AMERICA WANTS TELEVISION WITH BRAINS: After last night's huge ratings for The Walking Dead, particularly among young viewers, I expect shows will be looking for ways to add zombies. Some are easy--Desperate Housewives becomes far more desperate when Mary Alice Young rises from her grave, hungry for flesh; Gossip Girl gets Blair Waldorf to fend off a newly zombified Dan Humphrey after Dorota brings her an old Louboutin which she uses to smash in his head; and I can already picture "Dr. Cristina Yang, bad-ass zombie fighter." Please provide your suggestions for how we can add more flesh eating to television.
ETA: Apparently, the correct answer is Zombieland: The Series, which I can actually get behind--the movie felt like a (very big) TV pilot in a lot of ways, setting up 4 characters for a long haul.
The Gossip Girl one isn't that far-fetched - have you seen the rebooted novel? http://www.amazon.com/Gossip-Psycho-Killer-Cecily-Ziegesar/dp/0316185094
ReplyDeleteThis would be a great way to bring Paul McCrane back to ER.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention Dr. Greene. Imagine him shambling towards Carter, while "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" plays.
ReplyDeleteWasn't that already an entire season of ER?
ReplyDeleteJust found this at hitfix:
ReplyDelete<span>Jim </span> Daniel is this show any good? Is it more like mad men or the killing? <span> Posted 10 minutes ago </span> Reply to Comment <span> P </span> Yes, it's exactly like Mad Men and The Killing, if they were entirely populated by flesh craving undead. <span> Posted 4 minutes ago </span>
There aren't many ways for Walter White to fall even further. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteYou know, have a zombie episode of Community could really help its ratings.... Oh, wait....
ReplyDeleteNever mind.
I'm not anti-zombie (as a mode of entertainment; I am against actual zombies), but I really hated the Community zombie episode.
ReplyDeleteMore zombies on TV would give zombie-fighter Michael Stipe something to do with all of his newly acquired free time.
ReplyDeleteTerra Nova- Zombie dinosaurs. Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteIt seems perfect for a reality t.v / American Gladiator type competition show. Zombie apocalypse teams compete against each other and, well, zombies. There is an all-star component built in because favorite contestants who lose will come back and play for the zombies.
ReplyDeleteBack from the days when my boys were obsessed with both dinosaurs and Plants vs. Zombies, I did a crayon zombie dinosaur and called it Z-Rex. It's still up on the fridge.
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Welcome back to The Sing-Off! Our next group is a collective of undead who put aside their lust for human flesh and came together for a chance at $200,000 and a Sony recording contract. Performing Michael Jackson's "Thriller," here's Braaaaaaaaaains!
ReplyDeleteBy the time Ted meets The Mother, they may both be dead.
ReplyDeleteJust give me all the brains you have.
Wait … wait.
I worry what you just heard was: Give me a lot of brains.
What I said was: Give me all the brains you have. Do you understand?
The director's commentary indicates that Zombieland was originally conceived as a TV series that eventually got made as a movie. I guess it is just going back to its roots.
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