Anyone else looking forward to this? The scene in the trailer where they are hiding under cars made me shiver a bit.

Yay – this was great series – when does it start on Council tele ??

Can’t wait, the first series was brilliant. I watched the whole thing one evening and it was one of the best tv shows I have ever seen.

Im a fan of the graphic novel series and I enjoyed the first series of The Walking Dead and didnt mind that it strayed from the graphic novel (tv shows have to really).
As for the second series, Im looking forward to it but also a bit aprehensive since pretty much all the writers from the first series including Frank Darabont (who writes the graphic novels) were fired by AMC.
Fingers crossed it will still be good though.

whens it back on then?

Can’t wait for the 16th/17th October! US showtime btw.

I liked season 1 but I thought it got a bit worse each episode. The first two eps I thought were great but it got boring after that. Trailers are making S2 look good and exciting though but that’s sort of the point I guess 😛

Series 2, 21st Oct on FX, I think ?

Er, Frank Darabont doesn’t write the comics, that’s Robert Kirkman. Frank Darabont wrote the script for The Shawshank Redemption, amongst other things. He didn’t write all of the first season, I think he was involved in four episodes. He also directed one. I believe he’s still involved with the writing in the second, but he’s being less involved with the production.

Kirkman is still an executive producer.

Yeah sorry flyingmonkeycorps you are right, I got my names mixed up. Shouldn’t post before I have finished breakfast.
I thought both Kirkman and Darabont had left the show? I haven’t checked news on the show in a good few months, I guess I should have a quick double check.

As far as I know they’re both still involved – I’m pretty sure Kirkman is still executive producing, but reports on Darabont vary.

If Kirkman leaves I think I’ll lose interest!

Couldn’t believe the first series was so short. Still pretty good though.

Friday October 21st. 10:00 pm.

have you seen “dead set” by charlie brooker?

yes thanks

Yup. It was quite good.

Can’t wait!

Apparently the family living in the farm house (from the graphic novels) are in the second season. Should make good viewing 🙂

Bugger we are digital only in my town and they only broadcast the mainstream channels even from the free to air ones, don’t get FX (or ITV4, FiveUS). And I’m too mean to pay for Sky, most of it if trash and football. Guess I’ll have to wait, or watch it on computer.

Cheers for the reminder. Proper looking forward to this one.

so any idea when this will be on C5 then?

Looking forward to series 2. Horror films are not really my bag but I enjoyed the first series.

To get you in the mood there’s some Walking Dead Webispodes coming later today up on the FX website

They are on Youtube as well as they are already out in the US but the quality is a bit ropey

Nope.

Series One was ****’ dull.

watching episode 1 now……. the car bit

Was that a Philips or flat blade screwdriver? 😉

They’re all just so bloody stupid, it’s like they’ve never seen zombies on’t telly before.

“If I start screaming, and run into they crowd of zombies with no guns or other weapons, what’s the worst that could happen…?”

Saw it the other night. Not a bad start, but the whole thing with the police chap’s mate and his wife was always going to be a problem.

And what the hell is with their shit choice of vehicles??? Discussion at work hinges around finding something large and strong, then welding stuff to it to make it zombie-prof, then going for a nice drive through the zombie hordes. Maybe a nice luxury coach would do that job. With a snowplough on the front.

re. vechicles – from my experience (of watching various zombie films) it seems that cars/vans/school buses/tankers etc are all liabilities. There is a constant danger of losing momentum and becoming trapped, especial in tight urban environments. The best option is obvious flying, but not many people can fly planes/helicopters. I reckon i’d head to water and find a boat. Canals would be dangerous with their hard tow paths (allowing zombies an easy way to not only continue their pursuit of you, but also offer a platform for the more athletic living dead who can jump a bit) and relatively narrow width, but get on a big river, around harbours and on the coastline you’d be laughing. Plus you’d not have to worry about running out of fuel with sails as backup.

Get em all on mountain bikes.
What tires would give the best grip for escaping the living dead, I reckon maxxis minions?