Chronicling the Rise of “Z-TV” – A History of Zombies on Television

George A. Romero’s classic Dead films may have sparked an explosion of zombie media, but it took quite a while for these undead ghouls to invade television screens. Unlike ghosts, werewolves and vampires, which benefited from popular shows like Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural, shambling corpses were usually left out of prime-time […]

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Looking Back on the Mundane Monsters of MTV’s “Death Valley” 10 Years Later

Here’s a question no one’s ever asked before: what do you get when you hire one of the minds behind Scrubs (Curtis Gwinn) and the creator of Fat Guy Stuck in Internet (Eric Weinberg) to create a TV show based on an idea by Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One? Well, you get the criminally underseen […]

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“The Walking Dead”: Opening 5 Minutes from the Final Season Showcase a Gruesome Fight With the Undead

The Final Season of “The Walking Dead” will begin this Sunday, August 22, 2021, and this first batch of Season 11 episodes will include eight brand new episodes. The first 5-minutes of this Sunday night’s Final Season premiere have been released by AMC this afternoon, giving us a much longer version of a scene that […]

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