Hong Kong – July 22, 2013 – The most watched series in cable TV history, “The Walking Dead’ will return to audiences in 120+ FOX International Channels (FIC) markets the week of October 13th, as part of FIC’s continued commitment to broadcast the series near AMC’s launch date-and-date globally.
In this post-apocalyptic world, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors continue their ongoing struggle to survive the threat of walkers as well as the dangers that lurk amongthe living. A 16 episode season of the series will air in two-parts with the first eight hours kicking off the week of October 13th and returning February 2014 with the final eight episodes.
The zombie drama continues to break ratings records both domestically on AMC and worldwide across FIC’s 200 entertainment channels in 122 countries. Internationally Season 3 consistently ranked as the number one show on pay-tv, beating out all other competition in major markets and over-preforming all prior season averages.
In the highly anticipated new season, we find Rick and the group fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison. Sadly, in this brutal world, happiness is short-lived and walkers and outside threats are no match for danger brewing inside the fences. The group’s home and new way of life will be thoroughly tested, and their struggle to survive has never been so perilous. Season 4 also introduces several new characters including Bob Stookie (Lawrence Gilliard Jr., “The Wire”).
Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, “The Walking Dead” stars Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Scott Wilson, Melissa McBride, David Morrissey, Emily Kinney, DanaiGurira, Chad Coleman and Sonequa Martin-Green. The series is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Tom Luse and Greg Nicotero.
The Series has garnered two Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Prosthetic Make-up, a Golden Globe® Award nomination for Best Television Series- Drama and a WGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing Derivative New Media, among other accolades.
The Walking Dead Season 4 will premiere on the following FIC channels in Asia:
• Hong Kong & Southeast Asia – FOX Movies Premium, Sunday Oct 20 @ 10pm HKT/SIN
• Philippines – FOX, Saturday Oct 19 @ 8.55pm local time
• Taiwan – STAR Movies, Thursday Oct 17 @ 9pm local time
• Australia – FX, Monday Oct 14. Time @ 830pm local time
The trailer for The Walking Dead Season 4 can be viewed here: http://www.hightail.com/download/bWJyV28ySytiR0lzeHNUQw
About FOX International Channels
FOX International Channels (FIC) is 21st Century FOX’s international multi-media business. We develop, produce and distribute 300+ wholly- and majority-owned entertainment, sports, lifestyle, factual and movie channels in 48 languages across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. FIC’s core channel brands include FOX, FOX Sports, FOX Life and National Geographic Channel. FIC’s movie channels include FOX Movies, FOX Movies Premium, Star Chinese Movies and Moviecity. These networks and their related mobile, non-linear and high-definition extensions, reach over 1.6 billion cumulative households worldwide. In addition, FIC owns and operates two production studios and produces thousands of local programming hours for its wholly owned channels and third parties.
In Asia, FIC operates or distributes 30+ channel brands, including the FOX, STAR and National Geographic brands, with over 100 feeds across 14 markets. As the leading pay-TV network in the region, we reach more than 550 million cumulative subscribers across Asia Pacific and the Middle East with offices in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Australia, New Zealand and the UAE. For more information, please visit www.foxinternationalchannels.com.
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