AMC goes full zombie with its 3rd 'Walking Dead' show order
, ordering a third show set in the decade-old zombie franchise's post-apocalyptic world.
The untitled new show will lurch onto AMC in 2020 under showrunner Matt Negrete, a writer and producer of the originalChief Creative Officer Scott Gimple are the new show's co-creators.Fear of the Walking Dead. The original show has repeatedly set basic-cable ratings records, and remains a top-rated show. Importantly, the franchise continues to harvest some of the highest ad revenues of any show on TV, though revenues were down slightly last year compared to 2017, according to Kantar Media.
programming consecutively for about 10 months of the year. Barnett hinted that the new show may feature young actresses from recent show shambling to primetime, AMC risks becoming a different kind of zombie channel, the derisive term used in pay-TV for networks with fewer than 100,000 viewers and no distinctive programming, and therefore few prospects for survival in the online-video apocalypse.
By contrast, AMC will come to this fast-approaching future with distinctive programming, some of the industry's best ratings and plenty of thoroughly engaged fans. But it may become known mostly for zombie shows in the way that CBS All Access has, in its first couple of years online, been known mostly for new Star Trek series. Many Star Trek fans reportedly have been subscribing to All Access long enough to binge new episodes of the new series before cancelling after a month or two.
Now All Access has commissioned multiple additional Star Trek series as an antidote to that binge-and-cancel churn. In other efforts to diversify its original programming slate, All Access also just launched a hotly anticipated new version of
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