AMC announced that The Walking Dead will add Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. to the show’s cast in the fourth season. Gilliard will play Bob Stookey, a character from the comic, who is having a hard time dealing with past and present horrors. The popular drama will return with new episodes in October.
VP Selina Meyer deals with a hostage situation that is resolved by the end of the episode. She visits Marines who have returned from Iraq to thank them for their services sends up demonstrating her toughness by firing a gun with the Secretary of Defense.
Mad Men tackles the death of Martin Luther King on the latest episode, “The Flood.” Though we get to see how many characters react to the unfortunate development, not much attention is paid to the African American experience of the news at the time.
Jackie and Kevin finalize their divorce at the beginning of the episode. She then accidentally hits him with her car, and she ends up as a patient in her own hospital. A cop flirts with her on her hospital bed and they end up going out for coffee by the end of the episode.
After last week’s fast-moving and fire-filled outing, this Sunday finds many of the Game of Thrones characters looking to the past as the show reaches the halfway point of season three. The central theme of “Kissed by Fire” is how the past shapes the future, with multiple characters mulling the past actions and inactions that have brought them to where they are today.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with HBO to develop a series based on the Japanese Manga series Monster, written by Naoki Urasawa.
NBC has renewed freshman series Revolution and Chicago Fire, along with Grimm, Parenthood, and veteran Law & Order: SVU. This is the first set of renewals announced by the network, with more announcements to be released in the near future. Many programs in the current line-up remain on the bubble.
