Link: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45851

Star Wars, Blade Runner, HellBoy, The Goonies, CannonBall Run and now The Walking Dead. What exaclty do all these prodcutions have in common (other than being awesome)? Well they've all had posters done by the great Drew Struzan, truly stunning.

Link: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/07/19/the-walking-dead-tv-set-visit-video/

Cool little MTV behind the scenes feature on The Walking Dead set, not a huge amount of zombie action but we do get to see Kirkman and Darabont looking pretty pleased with themselves.

Link: http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/

Awesome!

Amazing!

Shit my pants scary!

Please check out the Walking Dead AMC production blog here, you won't regret it.

Anybody that has read this blog or listened to The Sidekickcast will know I have an odd relationship with Jeph Loeb, no not like that, get your minds out of the gutter! I love his work, I hate his work, then I love it again, then he takes over The Ultimates and I'm back to hating. So now the man I love to hate but hate to love has got a new job as Marvel Entertainment's EVP of Television. The man has form, he co-wrote Teen Wolf, Commando(?), good(ish) episodes of Smallville, Lost, Heroes, Batman: The Long Halloween (my personal favourite), Batman: Hush and more recently his audacious run on Hulk. He also famously got fired from Heroes when things started to go bad, massacred his run on The Ultiumates, screwed up the Ultimatum, gone crazytown on Ultimate X and then there's that run on Hulk!

Love him or hate him, the man has got something and it'll be interesting to see what he can bring to Marvel's Televison wing, especailly as the press release (below) states he'll be looking after their live action TV work. What live action TV work would that be then?

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Link: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45461

Thanks to the guys over at AintitCool for these production shots from the filming of The Walking Dead TV show. The first image which is actually an official shot released by AMC (above) is the one that got me most excited. It looks like it's taken straight from the book and is the biggest indication yet that this series is on the right track and keeping faithful to the books.

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Link: http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2010/06/walking-dead-production-begins.php

This is the first and hopefully only time a pretty much dead woman has got me aroused. Now I've got your attention click on the above image to see some more of the zombies from the upcoming Frank Darabont helmed The Walking Dead tv show.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNy7reIfys

Well it's all done and I feel empty, I may start Lost all over again just to really punish myself. The show went out true to itself leaving us with questions but emotional satisfaction. We couldn't pass up the chance of one last Lost flavoured Something Silly so enjoy this video from Jimmy Kimmel.

As was reported on this very website last week, Heroes has been dropped as a TV series and I was very much saddened by this news. It’s almost unbelievable the way its popularity has risen and fallen over the last few years, and this final cull was a rather messy end to a show that promised so much.

I remember many moons ago X-Centric Ned telling me about the show and to watch it on Sci-Fi Channel as they were going to repeat the first three episodes. It was on a Saturday night and I was ridiculously hungover from the night before and those three episodes absolutely pulled me out of my malaise. They were just awesome to watch back to back and I was left gagging for the next episode. The whole series was superb and the characters all genuinely likeable and empathetic. The comic-book setup of the show was perfect and a real original concept at the time. And it was a hit through the spoken word and mates telling mates – I bet Sci-Fi channel couldn’t believe their luck that they had such a goldmine on their hands.

It then became a huge juggernaut of a show but sadly, even as little as halfway through the second season it started losing its way and got muddled, with people switching off in their droves shortly after the writers strike ended and the new material came back out. I was gutted for them and stuck with the second season trying to get people to change their minds, but I knew deep down that they had bottled it. The third season I simply watched for continuity reasons only (although I would argue that certain episodes were quality), and come the fourth I’ve completely lost it. No idea what is going on and I don’t miss it.

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Link: http://www.spinoffonline.com/2010/05/14/its-official-nbc-cancels-heroes/

So it's official Heroes is no more. Such a shame as it started off so well, with such promise, it was it's very own pop cultural phenomenom. It came along just at the right time, people were starting to pay more attention to comics due to the movie adaptations and with it's high production values and soap opera elements Heroes was the link between the movies and comic books, unfortunately though never quite living up to the promise of either. The show lost it's zing after season 2, never quite recovering from the writer's strike that cut the season short.

So who do we blame for this testament to televisual trash? I'm tepted to blame Jeph Loeb, he was of course spetacularly fired from the series by NBC after ratings took a nose dive and I have my own issues with the quality of Loeb's recent comic book work. But it's unfair to lay the blame solely on one man, or even two if you include his fellow sackee Jesse Alexander, no the problem was something more endemic to this particular show. The very things that made the show a success are also the things that brought it to it's knees, high production values, large ensemble casts, the best (and most expensive) writers and a lack of consistent direction and planning of character development. Lessons should and will be learnt by those that hand the world in the palm of their hands and pissed it all away.

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Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25701

The latest issue of the official Doctor Who Magazine, released tomorrow (15th April), features a story about good ol' Ianto Jones from Torchwood but not only that, it's penned by the actor that played him Gareth David-Lloyd. There was uproar last year when Ianto was killed of during the awesome Children of Earth storyline so of course the story in the magazine is of the flashback variety. So if you've missed the only gay in the Doctor Who village then pick up the magazine tomorrow, I may be picking it up just to see my beloved hometown of Cardiff as depicted by the award winning Pia Guerra. I only bought Paul Cornell's Wisdom series because I heard one of the stories was based in Cardiff and I absolutely loved it and now consider him to be one of the best writers in the business, so who knows where this could lead.