This week, the Los Angeles Times pushes for an Emmy nomination for Andrew Lincoln, while the New York Post discusses how The Walking Dead has influenced the broadcast networks. Plus, the drama's pilot is considered one of the all-time best by Complex. Read on for more:

• The Los Angeles Times recommends that the Emmys recognize Andrew Lincoln: "This season, he finally cracked and, whew, did you feel the grief and fatigue pouring out of him."

• The New York Post uses The Walking Dead as an example for why broadcast networks are exploring shortened and divided seasons, a move that enables AMC to "tout each return as a big event."

• Complex names The Walking Dead to its list of the 50 best TV pilots of all time, calling the first episode "one of the best pieces of visual zombie fiction ever made."

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This week, New York uses The Walking Dead as an example in its article on how to write a TV drama, while a new Season 4 photo of Rick and a walker in the woods gets coverage from E! Online, USA Today and others. Plus, New York describes the drama's storytelling style. Read on for more:

• New York's primer on how to write a TV drama cites Rick as an example for Rule 1A: "Start with an anti-hero. Make him middle-aged."

• E! Online and USA Today spotlight the first Season 4 photo, depicting Rick in the woods with a zombie. Deadline, HitFix, the Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Variety, TheWrap and Zap2it also ran the photo.

• New York cites The Walking Dead, with its "gritty, run-and-gun B-picture" storytelling style, to argue that TV is very much a director's medium.

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This week, The Guardian talks to Andrew Lincoln about working in America, while Greg Nicotero's zombie school is featured in CarterMatt and Den of Geek. Plus, Forbes cites technology as a key to The Walking Dead's success. Read on for more:

• Andrew Lincoln gleefully tells The Guardian that The Walking Dead has liberated him as an actor because "in America I've been allowed to go grey and carry a gun."

• CarterMatt spotlights AMC's "rather awesome" video of Greg Nicotero's zombie school. Den of Geek tells viewers to take "a look at some of the sweet zombie moves."

• Forbes credits technology -- namely AMC's strategy of "making their hit series more readily available to audiences quickly growing accustomed to online entertainment" -- for The Walking Dead's ratings success.

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This week, Larry Gilliard wins the part of Bob Stookey in Season 4 of The Walking Dead, while Steven Yeun is cast in a film to be directed by Mike Cahill. Plus, Michael Rooker talks about how easy it was to work with Norman Reedus. Read on for more:

• Larry Gilliard, Jr. has joined the Season 4 cast, playing Bob Stookey, "a former Army medic who is deeply haunted by his past -- both before and after the apocalypse," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

• Deadline reports that Steven Yeun has won a role in Mike Cahill's new movie I Origins.

• Michael Rooker speaks with Conversations LIVE about getting along so well with Norman Reedus that the actors really felt like brothers, saying, "We just hit it off you know on the set, and we just kept on doing it."

• Steven Yeun gives his impression of Season 3 to Wetpaint, observing, "It was no-holds-barred, kind of like Volume 11. It was really great, and we got to tell some amazing stories and kind of ramp up the energy."

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This week, Steven Yeun speaks with The Canadian Press and credits apocalypse fears for The Walking Dead's success, while The Wall Street Journal looks to the undead drama for investment advice. Plus, IGN offers its list of the drama's top 25 zombies. Read on for more:

• Steven Yeun discusses all things Glenn with The Canadian Press and also cites "the idea of how do you come back from this apocalyptic situation and stay alive" for the show's runaway success.

• The Wall Street Journal offers investing advice gleaned from The Walking Dead.

• IGN lists The Walking Dead's top 25 "glorious, gory" zombies.

• In an interview with Marvel.com, Norman Reedus talks about trying to make sure his voice for the Punisher in Iron Man: Rise of Technovore wasn't "too much like Daryl." ComicBook.com thinks Reedus "totally nails the part of The Punisher with a tough, gruff voice."

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This week, Greg Nicotero instructs Bloomberg Businessweek in the art of zombie walking, while Lori's demise is one of Paste's most shocking deaths. Plus, Indiewire thinks The Walking Dead could have a chance at an Emmy nod. Read on for more:

• Greg Nicotero tells Bloomberg Businessweek how to walk like a zombie, advising, "Imagine that you walked out of a bar at 2:00 in the morning."

• The Walking Dead is No. 7 on Paste's list of TV's most shocking deaths because of the "harsh circumstances" of Lori's demise.

• Indiewire thinks The Walking Dead has a chance at getting a best drama series Emmy nomination.

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This week, Gale Anne Hurd speaks with IGN about the Governor's continued survival, while Norman Reedus discusses Season 4 with Hollywood Life. Plus, Ad Age explains why The Walking Dead is so popular in China. Read on for more:

• IGN interviews Gale Anne Hurd, who talks about why the Governor is still alive: "there's more to be done with not only the character, but with the conflict that we get to see, the difference in leadership between the Governor and Rick."

• Norman Reedus tells Hollywood Life that the Season 3 Finale was "about who is becoming what in that world. Carl, what he has become, Rick what he has become, what Daryl has become."

• Ad Age discusses the popularity of American TV shows in China, where The Walking Dead is able to attract "well-educated professionals in tier-one cities."

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Today the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced their nominees for the 17th annual Webby Awards, and The Walking Dead - Cold Storage webisodes were honored with nominations in the Writing and Drama categories.

The nominations are part of three netted by AMC.com this year, with the episode behind-the-scenes video series Inside Breaking Bad getting a nod for Branded Entertainment Unscripted. (Click here to learn more about Breaking Bad's nomination.)

In the Best Writing category, The Walking Dead faces Veteran Pictures Studio's Adirondack, Paramount Pictures' Burning Love, Stun Creative's Presidential Clippings and DDB NY's Hashtag Killer for the award.

In the Drama category, The Walking Dead is nominated alongside Yahoo!'s Tom Hanks' Electric City, Zanzibar Films' Cuckoo, Pereira & O'Dell's The Beauty Inside and chasing the hill's Chasing the Hill.

The winners will be announced during a ceremony on Tue., Apr. 30.

Click here to vote for The Walking Dead - Cold Storage to win the Best Drama People's Choice Webby Award.

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This week, Laurie Holden and Dallas Roberts discuss Andrea and Milton's final moments, while Steven Yeun visits Conan O'Brien the night after Michael Rooker and Melissa McBride invade the talk show. Plus, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and Norman Reedus preview Season 4. Read on for more:

• Laurie Holden talks about Andrea's death with TVLine: "I'd like to think Andrea's death will have meaning." Holden tells The Hollywood Reporter that Andrea's final moment was "perfect, organic and true to the character. It couldn't have been penned more beautifully."

• TV Guide is shocked by Andrea's death because The Walking Dead has killed off "a character who is still alive in the comics more than 100 issues in."

• Dallas Roberts discusses with The Hollywood Reporter the Governor's plan to have zombie Milton kill Andrea: "That's right in the Governor's wheelhouse of being such a cruel psychopath." Roberts talks more death with New York, Entertainment Weekly and CNN.

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