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    Mary McNamara: From 'Mad Men' to zombie spinoffs: AMC has been trampled by its own revolution

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Jul 26, 2019 5 minutes

    "Another 'Walking Dead' spinoff is confirmed; Danai Gurira says she's leaving."

    A recent Times headline out of Comic-Con pretty much said it all: AMC is quadrupling down on zombies. At least one additional spinoff series (the first, "Fear the Walking Dead," is now in its fifth season ) and three feature films appear to be turning what was once a television network into yet another "Walking Dead experience" - and Gurira is not the only one looking for other options.

    Its lineup teeming with zombies, witches, demons and vampires, AMC - the network that started the revolution behind peak TV, digital disruption and far too many Funko pop figures - seems, if not to have given up the ghost, then at least given in to it.

    "The Walking Dead," "Fear the Walking Dead," "Preacher," "NOS4A2 ," "A Discovery of Witches" (the last

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