If you’re one of the many just oozing with anticipation for the next season of The Walking Dead to start, AMC is throwing you a small but very juicy bone this weekend. During the season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad AMC will debut the first look at the second season of The Walking Dead. Breaking Bad is currently being called “the best show on television” so there should already be tons of viewers tuning in when it premieres Sunday, July 17th @ 10pm/9c on AMC. Most likely, it’ll probably receive a bigger boost in ratings thanks to this little treat.

Season 2 of The Walking Dead is set to premiere this coming October.

Comic-Con is around the corner and Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) is bringing out their big guns at the world’s leading pop culture convention with a star-studded lineup of performers and producers from Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Animation series.

Having already submitted their itinerary for the event with 16 different television series set to make appearances. 5 of which are completely new and coming soon and many panel sessions, screenings, media appearances and autograph signings will be underway.

Three new upcoming television shows and two new animated series are set to appear this year:

Alcatraz: Stars Sarah Jones and Jorge Garcia join executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff — a chilling new midseason drama for FOX revolving around America’s most infamous prison, the one-time home to the nation’s worst murderers, rapists, kidnappers, thieves and arsonists.

Person of Interest: Stars Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson and Taraji P. Henson join executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman — an action-packed hour for CBS about an ex-CIA operative and a mysterious billionaire who team up to stop violent crimes before they happen in New York City.

The Secret Circle:  From executive producers/writers Kevin Williamson, Andrew Miller and Richard Hatem — The ordinary becomes extraordinary in this romantic drama about a coven of young witches, from The Vampire Diaries executive producer Kevin Williamson, based upon the book series by L.J. Smith (The Vampire Diaries) and stars Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Phoebe Tonkin and Natasha Henstridge.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series: Executive producer Bruce Timm will join producer Giancarlo Volpe and producer/story editor Jim Krieg for a panel moderated by executive producer/Warner Bros. Animation’s Sam Register

ThunderCats: Producers Michael Jelenic and Ethan Spaulding, and art director Dan Norton

Pilot screenings will be held on SDCC’s preview night, July 20, for Alcatraz, The Secret Circle, Person of Interest, and Supernatural: The Anime Series. For continuing info on the Studio’s plans at Comic-Con, please follow us on Twitter @TheWBdotcom, hashtag #WBSDCC, and visit www.thewb.com/comiccon.

SDCC 2011 will be happening July 21-24.

Film critic Roger Ebert is definitely known for not pulling his punches — with movies. But he pretty much crossed the line after tweeting Monday, “Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive.” This tweet was following the entertainment news that Ryan Dunn (formerly of MTV’s Jackass) had died in a fatal car crash.

Ryan Dunn and his passenger Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass, died when Dunn’s Porsche jumped a guardrail in West Goshen Township, Pa., crashed into a tree and burst into flames. Hartwell appeared drinking with Dunn in a photo Dunn posted on his Tumblr hours before the Monday morning crash. Most likely, it was the photo reveal that led to Ebert’s tweet, and ultimately an emotional fallout from Bam Margera.

Margera slammed Ebert over Twitter, saying “I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day, and piece of shit Roger Ebert has the gall to put in his 2 cents about a jackass drunk driving and his is one, fuck you! Millions of people are crying right now, shut your fat fucking mouth!”

As of now, police have yet to determine if the crash was actually alcohol related, but a statement was released that speed may have been the contributing factor.

Ebert later blogged, that his tweet wasn’t meant to be insensitive. “To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan Dunn’s family and friends, and to those of Zachary Hartwell, who also died in the crash,” he wrote. “I mean that sincerely. It is tragic to lose a loved one. I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true. I have no way of knowing if Ryan Dunn was drunk at the time of his death. … What did I mean by that? I meant exactly what I wrote. I wasn’t calling Ryan Dunn a jackass. In Twitter shorthand, I was referring to his association with Jackass.”

Dunn’s death hit the entertainment world pretty hard and a lot of fans have come out in support of the cast and crew of Jackass, as well as the victims families in response. Do you feel that Ebert’s comments were as harmless as the critic explained?

