Walkers enter the game!

Some unsuspecting basketball players are about to get a nasty surprise, if the new AMC Fear The Walking Dead poster is anything to go by.

The new key art for The Walking Dead companion series, follows the recent Comic-Con poster release.

The six-part series is set in Los Angeles at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse and stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl), Cliff Curtis (Missing), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam-Carey (The 100).

Fear The Walking Dead will launch on Sunday, 23rd August on AMC in the US, with an extended 90-minute episode. The newly launched AMC channel in the UK will air the series exclusively in a deal with BT TV.