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With season three premiere, The Walking Dead has its highest ratings ever

The Walking Dead returned last night for its third season premiere and audiences feasted upon it.

AMC issued an announcement about how big the audience was for the premiere episode and you could practically see the smiles on the programming execs faces between the lines. It turns out that the season three Walking Dead episode attracted 10.9 million viewers, which works out to a 7.4 household rating.

Those 10.9 million viewers were the show's biggest audience ever, surpassing the second season's premiere episode by more than 50%.

Munsters remake Mockingbird Lane to be broadcast October 26

Even though the network hasn't decided to pick it up as a series, NBC has made the announcement that it will broadcast the pilot of Mockingbird Lane on October 26. A reimagining of the classic 1960s series The Munsters, which centered on a family of monsters that lived in a creepy suburban neighborhood home, Mockingbird Lane will air before a new episode of Grimm on the peacock network that night.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to host 2013 Oscars

After the gamble two years ago to inject new blood into the Academy Awards show failed to materialize in critical or commercial success, the producers of the event have decided to place their bet on someone edgier. It turns out that individual is Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Fox's Family Guy cartoon series as well as American Dad and The Cleveland Show. Let's also not forget that MacFarlane's first foray into motion pictures, Universal's Ted movie, made over $200 million dollars at the box office this past summer.

Revolution has strong ratings in its second week on the air

It's almost an unspoken rule about science fiction shows on one of the four big networks: they don't last very long, so you better tune in to watch them when they're young. However, a positive indication that this trend could be broken for NBC's new post-apocalyptic hour-long drama Revolution was seen in the show's ratings for its second episode.

Guillermo del Toro's vampires of The Strain get FX pilot, possible series

Besides being a workaholic, Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro co-wrote three books with Chuck Hogan about vampires taking over the world. The Strain was first published back in 2010, followed by The Fall and then The Night Eternal, the final novel in the series. FX Network has now asked for a pilot to be co-written, produced and directed by del Toro, with the intention of picking up The Strain as a new series for the network.

Vigilant superhero show sells to Fox Network

Superheroes are still in. Case in point: the Fox Network, ever eager to remain the top destination pick for tweens, teens and young adults, bought an idea for one from 24 producer Howard Gordon and Chronicle screenwriter Max Landis. This new show is called Vigilant, and it circles around a young woman who dresses up as a vigilante to fight corruption in the police force as well as bad guys on the street.

Watch: HBO's Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Girl, gets a trailer

HBO will premiere their latest two-hour made-for-television movie, The Girl, on Saturday, October 20. For anyone that's interested in the movies of Alfred Hitchcock, considered one of the modern masters of cinema and suspense, or the making of Hitchcock's 1963 nature gone wild film The Birds, this is shaping up to be a picture that you need to watch.

Toby Jones plays the portly Hitchcock in The Girl while British-born Sienna Miller plays Tippi Hedrin, a young actress trying to carve out her name in show business. The Girl centers on the adversarial and even stalker-like relationship that Hitchcock reportedly had with Hedrin during the filming of The Birds, and how her job with the filmmaker nearly caused her to quit acting.

A new Wonder Woman show in development

It's been less than a year since David E. Kelley tried to bring Wonder Woman back to the small screen. While Kelley's version of the DC Comics heroine wound up being made into a pilot episode that starred Adrianne Palicki, it wasn't given the greenlight by NBC. But now there's a new attempt brewing to bring the Amazonian back onto the airwaves, and this time it's being developed for The CW Network.

Beverly Hills Cop TV show lands at CBS

When there's no more room left in cinemas, the dead movie franchises will play on television set as new TV series. OK, so I'm paraphrasing Romero's Dawn of the Dead, but you get my drift, don't you?

CBS has won a bidding war and will broadcast an hour-long TV series based on Beverly Hills Cop, the once-hugely popular movie that starred once-huge Hollywood star Eddie Murphy. Murphy will be involved with the new BHC TV show, both as an executive producer (along with The Shield's creator Shawn Ryan) as well as star periodically in the show.

Two Stanley Kubrick TV shows in the works

Plans are afoot to turn two of movie director Stanley Kubrick's ideas into television shows. One will be a made-for-TV movie while the other is now envisioned as a mini-series.

The son-in-law of Kubrick, Philip Hobbs, and another person named Steve Lanning are developing the projects under their Philco Films banner.

Downslope is the title of the proposed television movie. Set in 18th century America, it would follow the revenge-fueled mission of defeated Confederate Army Colonel John S. Mosby, and his path to exact vengeance on General Custer.

Black Sails pirate show finds its director

I bet that you didn't know that there was a pirate TV show in development. It's called Black Sails, and it will air on the Starz cable channel in 2014. While that's still a good chunk of time away from us, filming on the series is slated to commence before the end of the year in Cape Town, Africa.

Starz has just hired the director of the pilot episode for Black Sails, and it's Neil Marshall who will call the first shots. The director of The Descent, Doomsday, Centurion and an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones show, Marshall is an experienced genre director and is likely to add his kinetic style of action to the show's production.

Joss Whedon to direct, co-write ABC's S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot

The director of this summer's Avengers movie will direct the pilot episode for ABC's S.H.I.E.L.D., the proposed television series set within what's now being called the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition to directing the pilot episode, Whedon will co-write the script for the show with brother Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, wife of Jed.

All three will also executive produce the series, if it goes to series, along with Jeph Loeb, comic book writer-turned-screenwriter and producer, and Jeffrey Bell.

Star Wars: Detours announced

The Robot Chicken guys have probably the best place to be if you're a Star Wars fan and working in the 'hood. With an inside connection to George Lucas already established through three Star Wars: Robot Chicken specials (they got the blessing of The Lucas as well as Lucasfilm for 'em), and the creative teeth cut on parodying the Star Wars universe, it makes sense for them to want to spend more time in that galaxy from long ago.

Ciaran Hinds rules in Game of Thrones

Welsh-born thespian Ciaran Hinds has been cast as the King-Beyond-the-Wall, aka Mance Rayder, in Game of Thrones' third season.

The 57-year-old Hinds has appeared on HBO before playing Julius Caesar in Rome, the big-budgeted historial drama. He's also appeared in There Will Be Blood, the recent Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Carter and Steven Spielberg's Munich.

Trailer #2: Doctor Who series 7

It's coming up on five months since the shakycam trailer for Doctor Who's seventh series (reboot era) and the time has come for a legitimate one. BBC America just released this tasty preview of some of the action to be expected in the Doctor's new adventures with his married companion couple Amy and Rory. There's Daleks, Weeping Angels, a cyborg cowboy, dinosaurs on a spaceship and some new mech guys who are very cross with the Doctor. Watch and see for yourself: