Summer’s ending only means a new season of TV is before us, ready for critics to tear new shows apart and hits to break out among the clutter.

So ready your remotes, finish those branding projects and catch up on what may have slipped by this week as everyone prepares for another season of drama, comedy and Shondaland.

‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Premiere Breaks Cable Ratings Records:
In case this isn’t already on your t-watch list: Sunday night’s series premiere of The Walking Dead companion series, Fear the Walking Dead, earned 10.1 million viewers - the highest-rated series debut in cable history. The 90-minute premiere episode is the third AMC series to break into cable’s top-five premieres in ratings, joining February’s Better Call Saul debut and the series launch of The Walking Dead in 2010.

Creative Review: Mrs K:
Married couple Jeanne Kopeck and Peter Thron together run Mrs. K, a creative agency with a client list that includes ABC, Al Jazeera, Animal Planet, Discovery, Lifetime and USA. Mrs K is best known for Kopeck’s signature style: live-action storytelling that feels like it’s all done in camera.

Nat Geo WILD Brings ‘In-Your-Face’ Footage to Summer Brand Campaign:
Nat Geo WILD recently came across the problem that many networks are now facing: consumers have the channel, they could watch the channel, but they just might not know how to find it. So the international National Geographic Channels team set out to solve that problem, with a wide-reaching campaign anchored by the tagline “How did you miss this?” referring both to the channel itself and to jaw-dropping moments featured in its programming and footage.

‘Exquisite Corpse’ a Killer Collaboration From Designers in Promo:
In June, at the annual motion conference in Santa Fe, TV Land’s VP creative director of art and design Michael Waldron unveiled the second installment of a project he directed: The Exquisite Corpse project. It draws its name from a classic parlor in which a creative collaboration is achieved by passing a work-in-progress from one person to the next. Applying the concept to animation, Waldron invited a hand-picked roster of 18 elite artists and companies to create short original works around the theme of “balance.”

How Netflix Became Your Kids’ Channel of Choice:
Netflix currently has 14 original shows for kids on its platform, all situated comfortably in its dedicated children’s section. While at first the shows came from licensing deals with PBS or Disney Channel, Netflix has been producing original content for these age groups since 2013. And now that children’s original strategy is expanding into teens as well.

HOT SPOT: AMC The Walking Dead ‘Shadows’

Bacon and Sons brings The Walking Dead characters into the light for season six.

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