After months of talk, “The Walking Dead” spin-off series debuts this weekend. Thanks to AMC, we can watch the first three minutes of the pilot episode for "Fear the Walking Dead" right now.

WATCH THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES NOW:

The Walking Dead has always been about the characters. What they are dealing with, what motivates them to keep fighting, how they deal with the makeshift family, and all the things in between is what drives the show.

Fear the Walking Dead will be no different, but that thought marks one of only a few similarities between these two shows.

“They're complicated, real characters who will not be dealing with the undead the same way,” The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman wrote in a letter for the new show’s web site. “ They'll learn new things, they'll find new tools, they'll learn faster or slower but what we end up with is a very, VERY different show... set in a world we LOVE exploring as much as we'd all NEVER want to live there.”

As you watch The Walking Dead, each character’s backstory of their life before the ‘Walkers’ took over is given to us in small doses each week. Well, most characters that is. I’m still trying to figure out what Daryl did before the virus took over.

Kirkman, who also is one of the new show’s executive producers, says that we will get to watch that transition unfold right from the beginning. It’s a new location. There will be new stories and new problems to overcome. Plus the new angle of learning about the apocalypse and how to survive in this new and changing world will give the show another spin.

MEET THE NEW CHARACTERS:

Only time will tell if fans will fall in love with Madison, Travis, Alicia, Nick, Liza, Chris, Daniel, Ofelia and the rest as much as they do love Rick and the crew.

The premiere episode airs Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM-CDT on AMC.

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