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Adapted from my favourite GRAPHIC NOVEL.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2699888921/

its on FX in November ,I love Zombie stuff.

Excellent, I was concerned we'd have to wait a year or something to get it over here. Absolutely love the books. Judging by the two trailers they seem to be staying true to the books aswell, recognised so many of those scenes as they were in the books.

cant wait for this

COMIC

http://thetownend.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=40996.0;attach=2106

Ah the classic ignorance of your average Swindonian.

All pisstaking aside I saw a preview thingy of US shows coming to the UK in the autumn and was gutted when I saw WD wasn't on terrestrial, it does look good, comic or not

you mean graphic novel, yes?

good lord that looks amazing

It will be incredible. Most of the scenes in the trailers look like they've been lifted shot for shot from the books. If you read them you'll see what I mean, me and my mate both remarked that it was like looking over storyboards for a TV show...

hahahahaha "mate" !!!

Pull the other one, comic boy.

Ooooh looks like we got a right 'comic' on our hands here!

lolzord!

Is this the one with the BAsh Street Kids in it?

No mate. Spiderman. Dave Spiderman. It's a bit boring really. He just works in an office.

jayohaitchenn likes this :)

watched the first episode last night. This is going to be soooo good.

Andrew Lincoln?

I thought he'dsuddnely disappeared from providing the ovice-overs for every other BBC documentary all of a sudden.

5th if anyone is intereste

The only bad part is it means that Dexter series 4 has come to an end :(

Yep have made sure I'm not working next Friday night. Zombie fest I reckon :D

I can't wait till later in the series, if this is like the books - stick with it - because it's gonna get twisted later on.

It's already on megavideo, and you can find it through videosurf or some such, now ninja video has been taken down.

I listened to an interview about this on 5live a month or so ago, and just watched the trailer. Looks fucking mint! And its got wotsherface from prison break in it, she's purdy!

So this was pretty awesome.

It was brilliant, but was it me or did it not have any adverts in it.

No ads in that one. Was well chuffed with that, but I'd imagine they'll bring them in from now on.

I concur, that was good last night.

It's repeated to tomorrow night on FX if anyones forgotten about it.

this is so ace,its double ace!

Not a great fan of scary shit...my wife loves it and i found myself strangely drawn to it.

Totally agree. Great stuff. Andrew Lincoln even makes a half decent yank.

Yeah it's been very good so far. There's only 2 episodes left... I dunno if it's a break in series, or end of series, but in the last show <MINOR SPOILER> they alluded to a possible cure in the reel for next weeks episode.

Hopefully they'll just get their hopes up before someone else is ruthlessly picked off and the series is left on a cliff hanger... Because there is so much more that can be done!

There's only 6 episodes in the first season, think they're being shown here about the same time as in the US.

Another 13 episodes coming next year.

Saweeeeeeeeeet.

Coming to Ch 5 next year for those who don't have Sky/cable and who haven't already torrented it :)

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/12/10/channel_five_walking_dead/

Just been getting on this. Got through the first three last night. Cracking stuff.

I'm sure there's hundreds of little references in it that I don't get, I'm not as good on my zombie films as I should be, but I'm a sucker for the Triffid style waking up in a hospital opener so I was sold pretty quick.

Definitely the most promising new tv series I've seen since Sherlock, but if it hadn't been for that we'd be going back much further.

Although I'm reminded now why I often wait several series before getting into shows. How fucking long am I going to have to wait for series 2 once I've finished burning through the rest of the series this afternoon? (May have been mentioned in the thread already but I'm weary of looking back because of potential spoilers )

Series 2 is showing early next year, march or april i think according to the fox website, they have filmed about 80% of the second series.

I heard it's not until October next year?? Would much rather it were your suggestion, jutty.

I believe it is October for terristal tele proberbly channel 5.

Wikipedia says they're starting the writing process early next year with an October 2011 air date expected.

it links here as the source http://insidetv.ew.com/2010/12/03/walking-dead-darabont-hurd-writers/ but I haven't had a chance to read because the apprentice is starting.

Finally got round to watching the first episode of this last night. Seems like good stuff, I'll probably get through the series by the end of the week.

