Posted on Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Angie Han
We have some interesting tidbits of all kinds today, but let’s be real — we both know you’re mainly here for The Walking Dead trailer and clip and the True Blood teaser. After the jump:
- HBO offers the first 3 minutes of The Walking Dead‘s midseason premiere, plus a teaser
- The first teaser for Season 5 of HBO’s True Blood comes online
- Shirley Maclaine will be calling on Downton Abbey
- Details on The CW’s new Beauty & The Beast reboot reveal a surprising 9/11 connection
- Jimmy Kimmel is shopping a “Borat Meets Green Acres” hybrid series
- Kevin Smith and Adam Carolla bicker over an upcoming untitled project
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Frank Darabont, ousted from The Walking Dead, did not waste any time setting up a new television project. He is spearheading a TNT show called L.A. Noir that sounds as if it will tread much the same ground as Warner Bros. upcoming film Gangster Squad, as it follows the extended face-off between Mickey Cohen and the LA mob and the LAPD.
Until today all we knew of the show was that Darabont would write and direct the ’40s-set pilot, and produce the show that follows. Now we know that Darabont has his eye on one actor from The Walking Dead to star in the show. But that means possible spoilers for The Walking Dead, so the info follows below. Read More »
Posted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 by Angie Han
Is it Halloween already? Today’s TV Bits is dark and spooky, as it deals with vampires, zombies, murderers, and other scary creatures. (Insert your own joke about some of Star Wars‘ CGI characters being their own brand of horrifying here.) After the jump:
- Rick McCallum talks about the Star Wars TV show (again)
- ABC releases a trailer for Oren Peli’s The River
- NBC picks up Dracula from Black List writer Cole Haddon
- Golden Globe winner Jessica Lange ponders a return to FX’s American Horror Story
- AMC announces the Season 2 premiere of The Killing and orders an extra dose of The Walking Dead
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If you’re anything like me, you read the headline “Frank Darabont Will Helm New TNT Show L.A. Noir” and immediately thought of the Rockstar Video game, L.A. Noire. Unfortunately, this show has nothing to do with the game but fans will find similarities.
Darabont has just signed to write and direct the pilot episode of a drama set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles about the conflicts between the LAPD and organized crime. After that he’ll slide into a producer role, much like he did for the first season of The Walking Dead, helping catapult that show into one of the biggest on cable TV.
Of course, Darabont no longer works on The Walking Dead after a very public departure from AMC’s zombie hit this summer, but he’s recently come out and explained about how he wanted to start the second season. Read about L.A. Noir and Darabont’s scrapped Walking Dead opening after the jump. Read More »
Posted on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 by David Chen
This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley chat about the fall of Netflix, enjoy the listlessness of The Trip, debate the impressiveness of The Last Exorcism, and try to figure out who would pay $60 for Tower Heist. Special guest Matt Patches joins us from Hollywood.com.
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The second season of The Walking Dead is only two episodes old, and the characters have yet to desert the primary location of those episodes, but AMC has already seen enough. The cable station just renewed the zombie smash hit for a third season. The full details are after the jump. Read More »
The king of the zombies, George Romero, is at it again but there will be no night, dawn, day, land, diary or survival for the dead this time. This time, he’s cutting them up. Romero is currently writing an adaptation of a 2011 book The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse by Steven C. Schlozman which is about shocking revelations when a group of scientists perform autopsies on zombies following a zombie apocalypse.
Read more about that, as well as Romero’s thoughts on The Walking Dead and more, after the break. Read More »
Posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 by Angie Han
We bring nothing but good tidings in this edition of TV Bits, which is all about giving you more of shows you love. After the jump, read about:
- Renewals for Boardwalk Empire, Haven, and The Simpsons
- A webisode prequel to The Walking Dead
- Not one, but two new villains for Raylan Givens on Justified
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