AMC’s The Walking Dead has already received a 13-episode second season order after a big season one premiere debut, slightly lower second episode, and then uncharacteristic bump in viewership with the mid-season third episode. You’d best cherish the next three episodes as season two isn’t coming anytime soon.
According to THR, AMC has decided to stick with the successful release plan for The Walking Dead: Season One that utilized October’s Fearfest to promote the show. The same will happen next year so don’t expect to see the premiere episode of season two until sometime in mid-to-late October 2011.
THR warns these plans are not final but there’s really no alternative time frame to consider. New episodes still have to be written and produced and that takes time. AMC already has Mad Men and Breaking Bad set for next summer, plus they have their new show The Killing still waiting to be slotted somewhere. A one-two punch of The Killing and The Walking Dead to match the summer one-two punch makes a lot of sense.
The last tidbit THR passes along is that Frank Darabont, who wrote and directed The Walking Dead series premiere, is expected to return and write/helm a season two episode. That’s news worth sinking your teeth into.
