If you’ve ever seen zombies pull people apart with their teeth on The Walking Dead and wondered, ’But what exactly is this biter’s motive?’ then you should consider a career as an NBC executive. According to Variety, Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd recently told a master class at the Edinburgh International TV Festival that when the show’s creator, Frank Darabont, first pitched his pilot to NBC, the network had a few notes. “Do there have to be zombies [in it]?†NBC reportedly asked, and then later suggested “a procedural in which the two main protagonists would ‘solve a zombie crime of the week.’†Rick, Carol, and the rest of the crew ended up on AMC instead, which is a shame because without the mystery-solving element, we’ll probably never know which zombie ate that one character off-camera and why the series tortured us with Lori for so long. But, with the success of Fear of the Walking Dead, maybe it’s not too late for a crime-procedural spin-off. After all, in the post-zombie world, brain-eating offenses are considered especially heinous.