Could this be the new norm? There are a lot of forums/shows/etc devoted to survivalism and doomsday prepping.
Bunker Mentality: The booming business of Doomsday
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/07/bunker-mentalitythe-booming-business-doomsday/
A new show on The Discovery Channel: 'Doomsday Bunkers' shows how one man is helping people prepare for Armageddon
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...people-prepare-for-armageddon/?intcmp=related
Best Car to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/05/18/best-car-survive-zombie-apocalypse/?intcmp=related
Fall TV pilot trends: beasts, maids and survivalists
http://www.vancouversun.com/enterta...+beasts+maids+survivalists/6257701/story.html
SURVIVORS
AMCs hit The Walking Dead is wildly admired among the writers and producers who come up with show ideas, and its influence may help explain why theyve churned out several shows about people on the edge of survival. In lieu of zombies, they face energy crises, brutal competition, and a desperate struggle to build the world anew.
What else were you expecting in 2012? Apocalypse dramas were some of the Mayans favorite shows.
ABCs The Last Resort, from Shawn Ryan, follows a renegade nuclear submarine crew that refuses to deploy its weapons, and instead declare themselves a sovereign nation. With nukes.
NBCs Revolution, from Lost producers J.J. Abrams and Brian Burke, imagines a world where all sources of energy suddenly disappear. Brilliant Breaking Bad bad guy Giancarlo Esposito plays a tough but genteel Southern military who may not be as he appears.
Fans of dystopian realities just miiiiiight see similarities, meanwhile, between the CWs The Selection and The Hunger Games. The pilot, based on an upcoming series of books, is described as an epic futuristic romance in which a poor young woman is chosen by lottery to compete to become the queen of a war-torn nation. Could it ride the popularity of the upcoming Jennifer Carpenter film the way CWs Vampire Diaries did the success of the Twilight movies? That seems to be the idea.
NBCs Frontier is also in survivalist mode, though it looks at our rugged past, not our doomed (well, according to television) future. The Western, from Shaun Cassidy, follows 1840s pioneers. (While they arent survivalist shows, two others sound like they similarly could have come from the mind of Fight Club and Survivor writer Chuck Pahlaniuk. An untitled Kevin Williamson project for Fox and the CWs Cult, from writer Rockne OBannon, are both about criminal cults.)
Bunker Mentality: The booming business of Doomsday
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/07/bunker-mentalitythe-booming-business-doomsday/
A new show on The Discovery Channel: 'Doomsday Bunkers' shows how one man is helping people prepare for Armageddon
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...people-prepare-for-armageddon/?intcmp=related
Best Car to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/05/18/best-car-survive-zombie-apocalypse/?intcmp=related
Fall TV pilot trends: beasts, maids and survivalists
http://www.vancouversun.com/enterta...+beasts+maids+survivalists/6257701/story.html
SURVIVORS
AMCs hit The Walking Dead is wildly admired among the writers and producers who come up with show ideas, and its influence may help explain why theyve churned out several shows about people on the edge of survival. In lieu of zombies, they face energy crises, brutal competition, and a desperate struggle to build the world anew.
What else were you expecting in 2012? Apocalypse dramas were some of the Mayans favorite shows.
ABCs The Last Resort, from Shawn Ryan, follows a renegade nuclear submarine crew that refuses to deploy its weapons, and instead declare themselves a sovereign nation. With nukes.
NBCs Revolution, from Lost producers J.J. Abrams and Brian Burke, imagines a world where all sources of energy suddenly disappear. Brilliant Breaking Bad bad guy Giancarlo Esposito plays a tough but genteel Southern military who may not be as he appears.
Fans of dystopian realities just miiiiiight see similarities, meanwhile, between the CWs The Selection and The Hunger Games. The pilot, based on an upcoming series of books, is described as an epic futuristic romance in which a poor young woman is chosen by lottery to compete to become the queen of a war-torn nation. Could it ride the popularity of the upcoming Jennifer Carpenter film the way CWs Vampire Diaries did the success of the Twilight movies? That seems to be the idea.
NBCs Frontier is also in survivalist mode, though it looks at our rugged past, not our doomed (well, according to television) future. The Western, from Shaun Cassidy, follows 1840s pioneers. (While they arent survivalist shows, two others sound like they similarly could have come from the mind of Fight Club and Survivor writer Chuck Pahlaniuk. An untitled Kevin Williamson project for Fox and the CWs Cult, from writer Rockne OBannon, are both about criminal cults.)