Its an AMC show and as far as I know it'll start next September/October when most new season TV starts in the US. They're still writing it too, not filming as there were rumours that Frank Darabont fired the whole writing staff.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2010/12/03/walking-dead-darabont-hurd-writers/ (http://insidetv.ew.com/2010/12/03/walking-dead-darabont-hurd-writers/)

New series on Friday :D:D:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZ0mu8Ey6A

Good looking forward to it.

Although not the greatest show i have watched, and is a little slow, its still entertaining.

Anyway i will have to watch it now because im hooked.

Whats peoples best ever American television series? For me it's Lost.

Arrested Development.

/discussion

24 for me.

You saw the "ending" yeah? You saw "all your questions answered"? Lost was superb until they writers realised they couldn't answer any of the questions they'd created and finished it by saying, "Yeah, we made it all up to make good money from Advertisements. There never was a story, just loads of disparate elements and no conclusion worth waiting for." I only wish I'd never wasted a second on that shit. :D

X-Files. No question.

24 was OK, just far too long and drawn out.
Watched season one of The Walking Dead, and thought it was a bit shit to be honest.

The Wire.

No hesitation on that question!

Too many American TV series to come up with one.

How do you compare The Red Hand Gang, A-Team, Knight Rider, Frasier, South Park, Simpsons, Star Trek, etc etc and come up with one answer.

I love zombies.

Easy, the answer is Seinfeld.  :)

And the Fonz years back was a real good program......Fonzerelli ;D

Lost was too long and confusing at times. I thought Alias was the best thing JJ Abrams did, even though I am enjoying Fringe.

Yeah i agree with you slightly on the fact they did not answer all the questions, however as far as i was concerned they answered enough.
However the ending was a bit shit i have to say but it kinda worked.
For me, i just loved the concept of the show, and i could sit through and  watch it all again no probs.

As for other American shows none really interest me that much, certainly not to the levels Lost had me hooked.

Dexter - Simple

So the 2nd series has reached the mid season break. Any of you been watching?

It's been slow in places but it's definitely one of the best dramas on TV at the moment.

Glad that the Sofia story arc has been concluded as that has been going on since ep 1. Shame has become a crazed individual but perhaps also the most realistic. He's done a couple of nasty things but if he hadn't then Carl would have probably died.

It'll be interesting to see where they head now seeing as I doubt they'll be staying at the farm any longer. If it's anything like the books I have a good idea of what's up next but with Shane still being in the show perhaps they'll take things in a slightly different direction.

Anyway, hurry the fuck up February.

I really like how the characters have developed over this series, I can't wait until february. But at least we don't have to wait until october to find out whats going to happen.

Ive heard there killing off someone who didnt die in the novel. Ive never read em myself so havnt a clue but love the show

Conversely I've found it largely as dull as ditch-water (or is that dishwater).

The slow pace has been too slow for me. I completely understand that all on action every week is going to be equally boring and short lived. But I've found I largely don't care about the characters.

This has a knock on effect. Instead of thinking "oh no will Rick's son live" for three episodes, I'm hoping he'll hurray up and die so we can move on. Same with missing kid. God I can't even remember their names.

Its not like I don't like characterisations in general. Take the Battlestar Galactica remake. Now that had a good amount of action but also a superb amount of character development too. At times it was pure drama that happened to be set in space. And it worked, although I admit it went downhill a bit towards a rubbish ending. But that is how to make some of the finest TV around.

What  we have with Walking Dead is the zombie equivalent of neighbours. In fact the parts I really enjoyed were SPOILERS, tried to disguise (highlight to reveal):

1.  Shane Shhoting Otis
2.  The Well scene
3.  Shane challenging Rick's authority, then Rick shooting girlie zombie right at the end.

So I hope they leave the farm soon and get focused on survival/cure/some other long term goal.

battlestar galactica is beinh remade based on the older version

Really, where did you hear that?!

there working on a film and also working on a series

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=48638

this one for the series
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/scifimediazone/news/?a=24340

Cheers, hadn't heard about the film.

The Blood and Chrome series has kind of been canned. Well downgraded to a few webisodes anyway.

