ZOMBIES Pt 17: The Walking Dead & Zombie TV Shows
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
This week zombie head for the small screen. TV journalist and LOST BOYS podcaster Jacob Stolworthy joins Mike to discuss one of the most successful horror TV shows of all time, THE WALKING DEAD. Mike is then joined by Rob Watts to discuss the slew of other zombie shows that followed in it’s wake.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The Up until the last decade the idea of a long-running serialized horror genre TV show seemed |
| 0:26.4 | like a near impossibility. TV networks didn't want to take such a financial risk on a mainstream |
| 0:32.1 | television show that concerned itself with something so niche. |
| 0:37.0 | But on Halloween night in 2010, the TV landscape changed forever. |
| 0:48.0 | AMC networks aired the first episode of a new TV show about a band of survivors living in a zombie |
| 0:55.0 | apocalypse. |
| 0:58.0 | The show was based on a comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and it was developed for the small screen by filmmaker Frank Darabont. |
| 1:09.0 | This was epic, large-scale long-form horror storytelling, the likes of which we had never seen in |
| 1:16.2 | mainstream television before and at its peak it was watched by 17 million |
| 1:22.2 | viewers per week, |
| 1:23.7 | making it one of the most successful shows |
| 1:26.4 | in television history. |
| 1:28.6 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the zombie movie as we explore the |
| 1:36.6 | world of zombies on TV and delve deep into the Walking Dead. |
| 1:51.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you |
| 1:54.5 | tuning in for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and |
| 1:58.1 | dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomres |
| 2:01.9 | across several weeks. |
| 2:03.7 | We are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and this is part 17 |
| 2:10.1 | in which as the intro suggested this is going to be a TV zombie extravaganza. |
| 2:14.8 | The episode is going to be split into two halves. In the first half I'm going to be joined by my first |
| 2:19.1 | guest and we're going to be discussing all things the Walking Dead. We will be talking about the show in |
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