AMC Decides it Needs More Shows about Idiotic People in the Apocolypse

With AMC’s Breaking Bad ending soon and Mad Men on its elongated final legs, AMC is looking to fill the void with more than just Chris Hardwick talkshows. They say there is no risk-taking in Hollywood these days, and … this announcement couldn’t further back up that sentiment:

The cable channel revealed today that it is in “the initial stages of developing a companion series” to its hyper-successful adaptation of the long-running Image Comics series co-created and written by Robert Kirkman about a group of human survivors in a world filled with the undead. Kirkman is part of the group developing the spinoff, acting as executive producer on the project alongside Walking Dead execs Gail Anne Hurd and David Alpert.

Now, in addition to never letting the original series go, ever, AMC is going the CBS route of recycling. Within ten years will we have TWD: Los Angeles, TWD: Cleveland, or TWD: L&O: SVU. Only time will tell how many times AMC will come running back to this zombie-infested well to further their coffers.

Of course, for any network, a spin-off on a successful show is a no-brainer decision, a phrase used by an AMC exec as it were. Since Rick and his group are generally in the lower south of the country, it would be nice to see how others are fairing in Fargo or Las Vegas. Maybe in the end, we’ll get a crossover to create another spinoff: EXTREME WALKING DEAD.

If anything, I hope this new series at least starts with normal life as the zombie apocolypse is impending since that magical timeframe is rarely utilitzed to its extent. At the very least, I’m sure it’ll have any Lori- or Andrea-like character that can heal this nation’s wounds with hate than knows no boundaries. Perhaps, we are the real social experiment here.