AMC surprised a lot of 'Walking Dead' fans yesterday with the news that its upcoming 3rd 'Walking Dead' series, 'World Beyond' will only run for 20 total episodes
I asked AMC if they could tell me how many episodes that would be total, as we’ve seen both 6 episode and 16 episode seasons of. They told me that it’s going to be two 10 episode seasons for 20 episodes total.
This is all part of an experiment for AMC to adjust to the changing media landscape in terms of how people want to watch and consume TV or TV-like content. In short, they don’t need to stick with this fixed format of 16 episode seasons split in half every year, so they’re trying something new with a hard limited series in World Beyond, meaning they should have a clear story arc in place.
“What we’re doing next is experimenting. We’re making a movie with Universal featuring the Rick Grimes character. And the third television series in this universe, World Beyond, focuses on the generation of survivors who have grown up post-apocalypse. Led by two young female leads, it is a perfect advancing of the universe in ways that are multi-generational, fresh and unexpected.
. It also stands to reason that AMC will probably do things like the Negan origin special, and they’ve already talked aboutis also going to be doing a sort of “experimental” season this year with the cast completely separated from one another, though I think as part of this plan, it might be best to wrap up that series sooner rather than later at it has been dismal the last two years.
The idea of a two-season limited series is interesting because that lets you avoid the kinds of problems that have plagued the two existingseason 3 and 4 orseason 8 and 9 . I would rather see more mini-series like this pop up than to see a show likedrag on for years longer than it should. That seems like the right call to me, and there’s a lot of potential for interesting ways to expand the universe here.
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