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The Walking Dead fandom, showrunner mourn the loss of actress Kelley Mack

The Walking Dead fans have taken to social media to remember late actress Kelley Mack, who died of glioma of the central nervous system (a rare type of astrocytoma cancer) on Aug. 2. She was 33 years old.In January 2025, Mack announced her diagnosis as family, friends, and fans rallied around the young woman, following her journey. Mack's CaringBridge page contains all the information regarding her celebration of life in Ohio on Aug. 16. The site also chronicles her journey, and her family has p...
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Walking Dead actor returns to horror franchise for final installment

Many fans of The Walking Dead are also big fans of the horror genre. While the series' primary focus is the story of the survivors, the show gives a satisfactory amount of blood and guts. There is a long list of TWD actors who have starred or made appearances in movies and shows within the horror genre. In 2025, one TWD actor will make a return in the final installment of a popular horror franchise. In season 5 of The Walking Dead, Steve Coulter was introduced as Reg Monroe, husband of Deanna (T...
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This Walking Dead spinoff offers a fresh and unique perspective on walkers

AMC continues to expand The Walking Dead universe by renewing the direct spinoffs. Dead City was recently renewed for a third season, and Daryl Dixon, whose third season premieres in fall 2025, has been renewed for a fourth and final season. Both of these series are set in new locations, giving creators the opportunity to feature fresh ideas. Walking Dead director and SFX guru Greg Nicotero was recently interviewed by Comicbook.com and discussed walkers, specifically the ones featured in Daryl D...
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Carol’s 6 most badass moments in The Walking Dead

Carol Peletier is a character from The Walking Dead who began as a timid and abused housewife. She grew into a fierce survivor with each heartbreak she endured. Throughout the 11 seasons of the AMC series, Carol made many difficult choices, some good and some bad, but more often than not, these moments showcased the pure badassery for which she is known.Played by Melissa McBride, Carol has always been able to read people and situations to discover the best possible outcome. While others continue...
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Fear the Walking Dead season 7 actor cast in post-apocalyptic comic book adaptation

Garth Ennis, creator of Prime Video's The Boys, is adapting his Crossed comic into a movie. In 2024, The Hollywood Reporter announced the project that was acquired by Six Studios. Recently, THR exclusively reported the cast members for the film, which includes Fear the Walking Dead actor Spenser Granese. Ennis is well known for his Preacher and The Boys comics, which he has previously adapted into series. Now he has written the screenplay for the movie adaptation of Crossed. Early in 2025, Rob...
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Fear the Walking Dead's Frank Dillane to star in a fresh take on a Jane Austen classic

Fear the Walking Dead actor Frank Dillane portrayed Nick Clark, a beloved character, in the first spinoff of AMC's post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead. Recently, Deadline announced that Dillane has been cast for his next role in a new Jane Austen adaptation. Focus Features and Working Title Films will bring a new, fresh take on an Austen classic, Sense and Sensibility. Filming for the movie, which is directed by BAFTA Award nominee Georgia Oakley, has begun in the United Kingdom. The scrip...
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Steven Yeun's role in the highly anticipated animated movie has been revealed

Steven Yeun is fondly remembered in The Walking Dead fandom as the mild-mannered, former pizza delivery guy Glenn Rhee. The actor has made a huge name for himself in a long list of roles since his character's divisive death during the season 7 premiere episode of The Walking Dead. Yeun has several upcoming roles, including one in the Avatar franchise that recently made headlines. In 2021, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies announced an untitled animated Aang "Avatar" film. The movie is a...
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The Walking Dead's Michael James Shaw first look at his new role in Emmy-nominated Peacock series

The Walking Dead actor Michael James Shaw became an instant fan favorite for his portrayal of Michael Mercer, general of the Commonwealth army in the series' final season. Appearing larger than life on screen, Shaw looked as if he walked straight from the comic pages. Now, Shaw will appear in a new role, this time playing a character from a video game. Peacock's post-apocalyptic action comedy Twisted Metal season 2 trailer features Shaw as the character named Axel. In game play, Axel drives a me...
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Greg Nicotero's new series sets premiere date on Shudder and AMC+

In early 2025, AMC greenlit a new horror-based competition series that will air on Shudder, the network's home for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural. Walking Dead Award-winning SFX master and director Greg Nicotero will serve as showrunner for the unscripted series. AMC Networks announced the six-part Guts & Glory in April 2025. The series is said to “flip the script on the traditional competition show, thrusting players into an immersive horror experience full of unexpected challenges. Th...
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Ride with Norman Reedus season 7 gets exciting premiere and cast update

In April 2025, The Walking Dead: Dead City actor Kim Coates shared an exciting teaser via Instagram. He and fellow TWDU actor Norman Reedus were in Macon, Georgia, with a film crew, leading everyone to rightfully believe they were filming a new season of Ride with Norman Reedus. Fans of Reedus will get a double dose of the motorcycle aficionado in the fall of 2025. His TWD spinoff series, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, premieres on September 7, where he is joined by Melissa McBride, who portray...
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11 famous actors you forgot were in The Walking Dead

AMC's long-running post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead served as a platform to launch the careers of several talented actors. While names like Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, and more are commonly known for their portrayals of the series' most beloved characters, there are numerous other actors who you may have forgotten who appeared in the storyline of the main series and its spinoffs. Below is a list of some actors who starred in The Walking Dead universe but are often overlo...
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How Daryl Dixon became the Walking Dead franchise's most important character

