After two awesome episodes that have gotten both great ratings and positive reviews, AMC has gone ahead and renewed The Walking Dead for a 13 episode second season. The series has been breaking cable records with high ratings in adults 18 to 49 and had the biggest premiere ever for the Fox International Channels.

The comic series by Robert Kirkman was brought to television by producer and director Frank Darabont and stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Steven Yeun, Emma Bell, and Chandler Riggs. The third episode of the six episode first season airs this Sunday at 10pm.

The comic is also at a creative high as it heads to issue 80 and “No Way Out”. Just when Rick was starting to feel safe, it looks like the walls will be caving in on his happy new neighborhood (literally!).

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So, you don’t get AMC on your television?  Sadly, the home of such shows as Mad Men and Rubicon doesn’t air their episodes online… that is until now (and just this once). AMC’s has posted the pilot episode for its newest show The Walking Dead (based on the best ongoing comic currently on the market) online!

The series follows a Sheriff’s deputy, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) who is injured in the line of duty and is put into a coma. When he wakes up, he finds that the world has been overrun by zombies and his family is missing. That is all that I’m going to say, the series is really good. If you have AMC and just missed that episode, than you should watch it online.  If you don’t get AMC I feel your pain, but watch the pilot online and then find a friend that gets AMC. You have to know someone that gets it. Anyhow, you can watch the pilot episode here. The episode will be available online until 9pm pst on November 23rd, 2010. Also, you can head over here to check out the first volume of the graphic novel adapted into a motion comic. I have no idea how they do this, but it is truly outstanding.

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The best ongoing comic series on the market, The Walking Dead, is making the leap to television next weekend!  AMC and writer/director Frank Darabont, along with the comic’s creator Robert Kirkman, are bringing the series’ black and white pages to life.  I must admit, the casting is pretty spot on and the trailers have given me a lot of hope.  Also taking into account AMC’s great track record (including one of my favorite current shows and three time Emmy winning best drama Mad Men), us fans should not really be nervous about the series.

Here are three new pictures from the series’ first couple of episodes:

Will you be watching on Halloween?

Tonight at 9pm on FOX, Prison Break returns and is speeding toward its series finale. Continuing directly from the show’s Winter Break, Michael and Sara are hitchhiking to Miami while Lincoln confronts Christina, his mother who is part of the “Company”.

Now, I have only watched a handful of Prison Break‘s episodes in the past, but there is something about shows that are ending that makes me want to watch them.  The creative team behind the series had ample time to prepare and script the show for its finale. That gives me high hopes for a good bunch of episodes with a solid conclusion. Too many shows end without notice and are very unsatisfying.

What else can you watch tonight?

8PM

• ABC: Wife Swap (Reality)
• CBS: Ghost Whisperer (Supernatural Drama)
• NBC: Howie Do It (Prank Clip Show)
• MNT: Friday Night SmackDown! (Wrestling)

9PM

• ABC: Supernanny (Reality)
• NBC: Dateline NBC (News Showcase)

10PM

• ABC: 20/20 (News Showcase)
• E: The Soup (Comedy Clip Show) *Funniest Show on TV*