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'The Walking Dead' takes a bite out of pop culture

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Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) shore up defenses for the new season of AMC's "The Walking Dead," returning at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14.

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In the first five minutes of the third-season premiere of “The Walking Dead,” which airs at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, former sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes and his battered and beaten band of zombie apocalypse survivors remain completely speechless. It's a hauntingly stark opening for the popular AMC undead drama that no one's been quiet about since it first debuted.