Exclusive: How will we survive without 'The Walking Dead'? Exec producers Robert Kirkman and Gale Anne Hurd offer some suggestions

So the first season of The Walking Dead is over and it seems likely the show won’t return until October which, according to EW’s calendar experts, is still around ten months away. But don’t panic! EW has compiled a list of undead-oriented entertainment activities to help pass the time with a little help from Walking Dead executive producers Robert Kirkman and Gale Anne Hurd and one of our zombie cover stars, Charles Casey.

Read the Walking Dead comic

True, there’s always the tiny possibility he may be a touch biased in this matter. Those who would rather read a 100 percent spoiler-free, Kirkman-penned undead tale should check out his enjoyably nuts Marvel Zombies, in which alternative universe versions of Captain America, Spider-Man, and the Hulk, to name but a few, are transformed into flesh-hungry ghouls.

Watch these zombie movies

Here at EW Towers we could spend all day debating which are the best zombie films (and we often do, usually on Tuesdays). So instead we asked Walking Dead zombie, EW cover star and self-confessed undead movie nut Charles Casey to give us his top five.

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Read these zombie books

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Watch 2010’s other awesome zombie TV show

As my late grandmother used to say, you wait years for a zombie TV show to come along and then two arrive at once. Actually, Nana never said any such thing and would doubtless have been utterly appalled by the gore-drenched, British-made, Stephen King-approved, Dead Set. But that’s no reason why you shouldn’t enjoy this terrific reality TV-lampooning zombie show which premiered on IFC channel just days before The Walking Dead and is now available on iTunes and VOD.

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Wait for the Walking Dead DVD

Okay, so this suggestion isn’t much more helpful than saying “Wait for Walking Dead season two,” given that the first season DVD won’t hit stores until March 8, 2011. But according to Gale Anne Hurd, it’ll be worth the wait. “It’s going to have a lot of incredible extras, I can assure you,” says the Walking Dead executive producer. “Constantine Nasr, who has done the behind the scenes EPKs on most of Frank’s films, was with us from pre-production all the way through post-production. There has been a lot of behind the scenes materials posted on the AMC site, but there’s at least twice as much more that will be included in the DVD.”

Watch this…

Well, it made us laugh.

Obviously this isn’t a comprehensive list. What zombie-related activity would you recommend to someone suffering from Walking Dead cold turkey?