Well, this won't surprise anyone.
After getting record ratings with its fourth season debut, AMC's The Walking Dead has been granted a fifth season.
Says AMC President Charlie Collier: "We are very happy to make what has to be one of the most anti-climactic renewal announcements ever. The Walking Dead is renewed for a fifth season."
What is perhaps more surprising is that Scott Gimple is to remain as showrunner for the fifth run - The Walking Dead doesn't have a great track record when it comes to holding on to it's producers, after all.
Where the fifth season will take our survivors is up for debate at the moment: later on in the current run we are due to be introduced to post-prison trio Abraham, Eugene and Rosita, so it looks like we're hitting the road again. Whether AMC will shell out on a more expensive season of location filming as the survivors head out on a road trip, or whether we'll cut straight to Alexandria, giving our characters a more cost-effective permanent set is as yet unknown. Who knows - maybe they'll even depart from the comics altogether?
The Walking Dead Season Four airs on AMC in the US, and on Fox in the UK.
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