The Walking Dead will expand season ten by six episodes as the upcoming season is delayed due to COVID-19
The Walking Dead’s highly-anticipated 11th season will be delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus global pandemic.
While the long-running AMC drama will not return with a new season in October, the series’ showrunner Angela Kang revealed six additional episodes are being added to the previous season, during Friday’s virtual Comic-Con@Home panel.
‘Obviously, COVID has kind of disrupted a lot of things for every workplace, including ours,’ Kang explained.
Updates: The Walking Dead’s highly-anticipated 11th season will be delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus global pandemic
Season ten’s delayed finale will air on October 4, after it was initially scheduled for an April release.
Immediately after, the premiere of the two-season event spinoff, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, will air.
In accordance to social distancing recommendations, the television writer noted that the writers’ room has been taking place remotely, but stayed tight-lipped about season ten’s extra episodes, which will air in early 2021, ‘if all goes well.’
New episodes: While the long-running AMC drama will not return with a new season in October, the series’ showrunner Angela Kang revealed six additional episodes will be added to the previous season, during Friday’s virtual Comic-Con@Home panel
For the extension to the finale, Kang said producers don’t know when shooting will be able to safely resume, amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
‘Sometimes, the limits placed on you lead to a lot of creativity,’ she added. ‘It’s important to us that everybody feels comfortable when shooting and safe when they do it. If that means changing things up a little bit, that’s not a huge burden to us.’
Meanwhile, AMC dropped an extended clip of the opening minutes of the delayed finale, which features Beta (Ryan Hurst) leading a number of walkers against the Alexandrians, who have hunkered down in an abandoned hospital.
‘Obviously, COVID has kind of disrupted a lot of things for every workplace, including ours,’ Kang explained, which postponed season 10’s finale to October 4
Extended look: Additionally, AMC dropped an extended clip of the opening minutes of the delayed finale, which features Beta (Ryan Hurst) leading a number of walkers against the Alexandrians, who have hunkered down in an abandoned hospital
While the situation looks grim, the episode also marks the return of Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who left in season nine.
The good news continued on Friday for fans of the zombie apocalypse series, as its spin-off, Fear The Walking Dead, announced the sixth season will debut on October 11.
The network first announced it had pushed the premiere date to ‘later this year’, after the series was initially slated to debut on April 12, 2020.
Filming had already wrapped, but post-production on the last few episodes were impacted by companies closed as a result of the coronavirus.
Good news: In accordance to social distancing recommendations, the television writer noted that the writers’ room is taking place remotely, but stayed tight-lipped about season ten’s extra episodes, which will air in early 2021