Fans of “The Walking Dead” still have a long hard summer before the show returns in October.

But according to Andrew Lincoln, the English actor who plays Rick Grimes on the series, season 6 will be well worth the wait.

Speaking to Collider while recently attending the 41st Annual Saturn Awards, the 41-year-old actor said, “I think the writing and the story is getting stronger and stronger, I’m thrilled.”

When asked about his character and Morgan Jones (Lennie James), Lincoln said, “There will be tension between those two characters, definitely.” Although the actor seemed to express some physical fatigue regarding playing his role, he seemed to have a lot of confidence in the actual character, saying that: “One of the great challenges of playing him is that he’s one of these people that keeps pushing himself forward and finding new resolve.”

Meanwhile, “Fear the Walking Dead,” the spin-off series that airs in August, is slowly dropping more hints about what a truly unnerving series it just may turn out to be.

In a recently released teaser, the show’s couple, Madison (Kim Dickens) and Travis (Cliff Curtis), drive along and spotting some missing persons posters before coming across a fellow who is either one of the walking dead or (in the parlance of AA meetings) one of the walking wounded.

Though the missing persons posters recalls “28 Days Later,” the 2002 flick that brought the ambling corpse genre back to life, the slow moving man walking in the cemetery definitely alludes to the daddy of all zombie movies “Night of the Living Dead,” the late 60s horror film that starts off with a brother and sister visiting a graveyard and coming across a walking corpse who is ready to pounce.

There has been some concern that “Fear the Walking Dead,” taking place before the major zombie outbreak and focusing on the day-to-day struggles of a middle age couple trying to bring their family together in Los Angeles, might lack much of the sheer terror that fans of “The Walking Dead” have come to crave.

Show creator Robert Kirkman has not alleviated any of those fears with his comments about his new show’s more domestic centered sense of drama. “All the intricacies and struggles that come from that family dynamic, and setting it against the fall of civilization in the face of the zombie apocalypse, just makes things that much more interesting,” Kirkman told Vulture.

The 36-year-old comic book writer and executive producer places a lot of the weight on the relationship of the two people trying to stay in love as they eventually to try to stay alive: “This is a show that’s pretty much about two people that are a team, first and foremost -- hey back each other up, they respect each other, they love each other.”