Summary of the 5 Newspaper Articles and Websites that I Have Found about The Walking Dead

By Elliot Maunder

In this presentation I am going to be analysing 5 different newspaper articles for the American TV Drama ( The Walking Dead) and I am going to be explaining what information the cuttings are giving and what articles provides the most information about the TV drama. I am also going to be doing a summary about 5 websites which are about the American TV series The Walking Dead and I am going to be analysing each website and saying which website has more information about the series

The History of the Show

The Walking Dead was originally a comic book series written and created by Robert Kirkman which have been very successful and the comic book series was first issued in 2003 and has won awards such as the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series in 2010

The Walking Dead first came out in 2010 and the first episode got a view of 5.35 million the show got great reviews so the show got renewed for a second season with extended amount of episodes. The second season went successfully and got nominated for different awards such as the writers guild of America award and the golden globe awards and the show ever since has been renewed for a third and forth season in December 2012 . The TV show has great reviews especially for the season 3 premiere with 10.9 million views.

Ever since the walking dead has been on TV further things have developed e.g. different videos games released for the show ect.

Newspaper Article 1

In the first article that I found the information that is in there is talking about the walking dead being a much darker program than the comic book actually and it is talking about the characters being similar to the ones in the comic book. The article also talks about what the show is like and says things such as “ If you haven't seen this show yet, stop what your doing immediately get ready to be hooked. The article also has a brief description of what happens at the start of the walking dead and a brief intro to the story but what it also has is a brief description of the next episode that’s on so the newspaper article does provide some information but not enough information about the TV drama

Newspaper Article 2

In the second Article its an actor who plays the character (Merle Dixon) and he talks about what its been like for him on the walking dead and he also discusses the future of the walking dead in season 3 so this article may not provide much information about the history of the walking dead but it does provide future information about it for example he is asked the question “do you think the relationship between Daryl and Carole will continue to blossom across season 3 “ and another question that was asked was “ Daryl's become ricks go to guy in the absence of Shane. Will merle drive a wedge between that? “ and questions like that will revel the future history of the walking dead so this article does provide some future information about the television series.

Newspaper Article 3

In the third article that I found about the walking dead on mtv , it is talking about what could happen in the future of the show after the mid season finale so it is providing information which could happen in the future of the history of the walking dead . It doesn’t discuss any of the past history of the walking dead but it does go on about what can happen in the future with certain popular characters so it does provide a good source of information for example it mentions “ the shows ranks are boosted by the arrival of Tyreeses party “ so this is providing information that the show is getting more popular when they introduce more characters from the comic book series.

Newspaper Article 4

In the forth article that I have found its someone's review on the walking dead series and they describe how they enjoyed the series and all about the new characters which makes season 3 and the article has a brief description about the new characters and how they will attract viewers who read the comic book to the series.

This article does provide some information about the history of the show but its just a brief description about it but it is mainly just a review about the past seasons and what's installed for the third season.

Newspaper Article 5

The fifth article on the walking dead is talking about what happened on the first and second episode of the walking dead and it is explaining in detail what happened in theses episodes for example it says “ last week we left our gang of plucky zombie killers in a bad place, Sophia is missing and Carl was shot.

The article does explain quite a good source of information it gives quite a good description of The Walking Dead and talks about what's happening with each characters in the episode and what's happening with them for example “ back at the rv, Tdog is having a hard time , his arm is infected”.

Over all this article does provide a lot of information about the first two episode's of season 2 in the walking dead it gives full descriptions what's going on with each character and the state they are in at the moment so this article is very informative about the history of The Walking Dead.

Website one

The first website that I found with information about the walking dead was channel 5 . There is quite a bit of information on this website but the information is not that informative it only has episodes to view a brief information page about the characters for example it just explains who a character is and that’s all the information they provide for them. The website also shows cast photos and some video clips so I find that channel 5 does provide information but not a lot of information which goes into detail about the TV series.

Website 2

The second website that I found provides much more information than the last one because the website provides information such as character profiles episodes games, a news letter photos shop ect but the website still provides basic information about the TV show and its characters it still have a brief description about the characters and it doesn't go into detail about the characters so this website is an improvement from the first one but it still isn't completely up to scratch

Website 3

The third website provides very little information about the TV show , the website is mainly to promote the walking dead magazine because the pages which are displayed are news and features which just describes what's in the latest issue and there other links showing you how to describe to the walking dead magazine and how you can purchase back issues so this website doesn’t provides no information about the TV show just promotes the magazine .

Website 4The forth website that I found provides all the information that you can get about the walking dead it has different sections talking about the TV show , the comic book, the video games and it has character profiles for every single character in the series including characters which have only appeared once and it tells you everything about the characters , there back story's all about them before the show and it tells every moment they had in the show and it even tells you information about what the characters killed e.g. number of zombies killed , characters that have been killed ect.

The other good thing about this website is that it tells you the whole story about the walking dead in perfect detail explaining what happens every moment and it also explains what happened in the past before the zombie outbreak began.

Website 5

The fifth website does provide some information about the show for example it shows an episode guide giving a brief description about each episode and it also gives you the opportunity to watch episodes online and it lets you view the actors profiles who star in the show and provides information about the past shows that the actors have started in and the website also shows the publics reviews about the show so the website does provide a brief description about the TV show but it doesn’t give all the information that it should do.

Conclusion Overall I think that the forth website that I found provides the most information because the walking dead wiki website provides all the information that you could ever need about the TV show, the characters, the plot ect and it also goes into back story information and characters which have only had a brief role in the TV show so walking dead wiki is the best website that I have found yet for information about the TV show .The newspaper cuttings that I found also provide quite a lot of information about the TV show and other peoples opinions about the show but overall I find that the websites are a much better source of information because you can find everything you want on the websites .