‘Fear The Walking Dead: Passage’ Scores Two Emmy Nominations

“Fear The Walking Dead: Passage” has been honored with two nominations at the 2017 Emmy Awards.

The 16-part AMC web series is nominated for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, and its star Kelsey Scott — who played the role of Sierra — is nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.

“Fear the Walking Dead: Passage” tells the story of Sierra, a fearsome survivor who agrees to help a wounded woman, Gabi (Mishel Prada), in exchange for an apocalyptic sanctuary. Over the course of their harrowing journey to Mexico, the women go on to face many dangers together and learn what they need in order to continue living.

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The short-form series made its TV debut during a commercial break within “The Walking Dead” Season 7 premiere episode last Oct. 23. Subsequent episodes, each less than a minute long, aired every Sunday, online and then on-air as promos during new episodes of “The Walking Dead” for the duration of Season 7.

“Fear The Walking Dead: Passage’s” precursor, “Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462,” was also nominated for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series at the Emmy Awards last year. Its star Michelle Ang was also nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her performance as Alex/Charlie.

In a recent interview with Deadline, “Fear the Walking Dead” showrunner Dave Erickson revealed that there was a plan to connect “Fear the Walking Dead: Passage” with the main show’s Season 3. The goal, however, didn’t play out exactly as it had with previous short-form series “Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462.”

“The character of the boyfriend [Colton] in ‘Passage,’ played by Mike Mosley, we wanted him to be the border guard that Travis (Cliff Curtis) and Nick (Frank Dillane) come across in Season 3, episode 1 — in the premiere — and then, frankly, it became a question of scheduling. It didn’t pan out the way we wanted,” Erickson said.

While the planned crossover didn’t work out this season, Erickson suggested that the characters who survived at the end of “Passage” could still pop up in future installments of “Fear the Walking Dead.” “The good news is you do have these characters you have established who you can thread back in if it works organically,” he said. “You also have the benefit of knowing that they are out there, knowing that there is a resource, and then you sort of wait and see where it goes.”

AMC has yet to announce whether or not there will be a third short-form series set in the world of “Fear the Walking Dead.”

The Primetime Emmys will be awarded on Sunday, Sept. 17, while “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 3 will return to AMC on Sunday, Sept. 10.