I think the reason why there's been such a huge lull in WD is because they've already got series 3 in the pipeline and so much source material beyond that as well. Although I do get the impression the 2nd half is going to pick up the pace a bit. Watch out for 'The Governor'...

Only just got into this after a mate banged on about it for ages. I'm 2 episodes into series 2, how many left til I catch up with the mid-season break?

There are 7 episode total before the break, so 5 to go (hark at Vorderman).

Back tonight on FX at 10:10!!

For those that are  interested there is an interactive App (iPhone only) that you can use along side the programme

The lead actor Andrew Lincoln lives round here too, always in Waitrose in Cirencester.

That explains why he was at Empire the other week!

Hope this is better than the last series, which was uber boring.

Hope also that the farmer bloke is not in it. I've known carrots to have more personality.

He will be for this return to the 2nd series but I can see them moving off by the end of the episode. Been reading up on it and it sounds like it's going to be an absolute gore-fest.

'Twas very boring. I had to force myself to watch it rather than delete it from my Sky planner.

I don't know if I can bring myself to watch it if that old farmer guy is still in it.

If he's in it for more than this or maybe the first 2, I'd be absolutely stunned.

Have just ordered series 1 on DVD. Any series with an old Farmer guy in it is good for me.

He's not in it til series 2 I'm afraid :D

if it stays true to the comics erm Graphic Novel we are in for a proper gorefest in the coming episodes

Death Valley is a good comedy alternative, absolutely quality !

Just watched latest ep,still a bit meh

Someone gave me duff info, I guess it'll still have it's usual Friday slot.

Yup, yesterday's on FX was the last ep in the first half of season 2, first new ep is Friday 10pm on FX.

Just watched it. Decent..

Only 2 animate Zombies in the whole episode,just not good enough.

Ep10 was good.

Was that the bar/getting back to the farm one? Quite liked that one.

No that was 9. Got 10 lined up and buffering atm.

That was decent! I think we're going to have some losses soon.

its getting good now, watched 9 at the weekend, got 10 to watch sometime this week.

the first episode was just like the first few comics but now they have seemed to move away from the novels onto there own story.

shane is still around, but in the novel he was killed when the camp site was attacked, darryl and merl wasnt even in the novel nor was t-dogg

Carl killed Shane before the camp got attacked! When he lines Rick up in his sights in the woods.

thats in the first vol yes?

Yeah man, real early. Kind of glad they've kept him so far, nasty bastard he is!

I like the fact that they're now conserving bullets and using the knives more.  Bound to end a bit bitey for someone.

just watched episode 11 yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

12 and 13. Good lord.

I'm enjopying it again since the mid season break. Only up to ep 11, I won't say what happened but thank goodness for that ending :)

Is that a good "good lord" or a bad "good lord" benzel?

I'm starting to lose patience with this to be honest. To say they're milking it for all it's worth is an understatement, I wish they'd just get on with it. It's as slow as Lost. Almost.

Oh it's a good one!

Are they showing the second season on 5 again?

I am skyless at the moment.

How have you seen 13?  13's the last in the series, right? 

12 was good and you can tell from the adverts for the last one that it's going to be immense.  One thing that's keeping me interested is knowing that however they finish this show it sure as hell isn't going to have a happy-ending.

Just download the torrents instead, usually available on Monday mornings.

next episode is on tommorrow in the states i usually get the episode about 14hours after it airs. using tribler to get my torrents

just watched ep 12, my work, its turning out to be a good season.

Just watched the first episode.

It's good I like it.

Now onto Episode 2!
Who needs sleep?

Edit - Seems now of the websites I use are working! I'll have to watch episode 2 another time!

Just watched ep13 the finale,huge walker count  and left some good unanswered questions.Looking forward to Season 3 in the Autumn

Managed to find a video site to work.

Just finished Episode 3 of Series 1.

My new favourite show!

Just watched ep 12. Shame he's gone, one of the more interesting characters,

Ooops, got my numbers mixed up. Thought there were 14 episodes!

Will probably crack and watch the last one online after work today. Looks like we're in for a hell of a finish. I think Lori is gonna snuff it, just to make things that little bit worse for Rick.

