Former Showrunner Frank Darabont Refuses to Watch 'The Walking Dead'

Frank Darabont was the showrunner on AMC's smash hit The Walking Dead during the first season but was removed from the show in favor of Glen Mazzara during production of Season 2. Apparently that still stings Darabont, who says he refuses to watch the show anymore.

Entertainment Weekly asked Darabont if he still watches The Walking Dead, which is currently enjoying massive success in the ratings. He replied with the following:

"No more than I would go to the wedding of somebody who broke my heart and left me for the Pilates instructor. One does become very emotionally attached to the things that one does. I get tremendously invested. Why would I do that? Absolutely not, I won't."

Darabont's replacement, Mazzara, was eventually replaced by Scott Gimple, who currently runs the show.

The original showrunner is back in business with a new period crime drama on TNT entitled Mob City, which premieres on Dec. 4 and depicts police officers and gangsters battling for control of Los Angeles. Darabont hired fellow The Walking Dead alumni Jon Bernthal and Jeffrey DeMunn to portray two of the characters on the show.

Darabont may have tried to completely divorce himself from The Walking Dead, but Bernthal admitted that he still tunes in to his former show:

"Sure, I'll always watch The Walking Dead. I mean as far as I'm concerned, the people that are on the ground that make that show, the people in Georgia who make that show, the cast and the crew and the producers that are there, they will always be family to me and I will always support them."