For too long zombies have been missing from television (Larry King does not count). For too long we have been deprived of a show that confronts post-apocalyptic problems, like is your neighbor still your neighbor if he’s undead? 

But thanks to AMC, the network that brought us Breaking Bad and that show about stuffy ad executives from the 60’s, we will now have an episodic zombie show based on the graphic novel The Walking Dead.  

imdb reports:

“We reported a while ago that Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd were prepping an adaptation of zombie comics series The Walking Dead for cable channel AMC. “Prepping” has now turned into “actually making”, with the news that the pilot episode has officially got the go ahead. In print form, The Walking Dead is by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, and has been running since 2003. It currently stretches to eleven volumes in the paperback collections, and basically involves Zombiegeddon survivor Rick Grimes and his family making their way to a possibly apocryphal Last Safe Place, and getting into agreeably visceral scrapes and adventures along the way. AMC’s Charlie Collier said that “working with people like Frank and Gale is the right way for us to deliver a project of distinction in this genre.” Which is suit-speak for “the guys that made Shawshank and The Mist and Aliens and Terminator.”