CBS just made a lot of Trekkies very happy. The network announced they’re reviving the Star Trek TV franchise with a new series coming in January 2017. The 2017 series will, according to CBS, feature new characters “seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966.”
The series’ first episode will debut on CBS and then move to CBS All Access Digital Subscription Service where all of the episodes will air.
Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek (2009) executive producer Alex Kurtzman executive produces the new Star Trek TV series. Heather Kadin is also on board as an executive producer, with CBS Television Studios and Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout producing.
“There is no better time to give Star Trek fans a new series than on the heels of the original show’s 50th anniversary celebration,” stated David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios. “Everyone here has great respect for this storied franchise, and we’re excited to launch its next television chapter in the creative mind and skilled hands of Alex Kurtzman, someone who knows this world and its audience intimately.”
“This new series will premiere to the national CBS audience, then boldly go where no first-run Star Trek series has gone before – directly to its millions of fans through CBS All Access,” said Marc DeBevoise, Executive Vice President/General Manager – CBS Digital Media. “We’ve experienced terrific growth for CBS All Access, expanding the service across affiliates and devices in a very short time. We now have an incredible opportunity to accelerate this growth with the iconic Star Trek, and its devoted and passionate fan base, as our first original series.”
CBS also confirmed the new series has nothing to do with the upcoming Star Trek Beyond film which will open in theaters in 2016.
Paramount Pictures has released the trailer for Anomalisa, a stop-motion feature film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson. The animated film, which will get a limited 2015 release for awards consideration, features the voices of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, and David Thewlis. Carter Burwell handled the film’s score.
Anomalisa opens in limited release on December 30, 2015.
The Anomalisa Plot:
Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of How May I Help You Help Them? is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he’s scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, he checks into the Fregoli Hotel. There, he is amazed to discover a possible escape from his desperation in the form of an unassuming Akron baked goods sales rep, Lisa, who may or may not be the love of his life.
Lennie James as Morgan Jones and John Carroll Lynch as Eastman in ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4 (Photo by Gene Page / AMC)
“You stay or you go, those are the choices. I will not allow you to kill me,” says Eastman (John Carroll Lynch). Eastman’s just opened the cell door to the cage in his log cabin where he’s been keeping Morgan (Lennie James) since knocking him out after Morgan tried to shoot him and take his goat in episode four of the sixth season of AMC’s horror/drama series The Walking Dead.
As the episode begins Morgan is looking right into the camera, obviously looking at a character that the audience is supposed to see this episode through the eyes of. He says, “You said you wanted everything I had before. All right, I’ll tell you everything.” The screen goes black with only a title card stating “Then.” Morgan is yelling about someone knowing something and that “they weren’t supposed to be there.” After that, the opening credits and creepy theme music start.
Morgan is walking in the woods eliminating walkers and writing in their blood and feces the words “CLEAR” and “Here’s Not Here.” When a father and son make the bad mistake to try to take Morgan on for the supplies he has, he kills both of them with his spear and his bare hands. At night Morgan builds a bonfire made up of the bodies of walkers he has eliminated and the fire draws more curious zombies into his trap. He destroys them and adds them to the bonfire.
The next day Morgan is again moving through the woods when he hears a goat. He approaches and sees the goat tied to a fence in front of a log cabin. Morgan is about to get the goat when he hears a man’s voice telling him to please leave the goat alone, she doesn’t belong to him. Morgan shoots at where he believes the man is, only to hear the man say he should put the gun down and they can work it out. Morgan keeps looking for an entrance to the log cabin when he finally hears the voice say, “This is your last chance. Put down the weapon and get away from the cabin.” Of course Morgan doesn’t and is hit in the head by a bo staff and knocked down. When he looks up he sees a big man standing over him. “Sorry,” he says to Morgan and knocks him out.
Morgan wakes up in a cage in the middle of the main room of the log cabin. The man enters the cabin with supplies and asks Morgan what his name is to which Morgan replies, “Kill me.” “That’s a stupid name; it’s dangerous. You should change it,” replies the man. He walks over and tosses small book titled The Art of Peace through the bars. “My name is Eastman,” says the man as he walks over to his bedroom and turns out the light.
