“The Walking Dead” Back in July!?
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 at 1:37 pm Category: Rumors, Television, TopSo- rumor has is that AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead may be coming back in July instead of October, according to Breaking Bad actor: Bryan Cranston.
In an offhand comment made during an interview with NYmag.com, he told the interviewer that Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead were all being pushed to July as a “sensible” way to get more viewers watching AMC shows over other networks.
It was a decision from AMC that they wanted to position us in July, along with Mad Men. And I believe they’re going to put Walking Dead in July as well. I think it’s just a sensible thing — they want to attract as many eyeballs as possible, away from the heavy competition of the September, November, January start.
If this is true in the least, I will applaud the foresight of AMC… you see, in my opinion- even though The Walking Dead is an amazing show- if they had waited an ENTIRE YEAR to bring it back- they would have lost viewers.
The first season was a measly 6 episodes long, and with the inundation of ALL the other shows on ALL the other networks, no matter the quality of the show- 6 episodes, then a FULL year’s wait could cause the average TV viewer to just forget it was there in the first place.
I mean- erratic scheduling makes me forget about shows like Psych and Eureka until about 3 or 4 months after the next season has already started, and I find myself in a long game of catch up… but then again, without an actual TV, I’m not your average television viewer…
And… I guess that the BBC does short series all the time and gets away with it… but they have a different culture of viewership over the pond…. Maybe I’m just really looking forward to Sunday evenings back at Brewvies…?
So am I right? Is making someone wait too long a bad thing…? Or do you believe that “absence makes the heart grow fonder”?
Responses to ““The Walking Dead” Back in July!?”
Yessssssssss!!!
I don’t care when, I just want more. July is sooner than October, so good for me, I guess.
Love it. How many times can u remake shows on the living dead? Lots if they r this well made. Can’t wait till the next season.
All I know is I loved watcing “Breaking Bad” but after the first season, like the article says, I lost track and forgot about it because the scheduling was irratic and there was too long of a wait between seasons. I also love how no days there are so many commercials on broadcast that if you DVR the shows and fast forward a 60min show turns in to 40min. WTF?
Yes i belive that the wait is to long after seening just six shows and then just left for a year to forget about what was going on leaves you finding other shows to watch. but time is need it to make a good show then so it be. there are not enuff good zombie movies or shows out there so when they put one out it needs to be very good.
Can’t wait for the next season, I love a good zombie film like Dawn of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, 28 days/weeks etc.. and I honoustly never thought they’d make a TV series about it but I had dreamed, lol. Is a great show, good actors, good plot hopefully season two will be as good as season one.
I just don’t want it to be rushed. It’s such a good show, and I’d hate to see it lose quality in favor of keeping people.
It had a huge viewership in it’s first run, without people even knowing what the series really was. They’ll wait a year.
On the other hand, I’d prefer to not wait if I had to. It’s an exciting show. Waiting one week between episodes is agonizing enough.
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