It looks like DISH Network isn't totally brain dead. The satellite network has finally decided to eat zombie, and has once again picked up cable network AMC, and its hit horror series, "The Walking Dead" just in time for the show's third season.

"The Walking Dead" was already the most successful basic cable series of all time in the adult demographic, and the premiere episode of season three was up more than 50 percent from season two, receiving a rating of 5.8 for adults in the 18-49 demographic. The only broadcast entertainment show even close to that this fall was ABC's "Modern Family" season premiere, which pulled a 5.5 - and that's on network TV. AMC is at a severe disadvantage as it's only available in a fraction of U.S. homes, and had been dropped by DISH Network prior to the third season premiere of "The Walking Dead."

Based off the monthly black-and-white comic book series written by creator Robert Kirkman, "The Walking Dead" follows a gang of lost souls just trying to survive day-to-day life in a post-apocalyptic U.S. overrun with the living dead. The first two seasons of the AMC series were hugely-successful. The season two premiere broke cable ratings records in the 18-49 demographic as well. But the season three premiere shattered everyone's expectations for the show.

AMC had maintained that Dish dropped its channel because of a legal dispute involving AMC's former parent company, Cablevision, over Voom HD, a high-definition service DISH agreed to carry and then dropped.

According to CNN, DISH paid Cablevision and AMC $700 million to settle the suit, and also agreed to give up its 20 percent stake in Voom HD.

"We are glad to partner again with DISH Network and are delighted to bring back our popular channels and programming to their customers," CEO of AMC Josh Sapan said in a statement Oct. 21.

Sundance, Wetv and IFC will all be back on DISH as well on Nov. 1.

DISH's 14.1 million subscribers represent about 13 percent of the homes that get AMC,m according to CNN.

Fans that complained season two of "The Walking Dead" had an aimless narrative structure and slow pacing were treated to what was easily one of the goriest, most visceral, high-intensity episodes of the show yet in its record-breaking season premiere.

"I think everyone would agree after the way we ended the second season, backing off in any way and slowing the pace down would have been a mistake," Kirkman said in a recent interview with Access Hollywood. "We kind of hit the ground running ... and it just kind of goes from there. It's just absolutely nonstop."

Season three's third episode, "Walk With Me," airs Sunday Oct. 28 at 9/8c on AMC.