The Walking Dead

On the two types of showrunners, and why the networks love, hate, and often need Harmon types.

An issue of The Goon taking down superheroes and the revival of ’90s favorite X-O Manowar highlight a roundup of recent comics.

This week, a reader asks us about cases where the hero is the worst aspect of a film or TV series.

The writer of Y: The Last Man, Runaways and the new Saga talks about the pleasure of making comics without a net.

It's now the highest-rated show of all blah blah blah.

You know, that one.

It wasn’t a good week for Luck—take sympathy on the series by watching its penultimate episode. Also: Ginnifer Goodwin is wanted for murder, and Homer versus the robots.

Bob’s Burgers is re-opened for business. Also: A new crime-fighting duo in Storybrooke, and Ryan Seacrest and Bravo join forces. (Terrifying, unstoppable forces.)

What is a GCB, anyway? Also: Russian hurlers, YouTube sensations, and neutered Tarantino.

The A.V. Club's Erik Adams counts down the best moments from the past week in television. (Warning: There will be spoilers.) 

The night Oscar ate TV. Also: All that remains on cable are zombies, horses, and Warwick Davis.

Television has shifted focus to the big picture, and that’s not always a good thing. 

The Simpsons hits 500 episodes. Also: Kenny Powers, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant are here to push your buttons. 

Late last year, AMC's The Walking Dead set the record for the highest ratings for a basic cable, non-sports program.

Does all quality TV have to be crammed into two nights a week out of a misguided sense of tradition?

Come fill a virtual seat for the Grammys, won’t you? Also, return of The Walking Dead, rise of the Comic Book Men, and more.

Either out of blithe ignorance or as a calculated act of passive-aggression from Frank Darabont, Variety seems to have spoiled the upcoming season of AMC’s The Walking Dead with an otherwise-innocuous casting report. And here we again...

AMC's Television Critics Association press tour session got a bit of a drag when Jon Hamm leaked a few days ago that Mad Men's fifth season would launch Sunday, March 25.

Now that we’re many months removed from Frank Darabont’s surprise ouster from The Walking Dead, it’s time to move on.

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Highlights from shows outside The A.V. Club’s best-of list. 

Who voted for which series? Which shows barely made the cut? And which less-heralded shows do you need to start DVRing? Read on.

We single out television’s most remarkable/strangest/curious accomplishments.

We're more excited for the Homeland finale than we are for just about anything that's ever happened to us. Also: A bunch of other stuff ends, football, and Closer-based cupcakes. 

What is a hang-out drama and why are they often compelling and frustrating at the same time?