The Walking Dead Season 5: 10 Things That Need To Happen

3. References To The Impending Spin-Off

AMC's schedules are starting to look a little bare. So perhaps it's not surprising that, rather than take any other big-budget risks, they've instead been promising for a while now that they're simply going to produce another Walking Dead series. Not expand the current show's episode orders, or go into re-runs, or whatever, but to make a spin-off show set in the same zombie-infested world, but with a (presumably) entirely different set of characters. It's an intriguing concept, and not one that's ever really been tried on television before - The Walking Dead Televisual Universe, anyone? - and there's a lot of questions to be asked about it. Principal among them is exactly how it'll be spun off from the main series. The companion show will apparently go into production at the end of this year, which means it'll probably air between seasons of the primary Walking Dead show. Will the two share any connective tissue besides a setting, though? Spin-offs of this sort are pretty unusual, but spin-offs in general aren't - and, more often than not, they occur at least semi-naturally. Frasier was on Cheers for the better part of a decade before getting his own headlining series, whilst Mork & Mindy had plenty of time to confuse fans of Happy Days before striking out on their own. This season of The Walking Dead should at least hint at the spin-off, if not directly feature the characters who will appear in it.