News
Jul 19, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Andrew Lincoln left The Walking Dead last year, but he wasn’t killed off. Instead, the last we saw of Rick Grimes he was being taken away in a helicopter and his friends and family never discovered what happened to him. When he left the show the producers said they would be bringing Lincoln back as Grimes for a series of three TV movies. More
The Season Premiere is October 7; Plus Watch the New Fear the Walking Dead Trailer
Jul 20, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
A new trailer for season 9 of The Walking Dead has been shared fresh from Comic-Con and it’s been revealed that the show will premiere October 7 on AMC. There’s also a new trailer for the rest of season 4 of Fear the Walking Dead.
Plus Trailers for Inhumans, Star Trek: Discovery, Fear the Walking Dead, Gifted, Riverdale, and More
Jul 25, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Another San Diego Comic-Con is done and there are still a lot of trailers to digest. Here is a roundup of all the notable trailers for various TV shows. It includes trailers for the new seasons of Westworld, The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Teen Wolf, Riverdale, Vikings, The Last Ship, and The Originals. Then there are trailers for the first seasons of three new Marvel shows (The Defenders, Inhumans, and Gifted), as well as the new trailers for Star Trek: Discovery and Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek spoof The Orville. More
Combing for Clues for Negan's Victim
Apr 06, 2016
By Matt Fink
You could almost hear the groans across America. After a half-season’s worth of preparation for the arrival of Negan, the villain whose entrance we were promised would change the trajectory of the show’s storyline forever, we got…a cliffhanger. More
The Walking Dead Companion Series to Premiere August 23
Jul 10, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
After previously releasing some brief teaser clips for the show, AMC has now shared the full trailer for Fear the Walking Dead, the new spinoff/companion series to The Walking Dead that takes place in Los Angeles at around the time the zombie outbreak starts. More
Trailer Premiered at Comic-Con Today, The Show Returns October 11
Jul 10, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
At The Walking Dead’s Comic-Con panel today the first trailer for season 6 was shown and now AMC has posted it online. The intense trailer seems to set up a power struggle between Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and returning character Morgan Jones (Lennie James), as our heroes try to make it work in the small safe zone they’ve found in Alexandria, Virginia. More
Plus Updates on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, X-Men: Apocalypse, and more!
Jun 12, 2015
By Trevor Flynn
Welcome to This Week in Geek, our roundup of geek-centric film and TV news from the last week. This week we have tributes for the late Christopher Lee and updates on Marvel’s Daredevil, Ghostbusters, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Doctor Strange, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Martian, Victor Frankenstein, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and more. More
We Predict What Might Lie Ahead for Our Favorite Zombie Slayers
Feb 06, 2015
By Matt Fink
A year ago, when The Walking Dead returned for its season four mid-season premier, there was nothing but questions. Did Judith survive the zombie horde? When would Carol return? Would Lizzie freak out and kill everyone? More
Issue 52 Also Includes Interviews with Jenny Lewis, The War on Drugs, James Franco, Ariel Pink vs. Panda Bear, Jason Schwartzman vs. Real Estate, the Cast of The Walking Dead, "Weird Al" Yankovic, The Flaming Lips, Sharon Van Etten, and More.
Dec 19, 2014
By Christopher Roberts
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the Best of 2014 Issue, which is about to hit newsstands and will be out all of January and February. It features St. Vincent on the cover and interviews with some of the artists behind 2014’s best albums. More
Plus Interviews with Lauren Cohan, Melissa McBride, Emily Kinney, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, and Others
Oct 12, 2014
By Mark Redfern
This week has been “Walking Dead Week” on Under the Radar’s website. Season five of the wildly popular and critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic zombie drama starts tonight (Sunday, October 12), at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. Central) on AMC. In anticipation of the show’s return, for this special theme week of coverage we have interviewed around 10 members of the show’s current cast and have been posting one to two Walking Dead interviews every day this week. We have also posted some lists related to the show. Here is a recap of everything we’ve posted. More
Plus Interviews with Melissa McBride, Emily Kinney, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, and Others – More to Come This Weekend
Oct 10, 2014
By Mark Redfern
This week has been “Walking Dead Week” on Under the Radar’s website. For this special theme week of coverage we have interviewed around 10 members of the show’s current cast and have been posting one to two Walking Dead interviews every day this week. Below is a recap of everything we’ve posted thus far. But we’re not done yet. Check back over the weekend for our interviews with actress Lauren Cohan and the creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman. More
