When you’re a show as internationally big as The Walking Dead, with a spin off and web series, it might be a huge mistake not to give the fans what they want. And AMC thinks so, too, as he just renewed the show for a seventh season.

Currently The Walking Dead is halfway through its sixth season, and its premiere episode had 14.6 million total viewers and a 7.43 rating among adults 18-49. Wow, right? So the news doesn’t come as a surprise, because look again at those numbers.

At the end of the seventh season, the series will become AMC’s longest-running original scripted series with 99 episodes, topping Mad Men‘s 92 episodes. And I’m prepared to bet it might receive an eight one.

“Thank goodness someone had a Magic 8-Ball with them in our many long internal meetings about these renewals. When, on the third shake, ‘without a doubt’ filled the murky blue screen, we knew we had to proceed with new seasons of The Walking Dead and Talking Dead,” AMC/Sundance TV president Charlie Collier said in a statement (via THR). “All joking aside, we are so proud to share these shows with fans who have been so passionate, communicative and engaged. We are grateful for and continually impressed by the talent, effort and excellence on continuous display by Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, Chris Hardwick and the many people with whom we partner to make these unique shows possible. The result: More Walking and Talking. Hooray.”

Are you excited for another season of TWD?

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