Why You Should Be Glad Fox Passed On "The Walking Dead"

Deadline brings us the following from Kevin Reilly, Fox's entertainment chairman:

Speaking of The Walking Dead, Reilly shared an anecdote of how he originally bought Frank Darabont’s script while at NBC. “But we were at the bottom of the ratings. I told him: ‘Really Frank, a zombie thing?!’” After the session, Reilly admitted that had it aired on NBC, The Walking Dead “would have probably been a little less intense and a little less interesting to the audience.”