AMC renews 'The Walking Dead'

"Sometimes, dead is better."

That line comes from the old dude in the movie Pet Semetary who tried to warn his new neighbor about the creepy cemetery in the woods where animals who were buried there came back to life, but kinda not like they were when they were alive.

Well, AMC can say the same thing.

As expected, the network announced it's renewing the popular zombie drama The Walking Dead for a fifth season. The show's fourth season premiere earned a robust 20 million viewers, which gave AMC 20 million reasons why it should bring the show back.

"This is a show that has erased traditional distinctions between cable and broadcast," AMC President Charlie Collier said in a statement. "Its expanding base of passionate fans has grown every season, most recently -- and most notably -- with the season four premiere earlier this month, which broke viewership records for the series and became the biggest non-sports telecast in cable history."

I keep hearing great things about Walking Dead, but unfortunately, I never got into it. I did, however, get an up-close-and-personal look at several Walking Dead zombies when my wife and I recently visited Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Orlando.

While she was terrified, I kept looking for that hilarious zombie from the Sprint commercial.