The Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd clearly does not like what she has been hearing out of the FCC recently on set-top box reforms.

Hurd took to the op-ed pages of USA Today Tuesday to slam the proposal by Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler to open up set-top box data and program streams to third-party navigation device makers and app developers.

READ MORE of MCN's coverage of FCC chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to unlock set-tops. 

Wheeler has said the proposal does not threaten copyright protection of the economic model of programmers, but Hurd seems thoroughly unconvinced.

"If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves Chairman Tom Wheeler’s regulatory proposal to 'open' set-top boxes, it will make piracy as easy and dangerous in the living room as it is on laptop and mobile devices," Hurd wrote. "Imagine Madison Square Garden being forced to open its doors to allow street vendors to sell fake and knock-off New York Knicks merchandise alongside the legitimate items in the stadium stores. Think of the advantages the street vendors would enjoy by not paying to license the goods they were selling."

Hurd left no doubt she has a very personal reason for her anti-piracy passion. "The season five premiere of my show...was illegally downloaded by roughly 1.27 million unique IP addresses worldwide within 24 hours of its debut," she said. AMC's The Walking Deadtrails only HBO's Game of Thrones among the most-pirated shows.

Cable operators and program producers have been pushing back hard on the proposal, saying the marketplace is already providing navigation alternatives, The National Cable & Telecommunications Association and Motion Picture Association of America are getting together this week to demo those alternatives for the press in an effort to put an exclamation point on the issue, though NCTA Chairman Michael Powell has not been shy about outlining the reasons he thinks the FCC is way off base and the other options available instead.

And clearly neither is Hurd. "I'm afraid that all of us who create, market and broadcast legitimate content will be like the zombies on my show: the walking dead....Don’t get me wrong. I love zombies. But the AllVid proposal is an idea that should never have been brought back from the dead."

"AllVid" is a reference to an earlier FCC effort to wed traditional and online video in a single gateway device.

Cable operators say that the FCC's latest navigation-device and set-top-box unlocking proposal is an exhumation of that, while Wheeler says it is not. Hurd says they are "unsettlingly similar" and would be similarly "disastrous."

The FCC is currently collecting stakeholder comment and even if it approves the proposal, with or without modifications, it would take a couple of years to take effect.

Bravo will look to build on its scripted series slate with the development of three new series, the network said Monday.

The new series include My So Called Wife, a dark comedy from Adam Brooks and Paul Adelstein (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) that follows a woman con-artist who marries and then abandons rich men; White Collar Wives, written by Vanessa Reisen (Extant, Weeds), which follows the lives of women married to men involved in a hedge fund scandal; and All The Glitters, from The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment and based on the book examining how Anna Wintour and Tina Brown dominated the 1980s publishing world. 

The announcements follows the first season of the network’s first scripted series Girlfriends Guide to Divorce, which drew 1.38 million viewers in Live+7, and the June launch of its first scripted comedy series Odd Mom Out.

“As we look to expand our scripted slate we're eagerly taking on new territories, from fashion to finance to female con-artists, and obviously jumped at the opportunity to continue our relationship with Paul Adelstein and Adam Brooks who have a proven track record with the network,” said Lara Spotts, Senior Vice President of development for Bravo in a statement

USA Network has picked up a pilot from The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and co-created by late producer Henry Bromell.

Falling Water, written and co-created by Bromell (Homeland) and Blake Masters (2 Guns), tells the story of three unrelated people who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream, according to USA.

The pilot will be executively produced by Hurd, Masters and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later), who will also direct the pilot, said USA.  

“People have always been fascinated by the subconscious and Falling Water explores that topic in very unique and unexpected ways,” said Jackie de Crinis, executive vice president of original Series for USA Network in a statement. “In this story, the immensely talented and prolific storytellers, Blake and Henry, have created an innovative thriller and compelling vehicle to bring the subject of dreams to television.”