Zombies have a cult following, but it seems that they are more and more in the mainstream lately. Not sure what brought it all the way here, but for the first time I can remember there will be a full television series on the life of zombies and all their friends. AMC, who has created shows like Mad Men, and rarely fail at a dramatic series are starting to broadcast ‘Walking Dead’ on Halloween night.

The premiere will be a 90 minute fright-fest that will have those of us with laptop insurance breathing easier, or will we? The trailer below is from Comic-Con 2010.

That’s right. 3 more days left before the Lost SERIES FINALE! Bittersweet for most of us I think. We can’t wait to see how it ends with an epic 2 and a half hour movie to end it all, but we are certainly going to be very sad to see it go.

I have already started to re-watch the series from Season 1. I miss it already. The show is literally only one of 3 I have genuinely cared about in the past decade. Lost, The Sopranos, and Dexter. Everything else is just junk food for the brain.

So…what are we in store for this weekend? Let’s look at the schedule of the upcoming Lost weekend.

Saturday we can watch the replay of the Lost Pilot (Season 1 episode 1) that began it all. I watched this yesterday actually . ABC will re-air the original two-hour pilot from 2004 from 8-10 p.m. ET. It will reportedly include a ”pop-up” version with enhanced trivia and facts about the $10 million episode.

Then tune in on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET for “The Final Journey,” which will review past events of the series. Past and present cast members are also expected to discuss their experiences working on the show.

And finally, the two-and-a-half hour “Lost” series finale will air on Sunday from 9-11:30 p.m. ET. Hope you took Monday off work!

If you are anything like me, and well maybe you aren’t because you probably have a life, you will be on the interwebs talking about the episode after it airs. This means that 2 AM is probably a conservative time to be in bed.

I’m not going to a Lost party. I just don’t want to be distracted. Too many people kicks my ADD into overdrive. I can’t NOT talk when I’m around people. I don’t want to get all dressed up and have to wipe my shoes on the outdoor rugs at some dude’s house and listen to idiots that are just there for a drunkfest ask questions the entire time. Seriously…can you imagine the girlfriend of the guy that comes and says stuff like “Who are these guys? What is this show about? I have never seen this before!”. Stabbed in the eye.

Nobody welcomes you home like a dog. Cats may not be much trouble, but they don’t really go out of their way to welcome you home. Be it running up and wagging its tail, or licking your hand, the canine is always ready to greet its master.

He may not always be feeling well, but he will always leave you a gift. Puke on the carpet, or if you leave them home long enough a nice healthy deuce on the kitchen floor.

Instead of having a cook show you how to cook Mac n’ Cheese, or some guy to tell you wait type of lipozene pill you need to now look like a pig, they brought on these lovely dogs for your viewing pleasure.

I doubt you can ever turn on your television and not find an episode of Law & Order in some form , or another. The extent that this show appears on TV guides is so high that it is literally become a standard joke on late night shows in monologues, and the other uncreative jokesters you run into.

What I found interesting about this show though in reading today is the sheer amount of jobs that it provided. According to Katherine Oliver, the commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, every year Law & Order provided jobs to about 4,000 people, including one-day acting roles. Its spending totaled about $79 million annually, she said, including things like coffee and bagels, boom microphones, anti wrinkle lotion, and duct tape. During its 20-year run, that impact amounted to as much as $1 billion or more, she said.

So…New York is mourning much more than the passing of a TV staple. They are mourning the economic impact the show made over the last 20 years.

The only bad thing about this episode is that it finished way too soon. I can’t remember this ever happening before where I lost track of time while watching an episode of Lost. When the “L O S T” black screen came up I looked at the clock and couldn’t believe it. It was a pretty amazing set up episode with a lot going on, and MORE separation of the groups. Oh yeah…one other sadness. There is no episode next week and I have to wait until May 4th for the next one .

This was another episode of all the main cast members instead of just one character centrics like we have gotten used to over the years. Some amazing on-island action in this one, with some ho hum Alt. Universe action that was necessary like what happened to Locke and Ben with his bow ties, but not as Epic as the island scenes.

Everyone reunited with each other and the Man in Black/Smokey/Flocke at the end of the last episode it was time to see how the new group would act towards the Smoke Man. It appeared that all of our faithful Losties have some sort of skepticism when it comes to the MiB, and this group was no different.

Jack has a nice scene with his sister Claire, and the rest of them all except Claire and Sayid make plans to break away from MiB. Claire comes to see why they are all leaving and Kate talks her into going with them without incident, sadly.

As they go off on a boat they are stealing from MiB, Jack decides that he is doing the wrong thin.g, and Sawyer tells him to get off his boat. Now Jack is split from Kate, Sawyer, Sun, Frank, and Hugo.

Jack gets back to shore and runs into MiB immediately where they get bombarded by some sort of missiles from the sky. Jack passes out as MiB says to him: “You are with me now” and the screen fades to LOST.

In a surprise move, Conan O’Brien balked at conventional wisdom and is going to begin employment with TBS next. While he is still banned from TV until September, he has signed a 5-year deal with TBS to start in November. The terms were undisclosed, but referred to as “competitive.

