NBC might be regretting their decision not to pick up the wildly popular show "The Walking Dead." According to Business Insider, creator Robert Kirkman appeared on Sundance's "The Writers Room" and revealed that the zombie show almost landed on network TV. Currently the show airs on the cable network AMC.
"It almost got made at NBC," said Kirkman. "It didn't get made because when the pilot was turned in, the famous story is one of the executives said, ‘This is awesome. I really love this. Does it have to have zombies in it?'"
Fans of The Walking Dead comic books, which the TV show is based off, know the story centers around a zombie apocalypse and how the main characters try and survive. Obviously, Kirkman said there would have been no way to make the show without zombies so he decided to find another network.
That's when he started talking with AMC about bringing the show there. Immediately, Kirkman said he knew the network would be a perfect fit.
"We were very concerned early on what kind of gore we would be able to film, what kind of boundaries we were going to be able to push with the show," said Kirkman. "AMC has this thing called ‘Fearfest' and to ease our minds they edited together this four-minute clip of the most horrendous bits of gore that you could see on the network. It was just four solid minutes of ... people getting ripped apart and guts going everywhere. We were like, well, if they could show this then, all right, we're good."
It seems like the decision was a win win for everybody. According to Business Insider, "The Walking Dead" easily outranks other popular AMC shows like "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men" and it's currently one of the most-watched shows on television.
Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" premieres in October.