Over the next few days Morgan watches his captor train himself in Aikido, kill the occasional walker who shows up at the cabin, and make horrible, inedible goat cheese. It turns out Eastman was a forensic psychiatrist in the world before the rise of the undead and he believes that Morgan is suffering from PTSD. Eastman shows Morgan the cell door isn’t locked. He tells him he has two choices: to leave or he can crash on the couch. Of course the minute Morgan steps out of the cage, he tries to attack Eastman who uses his Aikido training to subdue Morgan and leaves him lying on the cabin floor. Morgan goes back into the cell and closes the door. Eastman reopens the door and tells Morgan about Aikido, that it helped him and that it will help Morgan, too.
Eli the Goat as Tabitha in ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4 (Photo by Gene Page / AMC)
The next day Eastman asks Morgan to watch over Tabitha the goat while he goes looking for supplies. Sure enough two hungry walkers show up to try to make a meal out of poor Tabitha and Morgan comes to the goat’s rescue, destroying both walkers. Morgan drags the two walkers to where he has seen Eastman drag the walkers he killed and finds a graveyard. It seems Eastman finds each zombie’s ID and puts the name of who they were before they turned on the cross at their grave site. Each life is precious to Eastman.
Eastman returns to find Morgan finishing burying the walkers and thanks him for saving Tabitha, but also says he noticed that when Morgan fought the zombies he destroyed a perfectly good fence he’ll need to fix. He also shows Morgan that he fixed his spear. He encourages Morgan to instead take a bo staff and start training with him.
The two men spend the next few months training together, trying to get both Morgan’s body and mind clear and healthy again. They begin to become friends and bond, and one evening Eastman reveals to Morgan his story from before the apocalypse. During the time working as a forensic psychiatrist he saw 800 patients who committed unspeakable acts but he only found one person truly evil and beyond redemption. Crighton Dallas Wilton was a pure psychopath and a great conman able to fool almost everyone around him into believing he had been rehabilitated.
Eastman tells Morgan he saw through Crighton’s act and Wilton knew it and tried to kill him. Aikido saved Eastman’s life that day. However, Crighton wasn’t finished with Eastman and managed to escape only to find Eastman’s wife, daughter – who gave her father a lucky rabbit’s foot she won at school when he was feeling bad and has been his lucky charm ever since – and his son. After finishing murdering Eastman’s family, Wilton turned himself into the police admitting to the murders. Eastman tells Morgan he built the cell in the log cabin to bring Crighton there and starve him to death. Eastman than tells Morgan that all life is precious to him.
The next morning Morgan and Eastman head out for supplies for a trip Eastman is planning, and Morgan finally opens up about what happened to his wife and son. To help him center himself and deal with the pain he’s still struggling with, Eastman tells Morgan they need to spend a little time practicing Aikido. Things get dangerous when a walker shows up and Morgan freezes because it’s the young man who attacked him in the woods a few months ago. Realizing Morgan isn’t going to fight back, Eastman shoves him out of the way and in the process gets bit by the walker. Eastman then finishes off the zombie with his bo staff.
Morgan yells, “You shouldn’t have done that!” and tries to fight Eastman, showing signs of regression but Eastman won’t play into it. He just quickly knocks Morgan off his feet and takes the walker off to bury him in the graveyard. Morgan ends up taking on another walker and kills it, only to discover it was closing in on a young, wounded couple. Morgan doesn’t kill them but instead lets them leave and realizes Eastman’s teachings about life being precious have taken root in his mind. With that realization, Morgan heads back to the cabin to check on Eastman.
Morgan returns to the cabin to find a zombie eating poor Tabitha. It seems she figured out the cell door doesn’t lock and got out. Morgan kills the walker and takes what’s left of Tabitha to the gravesite. Morgan takes over digging the graves for the walkers and sees a grave marked Crighton Dallas Wilton. Eastman did succeed in kidnapping Crighton and starving him to death for what he did to his family. Eastman admits to Morgan it took 47 days to starve Crighton to death, but that killing him gave him no peace. Eastman tells Morgan he only found peace when he decided to never kill again. He went back to Atlanta to turn himself in and that’s when he discovered the zombie apocalypse.
Before Eastman dies he reveals to Morgan everything is about people. He tells Morgan he could stay in the cabin because there are enough supplies but that he shouldn’t. Eastman doesn’t want Morgan to live alone and before he goes into the next room where he has a gun, he gives Morgan his lucky rabbit’s foot.
