#6 Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal

We've got a "two-fer" at #6, the men of "The Walking Dead", Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal.

The hit AMC drama has inspired a new late-night love for zombies, and inspired many late-night fantasies about being stranded alone in a post-apocalyptic world with officers of the law, Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh. Many are turned on by the alpha-male, dominant personalities of Lincoln and Bernthal, but it also doesn't hurt that they're both great looking and sexy as hell.



Lincoln showed off his lean, super-cut body in the very first episode, and in a later episode, Bernthal stripped down in a bathroom and took the clippers to his hair for the sexiest and most famous buzzcut scene since Britney lost her shit.

A big storyline of "The Walking Dead" is which guy, Grimes or Walsh, will eventually win the affections of Grimes' wife, but we're holding our breath that one day soon Grimes and Walsh will give up fighting over her and just climb on top of each other. Who says there's no hope left in a post-apocalyptic world?

Fresh Meat

Last night the AMC Network premiered their much-hyped new series, "The Walking Dead", and despite the fact that it's basically a zombie tale, it works on so many more levels.

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Andrew Lincoln stars as a Southern sheriff who awakens in a hospital bed to find a world turned upside down, namely that almost every human on earth has either died or been turned into a zombie. Yes, we know, the first episode is an almost exact copy of the movie "28 Days Later" with Lincoln in the Cillian Murphy role, but AMC's series seems so much more interesting because Lincoln doesn't cower in the corner, confused and in shock ala Murphy, instead he immediately takes charge of his post-apocalyptic world. In fact, in several press interviews, Lincoln has stated that he tried to channel Gary Cooper from "High Noon", someone left all alone to seek justice and to right wrongs.

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Watching the series last night, we had one of those "where do we know this guy from" moments when Lincoln came on the screen. And then it hit us, he's the guy who carried a secret torch for Keira Knightley in the 2003 movie, "Love Actually". But now he's older, leaner and way sexier than the pudgy, baby-faced boy from seven years ago. Incidentally, in real life, Lincoln is married to Gael Anderson, the daughter of Jethro Tull's lead singer, Ian Anderson.

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AMC is on a roll. They've quickly gone from a "C"-level network which showed "D"-level movies to a network which is cranking out some impressive original series, including its three-time Emmy winner for Best Drama, "Mad Men". Don't get too excited, they still show "D"-level movies, and even worse, with commercials included, but if they keep cranking out series like "Mad Men" and the new "The Walking Dead", then they might just join the elite ranks of the cable networks which are helping to put a nail in the coffins of the major networks' supremacy.