Rick, Carl, Daryl, Glen, Hershal, Andrea will survive imo, maybe a couple of others but most of them are going to get killed.

Just watched the final episode.  Not as exciting as I'd hoped. 

Shame really.

Character confirmed for series 3 :D

http://i.imgur.com/E54oL.jpg

was a bit of an anti climax of a finale in my opinion

That character fills me with hope that they know how poor the series has been, and are trying to fix it.

i guess watching the series is different for people like me who have not read the comics, to those who have, but that character looks interesting

found this too
http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2012/03/danai-gurira-cast-as-michonne.php?ref=nf

Just finished series one, didn't realise it was so short!

Such a good last ep,

Gonna move on to Series 2 tomorrow!

Here's the trailer for season 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShQz68Zkb3Y

awesome, love the last clip

That looks like its going to be a good 3rd season of TWD, can't wait  :)

Looks better than S2.  1 was great, in the city etc. but 2 was boring for the majority of the series IMO.  Getting back to civilisation for S3 could pick it back up again.

Agreed, looks very promising indeed. Loving that David Morrisey is in it too.

Finding myself agreeing with the majority - series 2 was slow, and definitely lacked the punch and excitement of series 1. I read the books ages ago but don't remember most of what I've seen in the series, only really remember the prison so am going to have to find a way to re-read them.

It all goes fucking mental in the books after the prison. The end of the prison was brutal too.

If that cunting old farmer dies I might just be able to bring myself to watch the next series. The last series was dire.

Its back soon

There's an online Zombie film festival to celebrate it  :toocool:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Welcome-Back-the-Dead-Film-Festival/141724889304180

I hope it's a vast improvement on the last series.

It got better as it went on

dont have time to filter through posts but am i the only one who thought season 2 went alrite??? anyway anyone know when season 3 is out

Series 2 was slow, I personally felt it just bumbled along, the last three episodes were great. I think series 3 will start around the end of September

Pretty sure the next series starts in early October.

... in the States, probably early next year for us.

Its starts on October 14 in the states

If you watch US TV shows according to when they're shown on British TV, in this day and age, you are a mug.

Maybe he has a dial up connection?

Connection issues aside, obvs

Absolutely. Every episode is available within hours of airing in the US so no excuses.

It'll be the Friday after its out in the USA for all the mugs out there.

Series 2 was great, this one is going to be infinitely better.

So sad acts who can't wait to watch a TV programme aren't mugs? I'll watch it when it comes on FX, but I'm not desperate.

Meh, if you're happy to wait that's your perogative. But I've known people to whinge about the delay between American and British Air dates, when they can be watching the show online in less than 5 minutes.

They need to get out of their bedrooms.

I wasn't being entirely serious. I'd rather watch it in HD and surround sound than some crappy picture on my laptop.

Totally agree.

I download mine in 720p quality and watch in through my blu ray player in all its glory 5 months early  :D new season's of boardwalk empire supernatural and walking dead.

Forgot to mention the best part....no crappy adverts.

For anyone that is interested the new webisodes are up

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/TheAlexLynch/news/?a=68055

Nice one man, will be watching that shiz later. You seen the Bicycle Girl ones?

Couldn't get them on that link but they work here

http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/10/the-walking-dead-cold-storage-webisode.html

Yes i've seen those ones pretty good how it went together with the first episode of walking dead.

First episode was friggin magnificent.

Bloody hell,first episode was totally watch through your fingers stuff.

Also after having a PS3 for 5 ish years ive finally twigged that I can watch downloaded stuff on it..ha

currently buffering episode one. hoping for good things!

What a cracking opening to series 3, this series looks like its going to be ace and gory. I cannot wait until next week for episode 2, what a cliff hanger to end it on as well. I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it.

That's it then, Rick has completely snapped.

Just watched the first three episodes of series 3. I got a bit bored during the last series, but I'm really enjoying this one so far.

Episode 4 made me cry.

Yup me too, and they have really expanded the plot too with blondie and the walker walker (don't want to put too many spoilers here!).

Been ace this season so far.


See what you mean about this weeks episode too.

Very nearly had me as well.