AFI lauded the AMC original series Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Walking Dead as three of its Television Programs of the Year for 2010. This marks the second time Breaking Bad has been honored by the American Film Institute, the fourth time for Mad Men, and the first time forThe Walking Dead, which just finished its first season. The awards were created as a way to preserve and honor America’s cultural legacy in the moving image arts (i.e., film and television).

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