Walking Dead fans have a new show to get excited about.

Glen Mazzara, who previously served as producer and writer for the AMC mega hit, has a new show on A&E called Damien and it looks like Mazzara brought his Dead DNA with him to his new venture.

Damien tells the story of its titular character all grown up, 25 years after we left him at the close of the 1976 classic horror film The Omen (the show is essentially ignoring the two sequels). Mazzara has brought on Bradley James to play the Anti-Christ (fans of the show King Arthur will know him better as Merlin) and the eternally amazing Barbara Hershey to play his frightening mother-protector figure. And for Dead fans he brought along along a score by Bear McCreary and the kindly wizened visage of Scott Wilson, who surprised the crowd and joined the panel halfway through its presentation (sans Hershel ponytail).

We got a chance to ask Hershey a question on the open mic about how she plays dark maternal figures to such chilling effect. She said she asked criminal defense attorneys how they work for clients they know to be guilty and, aside from the many unsatisfying answers she received, has been told to look back into the history of offenders and find, essentially, where it all went wrong for them. She said it helps her find empathy for otherwise unsympathetic characters, and cautioned that those dark corners exist in all of us – and maybe not even that far beneath the surface.

We’ll surely be tuning in to see how you make us care for the shepherd of the Anti-Christ, Ms. Hershey.