Walking Dead Renewed for Season 8
AMC is jumping the gun on another year of The Walking Dead, ordering an eighth season of the zombie smash one week before the debut of Season 7.
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Additionally, the Chris Hardwick-hosted companion series Talking Dead has also been picked up for another season.
Walking Dead Season 8 — which will once again consist of 16 episodes — will launch in Fall
2017 with the series’ 100th episode. Scott M. Gimple will return as showrunner.
Borrowing a phrase from Lucille-wielding Negan, AMC president Charlie Collier cracked, “Eeny, meeny, miny, more,” before adding, “What a joy to partner with Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple and some of the hardest-working people in television to bring The Walking Dead to the fans. And, most important, thanks to those fans for breathing life into this remarkable series right along with us.”