Morgan trains some more, packs up his supplies, and heads out, passing the gravesite and walking by a new grave with a new cross with the name Eastman on it. Morgan reaches a road and sees a sign on the side of the road. He half smiles and begins walking down the road. The sign reads Terminus.
“That’s it,” says Morgan to the Wolf he fought but did not kill who he has now tied up. He’s trying to get the Wolf to see the error of his ways and that it’s not too late to change. The Wolf tells Morgan that he’s most likely going to die but if he ever gets free he will kill everyone in Alexandria because that’s what he has pledged to do with the other Wolves. The episode ends with Morgan leaving the room, going out the front door and locking it. Morgan turns when he hears a voice yelling to open the gates.
The Walking Dead “Here’s Not Here” Review:
Spiritual, profound, and enlightening, season six episode four titled “Here’s Not Here” slams the brakes on the intense and action-packed season and shows the audience the backstory of how Morgan went from being on the brink of self-destruction to the bo staff-wielding bad ass loner he is when he finally catches up to Rick and his group. This is a very different episode in both pacing and writing than what most fans of the horror/drama series are used to. It’s a performance-driven episode and constructed almost as a two man play between Morgan and Eastman.
Lennie James delivers one of his best performances to date as Morgan, portraying wonderfully the emotional arc his character goes through as a man lost on the edge of madness and destruction to being brought back to not just sanity but to finding a real purpose in his life and believing all life is sacred. It’s a performance that’s worthy of an Emmy nomination.
Guest star John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, Zodiac) has without a doubt the best, one episode only role any character actor could hope for on The Walking Dead as Morgan’s savior, teacher, mentor, and friend. His first name might as well be Obi-Wan as he trains Morgan how to fight, cope with tragic loss, and teaches him that all life matters and it is possible to keep your humanity and still survive in a zombie apocalypse. Both actors have such great chemistry in this episode and play off each other perfectly. The scene where Eastman tells Morgan about the psychopath who murdered his family and how Eastman came to finally believe all life is sacred is one of the most powerful and perfectly acted scenes in the series’ run.
The writing and dialogue is superb as both actors are given realistic, funny, and at times intense lines revealing their past and the struggles they’ve endured and the horrific loss of loved ones to violent ends.
With the episode ending with Morgan hearing someone yelling to open the gate, here’s hoping that episode five will reveal what has happened to Rick who we last saw being surrounded by hungry walkers in a stranded RV as well as the fate of fan favorite Glenn who may or may not be dead. Note: actor Steven Yeun who portrays Glenn on the show was missing during the opening credits of episode four…make of that what you will.
The November 1, 2015 episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead didn’t serve up the answer everyone was waiting for regarding the events of the previous episode (that was tough to word without giving out spoilers!), but it did treat the audience to the first look at the Preacher trailer. AMC’s upcoming series based on the comic books by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon won’t debut until next year, but the teaser trailer gave viewers plenty of reasons to want to check out the new show.
Preacher is executive produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and stars Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga, Ian Colletti, W. Earl Brown, and Lucy Griffiths. Season one will consist of 10 one-hour episodes.
The Preacher Plot:
Preacher is the story of Jesse Custer (Cooper), a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power. Jesse, his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Gilgun) embark on a journey to, literally, find God.
The sexy and charming Tom Ellis is featured prominently in the new teaser trailers for Fox’s Lucifer, coming to primetime next year. The new trailers effectively establish the tone for the series which is based on the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Sam Kieth. In addition to Ellis, the cast of the new series includes Lauren German, Rachael Harris, DB Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro, and Scarlett Estevez.
The Lucifer Plot:
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR (Ellis) has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub. Charming, charismatic and devilishly handsome, Lucifer is enjoying his retirement, indulging in a few of his favorite things – wine, women and song – when a beautiful pop star is brutally murdered outside of Lux. For the first time in roughly 10 billion years, he feels something awaken deep within him as a result of this murder. Compassion? Sympathy? The very thought disturbs him – as well as his best friend and confidante, MAZIKEEN aka MAZE (Brandt), a fierce demon in the form of a beautiful young woman.
