Fans of AMC’s critically praised zombie show “The Walking Dead” who are all broken up over having to wait until October for new episodes will get the chance to get addicted to the program’s much hyped spin-off series, “Fear the Walking Dead,” which debuts later this summer.

The details of the new series have been fairly guarded, but now Robert Kirkman, the executive producer of the ghoulish franchise, is spilling details.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the 36-year-old comic book writer and EP, has stated that the L.A.-based show will focus on two schoolteachers in a relationship: a widow named Madison (Kim Dickens) and a divorced fellow named Travis (Cliff Curtis), and their respective offspring.

As the series centers upon the motif of the contemporary blended family trying to make it before the coming zombie apocalypse takes hold, “Fear the Walking Dead” seems like a kind of genre-bending experiment, and that’s just how Kirkman likes it.

“Usually cable television focuses on infidelity, love triangles, divorces, marriages breaking down -- that’s really the meat and potatoes of the drama we mostly deal with on TV,” Kirkman said. “So having this interesting couple at the core of this show, fighting against the backdrop of civilization crumbling and the zombie apocalypse, really is the core of things." 

For Kirkman it is the offering of a common human experience that will really make this horror series special.

“Yeah, I think the idea of having a blended family and trying to make all that work is an interesting family dynamic that could be the basis of its own show,” Kirkman said. “The fact that we have zombies in it is icing on the cake.”

There has been a decent amount of seemingly justified fan speculation that the new show would be a kind of prequel to “The Walking Dead,” but showrunner Dave Erickson informed the Hollywood Reporter that this was not exactly the case.

Although the show will indeed tie in specifically to the pilot of the original series, Erickson says that "Prequel" is not the right word. Elaborating cryptically, he said, “it's kind of its own strange, hybrid thing. I wish I had a better word.”