“Fear the Walking Dead”
Series ends after the upcoming eighth season
After season eight, “Fear the Walking Dead” is over.
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After the main series “The Walking Dead”, the first offshoot “Fear the Walking Dead” will also end this year.
The AMC series “The Walking Dead” came to an end last year after eleven seasons. Now it has been announced that the first spin-off called “Fear the Walking Dead” is also coming to an end. It has now been revealed that the upcoming eighth season of the zombie series will also be the last shared via AMC Production’s official Instagram account. It says: “‘Fear the Walking Dead’ arrives on May 14 with its final season […] return.
“Fear the Walking Dead” is “one of the most successful series in the history of cable television”, Dan McDermott is also quoted in a statement, which is available, among other things, from the US site “Variety”.. In fact, the offshoot series has increasingly outperformed its role model “The Walking Dead” in the audience’s favour. But the spin-off also recorded a significant drop in viewers per season.
More offshoots already in the starting blocks
Nevertheless, series fans will not have to do without the weekly ration of zombie horror in the coming months and years. In the same breath with the announcement that “Fear the Walking Dead” will end after the eighth season, became concrete start dates announced for other series from the “Walking Dead” universe.
In June 2023, the mini-series “The Walking Dead: Dead City” will start. In it, the unequal duo of Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan, 41) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 56) is the center of the action. And “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” with fan favorite Norman Reedus (54) should also be released this year. Meanwhile, the most eagerly awaited “Walking Dead” project has been announced for 2024: In the still nameless series, the former main character Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, 49) will return together with his great love Michonne (Danai Jekesai Gurira, 44). . In the next two years alone, four “Walking Dead” series are in the pipeline.