AMC Hungry for More Walking Dead – Renews It for Third Season

Ever since AMC decided to be dicks to Frank Darabont firing the guy responsible for their legitimately successful horror series (Great as Mad Men and Breaking Bad are, they're not ratings-winners), many have been looking to hate on The Walking Dead's sophomore season.

Not that there weren't issues with season one. That season ender with Noah Emmerich was a real divider amongst fans. But there's been some fear the epic zombie-apocalyptic show will be another "One Season Wonder" where the freshman year everyone has a love affair with it and then the moment the second year starts, reality sets in. You can look to recent examples like Heroes (Remember when everyone bitched about that?) and Glee.

Two episodes in and the overall reception seems to be the premiere lacked focus given its extra running length (Read: it sucked) and last Sunday's episode was a considerable improvement. Nevertheless the ratings are still kicking ass and AMC has officially renewed The Walking Dead for a third season.

We still have eleven more episodes before we can even think about next season. Hopefully the quality doesn't continue wobbling and they're able to manage without Darabont.