Is the AMC channel dying?

It's one of the most commercial-riddled networks out there, that's for sure. If you don't like the movie they're showing, you won't like it for four hours.

It started dying when Mad Men and Breaking Bad came to the end of their runs and they didn't have anything to really replace them.

It's sad because Turn was a fantastic show but they managed to frick up pushing it.

Halt and Catch Fire was well produced, as was Turn.

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Is the AMC channel dying?

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They're trying, but it isn't easy recreating the phenomenon of Mad Men and Breaking Bad. HBO didn't have another Sopranos level hit for almost four years... when Game of Thrones took off.

Right now they're trying to milk everything that they can off of Walking Dead. You've got Talking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Talking Fear, Kirkman's comic book series, and Comic Book Men (which latched on to the comic book fandom of Walking Dead).

Better Call Saul is great, but it's no Breaking Bad (audience-wise).

They're going to zombie us to death until they find another Mad Men.

I wonder if the streaming services are starting to have the same effect the cable channels had on the networks. Meaning, a lot of the talent is preferring to work in that medium due to the freedom it allows, so its watering down what makes it over to the cable guys.

I loved Mad Men. And I loved TWD initially but it's so repetitive. I haven't seen a single episode of this new season. I keep forgetting about it because it's not exciting.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the birth of Breaking Bad, a.k.a. one of the most revered dramas in television history, the network will give you maximum meth, airing all 62 episodes of the series that turned Walter White from harmless chemistry teacher into chilling drug lord. The marathon will officially kick off on Dec. 31, unspooling the episodes in chronological order each weekend through January, wrapping up on Jan. 29.