The Walking Dead writer/executive producer/director Frank Darabont has let go of the writers on the hot freshman AMC series, which has already renewed for a second season…Writer turnover on series between seasons is commonplace but wholesale overhauls are unusual. What’s more, I hear Darabont is looking to forgo having a writing staff for the second season of Walking Dead altogether and assign scripts to freelancers.

Darabont… ended up writing 2 of the first season’s 6 episodes of Walking Dead – the pilot and the second episode – and co-writing/rewriting the other 4. Two of those 4 were written by non-staff writers, one by executive producer Robert Kirkman, on whose comics the series is based, and one by Glen Mazzara. [Deadline]

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So basically this could make the show even better or fall apart. I’m going with better. The writers weren’t doing much since the creator of the comic wrote the 2 best episodes (1 and 2) and then rewrote the other 4. There were still some plot holes in the episodes but that’s what you get for letting people interpret your work. He knows what hes looking for so he might as well just do it himself.

Side Note: Still the most badass show on TV.