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The cast and crew of The Walking Dead take us inside "Sick", the third season's second episode that puts the group up against dangerous zombies and even more dangerous prisoners. Warning - this behind the scenes video contains SPOILERS.
The Walking Dead webisodes return for season 3 with the "Cold Storage" miniseries.
Hide and Seek:
Keys to the Kingdom:
The Chosen One:
Parting Shots:
Premiering on Syfy on Saturday, October 27th at 9pm ET - Rise of the Zombies...
"Whent he odds are four billion to four... the only thing to do is reload"
Don't miss Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer of The Walking Dead, reaches back in time to her Terminator roots to serve as a guest judge on tonight's episode of Face Off as contestants compete to build the perfect junkyard cyborg.
Face Off airs Tuesday night at 9pm ET on Syfy.
Don't get AMC? You can now watch the season three premiere episode of The Walking Dead online now for a limited time:
Tune in to AMC tonight for the third season premiere of The Walking Dead!
The Walking Dead's Steven Yuen and Norman Reedus do their best to stop the zombies on E! on The Soup.
The Nerdist Channel is having a WALKING DEAD WEEKEND:
"Leading up to the premiere of Walking Dead on Sunday, October 14th Nerdist Channel will release some awesome flesh eating programming gearing Walking Dead fans up to what will be a ridiculous premiere. Be sure to tune into see Chris on Talking Dead following every episode of Walking Dead."
FearNet caught up with the cast and crew of The Walking Dead on the red carpet at the premiere for their third season:
From the official press release:
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What does audience engagement mean in the age of social media? Researchers at the Harmony Institute (HI) collaborated with neuroscientists at Columbia University and City College New York to develop a new method for studying neural and social engagement with entertainment in real-time.
Measuring audience response to an episode of the popular AMC zombie series The Walking Dead, researchers found that moments that produced high levels of brain activity also produced high volumes of social response, suggesting a link between compelling content and social media engagement. Yet there were clear points of divergence, indicating that there may be types of content that people respond to, but refrain from sharing or discussing online.
The Harmony Institute worked with online analytics company Crimson Hexagon and Twitter to obtain and query all 19,000 tweets referencing the show during its original airing in 2010. The tweets were sorted in a customized coding scheme that took into account indications of sentiment, humor, and "immersion" or engagement with the subject matter. They were then pegged to 194 narrative units within the episode.
Together with HI, bioengineering faculty and researchers recruited 20 subjects to watch the show while hooked to electroencephalogram (EEG) monitors to measure neural activity. Since measurements were calculated for every second of the show, researchers were able to identify specific moments in the episode that were associated with high levels of activity for three corresponding brain waves, which have previously been linked to attention, affect, and memory encoding.
HI took an innovative, design-centered approach to analyzing and combining the data from each of these sources and developed a custom, interactive data visualization tool to compare brain and social media data with the content of the episode.
Preliminary findings from the study will be publicly released on Harmony Institute's blog, The Ripple Effect on Friday, October 12, 2012, to correspond with the show's third season launch.
The Harmony Institute, a New York City-based research center dedicated to studying the influence of entertainment, looks beyond traditional indicators (such as box office and audience size) to reveal entertainment's social return on investment.
Press contact: Joanna Raczkiewicz
T. 212.966.0606
E. Joanna@harmony-institute.org
SOURCE Harmony Institute
Steven Yuen sat down with Attack of the Show to disucss the upcoming third season of AMC's zombie hit The Walking Dead.
A new trailer is out for the third season of The Walking Dead, premiering October 14th at 9pm on AMC.
Thanks to his welding expertise, Nathan Fillion is more than prepared for the zombie apocalypse.
Danai Guirira takes us behind the scenes of The Walking Dead as she trains to take on the role of Michonne.
The Clueless Gamer, Conan O'Brien, plays and reviews Resident Evil 6:
AMC has released six new pictures from The Walking Dead to tie us over until the premiere of the third season:
Steven Yuen as Glenn:
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes:
Laurie Holden as Andrea:
Danai Gurira as Michonne:
David Morrisey as The Governor:
The Walking Dead Executive Producer and special effects guru Greg Nicotero takes a run through Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights haunted maze and bumps into a few familiar undead faces (and places).
The Syfy Channel's special effects make-up competition show Face Off takes on the living dead with Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson in tonight's episode, "Alice in Zombieland", at 9pm ET.
