{"id":15748,"date":"2021-10-13T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/amc-expanding-walking-dead-franchise\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:03:37","slug":"amc-expanding-the-walking-dead-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/amc-expanding-the-walking-dead-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Expanding The Walking Dead Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMC Networks has greenlit a new anthology series, <em>Tales of the Walking Dead<\/em>, that expands the universe and franchise around <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The episodic anthology series, with one-hour standalone episodes, is focused on both new and established characters set in the world of the original series.<\/p>\n<p>Channing Powell, who has been a writer and producer on <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Fear the Walking Dead<\/em>, will serve as showrunner for <em>Tales of the Walking Dead<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Powell will be working closely with Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of the <em>Walking Dead<\/em> Universe.<\/p>\n<p>An initial season of six episodes is expected to go into production early next year and premiere on AMC+ and AMC next summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0is a show that made television history and attracted an army of passionate and highly engaged fans,\u201d said Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. \u201cWe see so much potential for a wide range of rich and compelling storytelling in this world, and the episodic anthology format of <em>Tales of the Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0will give us the flexibility to entertain existing fans and also offer an entry point for new viewers, especially on streaming platforms. We have seen the appeal of this format in television classics like <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>\u00a0and, more recently, <em>Black Mirror<\/em>, and are excited to engage with fans in this new way, against the backdrop of this very unique and engrossing world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis series, more than any other in the <em>Walking Dead<\/em> Universe, runs on new voices, perspectives and ideas\u2014bringing to life stories unlike any we\u2019ve told before,\u201d Gimple said. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be Channing\u2019s consigliere, helping in every way I can to make those new visions real for the best fans in TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started as a fan of <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0and have ended up as a showrunner of what will hopefully be one of its most unique spin-offs,\u201d McDermott added. \u201cThat\u2019s nuts, and I\u2019m so grateful to AMC and Scott for supporting me and my writers while we pushed, pulled and poked at the boundaries of this universe to bring you something new and unexpected, while hopefully still tending to what core audiences loved so much about the flagship show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC Networks has greenlit a new anthology series, Tales of the Walking Dead, that expands the universe and franchise around The Walking Dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":15749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1467,167],"class_list":["post-15748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-amc-networks","tag-the-walking-dead","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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