1:26 pm • 15 November 2011 • 29 notes •
Just about every relevant TV network is jumping on the Zom Com bandwagon following MTV’s Death Valley. These are the ones I know of. Let me know if I missed any.
1. Awakening
This CW show will follow two sisters growing up during a zombie outbreak. The zombies here will lead normal lives rather than walk around moaning and biting. Conflict does, however, arise: a war between the living and “pre-dead” eventually breaks out and the sisters find themselves on opposite sides. While, interestingly, it doesn’t sound as black-and-white as the typical “kill the zombies” scenario, it also isn’t yet clear what about these zombies is zombie-like. Will they just be ugly regular people?
2. Zeros
Similar to Death Valley, Zeros will be a half-hour single camera comedy on Syfy about the Zombie Extermination and Removal Operations company, charged with getting rid of zombies who have broken through a barrier separating them from the rest of the city. Syfy is not known for sitcoms, though it is known for rebranding and skirting the edges of what a science fiction channel might be. Last year, it commissioned a script from Happy Madison about former actors on a sci-fi show who hit rock bottom, to be played by Jonathan Silverman and Michael Rosenbaum.
3. Dave’s Dead
Fox bought this series from Elizabeth Banks and husband Max Handleman. All we know is that it is described as “Shaun of the Dead” meets “My Name is Earl” and will be executive produced by Eric Siegel and Eric D. Wasserman, recently of Traffic Light.
4. Zombies vs. Vampires
Already a combination of Zeros and Awakening, NBC’s entry will be a “fun buddy cop procedural” in a world where medicated zombies co-exist with the living. It was created by Austin Winsberg of Jake in Progress and will be produced by, among others, McG.
