NEW YORK — AMC thrilled fans of The Walking Dead series today with an announcement that each and every zombie ever shown on screen will be getting its own official spin-off show.
AMC Executive Vice-President of Walker Content Alfred Hickenbottom revealed the plans for the new shows in a press release.
“We know how much Walking Dead fans love this universe and don’t want to see it end so we’re always looking for ways to force it to continue. This new push of content will keep it running forever,” the statement read. “Even in an actual zombie apocalypse you’ll still have new Walking Dead shows to consume. These new shows will also help us during the content draughts we experience when Norman Reedus is doing something with Hideo Kojima.”
Hickenbottom isn’t worried about this many new Walking Dead shows having diminishing returns.
“We used to be the number one show on cable for years before viewers left en masse but the ones that stayed are here for life. We know they’ll watch anything if they didn’t leave during season eight. We’re currently on our sixth spin-off show so what’s a few thousand more? We know our fans will tune in whether it’s to see what Daryl Dixon is inexplicably doing in Paris or to see the ten episode origin of the Walker that killed T-Dog in season 3.”
Fans of the show are excited to have more stories in this universe.
“I’ve always wanted to know about the little girl walker from the pilot episode. It’s the only time we ever see her and it’s been bugging me for over a decade so to have an entire series dedicated to her is awesome and the same goes for all the other walkers getting their own series,” said super fan Stephanie Hartstone “Playing games on my phone during Walking Dead has been a weekly tradition for years and I’m happy it will continue forever.”
At press time, AMC is also planning on giving each zombie a tie-in video game from GameMill Entertainment.