AMC's The Walking Dead aired for 12 years and greatly expanded the original story from the comic book series created by Robert Kirkman. Throughout the eleven seasons, many characters came and went, with only four surviving the entire series: Rick Grimes, Morgan Jones, Carol Peletier, and Daryl Dixon. The latter is the only mentioned character not featured in the comics, but has become the series' most important character.Norman Reedus actually auditioned for the role of Merle Dixon, brother of D...
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The first full look at the next chapter of The Walking Dead has been unveiled

Fans of the Daryl Dixon-focused spinoff of The Walking Dead are counting down the days until the third season premiere. Recently, AMC released the first four minutes of the upcoming season on AMC+, where viewers see that Daryl and Carol have made their way to London. The official trailer has been released; you can view it below. The third installment of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will further expand the universe by taking its story to London before moving on to Spain, where the majority of th...
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This is the best Walking Dead spinoff (and it's not Fear the Walking Dead)

AMC's Walking Dead universe continues to expand even after The Walking Dead's conclusion in 2022. Currently, there are six spinoffs, with three direct spinoffs, continuing the stories of characters from the main show. Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple has long teased additional spinoffs in the franchise, and TWD director Michael Satrazemis shared an over-the-top idea that just might work recently. Fans of the original series know that nothing will ever compare to seeing Rick Grimes (Andrew L...
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The Walking Dead spinoff leaving Netflix sooner than expected

AMC Networks and Netflix have a long-running agreement that features several AMC programs on the streamer. Netflix has long been the home of the entire Walking Dead series, and in 2024, several other titles were added. Sadly, as with most agreements of this type, there is an expiration date. Netflix has featured AMC's Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and TWD original series for some time. In August 2024, all eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, the franchise's first spinoff, and season 1 of The Walking...
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The Walking Dead was never about the cure (and that's why it worked so well)

AMC tapped a goldmine when it ordered the pilot season of the post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead. The series was initially turned down by several networks for being too violent, including HBO, home of Game of Thrones. But AMC recognized the potential of adapting Robert Kirkman's comic into a series, and it has paid off. The Walking Dead series premiered on the network on Halloween night in 2010. The six-part season introduced Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), who awakens from a coma, to what s...
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The Walking Dead new spinoff setting is larger-than-life 

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is a fan-favorite spinoff of the original series released by AMC in 2010. AMC will premiere the third season of Daryl Dixon this fall, and the network recently released the first four minutes of the upcoming season on AMC+. When it was revealed that Daryl's continued story would take place in France, the fandom thought it an absurd idea. How would he even travel that far in an apocalypse? And why would he leave everyone he knows and loves? This was all explained in...
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Maggie and Negan's dark pasts may 'doom' the duo in Dead City season 3

Most fans knew that The Walking Dead: Dead City would be renewed for a third season, but the official announcement is welcome news. Variety recently reported that the series will continue, with one significant change. Eli Jorne, showrunner for seasons 1 and 2 and series creator, will step down from his role, and TWD veteran writer and co-executive producer, Seth Hoffman, will join the series as the showrunner for the third installment. Hoffman is no stranger to The Walking Dead universe as he ha...
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Walking Dead child actor starring in new series Eva Ronin

The Walking Dead is a post-apocalyptic story featuring many gruesome deaths, blood, and gore, something more intended for adult viewers. However, even children aren't safe in AMC's long-running series, which has featured numerous deaths of younger characters. One of these deaths was revealed in season 2 and shocked most viewers. It was a gutsy move by the series creators to showcase such a heartbreaking death of a child. Variety recently announced that Madison Lintz, who portrayed Sophia Peletie...
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The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira to reteam with Black Panther costar for new Amazon thriller

The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira did an incredible job in her portrayal of the katana-wielding Michonne. To the delight of her fans, she reprised this role in 2024 in the spinoff series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Gurira has secured her next role, which reunites her with one of her Black Panther co-stars. Guirira and Michael B. Jordan, both actors who co-starred in Black Panther, have been announced for the upcoming reimagining of Norman Jewison's...
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon returns to San Diego Comic-Con this summer

Fans are gearing up for the annual San Diego Comic-Con, and AMC is prepared to showcase the best of its content, including Shudder's Clown in a Cornfield, Anne Rice's Immortal Universe, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which is scheduled to release its third season this fall. AMC Network has announced that Daryl Dixon will return to Hall H at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The panelists include Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe Scott M. Gimple, Showrunner and Executive...
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TWD: Dead City boss promises fans show isn't about to become 'sunshine and rainbows'

When Maggie Rhee picked up Lucille for the first time in the second season ofThe Walking Dead: Dead City, it wasn't difficult to imagine all the emotions she felt. This is the same type of weapon her husband, Glenn, was killed with in the main series, and Maggie had the chance to finally exact her revenge on Negan. But, instead, she chose to take the high road. What does this mean for the future relationship of the two long-time enemies? TWD Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple shares some insi...
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The Walking Dead handled Rick Grimes' return perfectly

Rick Grimes is the main hero of The Walking Dead comic story, created by Robert Kirkman, on which AMC's post-apocalyptic series is based. Portrayed by Andrew Lincoln in the series, Rick's on-screen story varies greatly from his journey in the comics, but is impactful nonetheless. He departed the series in season 9, but does he ever return? When the disappointing announcement came that Lincoln would depart the series to spend more time with his family, who lived in England, the fandom was devasta...
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AMC not renewing Dead City for season 3 yet doesn't have us concerned

The Walking Dead: Dead City has concluded its second season on AMC, and it was a wild ride full of betrayals, deaths, and Negan's emotional trauma and near-death experience. Although the network has yet to renew this The Walking Dead spinoff, we aren't worried one bit. Dead City is the fourth spinoff of AMC's long-running apocalyptic series, The Walking Dead, which marks the first to feature stories focused on characters initially introduced in the main series. The series features Negan (Jeffrey...
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