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AMC Boss Hints Walking Dead Could Stick Around for '30, 40, 50 Years'
TV Line ^ | November 2, 2017 | Michael Ausiello

Posted on 11/03/2017 2:08:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Here’s hoping Rick Grimes has a good retirement plan. During a conference call with Wall Street analysts on Thursday, AMC CEO Josh Sapan hinted that the The Walking Dead could stay on the air for years — if not decades. “The use of the word ‘franchise,’ we don’t take lightly,” the exec said, per our sister site Deadline. “It’s not a sloppy or casual word. We’ve studied the best. Some have been around 30, 40, 50 years. We have a chance for a lot of life in the franchise.” (UPDATE: An AMC insider stresses that Sapan was referring to the franchise as a whole and not specifically the mothership series.)

Despite experiencing some ratings erosion of late, The Walking Dead remains a force to reckon with in its current eighth season. The drama returned last month to 11.4 million total viewers and a 5.0 demo rating, down dramatically (by 33 and 40 percent) from Season 7’s record-setting premiere but on par with its April finale (and good enough to retain its title as TV’s top scripted series).


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amc; bs; bull; joshsapan; thewalkingdead; walkingdead; zombies
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I hear the Zombies all vote for Democrats.
1 posted on 11/03/2017 2:08:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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Must be what all that Democrat “walking around money” is for.


2 posted on 11/03/2017 2:10:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

If they keep writing the tripe as shown last season, they can count me out as a fan.


3 posted on 11/03/2017 2:12:11 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: BenLurkin

Fear the Walking Dead just saturated the franchise.


4 posted on 11/03/2017 2:14:46 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: EdnaMode

I bailed on this show after the second season.
It’s still on?!


5 posted on 11/03/2017 2:18:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: EdnaMode
Talk like that is a good sign the show is running out of steam.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were talking like that about House of Cards just a few weeks back.

6 posted on 11/03/2017 2:18:12 PM PDT by x
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To: logi_cal869

I quit watching after season 6.

During the latest Walking Dead marathon, I did watch the 2 seasons I had never seen(Season 1 and 2).


7 posted on 11/03/2017 2:21:51 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: EdnaMode

Fear the Walking Dead was/is pathetic. The main show is stumbling along. They better focus on saving what they’ve got before thinking they have the next Dr. Who.

Does The Walking Dead have the most gay characters of any mainstream show? Tara, Jesus, that one gay guy and his gutshot boyfriend, Tara’s various dead girlfriends. You watch this show and begin to think gays are at least 40% of the population.


8 posted on 11/03/2017 2:27:53 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: EdnaMode

Not if the ratings keep going like this. I haven’t even watched this season yet. They’re following the comics too closely, it no longer feels like a different story, it’s now just the same story with actors.


9 posted on 11/03/2017 2:29:50 PM PDT by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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I didn’t know jesus was gay on the show, thought he was gonna be maggies new pie. Daryl is still a mystery.


10 posted on 11/03/2017 2:30:49 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: EdnaMode

First 4 seasons were great. Bailed after that.


11 posted on 11/03/2017 2:33:31 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: EdnaMode

The number of plots and scenarios are limited and this series already seems exhausted.

It may play for another season or two, but it is becoming the same-ole each season.


12 posted on 11/03/2017 2:35:51 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: EdnaMode

Wouldn’t all of the zombies have rotted away after 10-20 yrs


13 posted on 11/03/2017 2:37:38 PM PDT by kaktuskid (And)
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To: Rastus

whoa...do Zombies know they are gay ? do they only eat ...oh nevermind.


14 posted on 11/03/2017 2:38:15 PM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever)
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This Season is GARBAGE!

They go & ambush Negan but Negan still escapes & this crap is just neverending repetitive garbage

15 posted on 11/03/2017 2:38:28 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: EdnaMode

Ghosts>Frankenstein>Vampires>Aliens>Zombies...

As with the other fictional fears zombies will play-out when something new is introduced and takes hold.


16 posted on 11/03/2017 2:38:40 PM PDT by Rebelbase (There are only two genders. The rest are mental disorders.)
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To: EdnaMode

It died and hasn’t been buried. Yes, an immortal zombie show but don’t expect everyone else to be zombies and follow the dreck.

Great beginning, stinks now. Let it die.


17 posted on 11/03/2017 2:38:47 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Rastus

You didn’t get the memo that says your chances of surviving a zombie apocalypse increases if your LGBT? Who would have thunk that gays had better survival skills than any of our highly trained Special Forces warriors!


18 posted on 11/03/2017 2:42:37 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: EdnaMode

AMC used to be a good movie channel. Not anymore. It’s Walking Dead, night & day. For those of us not afraid of the boogie man it is boring as Hell. Trash TV.


19 posted on 11/03/2017 2:45:23 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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AMC was toe-to-toe with TCM back in the ninties. They had classic movies, commercial-free, uncut in their original aspect ratio. Then, they added commercials. Then, they introduced more modern films. Then, they began to cut for time and content and present movies in pan and scan. They’ve been hit or miss with their original TV shows, but I have no interest in watching a chopped-up movie on there.


20 posted on 11/03/2017 2:49:12 PM PDT by Rastus
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