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Renewed: The Walking Dead

It's Dead ahead for the zombie series, renewed for a sixth season before the fifth even premieres.

2014-10-08_0929Zombie hit series The Walking Dead has been renewed for a sixth season -before the fifth has even gone to air.

US cable network AMC has renewed the series but not detailed how many episodes as yet.

The early renewal is no surprise. The Walking Dead ranks as the top scripted series in the 18-49 demographic and the highest-rated show in cable history.

Season four averaged a whopping 18.4 million total viewers and 12.2 million in the demo.

“We could not be more excited for Oct. 12 as we share new episodes of The Walking Dead with fans around the globe,” AMC president Charlie Collier said. “In advance of Sunday’s season five premiere, AMC proudly confirms a sixth season order of this extraordinary series. Thank you to Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, the terrific executive producers, and the entire team who bring this compelling world and these rich characters to life. There’s plenty more Dead ahead thanks to their impressive, collective effort.”

AMC has already order a Walking Dead companion series for 2015, expected to chronicle the early days of the zombie apocalypse.

The series returns in Australia next Monday on FX.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

7 Responses

  1. I still enjoy this show, but the last season was a bit of a drag, there was still amazing stuff though. ‘Look at the flowers.’ That episode was phenomenal.

    However I do think the show has kind of lost it’s way a bit and not fully capitalizing on a lot of potential of the situations and storylines. It reminds me of what happened to lost in the final season, it lost the plot and was a mess, but damn they sure know how to make that engaging and entertaining. Walking Dead is like that.I think the governor had a lot more potential than we saw and the pay off lacked something. They have the plague in the prison, it’s entertaining but at the end of the day pointless. Lots of things where they seem to be floundering storywise but it’s made damn well.

    Compare this to The Strain which was way more interesting than the Walking Dead currently is. I really enjoyed it, but it’s not made…

  2. Great news. In the last series, the episode “The Grove” was one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen. Melissa McBride should have been nominated for an Emmy for it, but sadly the Emmy voters still largely ignore scifi/fantasy series.

  3. Love this show! The back half of season 4 wasn’t the strongest (all the characters spread out with their own side plots) but it’s still better than 95% of stuff airing right now

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