With New Year’s a couple of weeks behind us, it is worth taking a look at the top tv shows and movies that drove the social conversation in 2012, and see whether these TV shows can maintain a stronghold on the social activity in 2013. Here’s GetGlue‘s take on social TV in 2012. Read more

If you watched Breaking Bad's newest episode on Sunday night, you saw AMC's on-air promo for "The Walking Dead Social Game". The social TV game is "a story-based Facebook game based on AMC's TV series," according to the network's blog post. The game was built in partnership with RockYou and is another example of a TV network leveraging the social web to begin promoting a TV show way in advance of it's premiere date.

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AMC's highly-anticipated season premiere of Breaking Bad last night set new records for the show. On the ratings front, it delivered 2.9 million viewers, up 14% over last year with a 34% increase in the 18-49 year-old demo. On the social front, in jumped 605% in social interactions over the prior season -- 123,361 Facebook and Twitter comments, measured by Bluefin Labs.

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AMC's Breaking Bad will premiere it's fifth and final season tonight at 10 p.m. The drama that might be best described as a high school chemistry teacher meets Scarface has received critical acclaim each season, earning star Bryan Cranston three Emmys and costar Aaron Paul one. We attended the movie-style premiere red-carpet last night in San Diego and spoke to the cast about social media and interviewed AMC's SVP of Digital Media and Content Mac McKean.

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Dish just can't stay out of the news these days. The provider that's been trying to innovate recently (to networks' dismay) with the Ad Hopper has also been battling with AMC and recently dropped their networks. As negotiations continue, AMC has struck back announcing that they'll be offering Dish subscribers a live stream of the highly-anticipated Break Bad season five premiere.

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I'm a huge fan of social good efforts tied to TV, and the cool kids on Reddit have whipped up a charity fundraiser tied to the hit AMC series, "Breaking Bad." The idea was sparked by Luis Moncada, one of the actors on the show, who wanted to help a charity called "A Place Called Home." The LA-based nonprofit helps educate children about gang violence and drug abuse.

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Now that it's been almost two weeks since The Walking Dead's mid-season two finale on AMC, we figured that many more have caught up and are now in need of another fix. The graphic novel-based show swept the social web when it launched last year with just six episodes, solidifying that uniquely passionate Lost type of fan. Now seven episodes into season two, the show has over 4.5 million Facebook fans, over half a million check-ins on GetGlue and it "shattered basic cable ratings" for its season two premier.

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