Interviews with Various Cast Members Throughout the Week, Including Andrew Lincoln and Melissa McBride
Oct 06, 2014
By Christopher Roberts
This week is Walking Dead Week on Under the Radar’s website. Season five of the wildly popular and critically acclaimed post apocalyptic zombie drama starts this Sunday, October 12, at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. Central) on AMC. In anticipation of the show’s return, for this special theme week of coverage we have interviewed around 10 members of the show’s current cast and will be posting one to two Walking Dead interviews every day this week. More
The Zombie Hit Returns to AMC October 12th
Sep 08, 2014
By Christopher Roberts
AMC has released a new trailer for season 5 of The Walking Dead. In it we get hints of the fate of Rick Grimes and our heroes, who were last seen lured in and imprisoned by the people of Terminus, locked up in an old train car and potentially a future meal for cannibals. More
The Walking Dead Returns to AMC October 12
Jul 25, 2014
By Christopher Roberts
AMC has just released a trailer for season 5 of The Walking Dead. The trailer debuted at Comic-Con but is now online. The smash hit and critically acclaimed zombie show returns on October 12 at 9 PM. More
The Show Returns This Sunday
Feb 09, 2014
By Matt Fink
To this point, The Walking Dead generally hasn’t been the type of show to tantalize us with unresolved questions and subtle clues for its more devoted viewers to decode. But the first half of season four featured an unusually large number of plot points that remain unaddressed as we head into the final eight episodes. More
Series Returns on February 9
Jan 02, 2014
By Laura Studarus
The Walking Dead returns to AMC on Sunday February 9. More
Out In the U.S. on Dec. 3
Nov 04, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
On Dec. 3 Morrissey‘s highly anticipated memoir Autobiography will receive U.S. distribution Dec. 3 via G.P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House. More
Jul 22, 2013
By Laura Studarus
The Walking Dead will return to AMC on October 13. More
Robert Kirkman and the Show’s Stars on Season Two of the Zombie Apocalypse
Jul 25, 2011
By Mark Redfern
“I was of the mind that it was never going to be a TV show, because it’s so dark,” said Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead comic book series that was adapted into the critically acclaimed AMC TV series, one of the biggest and best reviewed cable series of 2011. At the panel in Ballroom 20 the producers and cast teased season two, which debuts October 16. We also have the trailer for season two. More
Show Premiers October 31st
Sep 08, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Check out this new clip for the appropriately named Frank Darabont AMC series, Walking Dead. The gore starts flying on Halloween. More
Aug 25, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Zombies are hot! Just ask Frank Darabont, whose new show The Walking Dead premieres this Halloween on AMC. We have the trailer. More
Interviews
Oct 09, 2015
By Matt Fink
Despite having appeared in only three episodes spread over five seasons, Lennie James has managed to make Morgan Jones one of the most iconic characters in the history of The Walking Dead. When we first meet him in the show’s premiere episode he was the father and grieving husband who first explains to Rick Grimes that the world has fallen into zombie-fueled chaos. More
Aug 21, 2015
By Matt Fink
You probably know more about The Walking Dead than Cliff Curtis. Though the zombie thriller has utterly dominated cable TV for the past three years, pulling in a record-setting 17 million viewers for its season five premiere, Curtis was not one of them. More
Aug 21, 2015
By Matt Fink
In 2008, The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd had no reason to believe that the zombie drama would ever be anything more than a cable TV curiosity. More
Fresh Blood: Cliff Curtis and Gale Anne Hurd On The Walking Dead Companion Series
Aug 20, 2015
By Matt Fink
Cliff Curtis isn’t used to playing nice guys. Over his 22-year career, the New Zealand-born actor has played a gang member (Training Day), an FBI man (Live Free or Die Hard), a cranky Marine (Runaway Jury), and a variety of drug dealers and otherwise unsavory characters (Bringing Out the Dead,Blow). More
Robert Kirkman, Andrew Lincoln, Melissa McBride, Michael Cudlitz, Gale Anne Hurd, and Josh McDermitt on How a Show About Zombies Has Conquered Television
Apr 20, 2015
By Matt Fink
On October 30, 2010—the day before AMC aired the first episode of The Walking Dead—Robert Kirkman had no idea what to expect. He knew he had a strong story—the success of his Walking Dead comic book series had proven that—and he knew there was nothing remotely like that story on TV. More
Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
Mar 20, 2015
By Matt Fink
[Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched last week’s episode, “Spend,” which aired March 15, then read no further.] Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has said that he works hard to give his characters a suitable end, leaving the most memorable (and most gruesome) deaths for the show’s most significant characters. More
Blood Under the Fingernails
Feb 20, 2015
By Matt Fink
