Coming Up: The Walking Dead and Treme

The Walking Dead, the AMC original series about life after the zombie plague, and HBO's Treme, about life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, debut on DVD and Blu-ray in March.

Based on the comic-book series by Robert Kirkman and developed for commercial cable by Frank Darabont, The Walking Dead hit the cover of Entertainment Weekly with the proclamation "The Best New Show of 2010." Maybe and maybe not, but it was certainly the buzz show of the year, with more praise heaped on it than anything since The Wire and giving us more blood and bone and rotting bodies than all the CSI shows put together. And these are ambulatory rotting bodies to boot. Anchor Bay is releasing the brief six-episode season with plenty of production featurettes and deleted scenes on March 8.

And speaking of The Wire, Treme is the newest project from creator David Simon, working with David Mills (The Corner) and Eric Overmyer, and featuring some familiar faces from The Wire (namely Clarke Peters and Wendell Pierce). The HBO release features the ten-episode debut season and promises featurettes and commentary by the cast and crew on select episodes, plus special musical commentary on all ten episodes, and is set for March 29.