The murder attracts the attention of LAPD homicide detective CHLOE DANCER (German), who initially is dismissive of Lucifer. But she becomes intrigued by his talent for drawing out people’s secrets and his desire to dispense justice, doling out punishment to those who deserve it. As they work together to solve the pop star’s murder, Lucifer is struck by Chloe’s inherent goodness.
Accustomed to dealing with the absolute worst of humanity, Lucifer is intrigued by Chloe’s apparent purity and begins to wonder if there’s hope for his own soul yet. At the same time, God’s emissary, the angel AMENADIEL (Woodside), has been sent to Los Angeles to convince Lucifer to return to the underworld…can the Devil incarnate be tempted toward the side of Good, or will his original calling pull him back toward Evil?
There’s a lot of talk about how the glut of films targeting the same adult audience has contributed to films including Our Brand is Crisis starring Sandra Bullock and Burnt with Bradley Cooper bombing at the box office, but not as much talk as there should be about how audiences are simply saying no to bad films right now. Our Brand is Crisis set a new low in the opening weekend numbers for a film led by Bullock, and it’s actually a movie that deserved the low numbers. Burnt had a bumpy road on its way into theaters and I think the trailers led to confusion about the film’s tone, which could have put people off. With those two films ignored by ticket buyers, the door was wide open for The Martian with Matt Damon to continue its reign over the box office. Of course given the fact the October 30-November 1 weekend was the worst yet of 2015, it didn’t take much for The Martian to remain on top. The Martian, now in its fifth weekend in release, rang up $11.4 million over the Halloween weekend and has now brought in $182 million domestically.
On a happier note for studios and movie fans, next weekend should see the box office perk up again as the latest James Bond film, Spectre, will head into 3,600 theaters. Family audiences will also have another film to choose from besides Hotel Transylvania 2 as The Peanuts movie is set to arrive on November 6, 2015.
Claire Coffee as Adalind Schade and Bree Turner as Rosalee Calvert in ‘Grimm’ (Photo by Scott Green / NBC)
Season five of NBC’s hit series Grimm kicked off on October 30, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT with an episode that finds Nick (David Guintoli) reeling from the deaths of his mother and Juliette. The season five premiere also finds the ready-to-deliver Adalind coming to terms with the fact she’s now actually having to depend on her once mortal enemy for help.
With season five just getting underway, Claire Coffee took part in a conference call to discuss the changes Adalind’s gone through and what’s in store for the new mother this season.
Claire Coffee Grimm Season 5 Interview
Adalind seems to be changing for the better. Is that going to last or is it just what she’s feeling right because she still has baby hormones?
Claire Coffee: “That’s a good question. Those baby hormones, as I now know firsthand, are very persuasive at times. But yes, I think she finally feels like her life is far better without being a Hexenbiest than it is being a Hexenbiest. We’re shooting episode 11 now, but her fear kind of in the beginning is that this is a suppressant that they used to suppress her powers. But, you know, they could trickle back in at any moment. She is really scared of that happening because the relationship that is building with Nick, […]she really wants to do it right this time.”
Can you talk about how her relationship with Nick is going to be as time goes on?
Claire Coffee: “Yes, you know at the beginning of the season they find themselves – they’re both at a bit of a crossroads: Nick having lost his mother and Juliette, the love of his life. And, Adalind has no one. I think that they can kind of really do bond over this child where the only feeling that matters to them at this point is keeping this child happy and healthy, so they form a bond over that. I think it’s easy to let bygones be bygones when you have a baby that really does need you 24 hours a day. So it gets them pretty sidetracked, at least for a while.”
How has motherhood been for you?
Claire Coffee: “It’s so many things but it’s been awesome. Cal is awesome and luckily I’m able to bring him on set with me, so he hangs out in the trailer with my incredible nanny. I get to pop in and out to feed him or hang out with him on breaks from set. So, that’s been really good. He’s sort of like the set mascot. But it’s been good you know, and I think I feel so much better informed this season, playing the role of a mother now that I am one myself.
I feel very bad about my birthing scene of Diana. I would have done it very differently had I known what it actually feels like.”
Have you had a chance to kind of step back and look at Adalind’s arc over the seasons?
