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JAN
14
4 MOS

Scott Gimple Tapped as New 'Walking Dead' Showrunner

Scott Gimple Tapped as New 'Walking Dead' Showrunner

AMC's The Walking Dead has found its third showrunner.

Executive producer Scott Gimple will become the zombie drama's new showrunner, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Gimple replaces season three showrunner Glen Mazzara, who cited creative differences with the drama and departed the series in late December.

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JAN
9
4 MOS

FX Boss John Landgraf on AMC's 'Walking Dead' Saga: 'We've Never Fired a Showrunner'

FX Boss John Landgraf on AMC's 'Walking Dead' Saga: 'We've Never Fired a Showrunner'

FX Networks president John Landgraf was back Wednesday for his semi-annual master class in television.

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JAN
9
4 MOS

PaleyFest Fills Out Lineup With 'Walking Dead,' 'Community' and 'Arrow'

PaleyFest Fills Out Lineup With 'Walking Dead,' 'Community' and 'Arrow'

This year's PaleyFest has rounded out its lineup, adding heavyweights The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory to its 30th annual TV festival.

Other shows to be featured during March 1-15 fest include Community for the fourth straight year (they will present a live table read), Dallas, 2 Broke Girls, Parenthood, New Girl and rookies The Mindy Project, Nashville and Arrow. It was previously announced that Revolution, Once Upon a Time, The Newsroom, The New Normal and American Horror Story: Asylum would be feted.

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JAN
9
4 MOS

'Walking Dead': The Governor Has His Eye on Rick in New Season 3 Art

'Walking Dead': The Governor Has His Eye on Rick in New Season 3 Art

It's "an eye for an eye" on The Walking Dead.

AMC on Wednesday released new key art for the back half of the zombie drama, pitting David Morrissey's the Governor against Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) emotionally defeated leader.

PHOTOS: 'The Walking Dead's' Most Shocking Deaths

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JAN
4
4 MOS

'Walking Dead' No. 106 Preview (Exclusive)

'Walking Dead' No. 106 Preview (Exclusive)

Turns out The Saviors have a code of their own.

In last month's The Walking Dead No. 105, Negan reveals that his community of "Saviors" lives by a system of twisted rules that includes points and multiple wives -- and a brutal torture for their betrayal that explains just what happened to Dwight's face.

PHOTOS: 'The Walking Dead's' Most Shocking Deaths

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DEC
21
5 MOS

Kurt Sutter, Shawn Ryan Blast AMC Over 'Walking Dead' Showrunner Exit

Kurt Sutter, Shawn Ryan Blast AMC Over 'Walking Dead' Showrunner Exit

Former Shield writers/exec producers Kurt Sutter and Shawn Ryan took to Twitter on Friday to voice their support for friend and former colleague Glen Mazzara after the showrunner parted ways with AMC's The Walking Dead.

AMC on Friday announced that its ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead would return for a fourth season -- and without Mazzara, who became the second showrunner to exit the zombie drama in as many years.

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DEC
21
5 MOS

AMC Renews 'The Walking Dead' for Fourth Season; Showrunner Glen Mazzara Departing

AMC Renews 'The Walking Dead' for Fourth Season; Showrunner Glen Mazzara Departing

AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a fourth season -- without showrunner Glen Mazzara, who has parted ways with cable's top series.

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DEC
14
5 MOS

AMC to Air 'Walking Dead' in Black and White to Boost Unscripted Block

AMC to Air 'Walking Dead' in Black and White to Boost Unscripted Block

AMC is looking to give its upcoming Thursday night unscripted block a push from the dead.

The cable network will air early episodes of ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead in black and white starting Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m. with the first two episodes of the zombie drama.

PHOTOS: 'The Walking Dead's' Most Shocking Deaths

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DEC
13
5 MOS

Watchdog Group Blasts Violence on AMC's 'Walking Dead'

Watchdog Group Blasts Violence on AMC's 'Walking Dead'

After taking aim at Howard Stern and NBC's short-lived The Playboy Club, watchdog group the Parents Television Council has found a new target: AMC's The Walking Dead.

The group, a nonpartisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment, has called on the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board to change the zombie drama's TV-14 "misrating," calling out the "hundreds" of scenes of "grisly murder" both of the living and undead featured on the ratings behemoth.

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DEC
7
5 MOS

'Walking Dead' No. 105 Preview (Exclusive)

'Walking Dead' No. 105 Preview (Exclusive)

AMC's The Walking Dead may be on hiatus until February, but the comic series on which the TV drama is based continues to up the ante in issue No. 105.

PHOTOS: The 'Dead' and the Red: 'The Walking Dead Cast in Character and on the Red Carpet

After Carl attempted to take on Glenn's killer, Negan finds the child soldier and leads him into the dark shelter underbelly of the Hilltop community, exchanging threats and expletives along the way.

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DEC
3
5 MOS

'Walking Dead' Season 3 Midseason Finale Scores Whopping 10.5 Million Viewers

'Walking Dead' Season 3 Midseason Finale Scores Whopping 10.5 Million Viewers

AMC's The Walking Dead continues to solidify its place as the season's best-performing series in the key adults 18-49 demographic.

Sunday's midseason finale collected 10.5 million total viewers in its initial broadcast at 9 p.m., slightly less than October's third-season premiere but up 58 percent compared with season two's midseason finale. 

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DEC
3
5 MOS

'Walking Dead's' Chad Coleman on Tyreese: 'It's Going to be a Fun Ride'

'Walking Dead's' Chad Coleman on Tyreese: 'It's Going to be a Fun Ride'

AMC's The Walking Dead introduced a long-awaited fan favorite Sunday in Tyreese, a former football pro who stumbles onto the prison where Rick and his group have set up shop.

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DEC
2
5 MOS

'The Walking Dead': Meet Tyreese's Group

'The Walking Dead': Meet Tyreese's Group

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Sunday's Walking Dead midseason finale and the comic series the drama is based on.]

Sunday's midseason finale of AMC's The Walking Dead marked the debut of comic book fan favorite Tyreese, who fled to safety at the prison, where Carl rescued them from a walker attack and led them to safety -- and subsequently locked them up in a cell of their own.

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DEC
2
5 MOS

'Walking Dead' Dissection: Glen Mazzara, Robert Kirkman Talk Epic Confrontations and What's Next

'Walking Dead' Dissection: Glen Mazzara, Robert Kirkman Talk Epic Confrontations and What's Next

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Sunday's midseason finale "Made to Suffer" episode of AMC's The Walking Dead and the Image comics the series is based on.]

Confrontations were the order of business on Sunday's season three midseason finale of AMC's The Walking Dead when Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Oscar crossed into the Governor-controlled paradise of Woodbury.

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