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If you’re Canadian, have digital cable and a love of zombies be sure to check out the world premiere of Zombiemania on Space tonight at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific. Zombiemania is an hour-long documentary by Halifax based Sorcery Films that looks at cinematic zombies and why some folks, like me and you, are fascinated with them. Zombie culture notables George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead, Tom Savini, actor and special effects make-up master, Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, as well as Wade Davis, the anthropologist, ethnobiologist and author of The Serpent and The Rainbow are just a few of those interviewed. As well as interviews we will see clips from the past 70 years of zombie movie history.

My PVR is set.

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“Babylon Fields” is an upcoming, 1-hour dramatic CBS TV pilot, set to film in Long Island, New York mid-March.

Premise of the show has resurrected dead people aka ‘zombies’, working at normal jobs.

Michael Cuesta will direct from a teleplay by Michael Atkinson and Gerald Cuesta.

Amber “Joan of Arcadia” Tamblyn will star, playing ‘Janine Wunch’.

Casting is still looking for:

‘JIMMY VISKUPIC’

22. One of ‘Lester Viskupic’’s sons, kind, and level-headed, he’s scared of the zombies, not to mention his dad’s sudden military nut-job act. Jimmy wears a metal crutch on his arm and sports withered, shortened legs. He ushers ‘Shirley’ and ‘Janine’ inside the house for their safety and worries when Janine runs off to confront ‘Ernie Munch’.

‘DALE’

22. He is Jimmy’s dimbulb ex-jock brother; probably not the best man for the job of mixing chemicals to create bombs in the Viskupic make-shift military production line.

[source SNEAKPEEK.CA]

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CBS picks up ‘Babylon’

CBS: Pickup — “Babylon Fields,” an hourlong zombie-themed hour described by CBS as a “sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy-drama where the dead are rising and as a result, lives are regained, families restored and old wounds reopened.” Gerald Cuesta and Michael Atkinson wrote the pilot and will serve as supervising producers. Michael Cuesta, who directed the pilot for “Dexter,” will exec produce and helm via 20th Century Fox Television.

[source Variety.com]

Ooh! This sounds like fun. It’s been described as Desperate Housewives with zombies. While reading I realized it may be based on the French film, They Came Back or Les Revenants which wasn’t terrible movie, although not the usual gory zombie fare.

The series is scheduled to premiere on CBS on June 1st, 2007.

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More NSFW language ahead in this full episode of Danger 50,000 Volts (26:37). Watch it before it goes away:

Danger 50,000 Volts: Zombies. Special episode of the channel 5 progamme staring Nick Frost & Simon Pegg stars of Shaun of the Dead.

Holy shit I love these guys. Too bad they don’t want to make a sequel for Shaun of the Dead. Oh well this is good anyway and I can pick up the entire series on DVD at Amazon.ca.

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