Ahead of its midseason premiere this coming Sunday, AMC has announced that it has officially renewed the zombie series The Walking Dead for a tenth season, set to get underway later this October. Here’s the announcement video, featuring the new antagonists the Whisperers…
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— The Walking Dead (@WalkingDead_AMC) February 4, 2019
Despite falling ratings – and the departure of Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes – The Walking Dead remains a key property for AMC. In addition to the upcoming tenth season, the cable network has also has a fifth season of the companion series Fear the Walking Dead incoming this year, and is also developing a trilogy of spinoff movies focusing on Rick’s exploits following his series exit.
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The second half of The Walking Dead season nine finds our groups of survivors, both old and new, continuing to deal with the impact of events that took place during the six years that have passed. Since the disappearance of Rick, many of these characters have become strangers to each other, and in some ways, strangers to themselves. What they do know is that they are in undeniable danger. They will soon realise the world just beyond does not operate as they thought. The group’s rules and ways of survival no longer guarantee their safety. A whole new threat has crossed their paths, and they soon discover it’s unlike any threat they have encountered or endured before. The group will start to question what they think they see. What may appear to be normal in this post-apocalyptic world could actually be more disturbing and terrifying than when the apocalypse first broke out. All that is certain is the stakes are high and numerous.
The Walking Dead season 9 airs on Sundays in the US and on Mondays in the UK.
