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The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. THIS WEEK: Weird Al, Ronda Rousey, M. Night Shyamalan, John Oliver and networks behaving badly.

Morgan We've had Chander Riggs' small screen dad Andrew Lincoln express his feelings about the death of his "son" Carl Grimes and Riggs leaving AMC's The Walking Dead both in song and in character, and now it's time to "say hello to The Bad Guy" and see how Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan) handled saying goodbye to[...]

While I had some very mixed thoughts on last night's Season 8 mid-season premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead (check out Bleeding Cool's recap video of 'Honor' here), I'd be a heartless, soulless freak if I didn't acknowledge that there were some truly heart-wrenching moments leading up to Carl's (Chandler Riggs) death His final words[...]

Welcome back to Bleeding Cool's weekly recap of AMC's The Walking Dead Season 8: Bring Out Your Dead! After a mid-season break that felt a lot longer than it actually was, we're back with our "revap" (review/recap) of the series' ninth episode: 'Honor': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgH2KwH0ll0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 'Negan is Going to Kill You Now' Sneak[...]

Glad to see you survived your mid-season break, and welcome back to Bring Out Your Dead!: Bleeding Cool’s The Walking Dead Live-blog! Tonight, we'll be taking a look at Season 8's ninth episode, 'Honor' as "All Out War" reaches its final stages.

Credit: AMC After a mid-season finale that saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his coalition beaten pretty hard but still not broken, a newly emboldened Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors have driven our heroes underground The Kingdom has been abandoned, with King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) captured Alexandria burns under Negan's "scorched earth" retribution The Hilltop[...]

Credit: AMC After a mid-season finale that saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his coalition beaten pretty hard but still not broken, a newly emboldened Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors have driven our heroes underground The Kingdom has been abandoned, with King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) captured Alexandria burns under Negan's "scorched earth" retribution The Hilltop[...]

Having been bitten by a walker during the mid-season finale, Carl revealed his fatal wound to dad Rick and Michonne (Danai Gurira) during the final minutes of the episode. Well, Entertainment Weekly has got you covered when it comes to an emotional gut punch, TWD fans! In an exclusive video that's both funny and touching, Lincoln[...]

The Weekly Static is our righteously desperate-yet-endearing look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that’s how it reads on paper… let’s see how this goes.

With the way things stand between Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) coalition and Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) Saviors going into The Walking Dead's Season 8 mid-season premiere this Sunday, maybe it's about time for the guys to take a seat and for the women to "Finish the Fight!" once and for all. That's the theme behind the following[...]

First? Cue the pointless speculation in 5…4…3… While the actress continues negotiating with AMC to return for The Walking Dead's ninth season, Lauren Cohan is trading walkers for wiretaps with her lead role in the ABC dramedy pilot Whiskey Cavalier Written and executive produced by Dave Hemingson, Cohan will star opposite Scandal's Scott Foley; with Bill Lawrence and[...]

With The Walking Dead returning to AMC this Sunday, that means it's time for Bleeding Cool to fire up the engines once again on Bring Out Your Dead!: our continuing weekly episode live-blog, resuming with Season 8's mid-season premiere this Sunday night, February 25, at 9 p.m ET. The show's mid-season finale saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln)[...]

Credit: AMC With less than a week to go before the show's mid-Season 8 return, AMC is reminding The Walking Dead fans who might still be caught up in Winter Olympic fever that the show has some serious advantages over the international competition I mean, strap skis onto some walkers and you could have a righteously[...]

With The Walking Dead set to return for the second-half of Season 8, AMC has released a new preview clip for the mid-season premiere that highlights Michonne (Danai Gurira) as she and Rick (Andrew Lincoln) struggle to secure Alexandria after a night of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors' "scorched earth" retribution First thing?[...]

Comedy Central renews Tosh.0, The CW expands their Sunday programming, first look at the new Karate Kid series Cobra Kai, and more from the past week in TV!

