'Walking Dead: Dead City' renewed for Season 3
July 16 (UPI) -- AMC Networks announced Wednesday it has renewed The Walking Dead: Dead City for a third seasons. Production begins in Boston, Mass., this fall.
Dead City is set in a post-apocalyptic New York where Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) encounter new gangs of survivors, and many more zombies. The show films in Boston to double for New York.
Seth Hoffman takes over as Season 3 showrunner from Eli Jorné. Hoffman wrote and co-executive produced three seasons of the main Walking Dead series.
AdvertisementAdvertisement#_R_672adkalhb5fiv5vddbH1_ iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#_R_a72adkalhb5fiv5vddbH1_ iframeDead City is one of three ongoing Walking Dead spinoffs, along with Daryl Dixon, starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride, and The Ones Who Live, starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira. Dead City Season 2 concluded June 22.
Morgan spoke with UPI in April about his movie Neighborhood Watch, during which he mentioned he is contracted for two more seasons of Dead City, of which Season 3 will be one. In May, he told UPI he is still enjoying the growth of Negan from the series to the spinoff.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, seen at the 2017 Indianapolis 500, returns in "The Walking Dead: Dead City." File Photo by Edwin Locke/UPI
