The zombie apocalypse hit series is renewed for its eighth season, with the show's 100th episode as announced by AMC Studios president Charlie Collier days before the premiere night of the seventh season.
As fans were left on the verge of The Walking Dead's most cliffhanging Season 6 final episode, its mother studio has given the go signal for Season 8, much to the delight of those who have been preparing for the major heartbreak/horror that the premiere episode of Season 7 is about to bring.
The new season will air on October 2017 and will kick off with the hit series' 100th episode, The Wall Street Journal reported. It will return in 125 countries expecting to exceed the 200 million viewers worldwide that the show already has. Collier also announced that writer Scott M. Gimple will remain with the team as the show's helm master.
"The Talking Dead", TV's highest rated talk show, is also renewed for its seventh season, Entertainment Weekly reported. The talk show's Season 6 first episode will air for 90 minutes automatically after the premiere episode of The Walking Dead to discuss the death to the fans. Favorite cast members such as Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Steven Yeun, Danai Gurira, Chandler Riggs, and more are expected to appear with The Talking Dead's host, Chris Hardwick.
This announcement came days before the much awaited Season 7 premiere which will air the death of one of the show's major protagonists due to Negan. But this has been expected as The Walking Dead is one of TV's highly rated shows in the 18-49 demographics, averaging a 9.6 rating.
Critics, however, have said the creators should take the show more seriously as more and more people have tuned out and lost patience to how the entire Season 6 paced out. Some fans were even furious to how the season ended, threatening to boycott Season 7.
AMC was aware of the backlash throwing the cast and crew of The Walking Dead on a PR blitz to hype up the premiere episode of Season 7. So far, it's doing a great job bringing curiosity back to the boring show. But if it doesn't deliver what it's promised, a great number of people will stop watching it for good regardless if they include Obama or Trump of the Kardashians on the line-up of new characters.