Move over vampires as we are predicting zombies to be THE next big thing to hit the small screen. For quite some time now we’ve been bombarded with TV series and movies featuring our favourite blood sucking friends. Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and of course True Blood, have made vampires one of the biggest trends to dominate TV and film in recent years.
But what about zombies? In film, zombies have been a real success- just look at 28 Days Later, Zombieland and Dawn of the Dead. But sadly on TV zombies haven’t been so popular. They seem to have been relegated to something of a figure of fun- think Charlie Brooker’s take on zombies in his recent series on E4 “Dead Set”. Until now that is… “The Walking Dead” has made it clear that it wants to fly in the face of these zombie stereotypes by dealing with some hard hitting socio-cultural issues and keeping to the more serious tone of Kirkman’s comics. Personally I can’t wait.
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