Claire Coffee: “Oh yes. I think roller coaster defines it most accurately. I really do try to take it day-by-day and we don’t get the scripts except for probably a week in advance, so it’s great. I never knew where she was going, which helps, because you can kind of take each insane thing at face value and not really worry about too far in the future or how it’s going to affect things in the future.
But, you know, as an actress that’s really all you want is to be able to play extraordinary circumstances. I feel like I got to play three different characters in the same show so far, so it’s been great fun for me.”
Fans are really talking about the possibility of a Nick and Adalind romantic relationship. What do you think of that kind of talk? Do you think it’s crazy?
Claire Coffee: “Well, there’s no crazy talk, I don’t think, on the show. There’s nothing too crazy. You know, Nick and Adalind have had that very aggressive and contentious chemistry from the beginning, since she was the first Wesen that he saw and she’s been a thorn in his side. I do think they are an expression of that saying that there’s a thin line between love and hate. You know, they are inextricably linked, I would say. So, it’s not so far-fetched but there’s so many things complicating the situation at this point. And especially this season we have a brand new villainess entity. There’s this Wesen uprising afoot so there’s a lot going on.”
How is her relationship with Sean Renard and Hank going to be affected as the new relationship between Nick and Adalind progresses?
Claire Coffee: “So with Renard, the captain has sort of a different storyline in season five. Adalind with the baby, she’s definitely popping up more with Nick and the gang and with Hank and Monroe and Rosalee. With Hank I think there’s…nobody forgets how badly she screwed over Hank and tried to kill him and all of that. But it seems to be a little bit on the back burner as people are giving Adalind the benefit of the doubt. Thankfully, for myself and her.
And her relationship with Rosalee, she’s really trying to get Rosalee to trust her. They’re forming a friendship that will grow throughout the season.”
Does Adalind fear that the new baby will also be taken away?
Claire Coffee: “There’s a fear that this one will get taken away. And with the new stress that arrived on the scene in Portland, her fears are not assuaged in any way. So, she’s relying on Nick for protection.”
Is there an impression that you are suddenly Juliette’s replacement? Not just with Nick but also with the show in general?
Claire Coffee: “Oh, I don’t think so. Well, the best thing I can say is you just have to wait and see. It’s a pretty twisty, turning season. She’s not replacing anything. I think this Adalind/Nick relationship is kind of providing just one more layer for the gang. I think for the rest of the team, they definitely aren’t so excited to have her in the fold at first, and nobody is trusting her completely. It’s a very slow process.”
What can we expect over the course of the season for Adaline?
Claire Coffee: “Her main concern is keeping Kelly safe and she’s really trying to figure out a way that she can be a ‘normal’ person. She wants to be a good person and, you know, try to figure out ways to do that and be a good mom. Her relationship with Nick is also something that is ever-changing for the first half of this season. It gets complicated is I think is the only thing I can say.”
We’ve all seen the evolution of your character throughout the four seasons, but it also seems that the definition of what a Hexenbiest is has also evolved. Can you speak to how that has changed over the years?
Claire Coffee: “I think it’s gotten more specific I would say. So at the start I was the only Hexenbiest and we had the B episode where you learned a little bit more about Hexenbiest, the sort of lethal, witch creatures that no one in the Wesen community really liked. I think now it’s gotten more specific with the rules of Hexenbiest age and how you can become a Hexenbiest. And, you know, Juliette became a Hexenbiest. She was not born a Hexenbiest so therefore her powers are more deadly. And then we have the Zauberbiest which is the captain. We learned about the male version of the Hexenbiest.
But it is evolving for my character and she’s suppressing her powers. How and what does it take for those powers to kind of come back and come through? How can you suppress them forever? Those are things that we will continue to learn about in season five.”
Will Adalind get involved with any of Nick’s cases or get involved with any of the action?
Claire Coffee: “Yes, a little bit. I think he probes her for some knowledge more about the darker side of the Wesen world. And from the kind of folklore perspective, she proves to be helpful in a few ways.”
The show’s going to be celebrating its hundredth episode. What does being part of a show like this mean for you, personally?
Claire Coffee: “It’s unbelievable, truly. I keep saying it’s that we’re all just so grateful and in disbelief and so proud of the show and so happy to be up in Portland. You know, 100 episodes these days is such an enormous accomplishment. We are hugely indebted to the fans of the show. It’s outstanding.”
