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Despite elections and baseball, television still rules. Fringe is back! There are robot uprisings galore! Plus guest spots: Eliza Dushku on Big Bang Theory, Timothy Dalton on Chuck, and Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Laurie in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. More »
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Television's serving up hot zombie nightmares for Halloween. The Walking Dead debuts, but so does British reality TV/zombie epic Dead Set. Watch a clip of Felicia Day as a werewolf-hunter in Red. Plus sex robots, and Glee's Rocky Horror episode! More »
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MTV has just announced plans to create a TV series based loosely on George Romero's classic Dawn of the Dead. And they're dodging the "fast or slow" question by doing both: The zombies will start fast, but decay into slow. More »
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If you've ever watched an episode of reality TV series Big Brother or Survivor or The Pick-Up Artist and wished everybody involved would just get ripped apart by rampaging zombies, then you're about to feel seriously awesome. The UK miniseries Dead Set started airing this week, and it's all about what happens to the cast and crew of Big Brother when a zombie plague hits England. The best part? It's all filmed on the Big Brother set. More »
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The website for British series Dead Set has just gone live with a trailer for the miniseries, about what happens to a group of reality TV players during an all-out zombie attack. We're excited by this meta-horror series because it's produced by the same group that does wildly popular reality TV show Big Brother, on the Big Brother sets. Even better was that the show was conceived and written by Charlie Brooker, a great comedy writer who worked on the legendary episode of Brass Eye devoted to pedophilia (trust me, it was hilarious). [Dead Set via e4] More »
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Though some might say that zombies already inhabit reality TV shows like Britain's smash hit Big Brother, a new show called Dead Set is taking that claim to the next level. Produced by the same company that makes Big Brother, the (fictional, scripted) show takes place in the Big Brother house as massive zombie attacks take place outside. At first, the inhabitants of the surveillance game show house don't realize anything is going on. But then things get bloody. More »
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