AMC reveals status of 'The Walking Dead' spinoff

AMC's The Walking Dead is the most popular show on cable television and one of the most-watched shows on all of TV, so a spinoff was inevitable. The show takes place in one specific location of the zombie apocalypse, so the spinoff could explore any number of other options. But just how far along is the new Walking Dead show?

AMC network chief Charlie Collier and programming head Joel Stillerman sat down with Vulture and held what one might call a State of the Union address for their network. They discussed everything from Better Call Saul to Mad Men to The Walking Dead, and Stillerman had this to say about the spinoff:

"That show is not as far along [as Better Call Saul]. Robert {Kirkman] has some things on his plate. He continues to write every issue of the comic and hasn't finished season four of The Walking Dead, which he is very intimately involved with and will continue to be. That's really in the incubation stages. The one thing that I'll share is just an anecdote that Robert shared with us. He has such a specific vision that he laid out really clearly in the first issue of the comic book. And I encourage anybody who's interested in the show to go read the note that he wrote in the first issue of the comic. His motivation for telling that story was so clear and so powerful, and it served as such a great north star for the show. We kicked around a few ideas, but primarily what he's working on is, what is the idea that gives [him] as clear a mandate to make another version of this show as [he] had for the first one? What is going on [now] is a more philosophical discussion over why there should be another version of the show. Once we answer that, we'll zero in on the specific creative."

AMC announced the spinoff back in September, but it seems like we have a ways to go before we see any more of The Walking Dead universe.

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