Even with the decline in ratings, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is still massive enough to warrant yet another spinoff, which AMC announced early this morning.
AMC has officially greenlit the third series in the expanding universe of “The Walking Dead”, an original drama co-created by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of “The Walking Dead” universe, and Matt Negrete, who has been a writer and producer on “The Walking Dead” for the past five seasons and will be showrunner of the new series.
In regards to story details, we’re told that the third series in the franchise will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.
Produced and distributed by AMC Studios, the series will begin production on 10 episodes this summer in Virginia and premiere on AMC in 2020.
“We’re thrilled that the ‘Dead’ will keep walking into a new corner of the post-apocalyptic world, a corner that will present stories and characters unlike any that ‘The Walking Dead’ has dramatized thus far, and that is bound to excite one of the most passionate fanbases in television,” said David Madden, president of programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios.
“Showing audiences an unseen pocket of ‘The Walking Dead’ Universe steeped in a new mythology is a very cool way to celebrate a ‘Decade of the Dead’ on TV and over fifteen years of Robert Kirkman’s brilliant comic,” said Gimple.
Based on the comic book series written by Kirkman and published by Image Comics, “The Walking Dead” and Fear “The Walking Dead” reign as the #1 and #4 cable dramas among adults 18-49 in Nielsen live+3 ratings, respectively. Both series take place in the months and years after a zombie apocalypse and follow different groups of survivors traveling in search of a safe and secure home.
