Gosh, how come CBS didn’t pick up drama pilot Babylon Fields this season? Who doesn’t love post-apocalyptic procedural crime dramas featuring zombies who’ve returned from the dead to take up their former lives in the suburbs? (Maybe the network thought — what with ABC’s Pushing Daisies and CBS’ own Moonlight — that there were enough new series about undead crimefighters already.) TV Week has dug up from the television graveyard three clips from Babylon Fields, so you can get a taste of what we’re missing. Catch the second clip, in which two zombie guys discuss the erectile benefits of rigor mortis, and lament the fact that, without this show, we’re just not getting enough necrophilia jokes in primetime.
Oct 17
2007
04:07 PM ET
The post-apocalyptic suburban zombie crime procedural CBS doesn't want you to see
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*Sigh* From the geniuses who said yes to “Cavemen” on television comes suburbian zombies. Guys The Munsters, and The Addams Family were well written, tounge and cheek farces. Zombies as a drama??? Come on!
I have actually seen this full pilot. Although it was artistically great, and the first half hour actually very creepy, all I was thinking about was “Ok, now what?” Basically, there is this town and all dead people come back to live, and that’s it. The show had no direction. I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be a crime drama. I kpet waiting for the Zombies to be evil, but they were just regular people that looked weird!! Could have been promising, but turned out bland. Great cast though (Kathy Baker and Amber Tamblyn were great in it!)
If the zombies aren’t trying to eat people, then I’m not interested.
I would have watched it! The clips look quite interesting, and frankly, original!
Zombie angst? I think not.
WIERD. Director Grace Lee just put out a mockumentary called “American Zombie” this summer all about the lives of average workaday zombies who live in LA. It’s part horror movie, part mockumentary part comedy. While there were no cheapo necrophelia jokes, there were plenty of other jabs taken at zombie humor.
Isn’t it odd that for years no one will come up with an idea then there’ll be a dozen copies of the same concept all at once? Like how the Sopranos and Analyze this appeared out of nowhere or how two different studios released 19th century magician movies at the same time. Now zombies are being shown in a positive light 2X at the same time.
I love me some zombies (necrophelia jokes aside, thankyouverymuch) and am sad to hear this series didn’t get picked up. The undead make for great entertainment. Just ask Shaun of the Dead…
Creepiest.Clip.Ever. I don’t even want to picture that guy having sex alive, let alone dead.
typical…people were expect the stereotypes of Zombie….this why am quessing CBS didn’t pick it up right now.
I caught this full pilot in Vegas at the MGM screening room. It was a great concept but after the initial 20 minutes, the rest of the episode just seemed to drag on with obvious plots. The best parts were a couple that reunites and have zombie love and the already mentioned “erectile benefits” dialogue. The main characters, a cop I think and his partner with an odd love triange, were seriously dull with terrible dialogue and chemistry. I wouldn’t have tuned in since pushing daisies is far superior, but it was way better than cavemen!
Zombies as a comedy, yes. Just not as a drama.
Don’t right this could have been great. It sounds though like it needed a rewrite.