A recent resurgence of successful spin-offs, such as The Flash (from The CW’s Arrow) and Better Call Saul (from AMC’s Breaking Bad), gives us hope for next week’s premiere of Fear the Walking Dead, a quasi-prequel spin-off of AMC’s wildly popular The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead brought Robert Kirkman’s comic book to live-action as the series followed a group of survivors in southeast U.S. after a zombie apocalypse ravaged the world. Set on the other side of the U.S., in Los Angeles, Fear the Walking Dead will follow a family during the outbreak of the zombie virus.
But spin-offs can be a tricky thing for networks. On ...
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