Monday, November 11, 2013

Zombies are Featured TV Characters

AMC’s The Walking Dead has key ratings better than network dramas. The show gets desirable young viewers by not skimping on explicit action, gore or storytelling. So why haven’t the networks tried to imitate the show? Blame the FCC, which cracks down on explicit network broadcast content but overlooks cable
But perhaps not the young audience that commercial networks and cable crave, for them there is “The Walking Dead.”

NPR’s TV critic Eric Deggans says this flesh-eating zombie fest looks like the future of television.

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