Watch out zombies, the Parents Television Council is coming for you. The PTC is targeting AMC’s The Walking Dead over the drama’s violent content. The PTC is taking issue with The Walking Dead‘s rating, TV-14, claiming the violence depicted is too much for the rating given.
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AMC Networks Tops Q3 Earnings Forecasts
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — An actor on the television show “The Walking Dead” has been charged with driving drunk in Georgia, where the show is filmed. Peachtree City police […]
Satellite broadcaster Dish Network dropped the cable channel AMC from its service as a feud between the programmer and distributor showed no signs of being resolved. The dispute means that AMC has lost access to about 14 million homes just weeks before one of its most high-profile original shows — the drama Breaking Bad — is set to return.
Dish Network last night moved AMC to a different channel without telling its viewers after AMC started running a commercial saying Dish subscribers could lose AMC by the end of the month. Dish and AMC Networks are engaged in a dispute over a new programming contract and Dish has threatened to remove AMC and its two sister channels, IFC and WE TV, at the end of the month if AMC Networks does not reduce its demands.
What Makes ‘Mad Men’ So Buzzworthy
Sunday night at 9 p.m. the AMC drama Mad Men returns after a 17-month absence, and based on all the hype and publicity it’s receiving, you might guess the show is among the highest-rated on television. It’s not. Though Men has won four Emmy awards for best drama, its audience is modest even by cable standards. Robert J. Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, talks about Men‘s wide appeal, whether its long layoff will hurt ratings, and why AMC’s The Walking Dead owes Men a debt of gratitude.
NEW YORK (AP) — Television viewers can’t get enough of those zombies. The Nielsen ratings company said Monday that 9 million people watched the season finale of “Walking Dead” on […]
After almost losing one of its signature shows, cable network AMC has signed a new deal for 16 episodes to keep its critically acclaimed Breaking Bad.
With Cablevision Systems set to spin off its cable channel unit AMC Networks on Thursday and the stock scheduled to start trading on Friday, some Wall Street observers are recommending that investors buy the stock after the spin. Citing programming success, carriage fee upside and a possible acquisition as early as 2012, analysts say AMC Networks shares are worth in the mid to high $40 range.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Draper is getting job security and a raise. Jon Hamm, who plays 1960s advertising executive Draper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” has signed a new contract […]
NEW YORK (AP) – AMC has flourished with its lineup of feature films and original dramas like “Mad Men” and “The Walking Dead.” Now the network is expanding into unscripted […]
The video service paid nearly $1 million per episode for all seven seasons of the AMC drama, which will begin airing July 27.
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner will remain with the Emmy-winning series for the show’s final three seasons. The show is set to return to AMC’s schedule in March of 2012, a necessity of the network’s packed slate.
