The Walking Dead is never going to die. Despite steadily declining ratings, AMC is moving forward with a second spinoff, and network CEO Josh Sapan believes there’s no end in sight, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “We have an awful lot of life left in The Walking Dead,” he said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. “I mean decades and decades of life left.”
If I can editorialize for a second, please no. I get that Sapan wants to milk the series for everything it’s worth, but the show is in serious decline. The Walking Dead is about to premiere its tenth season, and the survivors are facing the most terrifying villains they’ve ever encountered…but season 9 looked promising too and it ended up being a snooze fest.
Fear The Walking Dead is even worse. Survivors refuse to kill the bad guys who have no problem killing them, and some even refuse to kill the walkers who are literally trying to eat them alive. You want to scream at and shake these people until they wake up and smell the rotting flesh. It’s infuriating.
“That’s an indication of a vital heartbeat in the franchise,” he said of TWD and its spinoffs. Has he watched the show? Never mind.
Anyway, Sapan also talked about how AMC sees its role in the burgeoning streaming wars. “We don’t bid for Friends or Seinfeld,” Sapan said. “We’re not trying to compete with or replace Netflix, Amazon, Disney, HBO Max. But rather our offerings are complementary.”
As opposed to those heavy hitters, AMC operates a number of smaller streaming on-demand services like Shudder, Sundance Now, Acorn TV and Urban Movie Channel. “We’re very well positioned to leverage content expertise into new distribution opportunities,” he businessman-ed.
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The Walking Dead season 10 premieres on October 6, heaven help us.
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