The Rewards of the Craft: Emmy Nominees on the Joys & Challenges of Television

We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our second panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. Like last year, we sat down with some nominees from some great, disparate, challenging shows. In our first panel, Planet Earth III composers Jacob Shea and Sara Barone (nominated for episode 6,

Watch the First Episode of “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” For Free

Everybody’s favorite zombie slayer, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), finally has his own show. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon premiered on September 11, the second spin-off from the flagship series that concluded its run in late 2022. Daryl Dixon episode one is now available for your viewing pleasure, for free, on YouTube.

Daryl Dixon catches up with the crossbow-wielding survivor after his departure from The Commonwealth. Daryl has washed ashore on a new continent and eventually finds himself in Paris,

Director Haifaa Al-Mansour on Casting a Spell in “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches”

Though Haifaa Al-Mansour is known as the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia by virtue of her award-winning 2012 feature Wadjda, she has since become a go-to director inside and outside Hollywood through both features and projects on the small screen. The writer/director’s releases Mary Shelley and The Perfect Candidate were lauded by critics and audiences, and her artistic contributions to shows like The Good Lord Bird,

“Better Call Saul” Composer Dave Porter on Playing Jimmy McGill Out

Dave Porter has been creating music for the universe of Breaking Bad since the beginning in 2008, starting with the award-winning, Zeitgeist capturing fan favorite, then continuing with Better Call Saul in 2015, and scoring El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie in 2019. That’s a long time to be living in a world so beloved by ‘Heisenbergers’ from the inside. Now, as Better Call Saul comes to a conclusion with its last show (the penultimate episode airs on August 8,

“NITRAM” Director/Producer Justin Kurzel Casts a Lens on a Shocking Tragedy

In 1996, Australia was rocked by a mass shooting in the small, peaceful community of Port Arthur, Tasmania. The horrific incident took the lives of 35 innocent people and injured 23, and remains among the country’s greatest national tragedies. 

Director-producer Justin Kurzel (True History of the Kelly Gang, The Snowtown Murders) reunites with screenwriter Shaun Grant to explore the events that led to the mass shooting in the IFC Films release,

Joe Bob Briggs Declares This the Summer of the Drive-In

Two summers before a nightmarish virus began sweeping across the globe and altering our reality like a horror B movie, Joe Bob Briggs revived his long-running campaign to keep the drive-in alive. The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs premiered in July of 2018 on AMC’s horror streaming service Shudder. The special was so popular, it crashed the site. Briggs said he was initially skeptical and envisioned the show airing once “for nostalgia sake.” Yet,

Here’s the First Teaser for The Walking Dead: World Beyond

The world of The Walking Dead is getting even bigger. AMC has revealed our first full look at their latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, which stars Julie Ormond as Elizabeth, a leader of a large, ferocious force contending with, you guessed it, the zombie apocalypse. “We are the last light of the world,” Ormond’s Elizabeth says in the new teaser. “We are the last hope.” Then we see members of her masked forces do some pretty brutal stuff,

New El Camino Teaser Tracks Jesse Pinkman After Breaking Bad

So what happened to Jess Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after the brutal, bloody final events in Breaking Bad? For lovers of AMC’s groundbreaking series, you know that Breaking Bad ended with a shootout to end all shootouts. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in his final act of depraved decency, free his onetime partner/longtime victim Jesse Pinkman from his enslavement at the hands of a bunch of Neo-Nazis. It took a remote-controlled machine gun and Walter’s own life to do it,

New Images for The Walking Dead Season 10 Reveal Troubles to Come

AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead returns for its 10th season, and a fresh batch of images gives us a glimpse of what’s to come. Pretty much all of your most crucial survivors are accounted for in the photos. These include the unkillable Daryl, (Norman Reedus), the former big bad villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the tough-as-nails Carol (Melissa McBride), the blind but wide Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), and the resourceful Aaron (Ross Marquand), 

Where Does Rick’s Departure from The Walking Dead Leave Things?

Wow. The Walking Dead. Just, wow. The show has been entertaining, exciting, even surprising, but I will honestly say I have not been this shocked since Shane’s death. Yes, this is the biggest twist to me since that season 2 episode. There have been some really emotional deaths and some blows to the psyche (Eugene was never working on a cure at all!), but this was a real curve ball.

