State of ‘The Walking Dead’: AMC’s Zombie Franchise Reaches an Inflection Point

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO has ordered the satirical limited series “The White Lotus.”Hailing from writer, director, and executive producer Mike White, the six-episode series is set at an exclusive tropical resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.

The Walking Dead star Sonequa Martin-Green has said she would be keen to reprise her role in a spin-off series.The actress, who played Sasha in the show up until season seven, has said she’d love to return in light of the announcement of anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead, which promises to explore the backstories of certain characters.“I’d love it. I’d loooooove it,” Martin-Green told Entertainment Weekly.

“Dead and Gone,” a podcast premiering Wednesday, October 15. It’s inspired by the findings of amateur detective Todd Matthews, who discovered that an outsized number of Grateful Dead fans fall victim to foul play.

Fear The Walking Dead season five faced heavy criticism from critics and fans alike, but actor Colman Domingo is confident a “ferocious” season six will make up for it.Following controversial moments that included bullets being split with axes mid-air and bizarre hot air balloon rides, thousands of fans signed an online petition calling for showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg to step down.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRegina King is set to executive produce a drama series currently in development at The CW, Variety has confirmed.Titled “Slay,” the series focuses on Carson Jones.

Fear The Walking Dead have said there was never any doubt that Morgan Jones would survive.Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg detailed the character’s fate following the season six premiere, which resolved a major cliffhanger from season five.“We knew he was going to survive. That was never a doubt in our minds,” Goldberg told Digital Spy.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJoshua Jackson is now set to play the lead role in the upcoming Peacock series “Dr. Death.”Jackson takes over the role from previously announced series lead Jamie Dornan, who had to bow out of the series due to production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Walking Dead has confirmed that there are plans afoot for a “far-flung” new crossover.Scott M Gimple revealed the plans whilst speaking at The Walking Dead Showrunner’s Summit at New York’s virtual Comic-Con yesterday (October 9).“There’s absolutely a chance,” he said of plans for a new crossover show. He continued: “There’s something we’re working on that’s [kind of] far afield that has some crossover-y elements to it.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max has given out a series order to “Green Lantern,” Variety has learned.Based on the DC Comics property, the show was first announced as being in development last year. Plot details are now available for the first time, however.

The Walking Dead season 10 finale has scored the show’s lowest ratings to date.‘A Certain Doom’, the long-awaited episode which aired last weekend (October 4), was watched by 2.7 million viewers – the lowest of any season 10 episode.This marks a 22% drop from last April, the lowest number before that being 2.9 million viewers in March, per SpoilerTV.

The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang has opened-up about how the coronavirus pandemic changed the season 10 finale.The series finally aired the season’s long-awaited final episode, ‘A Certain Doom’, last night (October 4) after delays due to the ongoing pandemic.However, it seems the delays instigated a number of changes to the planned episode, including how it connected to the 11th and final season.“We were deep into writing season 11 and, you know, we’d been planning a big season opener, as

finally aired on Sunday night, nearly six months after it was supposed to debut on April 12. Season 10 episode 16, titled «A Certain Doom,» was postponed as post-production shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic in March. The episode featured the long-awaited final battle between our good guys and Beta's (Ryan Hurst) horde.

The Walking Dead, has told NME about her hopes for the eventual end of the long-running post-apocalyptic drama.Cohan, who left the drama at the climax of season nine – alongside original cast member Andrew Lincoln – returns to the show in the final episode of season 10. Entitled ‘A Certain Doom’, it will air tonight (October 4) in the US and on FOX in the UK tomorrow.

The Walking Dead showrunner has teased potential romance between Carol and Daryl in their upcoming spin-off.The news of a series focusing on the fan-favourite duo came as AMC confirmed last month that The Walking Dead would be ending after season 11.The characters, played by Melissa McBride and Norman Reedus respectively, became friends in the show’s second season, with many fans speculating about a more intense connection between them.“It’s interesting because from the writing side, and the

The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang has teased the plot of six “extra” season 10 episodes.After this coming weekend’s long-awaited season finale, titled ‘A Certain Doom’, six more episodes will then be released in early 2021 before season 11 starts.“There are some things that get set up at the end of season 10, which was our intended ending, [and] we will start to dive into some of those mysteries that we’ve left behind,” Kang told Den of Geek.The Walking Dead boss went on to explain that

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS All Access has given out a series order to the comedic documentary series “For Heaven’s Sake.”Created by and starring Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe, the series will follow the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. While local police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, Harold was never found nor heard from again.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPatricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are set to collaborate once again on half-hour comedy series that has been ordered at Apple.Titled “High Desert,” the show follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.The series is written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and