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My Top 10 TV Shows in 2012
Hey guys! I’m quite busy with Christmas coming up, but I still want to share some more 2012 lists. That’s why I’m posting this with my phone and the WordPress app. If the layout sucks – which will probably be the case – just concentrate on the content, please 
Here are my ten favorite TV shows of 2012 (or the ones I watched in 2012).
1. The Walking Dead
2. Hell on Wheels
3. The Killing (US)
4. American Horror Story Asylum
5. Dexter
6. Falling Skies
7. Once upon a time
8. Grimm
9. Body of Proof
10. The Good Wife
Thanks for reading! Feel free to share your own lists in the comment section!
Edit: I just replaced Revenge with Grimm. Totally forgot that.
Full List: 2012 Golden Globes Nominations
The Golden Globes 2012 nominations were announced this morning:
BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Claire Danes, Homeland
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Hello Hello,” Gnomeo and Juliet
“The Keeper,” Machine Gun Preacher
“Lay Your Head Down,” Albert Nobbs
“The Living Proof,” The Help
“Masterpiece,” W.E.
BEST ACTRESS, TV COMEDY
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Laura Linney, The Big C
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
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HBO Launches Inside True Blood Blog
Yesterday HBO launched their “Inside True Blood Blog”, a production blog, which will report on anything going on behind the scenes of the successful TV series “True Blood”. Check it our HERE!
Join the discussion about the Blog and other True Blood related websites HERE. You have to sign up, but it’s worth it and no ones will bite you!
My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
December 3, 2010
NYTimes.com
ZOMBIES are a value stock. They are wordless and oozing and brain dead, but they’re an ever-expanding market with no glass ceiling. Zombies are a target-rich environment, literally and figuratively. The more you fill them with bullets, the more interesting they become. Roughly 5.3 million people watched the first episode of “The Walking Dead” on AMC, a stunning 83 percent more than the 2.9 million who watched the Season 4 premiere of “Mad Men.” This means there are at least 2.4 million cable-ready Americans who might prefer watching Christina Hendricks if she were an animated corpse.
Statistically and aesthetically that dissonance seems perverse. But it probably shouldn’t. Mainstream interest in zombies has steadily risen over the past 40 years. Zombies are a commodity that has advanced slowly and without major evolution, much like the staggering creatures George Romero popularized in the 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead.” What makes that measured amplification curious is the inherent limitations of the zombie itself: You can’t add much depth to a creature who can’t talk, doesn’t think and whose only motive is the consumption of flesh. You can’t humanize a zombie, unless you make it less zombie-esque. There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies— that’s pretty much the spectrum of zombie diversity. It’s not that zombies are changing to fit the world’s condition; it’s that the condition of the world seems more like a zombie offensive. Something about zombies is becoming more intriguing to us. And I think I know what that something is.
My People’s Choice Awards
Here are the nominees of the People’s Choice Awards 2011! My choices for the award are in bold writing! What do you think? Who should win an award? Any artists, movies etc. you miss? By the way, you can vote here!
Favorite Movie
Alice in Wonderland
Inception
Iron Man 2
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Toy Story 3
Favorite Movie Actor
Johnny Depp
Leonardo DiCaprio
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Pattinson
Taylor Lautner
Favorite Movie Actress
Angelina Jolie
Jennifer Aniston
Julia Roberts
Katherine Heigl
Kristen Stewart
Favorite Action Movie
‘The Walking Dead’ Will Live On in a Second Season
Good news for undead zombies who consume the flesh of the living and the television viewers who love them: AMC said on Monday that it has officially ordered a second season of “The Walking Dead,” its original series adapted from the comic books written by Robert Kirkman about human survivors in a world overrun by the ambulatory deceased. (Catchy phrase, no?)
Ryan Murphy Brings a Bullying Story to ‘Glee’
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In the first five episodes of its sophomore season “Glee” has addressed topics as ephemeral as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and the music of Britney Spears, and as enduring as the nature of religious faith. In Tuesday night’s installment it turns to subject matter that is timely and also substantial: the episode, called “Never Been Kissed,” finds Kurt Hummel (an openly gay character played by Chris Colfer) antagonized by a bully who targets him because of his sexuality, and it addresses the consequences of Kurt’s decision to stand up to his tormentor.
Ryan Murphy, a creator and executive producer of “Glee,” has said this will be the first of several episodes in which its characters are affected by bullying. In the first part of a two-part interview, Mr. Murphy spoke with ArtsBeat about the ideas and themes that went into “Never Been Kissed.” (Part 2 of the conversation will be posted on Wednesday, after you’ve had a chance to watch the episode.)
Q.The issue of bullying – young people in general and gay people in particular – has recently become a flashpoint for discussion. How long have you been planning to use Chris Colfer’s character to tackle it?
South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over The Simpsons
Sitting in his lively studio in western Seoul, veteran animator Nelson Shin is clearly proud of the fact that he’s helped animate The Simpsons since the show first aired in 1989. The iconic cartoon propelled his production company Akom into becoming an overseas contracting hub for a lineup of Saturday-morning classics, including X-Men, Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs.
But when a California-based production studio asked Shin to animate a dark commentary about labor practices in Asia’s cartoon industry — the edgy title sequence for the The Simpsons’ episode “MoneyBART” — he and his staff raised a rare protest. The sequence, created by Banksy, the pseudonym for an unidentified British graffiti artist known for his anti-Establishment pranks, ran during the opening credits — a regular slot known to Simpsons fans as the “couch gag” because it’s a joke thrown in as the Simpsons family is seen gathering on the couch at the start of each episode. It depicted a dungeon-like complex where droning Asian animators worked in sweatshops, rats scurried around with human bones, kittens were spliced up into Bart Simpson dolls, and a gaunt unicorn punched holes into DVDs.
The Walking Dead Review: Exquisite Corpses
Are you team vampire or team zombie? It’s easy to see why vampires have a pop-culture edge. They clean up better for photo shoots. They embody sex — all that sharing of fluids — not decay. They are refined, orderly, even courtly. Zombies tend to be poor conversationalists.
But when it comes to bringing actual horror, it’s no contest. A vampire will nibble your neck, but zombies will take down your entire civilization. (Ever pragmatic, bloodsuckers prefer to keep their food supply sustainable.) The zombie apocalypse is the premise and setting of AMC’s new series The Walking Dead (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; premieres Halloween night). And judging by the first two episodes of its six-episode debut season, the scariest part of the series is not what the animated corpses do but what the surviving humans are driven to do.
