Television

AMC's The Walking Dead continues to be an unstoppable ratings juggernaut — last night's premiere of season 3.5 debuted with even higher ratings than the full season premiere in October:

News reports are circulating that the Siegel and Shuster heirs have asked the lower court to dismiss DC's copyright lawsuits. What actually happened is...

If you somehow didn’t know it already, then this is breaking news for you: this year marks the 50th anniversary of the longest running...

In case you missed last night's PBS documentary on Superheroes, you can watch it above—or at this link if the embed isn't working. The program includes Wizard World all-star festival of folks like Lou Ferrigno, Burt Ward, Adam West and Lynda Carter talking about playing superheroes. They are all veteran charmers, and when we have a spare 53 minutes, we plan on watching the whole thing. A supporting webpage has background and stills—such as the above one of Julie Newmar as Catwoman—and some extra videos.

Pilot season is upon us in Hollywood, and Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's acclaimed THE SIXTH GUN has gotten a pilot order at NBC with Carlton Cuse (Lost) on board to produce.

Following almost as much life-or-death drama behind the scenes as in the zombie-haunted woods of Georgia, The Walking Dead has named a new show runner, Scott Gimple, who takes over with season four from Glen Mazzara, who departed under strained circumstance sat the end of last month. Gimple served as Mazarra's #2 guy for most of the last season, so he's already been in the mix.

We didn't watch last night's hilarious "Women go to a comics shop" episode of Big Bang Theory, but Scott Johnson did so we wouldn't have to and the results sound quite ghastly:

As one of the fruits of their huge Kickstarter campaign, the Penny Arcade folks have made Strip Search! which may finally be the comics competition TV show people have been expecting/dreading for a while. While the above link is a bit light on details, basically a bunch of webcomickers are thrown into a Seattle house and compete to draw the best comics. The contestants:

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 Spoilers, I said, spoilers! As you may recall, in the last episode of the first half of the Walking Dead's third season ALL HELL...

If you follow the television biz at all, you know that AMC's management has a tendency towards... shall we say, an overly active hand...

The arrival of this Comic Book Men recap reminded us of something from long long ago and the time known as 2011. Back...

On November 16th, a one day conference held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage brought out the best and brightest in Television to talk...