Since AMC ordered just six episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City, the show feels like a limited series. However, TWD Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple says that the short order is part of a new strategy, allowing series creators to focus on quality over quantity. Will there be more stories to tell? Will The Walking Dead: Dead City be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.
A post-apocalyptic horror spin-off series, The Walking Dead: Dead City was created by Eli Jorné and stars Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan with Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek, Jonathan Higginbotham, Mahina Napoleon, Trey Santiago-Hudson, Charlie Solis, Michael Anthony, Alex Borlo, David Chen, Randy Gonzalez, Alex Huynh, Aixa Kendrick, Karina Ortiz, Caleb Reese Paul, Eleanor Reissa, John Wu, and Logan Kim. The story follows Maggie Greene (Cohan), the widow of Glenn and the former leader of the Hilltop, and the reformed former leader of the Saviors, Negan Smith (Morgan).The pair travel to a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, an area long ago cut off from the mainland, searching for Maggie’s son, Herschel Rhee (Kim). The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy and terror, as well as beauty.
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Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). Early fast affiliate ratings (estimates) are indicated with an “*”. While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
What do you think? Do you like the The Walking Dead: Dead City TV series on AMC? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
*7/22/23 update: AMC has renewed The Walking Dead: Dead City for a second season.
I just finished watching the 5th episode on AMC+ and I have to say I can’t see this show going more than 2 seasons. After the first 3 episodes I was on the fence, not good but not terrible either. But after the last 2 episodes I think I’ve seen enough. It’s over for this franchise, the ratings that you see is about where it’s going to be. I will always love the original WD but as far as the spin offs, simply put they’re just bad.
So, you just going to bail out with only one episode left in the season?
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No, you’re right, I have to finish it
The show has ratings pretty similar to the last of us season one which was considered a roaring success. Future DVR figures are also a big factor in estimating performance.
The Last of Us’ ratings on some episodes were all over the place, but the demo was almost double this show’s demo on average and TLOU is on a premium network. Some episodes even got a .3 in the demo and the last three episodes had at least a million viewers. It is a little surprising that so many articles lauded it as a big success, I thought the numbers were a lot bigger then that because of how the media talked about it, but still that’s pretty good compared to a lot of lower rated shows on premium networks,… Read more »
Yikes, the second episode got a tiny tick up in older viewers but it looks like almost 20% of the younger demo noped out of the series already. This franchise has lost it’s way so bad. It’s hard to believe that a spinoff of a cable series that at one time was getting almost super bowl numbers can’t even get a million viewers and drawing so low in the demo.
Not a good start for a new spinoff. Not even a million viewers and only .17 in the demo. More then half of them skewing to the older part of the demo. I know I’m not watching it.