The Walking Dead

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AMC has announced a premiere date for new zombie drama The Walking Dead.

The series - based on the comic by writer Robert Kirkman - will debut on October 31st. Fox International Channels' worldwide launch will follow in the first week of November.

The show will air in 120 countries and will be dubbed into 33 different languages for the international launch.

“The Walking Dead is our first wholly-owned series, and we set out to make its global impact as big as possible," said AMC president Charlie Collier. "The characters Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd bring to life in the series transcend language and culture. With FIC, we found the perfect partner to bring these characters and their stories to global audiences in a big, big way."

FIC executive Sharon Tal Yguado added: “Considering the strong buzz and anticipation the show has already generated globally at this early stage, we wanted to make sure we launch it in the most powerful way possible. We are thrilled to be working with AMC on this worldwide zombie outbreak.”

Produced by Frank Darabont, The Walking Dead will star Andrew Lincoln and Sarah Wayne-Callies as survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

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Trailer

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http://walkingdead.fxuk.com/

Looks like FX UK will be showing it in November

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Rumours have emerged that AMC's Walking Dead is to get a second season.

A source on the crew has said that the drama will resume shooting in February 2011 for the next, 13-episode season, reports Fangoria.

An AMC representative downplayed the rumours, saying that a second season is yet to be confirmed.

Producer/director Frank Darabont has said that he would like a wintery setting for potential future episodes.

"It would be great not just to get out of the heat, but to present a different idea to the audience visually and tonally by having it be winter," he told Comic Book Movie.

"There's some really cool stuff that [writer Robert] Kirkman did, where they find the one zombie that's frozen to the ground. I'd never seen that before and that's really cool."

The adaptation of Kirkman's acclaimed comic series is scheduled to debut on Halloween.

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Hung star Thomas Jane has revealed that he is keen to make a guest appearance on forthcoming AMC zombie drama The Walking Dead.

He told NBC Washington that he had been discussing a possible role with showrunner Frank Darabont.

"That show is going to be a big f**king hit," he insisted. "I've seen it and it is fantastic."

Jane explained that he had been in talks to play a lead role in the programme when it was still in development with HBO.

He said: "I'm going to come on and do a guest thing [now]. Maybe play a bad guy."

However, he insisted that he would not make a cameo as one of the walking dead.

"I'm not going to be a zombie," he confirmed. "That's too much make-up."

The Walking Dead will premiere on October 31 on AMC.

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The television debut of The Walking Dead has broken AMC ratings records.

The pilot episode 'Days Gone Bye' aired in the US on Halloween with 5.3 million viewers, making it the most watched programme in the channel's history, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

It also had the largest audience of any cable network debut this year.

The Walking Dead is based on the Image Comics series of the same name and stars Andrew Lincoln.

The show airs in the US on Sundays on AMC, and begins in the UK on November 5 on FX.

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AMC announced today the renewal of The Walking Dead for a 13-episode second season. Since debuting Sun., Oct. 31, The Walking Dead has broken ratings records, with the series reaching more Adults 18 to 49 than any other show in the history of cable television.

Today's announcement also includes Fox International Channels' (FIC) global renewal for a second season, following record-breaking premiere ratings in 120 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. The Walking Dead was the highest-rated original series premiere ever to air on FIC simultaneously worldwide.

"The Dead has spread!" said Charlie Collier, President, AMC. "No other cable series has ever attracted as many Adults 18-49 as The Walking Dead. This reaffirms viewers' hunger for premium television on basic cable. We are so proud to be bringing back The Dead again, across the globe."

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Outdoor advertising firm Clear Channel has issued an apology after it erected a billboard for a TV show called the Walking Dead on the side of a funeral parlour wall.

Channel 5 are currently promoting the UK run of the hit US show which dramatises the lives of a handful of survivors battling against hordes of the undead.

It was the dead, dead which proved too much however and the eyebrow raising ad has now been supplanted for a less controversial poster.

The “unfortunate juxtaposition” saw survivors of a zombie apocalypse plastered over the side of a Co-operative Funeral care centre in Consett, County Durham.

A spokesperson for Clear Channel said: "Clear Channel apologises for any offence caused by the unfortunate juxtaposition of this advertisement, which was certainly not intended," she said.

"We arranged to have it moved right away and it has now come down."

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The Walking Dead will live on for yet another year.

The US-based AMC network said its hit zombie drama, just two weeks into a second season, will be returning for a third season.

Based on the popular comic book of the same name, the show - which airs in the UK on the FX channel - depicts the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse confronted by a group of survivors outside Atlanta.

Its cast includes British star Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal and Sarah Wayne Callies.


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Robert Kirkman has said a major character death in The Walking Dead has been planned since the very early days of the show.

The AMC show's creator was reflecting on the latest episode to air in the US, which focused on the death of Shane (Jon Bernthal).

"We knew that [Shane] was going to die before we cast Jon Bernthal," Kirkman told The Hollywood Reporter. "If the first season had been 13 episodes instead of six, Shane's story would have been told all in that first season; it would have been much like the comic book where Shane dies at the end of the first volume.

"We knew from day one when we sat down in the writers' room to pull out the second season that this was going to be the season that Shane died. It was always about working toward that and building up that character and setting up this confrontation between Rick and Shane."

Saying that he hoped too many people weren't spoiled by the leak of Shane's exit on an advert for the show's Blu-ray release, Kirkman added: "If my Twitter feed was any indication after Dale died, none of those spoilers reached most people. So, I feel like there are still some surprises left for most people watching the show."

Kirkman further explained that a key question about Shane's death - why the character came back to life as a zombie without apparently having been bitten - will be explained soon.

"[It's] something that we connected through the Jenner whisper secret and is something that is going to be revealed in the next episode," he said.

The Walking Dead's second season concludes next Sunday (March 18) at 9/8c on AMC.