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AMC will air 'Killing Eve' as 'The Walking Dead' network seeks a new hit

The stylish, darkly comic BBC America espionage thriller "Killing Eve" was an entry on many TV critics' 10-best lists in 2018 and brought a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination to its star, Sandra Oh.

But can it be a TV drama game-changer on the scale of "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men" or even the mega-hit zombie apocalypse drama "The Walking Dead"?

AMC Networks will find out April 7 when it begins airing the entire second season of "Killing Eve" across two of its channels: BBC America and the company's more widely viewed flagship, AMC.

"It's a great opportunity to expose more people to 'Killing Eve,'" AMC Networks Chief Operating Officer Ed Carroll said in a recent interview at the company's New York office. "These times demand trying some nonconventional methods. And if you have a platform as big and broad as AMC, then it seems like a good thing to try."

The unusual attempt to

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