AMC Networks Is Worth Half Its 2015 Value: What’s Its Future Beyond ‘Walking Dead’ Spinoffs?

This year, AMC Networks will end three hit series — “Better Call Saul,” “The Walking Dead,” and “Killing Eve” — and replace them with an army of undead I.P.

There’s “Interview With a Vampire” starring Eric Bogosian, and “Mayfair Witches,” led by Alexandra Daddario, both from the Anne Rice universe, along with next month’s return of “Fear the Walking Dead” and new episodic anthology series “Tales of the Walking Dead” later this year.Next year their legions will grow with “Isle of the Dead,” starring popular “Walking Dead” alums Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, as well as a previously announced “Walking Dead” spinoff returning Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride.

All told, that makes for five spinoffs of the original “Walking Dead” series.

(“The Walking Dead: World Beyond” ended last year after a two-season run.)Filling the shoes of long-running O.G.

“Walking Dead” is a tall order — in its heyday,

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