The Walking Dead scored a great audience of 5.5 million viewers for the latest episode. This new instant hit show on AMC was renewed for a second season after the air of the second episode. The original pick-up of the show was just for a mere six sample episodes. One would probably think that with such an instant success, the show would continue to be produced and air as it began.
This is not the case however.
Rumors are circling that either the director and executive producer, Frank Darabont, has fired or let go his entire writing staff. It is also spreading that many of the writers left on their own accord. Either way, this show has lost many assets that helped make it the instant success that it has been thus far.
Another rumor is that instead of hiring more writers for the second season, free-lance writers will be able to submit their own scripts for production of future episodes.
Frank Darabont actually wrote the pilot episode himself. Hopefully his skill and knowledge will be able to assist with continuing the quality of work that will be put into future episodes. It would be a shame to have a repeat of the 2008 writers strike that resulted in many good show's seasons being cut short and causing several to loose renewals.
For more info, please visit this article from MTV:
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/12/01/the-walking-dead-writers-dvd/
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