There's a new glimpse of Rick Grimes' attempt to reach Hershel's Farm, which should commence in less than a month. Even if we only get six or seven episodes before The Walking Dead goes on hiatus until next year, that should be enough to get a taste of how things are going before the Darabont-less episodes hit early next year.
Also in minor news, it looks like another kerfuffle between AMC and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has been resolved in Weiner's favor. AMC apparently wanted to cut each episode of this upcoming season by two minutes to create more time for commercials to air, but it looks like Lionsgate and Weiner successfully fought back, with each episode this season being its normal 47 minutes. Originally they were supposed to be 45 minutes, with Weiner having the option to release 47-minute cuts on Netflix and DVD, but now they'll all be their normal length. As Slashfilm points out, the difference would've meant almost a half-episode difference over the entire season.
AMC's weird, man. They bend over backwards at any pressure from the Mad Men people, but fire Darabont after flying him out to Comic-Con to promote his show. Maybe things would be different had The Walking Dead brought them any of those precious, precious Emmys.
It's a painful wait for more Mad Men, but at least everything seems to be swinging in favour of the creative side.
AMC apparently wanted to cut each episode of this upcoming season by two minutes to create more time for commercials to air
AMC apparently wanted to create more time for commercials to air
AMC wanted more time for commercial
AMC wanted more commercials
money
Weiner should now pepper in two minutes worth of in-show advertising each episode just to be a dick.
Maybe it would have been better had the show not jumped the shark 4.5 episodes in.
hmm... I wasnt really digging the walking dead promo... they are showing the wrong parts of that show I feel.
AMC can do that to the Walking Dead becasue they actually own the show unlike Mad Men they are just paying a licensing fee for it and hope to make that fee up in advertising.
I've never really liked Mad Men defiantly like it more than Walking Dead but in the end Dead is the bitch in the relationship.
For a relatively young channel like AMC, ratings mean more than Emmys.
@skrutop said:
Now I really want to see Don Draper sell ipads.
@skrutop said:
I see what you did there.
After a kind of boring first season, I'm not that excited for this one. Especially with the budget issues and lack of Darabont.
DARYL DIXON BETTER NOT DIE
@Redbullet685 said:
Wow, that was actually completely unintentional. Freudian or something.
@skrutop: Hehehe, sure it was.