When did you stop? You're missing out, since i'd say this season showed losing Darabont wasn't a big loss at all.

Which is pretty stupid, since all of them should have been at least somewhat familiar with the comics and their characters enough to know that not everyone would last.

Mike doesn't watch anything not called Dexter.

So does Evan T. Reilly get promoted to showrunner now, or do you think they'll bring in someone new?

Hopefully, it's him.

I would support promoting him instead of hiring someone from the outside. He's a co-executive producer and has written a good number of episodes. He also worked on Rescue Me as a writer/producer.

Another horrible move by AMC, as Glen had turned The Walking Dead into an actually compelling show and not coasting off the sheer appeal of the zombie apocalypse. Please, this move was nothing more than about money. Glen will get better offers from other networks now to be a showrunner. AMC is notoriously cheap to their talent unless it's Mad Men.

AMC, the dumbest and luckiest network executives in the business.

I say they go a completely different direction and hire Russell T Davies.

Just as long as they don't hire Tim Kring or Brandon Braga.

What's Tim Minear doing right now?

Darabont leaving was the best thing to happen to the show. His pacing was too slow, and he was going to veer from the storylines even further.

Not a bad choice. Shawn Ryan might be looking for a new gig since his submarine show sank.

Tim Kring!



















should NOT be called.

Maybe my prayers that this show will wither and die have been heard, if only slightly.

That would be a good choice.

AMC really needs to start fostering some goodwill with their show runners before they start scaring away all the talent.

Show us on the doll where the show touched you.

They're going to have to promote from within, AMC is quickly becoming the diseased whore that no one wants to sleep with. Unless your name is Veena Sud, they despise you.

Be happy that AMC doesn't own Breaking Bad or Mad Men.

Shawn Ryan is under contract with Sony Pictures. He's writing and producing the Beverly Hills Cop Pilot for CBS. Ryan today criticized AMC on his Twitter feed. Unlikely he will ever want to do business with them.

Tim Minear is Executive Producer and writer for American Horror Story.

Tim Kring is show runner for Touch on Fox.

Ron Moore is also under contract at Sony. He's developing a Pilot for next season.

Not too many known genre writers/show runners floating around right now.

I just think that Kirkmans a ****. I'll just leave it at that, k?

I think the improvement of the show comes down to the quality of the writing being drastically better. More so than anything Darabount was or wasnt doing. For all the credit Mazzara is getting for Season 3 he was also at the helm for Season 2 which certainly wasnt as good as the 1st season.

You know who would be good for this show. Josh Friedman who did Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

The first thing I said when learning about the TV series was that it was going to take big brass ones to actually stick to the comic's premise of "no one is safe". Losing established characters, in shockingly sudden, violent ways, is a key aspect of the original source, and watering it down erodes a central pillar of the work. Heroes went from awesome to complete shit because they couldn't do it.

Was teasing since your reaction seemed extreme.

But in all seriousness (and despite your reluctance to elaborate on your distaste for Kirkman), is your ire towards him because of the lawsuit that was placed against him when the show was made? I read he was accused of trying to keep one of the comic creators out of getting royalties from the show (or something to that effect).

Creatively I really liked TSSC, but his CV looks a bit thin for taking up this show's mantle.

Though I certainly realize some characters are going to die I didn't need a specific head count and know their major. I was expecting to read about behind the scenes drama. Oh, well, sounds like the show is going to go to crap so it doesn't matter anyway.