Also this summer.Īmong the best of the many Western series cluttering the TV landscape in the '50s, CBS' weekly, half-hour Wanted: Dead or Alive was introduced in pilot form as an episode of another Western, Trackdown, on March 7, 1958. (The network also just ordered a pilot for The Messengers, about a group of people who are killed, then resurrected, after something crashes into Earth.)In July comes FX's The Strain - created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, and executive produced by Lost's Carlton Cuse - which stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as an epidemiologist charged with preventing a mysterious viral outbreak from destroying humanity. Among the upcoming shows that revolve around a dystopian future: The CW's The 100 (debuting Wed., March 19, at 9/8c), which follows a group of juvenile delinquents who are shipped from a space station back to Earth in order to see whether it's inhabitable a century after a nuclear holocaust. Led by shows including AMC's The Walking Dead, TNT's Falling Skies and NBC's Revolution, postapocalyptic TV is blowing up - and a lot more of it is on the way."There's a huge appeal right at the moment," says Revolution executive producer Rockne S. If it's the end of the world as we know it, TV feels fine. Zombies, Power Outages, Global Pandemics: Why TV Is Embracing the Apocalypse
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