AMC's brave new world

No question about it, AMC's adaptation of The Walking Dead was one of the biggest hits of 2010. Now with Mad Men looking very uncertain, it appears the network has figured out that most precious of formulas: TV + Geeks = Money.

AMC is developing a realistic science fiction saga featuring an ambitious female scientist and her fellow scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as they make first contact with an alien race, a concept similar to Contact with Jodie Foster.

The Voyage is the work of genre vet John Shiban (The X-Files, Star Trek: Enterprise, Breaking Bad, Torchwood) who wrote the script. AMC will make a decision about green-lighting a pilot sometime in the first week of April.