Zombies are taking over the world!: Television
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock with your fingers in your ears and your eyes closed for the last three years, you will have heard of the TV zombie phenomenon; The Walking Dead. One of the most watched cable series of all time, it follows a group of survivors in southern America trying to make it in the the months following a zombie apocalypse.
If the trailer doesn’t rope you in, we don’t know what will.
This huge cult hit has almost infinite amounts of information and statistics for the avid fan. Here’s just a few interesting facts and stats for you to divulge in;
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The TV series is so popular it even has it’s own spin-off show featuring the actors discussing it’s goings on, ingeniously entitled The Talking Dead.
The BBC recently aired a British zombie programme. In the Flesh was a three part drama set in the aftermath of a zombie epidemic. Once the initial smoke has cleared, the government have created a treatment program to ‘rehabilitate’ the Undead that they have rounded up and plan to reintegrate them into society. Enter Kieren Walker, a former zombie who has been treated by the government and is now classed as a sufferer of Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS).
PDS sufferer Kieren Walker is the protagonist of the BBC drama ‘In the Flesh’
Returning to his home village of Roarton, Kieren realises the people there are far less welcoming to a semi-zombie that he’d hoped. Trying to fit in with the living proves much more difficult than he expected, and Kieren has some serious problems to overcome. The series took a different angle to the generic angle of zombie entertainment, empathising with the human behind the monster. It was a disappointment that the series was so short. However, In the Flesh was still a great piece of television that proved the genre is far from used up.