The Walking Dead Premiere Shatters Records

The Walking Dead returned for Season 3 on AMC this past Sunday, October 14th. Was the zombie craze fading? Were vampires going to make a comeback? Not according to the numbers! The Walking Dead premiered to 10.9 million viewers, which makes it the most-watched episode of any drama series in basic cable history. Talk about awesome!

Not only did it shatter records, but it also garnered an additional 3.5 million viewers for the encore at 10 pm and an additional 850,000 at the midnight showing, giving The Walking Dead 15.2 million viewers for the opening night premiere. Incredible? We think so!

AMC President, Charlie Collier, released a statement:
"Thank you to the fans for making The Walking Dead such a tremendous success. We are honored and humbled that television's largest adult audience resides on AMC. So many people on both sides of the camera worked tirelessly on this project, and I thank and congratulate each of them for their amazing contribution."

With astounding numbers, AMC tried to accommodate DISH subscribers, who lost the privelege to watch The Walking Dead due to disputes between the two companies, but the live stream online crashed because so many people tried to stream it. All is well, as the episode should be online for those who missed it.

Make sure to tune in the episode two on Sunday, October 21st at 9 pm!

Source: EOnline

Get your braaaains....Walking Dead Food Truck

 

 

 

If you are walking the streets of London - alive or dead - you can now get a brain burger.  This new food truck has some specialty offerings to celebrate the DVD Release of The Walking Dead Season 2.

Masterminded by Street Kitchen chef Mark Jankel, The Gory Gourmet serves up dishes for "zombies on the go," including The Big Brain Burger made of English calf brains, Feet and Thyroid Nuggets (pig's feet and cow thyroid with herb mayo) and Skewered Hearts (grilled beef heart skewers with horseradish mayo). Perfect for post-apocalyptic foodies.  Just the thought of most of those noshes makes this breather want to go Vegan.

 

Hmm, I always heard that zombies hated fast food.  

Source: OC Weekley

Walking Dead Season 2 Premier Deleted Scene

I am having a bit of a hard time waiting for my Walking Dead Zombie Fix.  Yes, they just added the social media game to Facebook, but it's just not the same.

Entertainment Weekly says that everyone knows that instead of starting with Rick talking into his walkie-talkie and then the group being pretty much already out of Atlanta, the original plan for The Walking Dead’s season 2 premiere was to pick up just seconds after the CDC was blown to bits in the season 1 finale.  Hey, I forgot okay!?  That whole 'everyone's got it so let's blow up the CDC thing' freaked me out.

It could be that this little deleted scene tidbit will tie me over until season 3 and explain a few things I'd wondered about, such as whatever happened to the nursing home that Glen was held in?   Are they okay?  Who am I kidding?  Their fine, right?

More of the story will be revealed when The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season DVD and Blu-ray sets are released on August 28.  Until then, if you need a little extra zombie in your life, you can check out a sneak peak here.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Has the Zombie Apocalypse Begun?

This weekend in Miami police shot a naked man eating another naked man's face.  The attacker failed to cease and step away at the officer's request, the officer shot the attacker.  He continued to eat the other man, after he'd been shot.  Witnesses claim the policeman fired around six shots, before the attacker stopped.

The attacker was killed and the victim is in the hospital recovering.  The police are suggesting the cause might be cocaine psychosis, but even Tony Montana never tried to eat another person's face. However, the Miami police were ready to defend it's citizen's in a timely fashion.

This is a heartbreaking occurrence, one man is dead and the other gravely wounded. Our hearts go out to the man and his family.

 It may give zombie predictors and survivalists something to consider for a time to come.  Are they coming for you, Barbara?

 Source I09