The "how" is the premise they'll drag out for five seasons. It'll be real-time but slower. Each season will be a different character's minute-by-minute account of the night. One of the characters will mention a loved one back home. What happens to that loved one will be the basis for the next spin-off.
Honestly though, it's because this franchise has become the network's primary identity. When they started their own original programming, it seemed like there was a Big 4.
Mad Men, which stayed great throughout, and no spin-offs.
The Killing, which started off a big deal but got canceled and resurrected then canceled again then resurrected by another network and canceled a final time, so that was that. No spin-offs.
Breaking Bad, and now Better Call Saul, which is almost over, and no mention of a spin-off in sight and I pray it stays that way.
And The Walking Dead.
And right now, while it has some other good shows on, they don't really have any other shows grabbing at the zeitgeist.
So, if they lose the zombies, they just go back to being the channel that shows movies just new enough to not be on TCM.
So, they force ways to keep the zombies.
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mtxmind (3296)
3 years ago
this franchise has become the network's primary identity
You can almost forget that when AMC started, they were a MOVIE channel, the "AMC" standing for American Movie Classics, IIRC.
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