It’s official: The Walking Dead season 11 won’t air this year due to production delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, The Walking Dead season 10 will get six “extra” episodes in early 2021 after the original season 10 finale episode, “A Certain Doom,” airs on Oct. 4. This will be the first time a new season of The Walking Dead won’t air in the fall since the show premiered in 2010.
Regarding the extra season 10 episodes, all Kang shared is that “we’re working on those now, and we’ll have more to share soon. It’s an extension of episodes beyond the finale.” She didn’t clarify whether that meant that the team was writing new material for those episodes or if filming was getting underway.
With the new episodes in 2021, The Walking Dead season 10 will go down as the longest season in the show’s history, with 22 episodes in total, a big leap from the usual 16 episodes per season.
AMC’s decision to extend season 10 instead of making a shorter season 11 is an interesting one. Some might even call it a confusing one, especially since the network is still referring to “A Certain Doom” as the season 10 finale. The official The Walking Dead Twitter handle didn’t make things much clearer, saying “October’s finale will still be the finale, the additional episodes will just be ‘extra.’”
What will this “extra” material consist of? Additional footage that was shot for season 10 but was never used? New storylines that somehow extend the plot of season 10 involving the Whisperers? We don’t know.
Spin-off series The Walking Dead: World Beyond will premiere right after The Walking Dead season 10 finale on Oct. 4, while Fear the Walking Dead season 6 will begin airing on Oct. 11 at 9 pm. More Walking Dead news as we learn it.
