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Before fans of "The Walking Dead" fans get caught up in the next sure-to-be-perilous episode, let us reflect on a huge development from the last installment that was all but overlooked in the emotional aftermath surrounding the tragic death of Lori. Yes, I'm talking about the savage death of T-Dog, the brawny warrior who was one of the moral compasses of the small group of survivors caught up in the nightmare of the zombie apocalypse. Sacrificing his life to save Carol, T-Dog was literally ripped apart by murderous "walkers.

"The Walking Dead" is a violent TV show, but is it the most violent TV show on the air right now? It is if you include the zombie body count. According to a study conducted by the website Funeralwise.com, "The Walking Dead" was the most violent show on TV in the fall of 2012, with 308 dead (or undead) bodies shown in the eight episodes aired of the show's third season. That works out to about 38 bodies per episode. The second deadliest show on TV is Cinemax's actioner "Strike Back," which aired 10 episodes last year and averaged 26 deaths per episode.

Frank Ocean's critically acclaimed breakthrough, “Channel Orange,” just found an unlikely source of synergy: “Gossip Girl.” The soapy CW drama has announced that it will use a chunk of Ocean's Def Jam debut to score an episode of the hit show. “Gossip Girl” will feature five songs from the album, which by year's end will have nabbed spots on plenty of best-of lists and is a safe bet for multiple nominations at the upcoming Grammy Awards. Currently in its sixth and final season, "Gossip Girl" will exclusively feature the music of one artist for the duration of an episode for the first time.

NEW YORK -- As Zach Braff and the people behind “Veronica Mars” could tell you, crowd sourcing isn't a half-bad way to raise some money for a film. But can it enable new forms of creativity too? That's what the longtime Hollywood director Paul Verhoeven set out to learn. A while back, the pulp auteur behind movies such as "Basic Instinct" and "Total Recall" decided to throw open the doors - not to the bank, but to the screenwriting process.  The Dutch-born filmmaker wanted fans in his native Holland to contribute chapters to a script for a short feature.

In the category of “high-class problems,” having a show whose return is anticipated so feverishly that it's inevitably going to be something of a letdown is pretty near the top of the list, but that's the cross that Matt Weiner, creator of “Mad Men,” has to bear after Sunday's slow-moving, two-hour-plus season premiere, "The Doorway. " Things almost always get off to a slow start on this show, as if Weiner knows our brains might explode if too much happens right out of the gate, but even by those standards “The Doorway” was, until the last few minutes, a notably and, I think, willfully uneventful episode.

"Walking Dead" fans are a hearty lot -- they have to be in order to endure the shocking plot developments the show keeps throwing at them week after week. And Sunday's episode, "Killer Within," may have been one of the most jaw-dropping yet. For those who haven't seen "Killer Within," beware: Spoilers lie ahead. In the episode, two major characters, who had both been with the show since the beginning, met their untimely ends. T-Dog (IronE Singleton) and Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies)

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[SPOILERS AHEAD! Those who don't want to know recent plot developments on "The Walking Dead" should avoid this post].  "Adventures in Babysitting" has nothing on "The Walking Dead. " The core survivors in the hugely popular AMC drama already had their hands full battling flesh-eating zombies-- and, sometimes, each other. But in their next episode, the crew will start facing perhaps their biggest dilemma. And it's clothed in diapers. PHOTOS: On the set of 'The Walking Dead' Yes, it's a baby.

NBC's futuristic sci-fi series "Revolution" is turning to classic rock heroes Led Zeppelin to score its Thanksgiving-week episode. Two of the band's songs, "Kashmir" and "Since I've Been Loving You," are set to appear Monday on the   J.J. Abrams-produced series about an electricity-starved world.  Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones aren't so much endorsing the series as promoting their live album/home video collection "Celebration Day," to be released on Nov. 19. NBC began promoting the pairing of Led Zeppelin and "Revolution" after the conclusion of Monday night's episode and the Associated Press reported that the deal was facilitated by a little corporate cooperation.

Psychologist and columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who died Monday at the age of 85, won the top prize in 1955 on the popular TV game show "The $64,000 Question" on the subject of boxing. Smart, attractive and fearless, Brothers' media career quickly skyrocketed. Along with offering advice and expertise on countless talk shows for nearly six decades, Brothers had a secondary and lucrative career appearing as herself and as an actress in TV series and feature films including "The Love Boat," "Love, American Style," "The Munsters Today," "Baywatch,"  "The Larry Sanders Show," "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," "Exit to Eden," "Dear God," "The Howard Stern Show" and the 1993 episode "Last Exit to Springfield" on Fox's "The Simpsons.