there was surprisingly little of it last night.What we got instead were outpourings of emotion and frustration. Two entries in, and it’s already clear that the show wants to strike a balance …
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Zombies Devour Ratings Record! 7.3 Million for Walking Dead
Amid the off-season drama over AMC’s The Walking Dead—in which the network cut the series’ budget and ushered out showrunner Frank Darabont—hung the question: was the network going to, er, cannibalize its zombie drama and …
The Walking Dead: The New Slow Burn
Twelve and a half minutes. That’s how long it took for us to see our first zombie (other than a flash in the opening montage) in the season two premiere of The Walking Dead. Like last year’s pilot episode, the season two premiere …
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Breaking Bad Watch: Up On a Roof
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather up the family and some of your closest armed guards and watch last night’s Breaking Bad.
When I take notes on any show I’m reviewing, I like to include little side …
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What’s Next for AMC: Reality, Kevin Smith, 30 More Minutes of Zombies
If you missed it the other day, New York magazine’s Joe Adalian had an excellent analysis of what’s behind the recent business and p.r. problems at AMC. It’s worth reading in full, but one major point in brief: all those times you wondered how in the world they could afford to produce HBO-type shows on a basic-cable budget? Turns out …
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Breaking Bad Makes a Deal for 16 Final Episodes
The bad news: Breaking Bad is ending. The good news: Breaking Bad is ending (hopefully) on its own terms. After a prolonged and unfortunately public negotiation over its renewal with AMC, the producers of Breaking Bad will get a final run of 16 episodes to conclude the story of Walter White, chemistry-teacher-cum-criminal.
The whole …
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Walking Dead?; or, Can AMC Afford to Budget-Cut Its Way to Success?
The Hollywood Reporter has a couple of interesting news items about AMC network right now. The first is a short news brief from this morning, reporting that AMC—the cable group including IFC, Sundance, WE and AMC network itself—showed a higher profit in its first quarter as an independent company, with both profit and revenue up …
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Which Is Worse: Much Less Breaking Bad, or Much More?
The story over AMC’s feud with the Sony studio over Breaking Bad broke while I was just getting to press tour, but for those of you who haven’t heard about it: things are getting tense between network and studio over the fifth and ostensibly final season of the show. The makers of Breaking Bad want a full season to wrap things up; …
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TCA Roundup: Is AMC the New HBO? Is HBO the New AMC?
The TCA TV critics’ press tour (which I will be joining next week) continued with its cable round yesterday, as critics and reporters heard from AMC, a critics’ darling that has recently taken some dings in its Teflon armor over the season finale of The Killing, ugly negotiations over Mad Men and a shakeup at hit zombie drama The …
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The Path to the White House Runs Through AMC Mob Week
AMC announced that it’s scheduling its first-ever Mob Week next month, to be hosted by none other than former federal prosecutor, former NYC mayor, former TIME Person of the Year, former Presidential frontrunner, former Presidential primary washout and current, well, AMC movie-week host, Rudolph Giuliani.
As with Sarah Palin’s TLC …
Top 10 Murder-Mystery Series
Some of the most addictive shows on television have been whodunits. TIME has chosen the very best.
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TV Weekend: The Killing
The Killing, which debuts Sunday night on AMC, is one of those murder stories in which the only things possibly as sad as the death it documents are the lives that survive it.
Yes, the title crime—the gruesome murder of Seattle teenager Rosie Larsen—is heartbreaking. But then there is the family she leaves behind, including two …