Sunday, August 14, 2011

The battle to produce the best TV show



I found this recent article from Huffington Post quite interesting. In a nutshell, the creator of FX show Sons of Anarchy, Kurt Sutter, has called out rival American cable channel AMC for prioritising Mad Men over its other two creations, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. So much so that AMC apparently fired TWD's creator Frank Darabont due to budget cuts, although it was reported that he had quit. Wonder what the truth is?

Sutter ranted on Twitter:
"no one else wants to f*cking say it, but the greed of mad men is killing the other two best shows on tv -- breaking bad and walking dead."

As a huge fan of all three shows, I'm intrigued to watch this play out. Is Sutter right? I'd hate to think that the quality of any of these shows will suffer as they're some of the best being made at the moment.  I love Mad Men, but it would be unfair for Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead to be the sacrificial lambs.

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