Watch: First Trailers For ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 And Spin-Off ‘Fear The Walking Dead’, Plus The Full Comic-Con Panel

With both “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” gone, “The Walking Dead” is AMC’s default flagship show. This year not only finds the popular zombie series in its sixth season, it will also bring a spin-off from the cash cow. Because it’s San Diego Comic-Con weekend and there is such a huge overlap between attendees and fans of the show, the basic cable channel has released a pair of trailers for both the sixth season of “The Walking Dead” and its spin-off, “Fear the Walking Dead.”

First up, let’s talk about that spin-off. Originally announced two years ago with no details, now we know that “Fear the Walking Dead” is set in Los Angeles during the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. It stars Kim Dickens (“Gone Girl” and “Treme”), Cliff Curtis (“Whale Rider” and “Sunshine”), Rubén Blades, and Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange Is The New Black”), among others. The trailer showcases a much more “World War Z” or “Dawn of the Dead” take on the zombie apocalypse, meaning we get to see the...