Blog Posts by Brian Wallace

As Ken Marino has discovered, the blueprint for making a hit reality-dating show also works for creating a buzzy web series. The star of Yahoo! Screen’s “Burning Love,” about a hunky firefighter looking for love, recently stopped by to explain how he made such a spot-on spoof of “The Bachelor” (hint: it involves hours and hours of watching “The Bachelor”) and how he got stars like Kristen Bell and Jennifer Aniston involved.

Yahoo! TV: So how did this project start?

Ken Marino: My wife, [Erica Oyama,] and I both watch “The Bachelor” as a guilty pleasure. She started watching a marathon of it when she was pregnant with our first son, and then really got into it -- so I started watching with her. I like to think that we watched ironically, but it’s become something other than that now.

So she wrote up this sketch and was like, “Oh, we should shoot this.” And it was just a one off little thing. But Adam Scott and his wife, Naomi, were fans of the show too, so we all got together

Mark Orlando is just a hunky firefighter in search of the right woman to sweep into his hunky, firefighting arms. But who will it be? Horny, half-naked Haley?  The busty "Titi"? Or perhaps the, uh, "exotic" Ballerina? (Do we spy an Adam's apple?)

On "Burning Love," a brand-new web series from Yahoo! Screen, Ken Marino ("Childrens Hospital," "Party Down") rushes heart-first into this five-alarm farce, while hopeful paramours -- played by Kristen Bell ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall"), recent Maxim covergirl Malin Akerman, Ken Jeong ("The Hangover"), and others -- all compete to get their hands on his hose.

Check out the first episode right here, and then head over to Yahoo! Screen for more:

Discovery will not renew "Cash Cab" — its Emmy-winning game show on wheels — Yahoo! TV has confirmed.

For more than 200 episodes, taxi-driving host Ben Bailey picked up seemingly unsuspecting customers in his "Cash Cab" and quizzed them with a series of increasingly difficult questions.

The news, first reported by Vulture, comes as Bailey beefs up his profile in less cramped quarters. In November he hosted Discovery's "Best in the Business," which pitted everyday workers — such as grocery baggers — against each other in competitive challenges. A month later, he hosted NBC's "Who's Still Standing," a prize show that dropped losers through a trap door but rewarded winners with up to $1 million.

Repeats of "Cash Cab" will continue to air in syndication.

The horror comedy “Death Valley” will not be returning to MTV for a second season, show creator Spider One announced on Twitter Monday.

“There will be no season 2 of #DEATHVALLEY for MTV... BUT that is NOT the end! Looking for other possibilities!!” he tweeted.

A spokesperson for MTV could not immediately be reached.

Related: ‘Death Valley’ Exploits Zombie Loophole, Brings Gore to MTV

“Death Valley” followed members of the LAPD’s Undead Task Force as they attempted to contain an outbreak of vampires, werewolves, and zombies in the San Fernando Valley. Shot documentary-style, the series resembled a mash-up of “COPS” and “Shaun of the Dead.”

Check out a clip from "Death Valley":

In this election year, the cable news networks aren’t the only ones benefitting from an increased political presence on television. HBO scored its biggest original-movie ratings in years with “Game Change” — the biopic about the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign — and the channel has high hopes for its upcoming inside-the-Beltway comedy “Veep.”

The series, which has been well-received by critics who've gotten an early look, stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Seinfeld”) as a U.S. senator who becomes vice president and finds out the job is nothing like she expected. The cast also includes Tony Hale (“Arrested Development”), Reid Scott (“The Big C”), and Anna Chlumsky (“My Girl”).

Check out this first-look poster, featuring a very D.C. Dreyfus, obtained exclusively by Yahoo! TV:

“Veep” premieres April 22 at 10pm ET on HBO.

On last week's "The Walking Dead," Rick and Shane finally had the fatal faceoff we all knew was coming. And at the end of the episode, we got a glimpse of something they didn't know was coming: a huge mob of flesh-hungry zombies.

It's quite possible that the latter bit of info has something to do with this exclusive image, obtained by Yahoo! TV, from Sunday's upcoming Season 2 finale:



Are Daryl and Carol heading for the hills to escape an onslaught of the undead? Is everyone splitting up for safety, hopefully to be reunited in Season 3? You'll have to tune in Sunday night at 9pm on AMC to find out.

In the meantime, check out a trailer for the season finale, and post your theories in the comments section below.

If you don't get the look of a period piece right, almost nothing else matters. You could have a fantastic script and a cast of talented actors, but if an outfit, a car, or even a couch looks totally out of place in a scene, suddenly the entire illusion is shattered.
 
That's why the folks behind Starz's new drama "Magic City" built a 14,000 sq. ft. time machine. "Magic City" takes place in 1959 Miami Beach in the swanky Miramar Playa Hotel -- and while the Miramar Playa is a work a fiction, its lobby and its nightclub, the Atlantis Lounge, are part of the largest studio set ever built in Florida.

 
Take a look behind the scenes at what it took to provide an era-accurate background for the story of Miramar Playa owner Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his struggles with unions, women, family, and mobsters in the sunny South Florida of five decades ago.
 

Another week, another exclusive photo from "The Walking Dead"! Unfortunately, it turns out this week's episode is going to be so action-packed that it was hard to find us a shot that didn't reveal any spoilers (or so we're told).

In any case, what we've got for you is a photo of Lori looking rather frightened. But of what? Post your guesses in the comments section below.

More "Walking Dead" on Yahoo! TV:

• 'The Walking Dead': Rick (Finally) Confronts Shane (Video)
• 'Walking Dead's' Governor: David Morrissey
• The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln on Rick vs. Shane: "Not Everybody Gets Out Alive"