A brand-new TV show was created in a very secretive manner—and the process involved filming on the set of 

The Walking Dead. The long-running zombie apocalypse franchise has been on the air since 2010, with the original Walking Dead series running for 11 seasons and spawning multiple spinoffs, including 
Fear the Walking Dead, Dead City, and Daryl Dixon.

Georgia served as the main backdrop for production on The Walking Dead, and the Peach State is now host to a brand-new horror series that utilized the 

Walking Dead sets while filming, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Guts & Glory is a six-episode reality competition series premiering Tuesday, October 14 on Shudder, the horror-based streaming service owned by the same media company that produces 

The Walking Dead.

The process was so secretive that producers misled the contestants about where they would be filming the show. Originally told that Guts & Glory would film in Alabama, the cast was instead transported to Georgia.

According to Greg Nicotero, who's produced both The Walking Dead and Guts & Glory, the reality show contestants flew into Atlanta, Georgia, then got on a bus and were driven to Alabama. As far as they were concerned, Alabama was their final destination.

However, after staying the night at a hotel, the cast got on a bus that had its windows blacked out, and they were taken back to Georgia. "We took them on the back lot of The Walking Dead studios,"

 Nicotero revealed.

Some of the Walking Dead sets would be easily recognizable to eagle-eyed fans, so the Guts & Glory producers took the contestants "deep enough" so they didn't spot the sound stages. They just thought they were "

in the middle of nowhere," but they were actually stationed at the same location as the Whisperers camp on The Walking Dead.

Other locations the competition show filmed at included the abandoned hospital featured on the AMC drama, which received a makeover to make it seem like a "

real functioning emergency room." Check out Nicotero's comments below:

The contestants landed in Atlanta, we put them in a bus, and we drove them to Alabama. They stayed overnight at a hotel. They came out, they got in a bus with the windows blacked out, and we drove them back to Georgia. And we took them on the back lot of The Walking Dead studios. We just had to take them deep enough that they couldn't see the sound stages. And when they got out, they were like, ‘Well, the sun's over here!’ Their camp was literally where the Whisperers camp was. But they couldn't see the sound stages, so they thought they were in the middle of nowhere.

In episode 2, when they go to the hospital for a challenge, that’s the abandoned hospital where we shot The Walking Dead. We shot Emily Kinney's death there, and we shot the Whisperers there. I also shot a couple of Creepshow episodes there, so I knew that the hospital was abandoned, but we dressed the emergency room to look like it was a real functioning emergency room. Within 30 seconds, the lights go out, there are screams, horrible sounds from the hallway, blood splashes, the lights come back on, everybody's dead.

At this point, it's unknown if the contestants finally figured out they were competing on the Walking Dead sets, so fans will have to stay tuned to the Shudder series to find out.

Guts & Glory, which will release its finale on Tuesday, November 4, features a group of contestants experiencing a horror film come to life, with various challenges along the way to test their abilities.

Shudder is a streaming service known for horror shows and movies, as well as original content like Creepshow, The Creep Tapes, Deadstream and Speak No Evil. While docuseries and other unscripted projects like 

The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs are featured on Shudder, the streamer isn't known for reality competition shows—until now.

Guts & Glory promises to be a scary, fun, and wild ride for the contestants and viewers alike. Fans of 

The Walking Dead should definitely check out this brand-new venture that's a mashup of the horror genre and reality competition shows like Survivor.