In just a few weeks, Fear The Walking Dead will premiere on AMC. But the network is giving the spinoff/prequel series a big vote of confidence long before anyone outside the network can even see the first episode!
At the Television Critics Association Press Tour, AMC announced a season 2 pickup of Fear The Walking Dead that will consist of 15 new episodes in 2016. Combined with the expected renewal of The Walking Dead for a seventh season of 16 episodes, that would put new episodes of the franchise on AMC on 31 weeks out of the year. Considering that The Walking Dead is far and away AMC’s most popular show, this is not surprising.
Fear The Walking Dead was co-created by Dave Erickson and Robert Kirkman, the writer who created the original Walking Dead comic book series with artist Tony Moore. The series takes place in Los Angeles at the dawn of the zombie apocalypse and it will chronicle the fall of human civilization through the eyes of an extended family.
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The series stars Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, and Cliff Curtis as her fiancée, Travis Manawa. Frank Dillane Madison’s son, Nick; while Alycia Debnam-Carey plays her daughter, Amy. Lorenzo James Henrie plays Travis’ son, Chris; and Elizabeth Rodriguez plays Chris’ mother, Liza Ortiz. Rubén Blades and Mercedes Mason co-star as a father-daughter duo, Daniel and Ofelia Salazar.
Given that this show is a part of The Walking Dead franchise, it seems inevitable that not every cast member will make it through the shortened, six episode first season alive.
Fear The Walking Dead will premiere on AMC with a 90-minute pilot episode on Sunday, August 23.