Deadline reports that fans of NBC’s The Event may have something to look forward to. Reports are suggesting that the canceled show may find a second life on SyFy. The buzz started the same night as the finale finished airing and the buzz is quickly growing. Immediately after the show was cancelled, creator Nick Wauters and executive producer Steve Stark revealed that there was a chance that the sci-fi drama could continue elsewhere. Talks are currently going on for Syfy to pick up the show as a miniseries.

The Event is produced by Universal Media Studios and NBC Universal owns both them and SyFy so we could be seeing the show make the jump to a new network. The numbers are being crunched to make sure it is financially feasible for The Event to continue on Syfy. If the series migrates and ends up doing well as a miniseries, it is possible that another season could eventually be launched. I will admit that I never caught any episodes of The Event due to bad timing (on my part) — I missed 6 episodes from the beginning before I realized there was some sci-fi I should have been watching. It’ll be interesting to see how it all develops and see if a sci-fi show can dodge a major bullet seeing as sci-fi is currently a no-man’s land on regular television. What do you think about this big buzz?

Actor Joe Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the hit  HBO  show “True Blood,” talked with “Extra’s” Adrianna Costa about the upcoming Season 4 — including whether or not Alcide does the deed with Sookie (Anna Paquin).

“Well, I can say that in the season finale of Season 3, Alcide made a pass at Sookie, and we’ll definitely pick up where that left off,” teased Manganiello at the Ford Mustang Boss Workshop, where the actor mentors boys with Type 1 diabetes.

Was it weird to do love scenes with Paquin while her real-life husband, Stephen Moyer (who plays vampire Bill Compton), was on the set? Joe laughed, “I can’t say, because if I answered that question I’d be giving away whether or not we hooked up.”

Season 4 of “True Blood” premieres Sunday, June 26 on HBO. Hit the jump to view his interview with Extra or head over there to read more.

STRIPMALL ARCHITECTURE “ONE OF THREE” from CIRCULATE on Vimeo.

While we wait for the release of Feathersongs For Factory Girls, Part 2 EP (May 17th), we’re getting some video love from the Bay Area music act with “One of Three”. The track offers a grim, yet lush and lurid soundscape, and the video certainly does an admirable job capturing the vibe of the song.

If you were watching and waiting with baited breath as Season 6 of The CW’s fantasy drama Supernatural played itself out, it’s time to celebrate! The CW handed out early renewals for Supernatural and 4 other shows recently and the timing couldn’t be any better with a lot of reports that a lot of television shows are getting the axe…

Supernatural has been a fan favorite since day one and when the show was moved to Friday nights at 9pm, many feared the worst for a show that was originally planned for only 5 seasons in the very beginning. It actually turned out that, in moving the show to Friday nights, Supernatural immediately helped make The CW more competitive on the night and dramatically contributed to year-to-year gains on Friday of 66% in adults 18-34 and 60% in viewers.

Returning next season along with Supernatural, The CW welcomes back America’s Next Top Model, The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and 90210.

Gearing up for the release of their new album, NOIR, producer duo Black Sky Black Death has released the official video for the track, “In The Quiet Absence Of God”.

Blue Sky Black Death ” In The Quiet Absence Of God” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO from Blue Sky Black Death on Vimeo.

NOIR will be released on April 26th by FakeFour, Inc.

2K Games and Gearbox have a very special announcement for you regarding DUke Nukem Forever. We would tell you what it is, but then the video wouldn’t be as special anymore. *Ok, ok, so you prolly already heard the news, but the video does add some comic relief to it. Peep the video after the jump.

It’s no big secret that the Fox sci-fi show Fringe was in dangerous waters after being moved to Friday nights at 9pm — the “death slot” as it’s been named by almost all TV watchers. Lay your worries to rest because Fox Television has announced that Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and Agent Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick) along with the rest of the regular cast will be returning for a fourth season of the cult sci-fi series.

The show suffered it’s lowest rating of the series following the move to it’s current time slot and it was a wonder if Fringe would be heading the same path as Dollhouse, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Firefly — all shows which were aired on Fox in the same time slot. Fringe managed to maintain a viewer average of 4.34 viewers throughout the current season.

News of the renewal of Fringe brings a glimmer of hope that more of this season’s sci-fi shows won’t receive the axe.