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Why The Walking Dead Is Not On NBC

The Writer’s Room on the Sundance Channel featured The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman among other guests recently -you can see the entire episode here. Kirkman talked about the process of taking the zombie story from comics to TV. One of the networks they shopped the concept to was NBC.

[The Walking Dead] actually did almost get made at NBC. It didn’t get made because when the pilot was turned in, the famous story is one of the executives said, ‘This is awesome. I really love this. Does it have to have zombies in it?

As you might guess, both Frank Darabont and Robert Kirkman felt the zombie story really needed to keep the zombies. Their final decision to work with AMC instead rested on some important points they worked out that you can read about at Warming Glow.


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I tried to imagine what the show would be without the zombies. No apocalypse, no ongoing danger, no empty cities, no nonstop violence, no fear, no reason for these people to be together... there's not much left.
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I live in the suburbs of Minneapolis MN not down town. If someone were to back in and out of the front end of my car like that I would call the police and make a ins. claim. To have no respect for others personal property is ##$%%^&*(
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@tod - you've gotta be kidding. You park on the street, in the city, you car is going to get tapped. If you called the cops you'd be laughed at. The driver did a great job. I've got no problem with it.
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Lived in Philly my whole life, and it happens, every so often, but what this chode did is unacceptable, by city liver standards. I'd have broke every window in his car if I witnessed him do that to my car.
Use "the force" to get into a parking spot, not force.
/maybe cowardly, so what, that's some serious bullshit.
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This was on the local here in NYC,. It happened in Brooklyn (as it does everywhere else) and it's illegal...technically.

http://tinyurl.com/7rzz6x4
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Oh please, Carl, "broke every window in his car" [sic]? Over-react much? Or are you just a tough guy on the internet? You clearly don't live downtown because this is 100% percent acceptable in both big cities I've lived in (San Francisco and London). It's a fact of life, and sometimes it's your only resort. Done gently, it does no damage to the bumpers (it does scuff the paint a little, but after a few years in the city it pales to the other, real damage you'll have accumulated.
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If someone "love tapped" my car like that, I'd be tapping with my foot on his face. Touching someone else's car with your is not acceptable anywhere, wtf?
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