The Walking Dead: Dead City renewed for Season 2
David Farnor | On 23, Jul 2023
AMC has renewed The Walking Dead: Dead City for a second season.
The spin-off series reunites Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan from the hit zombie drama. It follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
The six-episode first season debuted in June as the number one season premiere in the history of AMC+ in the USA in terms of viewership across all new and returning series, including The Walking Dead, with viewership on AMC and AMC+ growing with each successive week to date.
Now, following the first season finale this week, AMC has greenlit a second chapter. It joins a number of spin-offs expanding The Walking Dead’s screen universe, including solo outing The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which arrives later this year, and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which reunites Rick and Michonne and airs in 2024.
Said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks: “This next chapter in the Walking Dead Universe continues to thrive with a terrific inaugural season for Dead City and highly anticipated new journey for fan-favorite character Daryl Dixon coming in September. We can’t wait to bring Dead City fans back to the epicenter of Manhattan for more zip-lining action with Maggie and Negan. And, ahead of its debut, we’re thrilled to double down on Daryl as we bring the apocalypse to France, transforming Notre Dame, Pont du Gard and other iconic locales into an apocalyptic landscape unlike anything we’ve seen before.”