When The Walking Dead began holding auditions for the role of Rosita Espinosa in July of 2013, it’s unlikely that hardcore fans of the comic would have placed Christian Serratos on the shortlist of candidates. More
Executioner with a Heart of Gold
Oct 12, 2014
By Matt Fink
Given Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s contrarian reputation—he has boasted on numerous occasions that the intensity of Daryl Dixon fans has made him more eager to kill off the character—I half expected him to be a combative person to interview. In fact, he’s exactly the opposite. Five minutes late for our conversation, he apologizes profusely, then gives me 10 more minutes of his time than he’d previously agreed to, even though he has a full day at the New York Comic-Con ahead of him. Talk to him for just a few minutes and it becomes clear that what might appear to be a desire to torture Walking Dead fans is really Kirkman’s dry wit. Who would have guessed that the man who has plumbed the depths of human despair in his work would also harbor a dark sense of humor? More
Love in the Time of Zombies
Oct 11, 2014
By Matt Fink
Given the role that romance plays in nearly every massively successful television drama, it’s telling that The Walking Dead has featured only one love story throughout its four seasons. More
Oct 11, 2014
By Matt Fink
Given that the bad guys ultimately lose in every good vs. evil drama presented in television drama, part of Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s genius is in limiting the number of purely malevolent antagonists in his story. More
Oct 10, 2014
By Matt Fink
Even though he has never spoken to me, Andrew Lincoln greets me by saying my name like I’m an old friend. Talk to him for 20 minutes, and you realize it’s not an act. He listens carefully, laughs frequently, and thinks deeply about every topic thrown at him, and he seems to genuinely enjoy it all, as if you’re doing him a favor by allowing him to reflect on his five years as Rick Grimes. More
Oct 09, 2014
By Matt Fink
If Gale Anne Hurd‘s only claim to fame was being the producer and co-writer of Terminator (1984), her place in entertainment history would be set. Only 28 at the time, she had her whole career ahead of her, and she has used her time well, adding Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and a few dozen other films to her resume. More
Oct 09, 2014
By Matt Fink
It must be hell trying to supply memorable moments to every member of such a large cast, but the writers of The Walking Dead have the benefit of being able to capture human beings at every stage of emotion that accompanies living through a zombie apocalypse. More
Oct 08, 2014
By Matt Fink
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of The Walking Dead‘s nearly unprecedented success is the fact that it is built upon so many actors that hardly anyone knew before the show became a ratings juggernaut. Steven Yeun, Emily Kinney, Melissa McBride—these were actors who were pretty much completely unknown by American audiences when the show debuted in October of 2010. More
Oct 08, 2014
By Matt Fink
When Alanna Masterson joined the cast of The Walking Dead, she was so obscure no one had made a Wikipedia entry for her yet. Coming from a family of actors—her brother Christopher was Francis on Malcolm in the Middle, and her brother Danny was Stephen Hyde on That ‘70s Show—it was only a matter of time until she would make her own mark in the family business. More
Singing Past the Graveyard
Oct 07, 2014
By Matt Fink
As much as The Walking Dead is known for its striking scenes—zombified little girls, beheadings, throats being ripped out—its true genius is found in its smaller, more reflective moments. One of the most poignant of these came in the season three premiere, when the teenaged Beth Greene is asked by her father, Hershel, to sing for the group of survivors. More
Oct 07, 2014
By Matt Fink
Since the demise of irascible redneck Merle Dixon in season three, The Walking Dead hasn’t had a character you could turn to for (admittedly dark) comic relief. Enter Dr. Eugene Porter, a self-proclaimed brilliant scientist with a mullet and an ability to make every social situation awkward simply by his presence. More
Oct 06, 2014
By Matt Fink
There’s a scene near the end of season four’s “The Grove” that seems to represent the culmination of Carol Peletier’s character growth. Having just killed her adopted daughter, Lizzie, because of her violently unstable behavior, Carol sits at a table in an abandoned house and confesses to Tyreese that she was the one who murdered his flu-stricken girlfriend. More
Oct 06, 2014
By Matt Fink
Though The Walking Dead‘s TV version instantly earned high marks from readers of the graphic novel when it debuted in October, 2010, fans still had one question. Where was Tyreese? One of the most memorable characters from the show’s source material, the hammer-wielding warrior was conspicuous in his absence from early episodes, and readers couldn’t comprehend how the show’s writers could leave out such a central character. More
May 28, 2014
By Matt Fink
He fearlessly stares down sociopathic killers and hordes of zombies every week as the crossbow-wielding, motorcycle-riding Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead, but Norman Reedus readily admits that what really makes him nervous is the idea of talking to legendary Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis. More
Robert Kirkman's Four-Panel Terror Shambles Onto TV
Oct 06, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
