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| A still from AMC's "The Walking Dead," with Andrew Lincoln in the foreground and Chandler Riggs (Photo by AMC Film Holdings LLC) |
LOS ANGELES - AMC has greenlit a seventh season to
its hit zombie series “The Walking Dead” and a sixth season to the
show's postmortem talk show, “Talking Dead.”
Based
on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics graphic novel of the same name, the
show has been the network's proverbial 600-pound gorilla with a solid
following that has steadily grown over the years. Sunday’s episode,
which featured the demise of another series regular, was seen by 18.2
million viewers, with ab12 million adults 18-49 demographic and 11.5
million adults 25-54 in live+3 ratings, according to Nielsen.
Its
spinoff series “Fear the Walking Dead,” followed in its footsteps when
it set a cable record for the highest rated first season ever by
scripted series.
The show
tells the story of Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes, played by British actor
Andrew Lincoln, who leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by
zombies. It stars Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Chandler
Riggs, Lauren Cohan, Steven Yeun, Danai Gurira, Sonequa Martin-Green,
Michael Cudlitz, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos and Lennie James.
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