In what would have been one of the greatest crimes against ‘The Walking Dead’, the show almost was released on NBC. Did you know that it almost happened and it didn’t work out?
Now WHY didn’t it work? Well according to creator Robert Kirkman, “It almost got made at NBC. It didn’t get made because when the pilot was turned in the famous story is one of the executives said, ‘This is awesome. I really love this. Does it have to have zombies in it?”
I hope by now that executive has been fired and blocked from ever working in television again. Sadly he probably hasn’t been. Still, thankfully the show ended up on AMC and ratings have dictated that not having zombies would have been stupid as TwD blows away everything else on TV these days.
So how did it land on AMC? “We were very concerned early on what kind of gore we would be able to film, what kind of boundaries we were going to be able to push with the show. AMC has this thing called ‘Fearfest’ and to ease our minds they edited together this four-minute clip of the most horrendous bits of gore that you could see on the network. It was just four solid minutes of… people getting ripped apart and guts going everywhere. We were like, well, if they could show this then, all right, we’re good.”
Via: Fashion Times.
