The new TV season this year hasn’t brought much in the way of surprises, but last year’s held a few notable winners (like “Heroes”), and for a while it looked like CBS was really going outside its normal comfort shows with shows like the nuclear apocalyptic “Jericho” and a zombie-themed show called “Babylon Fields”, which unfortunately never got past shooting a pilot episode. “Babylon Fields” received a good bit of press but little was revealed about the actual story, and only a few photos managed to make it out.

Zombies have become bigger and bigger media over the last few years, with many zombie comics (like “Marvel Zombies”, “Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness”, “The Walking Dead”, “Escape Of The Living Dead”), games (“Dead Rising”, “Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse”), movies (“George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead”, “28 Weeks Later”, “Shaun of the Dead”, “Fido” and many others), and zombie walks happening regularly with lots of press coverage. If “Babylon Fields” had made it then we would have had zombies on prime time TV.

Now a few video clips from the show have surfaced, and we see that Babylon Fields zombies are definitely walking, living dead, but not of the shuffling “braaaains”-eating variety. Instead, they come back to life, want to know who killed them, visit their loved ones, and sometimes have sex with them.

In fact, it sounds very similar to, or even based-on, a French film called “They Came Back” (check it out on Amazon).

They also have discussions about the “enhancement” side-effects of coming back to life.

Check out the the original article for video clips.

It’s too bad; I would’ve loved to have seen how mainstream america would have handled this show and how CBS would have reacted to it if they ever figured out what they had put on the air.

Via: Babylon Fields — clips from CBS’s zombie necrophilia pilot - Boing Boing
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