Conan is currently on tour doing stand up once again.

Fox was his expected future home, and : Executives had talked openly for months of their interest in hiring the comedian to expand into late night during the week, after several failures years ago. But its local stations were reluctant to clear their lineups of lucrative syndicated reruns (these shows are better than all these late night crapfests anyways.), making it unclear how widely a new Conan show on Fox would initially be seen.

“In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed back to basic cable,” the comedian said in a statement. “My plan is working perfectly.”

The deal pretty much allows Conan to stay out of competition with Leno and Letterman considering that he is nno longer on broadcast TV, but cable. Odds are the most TV viewer get TBS though so he should get some good chatter at least early on.

If you think back over all the years, and all the gimmick 3-D events you have ever seen, can you honestly say that you felt that much more entertained because of it even once? I know I can’t. Would I pay more for it? No, I would probably be less likely to even watch it if it were in 3-D. I’d rather look for an insurance quote.

There are those that are coming where you don’t need the 3-D glasses anymore. So? 3-D is a giant gimmick. It doesn’t really add much to anything.

The more this has been in the news that studios are adding 3-d, or converting many 2-D films I have heard more and more people say that 3-D actually makes them nauseous. Literally. I had never thought about this before, but it makes sense. You all know a guy that can’t watch Cloverfield for a shaky camera. Probably the same guy has a problem with 3-D. The media isn’t going to talk about it a lot because this is the new “Big thing”, but I bet there are a lot of people out there that can’t handle it.

I have seen a 3-D television from Samsung being advertised almost every commercial break I see the past week. The family is sitting there with glasses on. Really? Who thinks this has any chance of staying power?

People will say “OMG you are afraid of change!!1!!SHIFT1″. People will be wrong. I spend almost every dime I have on technological toys. iPhones, Blu-Ray players, Playstation 3s and XBox 360s. It has nothing to do with this. 3-D is becoming an epidemic, and it doesn’t enhance anything as far as I’m concerned. They tried this in the 80s and 90s. It hasn’t even advanced that far since then from a viewer’s point of view. There are just more people willing to jump on the bandwagon that make media now.

About a month ago we were told that Sarah Palin’s people were pitching an reality show about Alaska. It appears that it is now a full go, as The Discovery Channel has agreed to produce and air, Sarah Palin’s Alaska at a whopping $1 million per episode.

Well…there you go. Unlimited supply of jokes for all the late night talk shows. Unlimited ammo for liberal media types. Unlimited rally cries for the anti-Obama revolution. If you haven’t noticed, Sarah Palin likes money, top fat burners, and fancy clothes.

I can’t even tell you how jacked up I was for the Richard episode to finally come last night on Lost. While he isn’t necessarily my favorite character, he does seem to have the most mystery surrounding him of the non-Jacob and Smokey/MiB characters. The man that never ages, been there for probably hundreds of years, etc.

Instead of spending time in recent Richard memory, the episode was almost entirely flashbacks. Richard was found way back when riding horses was still the way to travel in Spain. His wife sick and needing medicine forced him to ride to find a doctor. After being told he was too poor to afford it he accidentally killed the doc in a scuffle. He ended up in prison, and then eventually on the infamous Black Rock slave ship.

We got all kinds of insight into Richard’s motivations over the decades he ahs been on the island. Almost entirely that he wanted to be re-untied with his dead wife. He met Smokey, who tried to manipulate him with his religion that he was dead and in Hell. That Jacob was the Devil, and that Richard needed to kill him.

JAcob showed him that he wasn’t dead, and gave him that anti-aging “gift he seems to have and the lack of chin acne he has. Richard became Jacob’s servant at this point, and remained so until recent episodes where he assumed his life was meaningless after Jacob died.

The episode threw out a red herring early to make us all think they were dead, and in Hell, only to kill that notion right away 15 minutes later. The episode had just amazing MiB and Jacob scenes, and Jacob kicked the crap out of Richard too. This episode was a Top 5 all time easily.

If you are in your 20s-30s you have probably heard of Star Search with Ed McMahon. It is basically one show that showcases a bunch of people with talent every week and then the audience/judges give them a rating out of 4 stars. The winner int eh category comes back the next week to taken a new challenger. They have all kinds of categories like female singers, dance groups, and comedians. Basically all the crap reality entertainments shows rolled into one without all the stupid stories.

With my new cell phone signal booster today I read that Paula Abdul is in talks to bring it back. Abdul, 47, is finalizing a deal to help ABC launch a new version of Star Search, the classic TV talent contest from the ’80s, according to Entertainment Weekly. The network isn’t commenting, but Abdul would reportedly juggle a combination of hosting and judging duties for the show, which could debut this summer.

The original Star Search, hosted by Ed McMahon, ran in syndication from 1983 until 1995 and featured comedy, modeling and dancing as well as singing. It featured performances by many future stars, including Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in the early ’90s. A revival on CBS in 2003, hosted by Arsenio Hall, fizzled after just two seasons, though a young David Archuleta was the junior vocal champion in 2003.