Gimple first joined the series based on the comics created by Robert Kirkman in season two and penned the third and seventh episodes, co-writing the 10th episode with Mazzara. He wrote the sixth and upcoming penultimate episodes of season three.
When Mazzara was promoted to showrunner after Frank Darabont's abrupt dismissal ahead of the season two premiere, Mazzara tapped Gimple as his No. 2.
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the walking dead is my favorite show on tv and i have always loved it, even when all everyone could do was hate on it. this being said, this first half of season 3 was by far my favorite run of the show (together with the ending run of season 2 maybe), so I thought the showrunner was doing an excellent job. therefore, sad to see him go and i hope this new guy can do as good as him, if not better!
ReplyDeleteIn all honestly...I'm torn between wanting the show to succeed and hoping that it fails just to teach the AMC execs a lesson. They're obviously not going through showrunners like this because the show is failing financially or creatively. It's a power play... 'run the show the way we want or we'll replace you' it's a bad precedent for tine industry...but the show is delivering good stuff...and I don't want to cut off the head to spite the tail.
ReplyDeleteI guess they have the mind set of easy come easy go....
ReplyDeleteThe episodes Gimple has written have turned out to be pretty good, so I'm not entirely worried. Hopefully though he doesn't just repeat Mazzara's artistic style though. He should implement his own vision to the show.
ReplyDeleteApparently Mazzara was forced out because of Kirkman.
ReplyDeleteThey have the biggest scripted tv show in practically a decade of television ratings erosion, much less on a paid cable channel and they keep firing their showrunners like this...I'm not an expert at this stuff, but that just doesn't seem like a very smart way to go about handling the show...
ReplyDeleteGiven all the flak they give to the Breaking Bad and Mad Men producers/directors/writers (whatever) on top of this, I wonder why anyone wants to sell their shows to AMC at all anymore? They may have started the resurgence in good cable tv shows, but FX, USA, and TNT are looking more and more approachable by the moment...
I totaly agree with you. I have no idea why AMC would want to jeopardize the succes of TWD with these constant changes. What more do they want? It's a rating's powerhouse and the viewers (mostly) love the show. IIRC they got their best ratings while Mazzara was showrunner. Why mess with it? It just seems so weird and stupid.
ReplyDeleteAnd if Kirkman was really behind Mazzara's leaving? Still a stupid move, IMO. I would rather keep Mazzara then Kirkman. He already made his most important contribution to the show by writing the original story, IMO. I for one wouldn't mind at all if the show became completely separate from the comics. Good showrunners don't grow on trees ...
I wonder if I should be worried some of his biggest credits are Chase, FlashForward and Life.
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