What was the most challenging thing to shoot thus far this season?
Claire Coffee: “There was a scene coming up where I had to hold the baby, answer the phone, and deal with a pot of boiling water with rice. So just from a choreography standpoint, I would say that was pretty challenging.”
Will Adalind get a chance to meet her daughter, Diana, again? What kind of relationship do you think they could have?
Claire Coffee: “That’s a good question. You know, we’re up to episode 11 and I still haven’t gotten her back yet. She is aging rapidly, so we’re all sort of speculating as to how she will be when I finally see her again. At this point whomever she’s with has spent a lot more time with her than Adalind has. So those mother ties are very, very strong, but the relationship would obviously be, I think, difficult at first.”
You’ve been playing Adalind as primarily evil for the last four years. Are you enjoying playing a kinder, gentler Adalind, or are you eager to get back to villainy?
Claire Coffee: “I’m enjoying it. It’s always fun to get to play something different. But I think yes, as I said before, it’s really just the day-to-day enjoyment of getting to work with the rest of the cast, I’m loving right now.”
What were your feelings when you first found out you would be having a baby and it would be Nick’s?
Claire Coffee: “I was shocked. They wrote another baby in because I had a baby in real life. But when I told them I was pregnant I said, ‘You know, obviously we’re not going to do another baby storyline. Don’t worry, we can use a body double, whatever. It will be all fine.’ And then halfway through the season they said, ‘Actually, we are going to have you be pregnant and it’s going to be Nick’s.’ And I think my jaw hit the floor.
But it ended up being an outrageously kind of fun adventure. It still is, so I’m happy that they went that direction.”
Netflix officially announced they’ve renewed the dramatic series Longmire for a fifth season. The streaming service made the announcement via Facebook, posting a photo promoting season five along with the wording: “We’ve never been one to back down from a fight. Longmire will return to Netflix for Season 5.”
Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase, Cassidy Freeman, and Adam Bartley star in the Western crime drama which moved to Netflix for its fourth season. Season four’s 10 new episodes premiered on September 10, 2015.
The Longmire Plot:
Based on the series of mystery novels by author Craig Johnson, Longmire focuses on Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), a Wyoming county sheriff determined to solve the mystery behind his wife’s murder. At his side are close friend Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), Deputy Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff), daughter Cady (Cassidy Freeman) and several other members of the Absaroka County community.
Adele’s special one-night only November concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York will be taped for broadcast on NBC. Adele Live in New York City will air on Monday, December 14, 2015 as a one-hour special at 10pm ET/PT. According to NBC, the Radio City Music Hall show will be the multiple Grammy-winning singer’s largest New York show to date.
Adele Live in New York City will be executive produced by Adele, Lorne Michaels, and Jonathan Dickins. Beth McCarthy-Miller will direct the one-hour show.
Adele will be releasing her new album, 25, on November 20th. The first single has already dropped and already made it to the top of the charts. She’ll be supporting the album’s release with performances on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Today. For those into trivia, Adele’s first US television performance was on Today back in 2008.
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon in ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 (Photo Credit: Gene Page / AMC)
The Walking Dead will be sticking around for at least one more season. AMC just announced they’ve renewed the zombie apocalypse series for a seventh season, with the most recent episode – season six’s third – bringing in 18.2 million viewers, the majority of whom are still wondering if Glenn managed to survive the horde of walkers who had him cornered. The series has been ranked as the #1 show on TV among 18-49 year-olds for the past three years, so granting The Walking Dead a seventh season was an obvious choice.
The Walking Dead season seven while premiere in October 2016.
“Thank goodness someone had a Magic 8-Ball with them in our many long internal meetings about these renewals. When, on the third shake, ‘without a doubt’ filled the murky blue screen, we knew we had to proceed with new seasons of The Walking Dead and Talking Dead,” stated Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “All joking aside, we are so proud to share these shows with fans who have been so passionate, communicative and engaged. We are grateful for and continually impressed by the talent, effort and excellence on continuous display by Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, Chris Hardwick and the many people with whom we partner to make these unique shows possible. The result: More Walking and Talking. Hooray.”
Scott M. Gimple is confirmed to return as executive producer and showrunner for season seven. Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse will also be back as executive producers.
