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AMC’s Walking Dead Shambles Closer to Actually Happening
AMC’s Walking Dead Shambles Closer to Actually Happening
By Rob Bricken
January 21, 2010
Comics, TV
?It’s a bit of a slow news day, so forgive me for reporting something good but not particularly needing a lot of in-depth analysis — AMC has officially ordered a pilot of that Walking Dead series it had been thinking about. Director Frank Darabont apparently wrote the script based on the Robert Kirkman comics, and if all goes well, we’ll have the Walking Dead on a weekly basis later this year or early next. That’s it, really. We’re getting at least one episode of a Walking Dead TV show. Not bad. Cross your fingers.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.