Last year, fans were able to enjoy the Fear the Walking Dead TV show, without worrying about its cancellation or renewal chances. As the fourth season kicks off, the audience doesn’t have that luxury. Despite two seasons of ratings drops in the 50% neighborhood, it was still AMC’s second highest performing scripted series — behind The Walking Dead, of course. Can it keep its death-grip on second place, this time around? Will Fear the Walking Dead be cancelled or renewed for season five? Stay tuned.
An AMC horror drama, Fear the Walking Dead stars Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Rubén Blades, Danay Garcia, and Colman Domingo. In the fourth season, The Walking Dead‘s Lennie James brings his Morgan Jones character to the prequel series, as the recent past merges into the present struggle. While encountering new friends and enemies, the crew will fight for and with each other, as well as against the dead. Also joining in season four are Maggie Grace, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman, Kevin Zegers, and Evan Gamble. **Status update below.
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For comparisons: The third season of Fear the Walking Dead averaged a 0.88 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.364 million total viewers. Compared to season two, it was down by about 52% and 44%, respectively.
What do you think? Do you still like the Fear the Walking Dead TV series? Did you expect AMC to cancel or renew this TV show for a fifth season?
**7/29/2018 Status Update: Fear the Walking Dead has been renewed through season five on AMC. Details here.
I only got 2 episodes into season 2 before I stopped watching and that was pushing it because 3 episodes into season 1 I found all the characters so annoying that I was rooting for them all to die. This show should have ended when they abandoned the storyline about the origin of the virus. As it stands in then entire Walking Dead universe, if there truly is no cure for the virus then at some point civilization as we know it has to collapse permanently. Basically the show’s writers have two choices: Either there is a cure that is… Read more »
The show was good but when you started recording nonsense it all went down the hill. Stop it and bring back the leader actor we didn’t see her die. Her Al and Morgan kudos power