The Walking Dead [1] is being laid to rest. On Sept. 9, AMC confirmed that the bloodthirsty drama The Walking Dead [2] flagship series has been my creative home for a decade and so it's bittersweet to bring it to an end, but I could not be more excited to be working with Scott Gimple and AMC to develop a new series for Daryl and Carol. Working with Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride has been a highlight of my career, and I'm thrilled that we get to keep telling stories together."

The newly announced unnamed spinoff will join the TWD-adjacent series Fear the Walking Dead [3], which premiered in 2015, and will return for its sixth season on Oct 11. The two-season limited series The Walking Dead: World Beyond is also dropping on Oct. 4. Furthermore, Gimple is developing a scripted anthology series, Tales of the Walking Dead, which will center on individual episodes or arcs with new or existing characters, backstories, or additional stand-alone stories. The TWD universe will expand moreover with three feature-length films about Andrew Lincoln's character Rick Grimes [4].

TWD co-creator and AMC chief content officer Scott M. Gimple shared his excitement about the upcoming projects, saying: "It's been ten years 'gone bye;' what lies ahead are two more to come and stories and stories to tell beyond that. What's clear is that this show has been about the living, made by a passionate cast, team of writer/producers, producers, and crew, bringing to life the vision put forth by Robert Kirkman in his brilliant comic — and supported by the best fans in the world. We have a lot of thrilling story left to tell on TWD, and then, this end will be a beginning of more Walking Dead — brand new stories and characters, familiar faces and places, new voices, and new mythologies. This will be a grand finale that will lead to new premieres. Evolution is upon us. The Walking Dead lives."