How to raise the dead

By Karl Quinn
February 7 2013 - 3:00am
Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker star in <i>The Walking Dead</i>.
Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker star in <i>The Walking Dead</i>.

WHEN we speak in December, Glen Mazzara is the showrunner of cult hit The Walking Dead. Or, as he puts it to me, ''I would be the equivalent of the CEO of the show'', overseeing a team of about 150 people, steering the program creatively and financially, hiring and firing actors, crew, directors and producers, and liaising with the suits at AMC, the cable channel that pays for it all (and, incidentally, pays for Mad Men and Breaking Bad).

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