The Walking Dead: Dead City gets major season 4 update

The Walking Dead: Dead City's executive producer Scott M. Gimple has opened up about the status of season four. First airing in 2023, Dead City follows the stories of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) and their unlikely path to friendship.

Season one saw the adversaries come into contact when Maggie recruited Negan's help to rescue her kidnapped son, Hershel (Logan Kim), from The Croat (Željko Ivanek).

Season three aired earlier this year, ending with Maggie now controlling the community in Manhattan and announcing her plans to take over other boroughs - so where does that leave us for a fourth season?

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Speaking to The Direct, Gimple said that the series has a "good shot" at being renewed for a fourth season.

"I would hope for everyone to hold out hope, because it's performing well in the numbers, and people are digging it. So, I think it's got a good shot at it, but it is a different time," he said.

He also reflected on a time when he could use The Walking Dead's ratings to predict the future of the franchise, but that streaming had changed this entirely.

"When I was showrunning The Walking Dead, I could calculate, 'Okay, if the ratings halve every year, we have three to four years left.' That's insane," he continued.

"Now, it's just... The metrics are not as cut-and-dried, and the economics are very different. So, we'll see what happens. But the greater story of The Walking Dead absolutely is going to go on."

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Next up for The Walking Dead fans is the fourth season of Daryl Dixon, which will serve as the conclusion for Norman Reedus' character's spin-off. This will debut in 2027.

The Walking Dead came to an end in 2022 after 11 seasons, and several of its spin-offs have also concluded.

Fear the Walking Dead concluded in 2023, followed by The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and Rick Grimes and Michonne Hawthorne miniseries The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

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