Talking Dead Spinoff Coming To AMC

03/01/2017 01:43 pm EST

The Walking Dead isn't the only zombie show on AMC to have a sibling series, anymore.

Chris Hardwick's Talking Dead show will expand into a year-round talk franchise, AMC announced on Wednesday. Each hour-long episode of the Talking spin-off will feature an interview with a single guest. Unlike The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead's recap shows on Sunday nights, the new Talking series will cover all over pop culture rather than solely focusing on Robert Kirkman's zombie world.

"Chris Hardwick is just the ultimate fan guide, advocate and conversationalist. He took our desire to serve the fans of The Walking Dead with an hour of discussion and analysis following each new episode and turned it into the #1 talk show on television, and a model that has been widely emulated but never quite duplicated, because Chris is the key," said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV. "Between 'Talking Dead,' his podcast and panel moderation at events like Comic-Con, there is just no one better at drawing out guests' humanity, celebrating content and serving fans. We are looking forward to expanding our relationship with Chris through this new version of 'Talking' that will allow him to do what he does best – give our viewers a front row seat to some of the biggest topics in pop culture today and a host who has an incomparable affinity for the content they love."

Hardwick also hosts @midnight on Comedy Central, inviting comedians and celebrities to participate in a pop-culture based comedy game show.

"Talking will have the skin of Talking Dead, the soul of the Nerdist podcast and the guts of a Comic Con panel," said Hardwick. "I have loved learning how to do a talk show these last six years on Talking Dead, but am eager to expand the format into other areas of pop culture."

A release date for Talking has not yet been announced but Hardwick is booked for at least the next five Sunday's as The Walking Dead rounds out its seventh season.

Talking Dead averages over 4 million viewers when it follow The Walking Dead, often topping late show hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert. Of course, they don't have a program average seven-digit viewer totals leading into their 10:30 pm ET shows.

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