TV as we know it is dying out. I predict within a decade it will be akin to Drive-in movie theaters. Still used, but rarely.
I rarely watch tv anymore, but AMC’s shows are absolute gold. ~Well written, well acted and crafted.
MSM is so hackneyed, poorly scripted, badly acted and so ideologically correct it is moronic.
Is that d/l thru AMC’s own site or thru the-walking-dead.en.softonic.com/ (I am at work so either is not a site I can access at the moment)?
I watch very little broadcast TV. In the morning I watch local and national news on NBC and its local affiliate. In the evening it’s strictly cable, I tried to watch broadcast channels but there’s nothing but idiotic sitcoms and asinine reality shows.
-——A zombie, after all, is something that continues to roam, and tries to devour all in its path even though its natural life is over ——
What you read is zombie speak from the New York Times rambling on about what it sees in the mirror.
The previous Sunday viewership totalled 11.01 million. Yesterday’s totals should be released later today.
That number beats most broadcast network programs, with few exceptions.
Loved the episode last night. Lennie Davis (he’s a Brit, too! What’s with this show! Can’t we find any good American actors anymore?) can act his butt off! He was fantastic.
WHo would have ever expected AMC to dominate the ratings?
lol.
I laugh at the herd mentality of the networks and I have never seen Walking Dead and have little interest in it.
Download or stream? For free?
I can stream, but 50% of the time it's unwatchable. If I could download, I'd do it in advance and watch later.
Wonder if Walking Dead was pitched to any othe big four networks?
I enjoy WD although at times it comes across as “thirtysomething” with zombies.
Am well beyond the 49 yr old mark but absolutely LOVE this show! The second season wasn’t liked by some but I thought the themes of hope in the face of reality (Hershel), questioning if life should go on (pregnant Lauri) the struggle between humanity and survival (Dail and Shane) were wonderfully executed. None of these actors are Big Names but are perfect in their roles...damn fine TV.
I hope this is a sign for the future...MSM can die on the vine.
I hope I'm getting better than 255 mbps by then.....right now I can't even watch a Youtube video without it freezing up on me.
I think the big thing AMC has figured out is the size of the country. The networks are always trying to appeal to the masses, they seek that general appeal, and in the process make canned often boring shows. And when they try to break out of that mold they make shows that don’t appeal to their core audience (who like canned highly predictable shows) and the shows find no audience. AMC has figured out that in a nation of 311 million you can appeal to a small segment and get a huge audience. They got the economies of scale, that even if only 2% of the population would be interested in this show that’s 6 million people, and that’s not an audience to sneeze at.
Then of course there’s the vastly different economic reality of cable vs broadcast network. Broadcast networks have much higher overhead and only get to use a fraction of the day to pay for themselves (the rest being dedicated to local content), cable networks are cheap and have the whole day to put in reruns of popular shows to get that extra handful of audience. This frees them up to take a lot more risks.
That’s funny. Zombies killing Zombies..........