Anyone who has been watching AMC knows that The Walking Dead is the network’s biggest brand and AMC has no intention of letting it end any time soon. Last year, AMC ordered a Walking Dead “companion series,” Fear The Walking Dead; which is set in Los Angeles during the early days of the zombie apocalypse.
In 2016, AMC has very ambitious plans to keep the walkers on your TV screens for nearly the entire year. The second half of The Walking Dead season 6 will premiere next month and run for eight episodes. At the TCA press tour, AMC announced that the 15 episode second season of Fear The Walking Dead will begin on Sunday, April 10; exactly one week after the sixth season finale of The Walking Dead.
After the first 7 episodes of Fear The Walking Dead season 2 air, AMC will put the series on a short break. The network hasn’t announced when the second half of Fear The Walking Dead’s new season will air, but a late summer debut seems likely. That would allow AMC to build into the seventh season of The Walking Dead when it premieres in October.
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AMC also released the first photo from Fear The Walking Dead season 2, which features Cliff Curtis’ Travis and Ruben Blades’ Daniel at sea. As alluded to in the first season finale of Fear The Walking Dead, the enigmatic Strand (Colman Domingo) has a yacht offshore and he will apparently allow Travis and Daniel’s families to travel with him as they attempt to find a safe haven in the zombie apocalypse. Parts of the season were filmed in Baja California, Mexico.
To further the idea of Fear The Walking Dead as an essential show, one of the cast members of the serialized Flight 462 shorts will be a series regular in the second season. AMC will also extend Talking Dead, the Walking Dead post-talk show with Chris Hardwick to every new episode of Fear The Walking Dead, bringing its total up to 31 new episodes a year.
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