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Dead Set – Episode One, Part Two

Brian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:02:06 +0000

Tensions mount inside the house as well as outside of it as the production ramps up for the elimination selection. As the big moment approaches, members of the crew notice their phones have ceased to function because of a downed network. A breaking news event that threatens to destroy their ratings, leaving everyone in a state of high anxiety.

Elsewhere, the limousine driver who was shepherding some talent to the production fights for his life as copious amounts of blood gush from a nasty wound on his neck. One woman tries to call the hospital, finding the lines all dead.

There’s a storm brewing in this episode, but all the characters are too absorbed with their lives to notice it.

About Dead Set from Wikipedia:

Dead Set is a BAFTA-nominated horror drama created by English writer Charlie Brooker. The series is set in the Big Brother house, and was first aired on E4 on 27 October 2008. The five episodes, aired over five consecutive nights, chronicle a zombie outbreak that strands the housemates and production staff inside the House, which quickly becomes a shelter from the undead.

Dead Set Episode 1 part 2 (youtube.com <- new window)

Zombie Roadkill Coming to FearNet

Brian — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:49:22 +0000

Let’s face it. It is going to be hard to enough to when all of our former friends, family, and neighbors become mindless flesh eating corpses. Now couple this fact with all the roadkill out there getting a second wind and you have a text book definition of a clusterfuck. This is the premise of a new web series titled, Zombie Roadkill and it stars none other than Thomas Haden Church.

Thomas Haden Church? It’s not a name that rolls off your tongue. You might remember him from the abysmal Spiderman 3 as Sandman. He was also in Sideways and if you check out his IMDB page, he’s been in a ton of other stuff as well.

Here’s a little snippet:

Haden Church is starring in a new FearNet web/on-demand series, Zombie Roadkill. He’ll play “a park ranger who partners with a teen (David Dorfman) to escape a portion of highway where roadkill is resurrected as flesh-eating zombie animals.” Don’t get too excited though — the series will only last six episodes, each of which will be four to five minutes each.

This sounds like it could be worth a watch. As always, more to come as I have it.

Thomas Haden Church Starring in New FearNet Web/On-Demand Series, Zombie Roadkill (slashfilm.com <- new window)

Deat Set – Episode One, Part One

Brian — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:35:40 +0000

Many thanks to Brian for pointing out this really cool television show. Dead Set is a British television show about the making of a reality television show during the oubreak of a zombie infestation. The production values are quite high, the acting it great, and the show does a wonderful job at weaving the scores of characters into rich tapestry that’s both high in conflict and riveting to watch.

The first part of the episode is the basic setup of the show. It depicts the narcissistic characters who are featured on the show as well as the narcissistic people who actually run it. We don’t see our first zombie until near the end.

I gotta say, having worked for a national broadcast company for the past five years, I can say that although the television types are a bit over the top, there is some truth to them. I also laughed near the end when the driver of two production personnel pull over to investigate a crashed vehicle without the slightest rebuke from the already late personnel. Had it been real life, the driver would have been clubbed with a sandwich and told to continue. After all, someone else was “bound” to pull over.

In any case, great show so far. Hat’s off to Brian for the tip.

Dead Set Episode 1 part 1 (youtube.com <- new window)

Natalie Portman Takes on the Undead in Pride Prejudice and Zombies

Brian — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:19:35 +0000

If you’ve always dreamed of seeing Natalie Portman star in a zombie film, you’re prayers have been answered. The BBC just announced that Portman will be starring and producing in the Jane Austen mashup of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There’s also a brief mention of the followup prequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls although there is no film version planned for it. Twenty bucks says they already sold the rights.

Is this a good thing? I’m not so sure. While Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a clever idea, it’s one of those things that grow stale kind of fast. Still, you can’t beat people in Victorian England getting eaten alive, so I’m gonna have to call it a draw. As for Portman herself, I’d rather see her as a zombie than zombie killer, but that’s just personal preference (or penance for the Star Wars prequels)

Natalie Portman to slay zombies in Austen adaptation (news.bbc.co.uk <- new window)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Television

Brian — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:40 +0000

For those of you who are fans of the mega hit Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, you get to watch your favorite piece of fiction translated into a low budget television series whereby everything you liked about the book will be distilled into a passing comment by a side character who was never in the book in the first place. I kid, of course. But not by much.

Actually, I’m a big fan a well funded television treatments. It’s the best way to present books because the format gives filmmakers the time to explore the work. For example, you simply cannot catch the spirit of War and Peace in a two hour movie, but the BBC nailed it in their twenty part television adaption (which featured a very young Anthony Hopkins at the start of his rather successful career).

Just a small point. The series actually hasn’t been confirmed yet, but the posting of the image along with a mention of it in a Twitter feed by the author sounds like it is well in the works. More to come as I have it.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Teaser Image? (dreadcentral.com <- new window)