Credit: AMC We've seen underwater walkers and hill-rolling walkers; flaming walkers and parachuting walkers; but a fully nude walker? No, you're not reading a promo post for a PornHub or Cinemax take-off of The Walking Dead; we're talking about the actual AMC series, set to return for the second-half of its eighth season later this month[...]

Credit: AMC As Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) comes storming back home to Angelville for a deadly family reunion ahead of Preacher's Season 3, AMC is rounding out the L'Angelle clan with the additions of Betty Buckley (Supergirl, Split), Colin Cunningham (Falling Skies), Jeremy Childs (Nashville) and Liz McGeever (Star) to the cast in recurring roles. Betty Buckley[...]

Credit: AMC By now, it's no mystery to The Walking Dead fans that Morgan (Lennie James) will be leaving the series at the end of its eighth season to join the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead One question that still remains unanswered is exactly how Morgan will be departing the series Will Morgan die[...]

Justin Timberlake's comparably tame Super Bowl halftime show, Chrysler's questionable decision to use MLK in an ad, what the Game of Thrones creators' new Star Wars project could mean for HBO's Confederate, and more from the realm of TV this week!

With less than three weeks to go before The Walking Dead's mid-season 8 premiere, AMC has released the title and a brief synopsis for the season's tenth episode If there's one takeaway that can be pulled from it, it's that it's pretty clear this "All Out War" is coming to a head sooner rather than[...]

With less than a month to go before The Walking Dead's mid-season premiere, AMC's marketing machine has shifted into overdrive by releasing yet another trailer for the second-half of Season 8 But unlike what we've seen so far, this one doesn't hesitate in reminding us of the tragedy that awaits us when the series returns:[...]

The Weekly Static is our righteously desperate-yet-endearing look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that’s how it reads on paper, so let’s see how this goes…

Early reports are coming in on offers for 2018 broadcasts and Deadline is reporting that one of the hot names is actress Lauren Cohan who plays Maggie on AMC's The Walking Dead This will come as quite a shot to fans of the hit series as her character is alive and well on the show[...]

With less than a month to go, AMC has released a new teaser for the second-half of The Walking Dead's eighth season After a mid-season finale that saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his coalition beaten pretty hard but still not broken, they've been driven underground by a newly emboldened Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the[...]

Marvel Studio's Black Panther will have a sadly poignant connection to AMC's The Walking Dead with a tribute to John Bernecker, a stuntman who died tragically during the filming of the series' eighth season The 33-year-old had just completed stunt work on the upcoming film before heading to Senoia, Georgia, for filming on The Walking[...]

We're only starting to now understand what the company's endgame is, after a bit of a kerfuffle with the AMC Theatres chain. On Thursday, some MoviePass users experienced the fallout of the company cutting 10 large cities' AMC theaters from its service, without notice to subscribers. "Since the get-go, AMC has not been interested in collaborating with[...]

With about a month to go before The Walking Dead's Season 8 mid-season premiere, AMC has released two pieces of official key art for the show's return as well as a new overall synopsis for the second-half of the season. Promoting the tagline "The Last Stand," the main art highlights the trio of Rick Grimes (Andrew[...]

© IMDB The family and estate for late The Walking Dead stuntman John Bernecker have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against AMC, more than six months after Bernecker was killed while filming the eighth season of the hit series Susan Bernecker — John's mother — and his estate filed a civil suit late Tuesday in Georgia state court seeking[...]

***UPDATE***  As expected, AMC had something to say about Darabont's new lawsuit, issuing the following statement through their attorney, Orin Snyder of Gibson: "At the heart of this lawsuit — and all the litigation related to 'The Walking Dead' — is the greed of CAA Their goal is every dollar for themselves, with total disregard for contracts,[...]

Credit: Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com Frank Darabont's $280 million lawsuit against AMC is not the only one the network will face from The Walking Dead ex-showrunner Darabont and his agency CAA have filed a new, $10 million lawsuit against the cable network, claiming that new information has come to light that proves he is owed additional monies on top of[...]