Now that The Walking Dead has been renewed for another season, it may be a while until it slow-walks back onto AMC.
The zombie series isn’t likely to start its 13-episode second season until next October, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. After all this anticipation over this season’s six episodes?
Turns out AMC may have programmed itself into a corner already. The network used its annual Fearfest horror movie marathon to ramp up interest, and may want to do so again.
Even if it doesn’t want to use Fearfest again, AMC already pushed Breaking Bad to the summer alongside Mad Men. It just canceled Rubicon, but new series The Killing also is launching next year. Cable needs all the proper promotion time it can get for any premiere, so where would The Walking Dead stagger back onto cable?
Production on the show’s second season hasn’t begun yet, so there’s no firm premiere date for now.
