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TV Festival Begins at Saban Theatre

The annual PaleyFest is billed as the ultimate television fan festival.

The 30th annual PaleyFest begins Friday at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills with a session on the AMC zombie series The Walking Dead.

The 7 p.m. session is sold out, but it will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday at more than 525 movie theaters across the nation.

The festival is billed by organizers as the ultimate television fan festival. Its sessions consist of screenings of episodes or highlights of the featured work, followed by questions from the audience to the series' casts and creative teams.

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Cast members Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Laurie Holden, Steven Yeun, Norman Reedus, Scott Wilson and Emily Kinney and executive producers Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Dave Alpert and Greg Nicotero are scheduled to take part in the panel discussion.

The discussion will be moderated by Chris Hardwick, the host of The Talking Dead, the talk show which follows The Walking Dead.

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A sneak preview of Sunday's episode "Clear" will be shown, followed by "special behind-the-scenes" footage from the set in Atlanta from filming of key scenes from the second half of the season, festival publicist Megan Levy said.

A session on the first-year NBC drama Revolution will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, with a yet-to-be-aired episode to be shown.

Series creators and executive producers J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke and cast members Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos, Giancarlo Esposito, David Lyons, Daniella Alonso and J.D. Pardo are scheduled to participate in the panel discussion.

Tickets remain available and are priced at $10-$60 for members of The Paley Center for Media and $20-$75 for the general public. They can be purchased at ticketweb.com.

The panel discussion will be live streamed at livestream.com beginning at 7:50 p.m. It will be available at Hulu.com beginning Sunday.

Here is the schedule for the remainder of the festival. All sessions will begin at 7 p.m., except for the sessions for Once Upon a Time (Sunday) Nashville (March 9) and Dallas (March 10), which all begin at 1 p.m.

March 3 -- Once Upon A Time and The Newsroom

March 5 -- Community

March 6 -- The New Normal

March 7 -- Parenthood

March 8 -- The Mindy Project

March 9 -- Nashville and Arrow

March 10 -- Dallas

March 11 -- New Girl

March 13 -- The Big Bang Theory

March 14 -- 2 Broke Girls

March 15 -- American Horror Story: Asylum

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