‘Walking Dead’ rises! Sony bets on Netflix. Snowden is a tough sell.

After the coffee. Before auditioning for “Fifty Shades of Grey.�

The Skinny. Am I the only one who thinks that if Yasiel Puig hadn’t stopped to admire his big hit he could have had an inside-the-park-home-run? Hopefully if he hits another one like that tonight he’ll run first and stare later! Today’s Fix includes a look at those amazing “Walking Dead� numbers, a new series from Netflix and a movie about Edward Snowden may prove to be a hard sell. Oh, not included here but news nonetheless is that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the Golden Globes for the next two years.

Daily Dose: It looks like Canada is going to force pay-TV distributors to offer channels on an individual basis to consumers. No doubt consumer advocates here who have pushed for so-called a la carte programming will be watching closely to see what happens. Efforts in the United States have proved a tough sell in large part because a case can be made that it won’t actually reduce the cost of pay TV.

PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of ‘The Walking Dead’

“The Walking Dead� kills. Normally, an article about a TV show’s ratings wouldn’t make the cut for the Morning Fix, but AMC’s zombie thriller “The Walking Dead� is no normal show. In its return Sunday night, “The Walking Dead� attracted 16.1 million viewers. Among 18-to-49-year-olds, it had more than 10 million viewers, better than any other show including football. It doesn’t get the critical love of AMC’s “Mad Men� and the recently concluded “Breaking Bad,� but “The Walking Dead� is the show that drives that channel. More on the numbers from the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.

Taking the plunge. Sony is producing a drama for Netflix, making it the first big studio to take the plunge and make new content for the streaming service. The show is coming from the creators of “Damages,� which ran on FX and later DirecTV’s 101 channel. Of course, 20th Century Fox Television made fresh episodes of “Arrested Development� for Netflix, but that was seen as less of a gamble because the show came with a built-in cult audience. The Wall Street Journal on the Sony-Netflix combination.

Tough sell. A movie based on turncoat Edward Snowden is proving to be a tough sell with Hollywood. The New York Times says journalist Glenn Greenwald’s much-anticipated book about Snowden has some movie folks intrigued but there are a lot of questions not only about how Snowden’s story will end but also about legal rights to his life. Also, will Americans embrace a movie about the so-called whistle- blower? Sounds to me more HBO than big screen.

PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments

Sleeper hit? The biggest surprise of the fall TV season may be the success of Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow.� The quirky drama, a modern-day twist on Ichabod Crane, is scoring big ratings despite (or because) of its rather absurd premise. Vulture tries to figure out why “Sleepy Hollow� has clicked.

Bad for America? It is a day for firsts here at the Morning Fix. Not only a TV ratings story, but we’ll single out a review as well. The Hollywood Reporter said the CW’s new drama “Reign� inspired by (I won’t say based on) Mary Queen of Scots is “relentlessly bad� and “passionately inept� and even bad for America. Variety, meanwhile noted the raciness of the show and said it may be a combination of “Porky’s� and “Caligula.� Bet you never thought you’d see those two classic in the same sentence.

Inside the Los Angeles Times: Steven Zeitchik on what may be next for the movie version of “Fifty Shades of Grey� after the departure of Charlie Hunnam.

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