If you are not caught up on last night’s episode of The Walking Dead,

AMC Has Plans to Turn The Walking Dead Into a Major Franchise

The Walking Dead is as difficult to put down as the walkers themselves. In fact, it seems to be spreading. Andrew Lincoln is exiting the original series, but that still isn’t the kill shot that will put this franchise down. And why should it? So many strong characters have emerged over the course of the series. Rick would never have made it this far without Michonne (Danai Gurira), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) or Carol (Melissa McBride).

The Better Call Saul Production Designer on Jimmy’s Changing Landscape

The inevitable transition from the affable Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) to the hardnosed Saul Goodman is becoming one of the most emotional evolutions on TV. As a whole, Better Call Saul is entering a season of transformation. Production designer Judy Rhee was charged with guiding Jimmy’s world through great personal and professional changes in season 4.

“In the timeline of the prequel, we’re getting closer to Breaking Bad,” Rhee explained.

Preacher Showrunner Sam Catlin on Grandma Driving Season 3’s Insane Misadventures

It had to happen eventually, according to showrunner Sam Catlin, so Preacher Season 3 begins this Sunday, June 24, at the creepy Angelville plantation ruled by the terrifying spell-caster known as “Grandma.” Fans of the comic book source material figured the matriarch would show up at some point, but they didn’t expect her to be portrayed by Betty Buckley, the Broadway musical icon. “Betty‘s got this great authority and her audition was incredible,”

Jon Bernthal’s Coming Back to The Walking Dead in Season 9

If Steve Trevor can appear in Wonder Woman 1984 without having aged since we last saw him die during World War I, maybe this isn’t that crazy? Jon Bernthal’s Shane was one of the most affecting characters in the early season of The Walking Dead, playing fellow cop and best friend of Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes. Since leaving the show, Bernthal has become a star,

Joy Nash on her Breakout Role as Plum Kettle in Dietland

At one point in the two hour premiere of AMC’s latest drama, Dietland, Margaret Atwood’s most famous quote is uttered by main character Plum Kettle: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Other than being a perfect encapsulation of our current times, it’s also a sentiment that can anchor the stickily interesting Dietland, based on the novel by Sarai Walker and brought to AMC by TV veteran Marti Noxon.

Watch the First Four Minutes of The Walking Dead Mid-Season Premiere

If you just can’t wait until this Sunday, AMC has released the first four minutes of The Walking Dead’s mid-season premiere. Titled “No Way Out” (couldn’t this be the title for 90% of the episodes?), the premiere will focus on Rick and co.’s attempts to march out of Alexandria disguised as walkers when a “sudden noise draws walkers towards them with what could be fatal consequences.” 

The cast has already hinted at a major character’s death in these final eight episodes of season 6.

The Walking Dead Drops Midseason Premiere Trailer

For us The Walking Dead fans, we've still got a bit of a slog until we get to the midseason premiere, which airs on Feburary 14. Until then, you can satiate your appetite for brains and blood and Rick Grimes' (Andrew Lincoln) Mad Hatter-like leadership over the citizens of Alexandria. If the midseason trailer is any indication, things are about to get even bleaker for the little burb in the midst of a zombie hellscape.

Everything That Happened Last Season on The Walking Dead in 3 Minutes

AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, a riveting look at a few families in Los Angeles just as the world's becoming aware of the horror to come, recently ended it's first season. Knowing what we do of that future from The Walking Dead, Fear packed an extra layer of despair into the viewing experience. The conceit of showing the first days of the zombie apocalypse could have felt unnecessary,

Has Rick Met his Match? Watch Epic Season 6 Teaser for The Walking Dead

We're inching closer to the first episode of The Walking Dead's sixth season, after one hell of a ride in season 5. 

Let's take a quick look back on last season to get us up to speed on what's coming. Season 5 showed our main group, still led by Rich Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), begin to fray in Alexandria. Compared to the Alexandrians, who have lived relatively safely behind the walls of their city,

The Walking Dead Teaser for Season 6 is Here

If you caught the series premiere of Fear the Walking Dead last night, that means you also got a taste of The Walking Dead’s season 6. If you weren’t already aware, AMC’s ratings juggernaut features a cast of characters who have, more or less, all gone insane. Okay perhaps not all of them, but Rick and Carol are pretty much batty at this point,