Fear the Walking Dead season 2: Gale Ann Hurd promises new threats, twists and crossover 

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But executive producer Gale Ann Hurd told ​Digital Spy 

​that it\'s important not to let storytelling be dictated by shock value.

"There is no source material, so we do get to make it up as we go along. But I think it\'s important for it never to veer into the totally unexpected just for shock value.

"Dave Erickson - the showrunner who created the series along with Robert Kirkman - has said, first and foremost, this should be a dysfunctional family story - but with zombies.

about these characters - which means we can\'t just kill them all off."

​might actually be expanding in its upcoming second season - with a number of new signings, including actor Dougray Scott.

Hurd is tight-lipped on what we can expect from these new characters, but does have this to say: "The dividing line [for the survivors] has to be, \'If it\'s you or me, it\'s going to be me every time. I\'m not going to save you and put myself at risk\'.

"There are a few people who haven\'t gotten to that point - and what we discover is, sometimes, people who aren\'t at that point put everyone else at risk.​"

 which explored the terrifying impact of a zombie outbreak on a plane across 16 mini-episodes.

, we would establish characters that may possibly intersect with our show - so we\'re not going to collide 

​espite showrunner Dave Erickson\'s previous claims that another web-series​

could bridge the gap between the second season of 

"It was much easier to do a web series when we only had six episodes [in our first season]," Hurd explains. "Once you\'re at 15, you\'re actually working on that show 12 months a year - so you don\'t really have that downtime."

One last thing Hurd will promise for 

​is stunning transformations for the current cast - think Rick\'s transformation on 

"That\'s the great thing about TV - and the opportunities in TV these days - because it\'s serialised, because people can catch up, you can take characters to very different places," she promises.

"We start every season not with a plot arc, but with character arcs - and once we\'ve figured out the character arcs, the plot naturally develops. And that\'s very different from the old days, when TV was very much procedural...

"You came up with the plot - the mystery illness, or the case that needs to be solved - and then the characters were simply getting you there. It\'s

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