Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with Chris Hardwick

AMC brings on the Nerdist to walk us through The Walking Dead

AMC's The Walking Dead gets even more lively starting October 16th, when a new after-show, Talking Dead, premieres. Chris Hardwick hosts: to prep him for viewer questions, we asked a few of our own.

GeekChicDaily: Simon Pegg wrote an article about why fast zombies don't work. Any thoughts?

Chris Hardwick: ...I don't know physiologically how a fast zombie works.  I guess I can understand if someone JUST died. If you're talking about a zombie who's been dead for a little while then they reanimate, okay, great. If it's sort of Thriller style and they’re pulling themselves out of the ground? Slow zombies...

GCD: What can you tell us about the show's format?

CH: ...To me it sort of feels like, this is the kind of [stuff] I would be talking about with my friends anyway. Like Scott Ian or Brian Posehn. So the fact that AMC is there and wants to put a camera in front of it and make a show out of it? Bonus.

GCD: What else will you be doing?

CH: We were talking about how the plan is to do behind the scenes...not just behind the scenes stuff the network is going to force us to do. The plan is to ask the audience: what do you want to see behind the scenes, and then go shoot that stuff.

Check out our full interview with Chris Hardwick, then scope out Talking Dead Oct. 16th, following the encore presentation of The Walking Dead on AMC.

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