THE WALKING DEAD Renewed For Season 7
It's the Friday before Halloween so you're probably halfway out the door already, but if any of you poor suckers are stuck at the office or in class and are bored out of your minds, here's what might be the non-newsiest news piece you'll read today: AMC has officially renewed The Walking Dead for a seventh season.
This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone, considering the show has been setting ratings records for the past few years and is consistently one of the most-watched shows on cable. Chris Hardwick's The Talking Dead has also been given a renewal, so you'll have him yapping at you for another season after the episodes of the real show end. (I like Hardwick as a moderator, but he can be a little grating.) Scott M. Gimple is returning as The Walking Dead's showrunner, while Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Gale Anne Hurd, Tom Luse, and Greg Nicotero, will executive produce.
The network hasn't yet revealed how many episodes the show's seventh season will have, but 16 has been the pattern for the past few years, so I'd expect them to stick with that. No word yet on when the show will return yet, either, but an October 2016 date is a pretty good guess considering every season of the show thus far has started at that point. It's been a juggernaut for AMC in the fall, and with no Mad Men or Breaking Bad to stretch things out, they've had to double down on the zombie action by bringing Fear the Walking Dead into the equation (that prequel show has already been renewed for a second season of its own).
Are you excited to continue the journey of survival alongside whoever survives the sixth season?