“This is not good.” Those are the foreboding first words you read in the debut issue of Image Comics’ The Walking Dead. There is no over-the-top internal monologue from a main character, or omnipresent narrator clueing you in to the overall through-line. It’s just a bleak, monochromatic landscape, punctuated by telephone poles and a pivotal police shootout. More
Reviews
Oct 26, 2016
By Matt Fink
There’s a small moment in The Walking Dead‘s season one finale “TS-19,” where Rick Grimes tells Dr. Edwin Jenner that he’s “grateful” that he and his group have been allowed to enter the safety of the CDC. “The day will come when you won’t be” is Jenner’s grim reply. More
Feb 12, 2015
By Matt Fink
For a show where character deaths drive much of the plot, The Walking Dead doesn’t linger long on the actual dying process. Some characters get to say goodbyes (Lori, Andrea), some drift away in peace (Bob) but most don’t get to say anything at all (Beth, Hershel, Dale, Merle). You’d have to go all the way back to when Jim (remember him?) was bitten in season one to find an episode that focused as much on the anguish of someone who knows he’s slipping into the clutches of the zombie fever. With “What Happened and What’s Going On,” The Walking Dead have delivered their most poetic examination of death yet, updating the show’s thesis in the process. More
Apr 06, 2014
By Matt Fink
The last time The Walking Dead delivered a season finale, the response was mixed, to put it delicately. In season three, fans wanted a satisfying payoff to the season-long buildup to war between The Governor and the Team Grimes prison group, and what they got was little more than an inept attack, a hasty retreat, and The Governor losing his mind and slaughtering his own army. More
Mar 29, 2014
By Matt Fink
Coming off one of The Walking Dead‘s most emotionally exhausting episodes—the one we have to assume was making AMC executives “nervous” because of the (perhaps unprecedented) depiction a child’s execution—the fifteenth episode of season four needed only to provide a glimmer of hope to lighten the mood before the series finale. More
Mar 15, 2014
By Matt Fink
Perhaps more than any other show, The Walking Dead is burdened with the unenviable task of satisfying viewers who want nonstop zombie-stomping action and those who want the character development that makes the storytelling meaningful. More
Mar 05, 2014
By Matt Fink
Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White, Frank Underwood—for whatever reason, modern audiences like their protagonists conflicted, duplicitous and deeply flawed. Despite the moral ambiguity inherent in having to live in a world where you have to kill other humans as a necessity, The Walking Dead is remarkable for just how traditional the show is in portraying its central struggle as being essentially between the good Rick Grimes fighting against the bad, in both zombie and human form. More
Feb 25, 2014
By Matt Fink
[Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the latest episode of The Walking Dead, “Inmates,” then read no further.] More
Feb 18, 2014
By Matt Fink
If the last moments of the previous episode (“After”) ended at an uncharacteristically optimistic place—Rick and Carl being reunited with Michonne after each learns that they can’t hope to survive alone—the beginning of “Inmates” represents the exact opposite sentiment. More
Feb 11, 2014
By Matt Fink
The first moments on “After” are telling. Taking an aerial view of the aftermath of The Governor’s ruinous attack on the prison where Rick Grimes and his band of survivors had tried to establish some semblance of a normal life, we see a smoldering tank surrounding by zombies. More
Jul 25, 2011
By Mark Redfern
“I was of the mind that it was never going to be a TV show, because it’s so dark,” said Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead comic book series that was adapted into the critically acclaimed AMC TV series, one of the biggest and best reviewed cable series of 2011. At the panel in Ballroom 20 the producers teased and cast season two, which debuts October 16. We also have the trailer for season two.
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Written by Robert Kirkman; Art by Charlie Adlard; Cover by Cliff Rathburn
Dec 17, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
Now that AMC has wrapped its highly successful six-episode first season of The Walking Dead, it’s a great time to reflect and dive back into the books that made zombie geeks initially fawn over the show. Robert Kirkman’s thirteenth paperback volume, Too Far Gone, finds the group “safe” inside the Alexandria Safe-Zone community near Washington, D.C. More
Written and created by Robert Kirkman; Art by Charlie Adlard, Tony Moore, Cliff Rathburn, and Rus Wooton
Jun 16, 2009
By Kyle Lemmon
Image’s The Walking Dead: Compendium One is a hulking 1088-page softcover graphic novel that collects Robert Kirkman’s ongoing zombie masterpiece. The “compendium” series collects the first 48 issues in one shot and it’s a worthy edition to any discerning comic book enthusiast’s library. The astonishing fact that Kirkman’s post-apocalyptic comic can spawn yet another repackaging testifies to its hardcore fans, who will probably pick it up even if they picked up the smaller volumes along the way. This series is still salient. Another batch of potential fans could pick it up at their local shop and devour it like the rest of us did the first time. More