Tales of The Walking Dead is a new spin-off show with a surprisingly cool big idea

Tales of The Walking D.o.a. is a inexperienced spin-off evidenc with a surprisingly cool plumping musical theme

(Image quotation: AMC)

Even as The Walking Dead season 11 episode 8 wrapped up the first theatrical role of the show's final carry this week, US cable television network AMC has disposed the go-ahead to a raw anthology show set in this world of infinite zombies and character deaths. Tales of the Walk-to Dead will rain cats and dogs on AMC+ in the US, as well as aerial on AMC, and it's coming in summer 2022 (so the middle of next year).

The prove volition comprise of 6 one and only-hr episodes that severalize totally standalone stories – a mix of old and novel characters will feature article in the record. It's the fourth spin-off of the main series since IT debuted in 2010, preceded by Fear the Walking Uncharged and The Walking Dead: World Beyond – and it'll arrive before some other spin-off, focused on Carol and Daryl from the main series, comes along later on flavor 11 ends.

Long-time producer in The Walking Dead universe, Channing Cecil Frank Powell, volition lead the writing of this new series. Interestingly, AMC invoked Netflix's popular anthology show Black Mirror in describing the project.

"We take in so a good deal potential for a fanlike range of rich and compelling storytelling in this world, and the episodic anthology data format of Tales of the Walking Assassinated will give us the flexibility to entertain existing fans and also tender an entry point for bran-new viewers, especially on streaming platforms," says AMC's Dan McDermott.

"We have seen the appeal of this formatting in television classics like The Twilight Zone and, more recently, Smutty Mirror, and are excited to engage with fans in this new right smart, against the backdrop of this precise unique and engrossing international."

It's ill-defined how the establish will release internationally – The Walking Dead releases along Disney Plus in the UK, and connected Foxtel in Australia. Some spin-offs, Fear The Close Dead and The Walking Dead: World On the far side, are available happening Prime Video in the UK.

Charles Herbert Best Netflix shows
Topper HBO Max shows
Outdo Amazon Flower Video shows

Analysis: The Walking Departed needs fresh bloodline

Anthology formats are a good fit for streaming services, as AMC points out. In recent years, we've enjoyed like Disgraceful Mirror and the just-A-respectable British series Inside Atomic number 102. 9 in this genre. Streamers are doubling down, excessively, with Disney Plus launching both Marvel's What If...? and Star Wars: Visions this yr.

The show American Horror Stories has relinquished the episodic standalone treatment to FX's hot horror serial publication, excessively, spell Amazon's Solos launched earlier this year. We've also seen services paddle with season-weeklong anthologies, like HBO Max's Love.

Their appeal in the fashionable age is obvious: streaming TV has become gummed aweigh with time-wasting, minute-long ongoing series that can take forever and a day to deliver a tarradiddle. That's become the guide for thusly many dramas – and waiting ii hours to find out if you actually like a series or not before you continue isn't ideal, especially where there's e'er too much stuff to watch.

For The Walking Dead, also, which has standard plenty of criticism complete the years for declining in quality at various points, and which already has ii spin-offs set in the same universe, a strong attack was needed. An anthology enables the writers to remember about the raw mechanics of storytelling in a taxon way. Sometimes a plot in an episode of the main show can take a whole season to resolve. Hera, the story needs to equal over inside an hour.

"This serial publication, much than any other in the Walking Dead Universe, runs on new voices, perspectives, and ideas – bringing to life history stories unlike any we've told before," says enfranchisement overseer Scott Gimple. Let's Hope he's right.

Best streaming services compared

Samuel is a PR Manager at game developer Frontier. Formerly TechRadar's Superior Amusement Editor, he's an expert in Wonder, Star Wars, Netflix shows and general streaming pig out. Before his stint at TechRadar, he fatigued six years at PC Gamer.