AMC’s long-running zombie drama “The Walking Dead” finally shambles its way to an ending with the upcoming super-sized eleventh season which kicks off this Summer and will wrap sometime in 2022.
The show closes out at the same time as two companion series are on the air – “Fear the Walking Dead” which has been renewed for a seventh season airing from later this year, and the short-run “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” which will end with its upcoming second season airing either later this year or in 2022.
Speaking with Collider recently about the animated Amazon series “Invincible,” “The Walking Dead” co-creator and comic book writer Robert Kirkman spoke about the recently announced anthology series “Tales of the Walking Dead” and says it will have shorter runs than the main series:
“I can say that it’s definitely not going to be 16 episodes… But it’ll be a smaller season, it’s very much underway… I mean, we’re hopeful that it’ll last past the first season. There’s not any kind of cap on what we’re doing, we’re just trying to make the best season possible to begin with and see how things go from there.
I think it’s a tremendous opportunity to explore many different aspects of the Walking Dead universe, to be able to jump forward and backward in time, and also do things that are much different than what we’ve done on The Walking Dead thus far. So I think it’ll be a really cool show, but we’re gonna see how things go.”
The spinoff most are eager to hear about is the one following fan-favorite characters Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) continuing on. Kirkman can’t divulge much, but says they are still very much on track to begin production after the main show’s final season wraps:
“All I’ll say is that Carol and Daryl are very much a huge part of the 11th season of the show, and the 11th season of the show is an expanded season that is much longer than past seasons of the show have been. And so [showrunner Angela Kang] and everybody is hard at work on that right now, and the Carol and Daryl spinoff is something that I think will ramp up in production closer to the end of the 11th season of the show, which we are very much knee-deep in right now.”
He confirms the Daryl & Carol show doesn’t have a title as yet, and he suggests they are considering a spin-off in another language and in another part of the globe. Kirkman’s “Invincible” series airs this Friday.
