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Frank Darabont Develops New TNT Drama

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Nearly six months after he was fired as the executive producer of AMC’s The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont is busy developing a new drama project — this time at rival TNT.

TNT has given a pilot order to L.A. Noir, which takes a look inside the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles cops and villains in the 1940s and 1950s, the heyday of L.A. noir and scandals (such as the Black Dahlia). Darabont will write and direct the pilot.

via Frank Darabont Develops New TNT Drama – Today’s News: Our Take | TVGuide.com.

The Best TV Series of 2011

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The best TV series of the 2010/11 season is the NBC series Community.

It’s heart-wrenching to watch a series as funny, compelling and dare I say brilliant as that of Community and to know that very few other people are watching. Very, very few. So few that NBC has decided that after the first of the year it will temporarily pull Community from the schedule in the new year so they can air other shows in their timeslot.

Click here to continue reading this column on the six best TV series of the 2010/2011 TV season.

In Defense of The Walking Dead

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I completely agree with this critic’s assertion that this season of The Walking Dead is as good, if not better than the first:

Fans of AMC’s hit zombie series are frothing mad about the show’s slower, milder second season. Too much talk! Not enough blown-off undead heads! Now for a dissenting opinion from GQ’s culture critic: The Walking Dead has never been better

via Walking Dead Season Two Review by Tom Carson: Movies + TV: GQ.

People complaining about The Walking Dead not having enough thrills this season reminds me a lot of the people who’d complain that The Sopranos didn’t have enough mob bosses getting wacked each season. It’s like people have a preconceived notion as to how a series should play out, but when it doesn’t they get upset.

It seems like if people got their way and The Walking Dead were only about zombies shambling and people running away from them would that be a show anyone would want to watch week after week after week? I think not.