Fear the Walking Dead
American post-apocalyptic drama television series
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October 15 2024 | Complete series released on Blu-ray and DVD. |
February 27 2024 | Eighth and final season released on Blu-ray and DVD. |
November 19 2023 | The television series concluded after eight seasons and 113 episodes, marking the end of the post-apocalyptic drama. |
May 14 2023 | Eighth and final season of Fear the Walking Dead premiered on AMC, split into two six-episode parts. |
March 2023 | Filming for the eighth and final season concluded. |
January 10 2023 | Seventh season released on Blu-ray and DVD. |
2022 | Received nominations at the 47th Saturn Awards for Best Horror Television Series, with Colman Domingo nominated for Best Actor and Aisha Tyler for Best Guest-Starring Performance |
August 2022 | Production for the final (eighth) season began filming in Savannah, Georgia. |
April 10 2022 | The 'Dead in the Water' web series premiered on AMC+, starring Nick Stahl as Jason Riley, featuring a submarine crew fighting for survival during the apocalypse. |
2021 | Won the 19th Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Special Effects, with nominations at the 46th Saturn Awards including Best Horror Television Series and a Supporting Actress nomination for Colby Minifie |
December 2021 | Series was renewed for an eighth and final season. |
December 2021 | Kim Dickens announced to return as Madison Clark in the seventh season, after being believed killed off in the fourth season. |
December 2021 | Series was renewed for an eighth and final season by AMC. |
October 17 2021 | Seventh season of Fear the Walking Dead premiered on AMC. |
August 31 2021 | Sixth season released on Blu-ray and DVD with audio commentaries. |
April 2021 | Filming for the seventh season began in Texas and concluded in December 2021. |
March 2021 | AMC announced the digital spin-off series 'Dead in the Water: A Fear the Walking Dead Story', a web series set on a submarine during the zombie apocalypse. |
December 3 2020 | Series was renewed for a seventh season. |
December 3 2020 | Series was renewed for a seventh season by AMC. |
October 11 2020 | Sixth season of Fear the Walking Dead premiered on AMC. |
May 19 2020 | Fifth season released on Blu-ray and DVD featuring three audio commentaries. |
March 2020 | Production for the sixth season went on a three-week hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2019 | The series continued its Saturn Awards recognition with nominations for Best Horror Television Series, with supporting actor nominations for Lennie James and guest performances by Sydney Lemmon and Tonya Pinkins |
December 2019 | Zoe Colletti joined the main cast for the sixth season as Dakota. Mo Collins and Colby Hollman were promoted to series regulars. |
July 27 2019 | AMC released 'The Althea Tapes', a six-part web series featuring the character Althea interviewing survivors, which ran until August 8, 2019. |
July 19 2019 | Series was renewed for a sixth season. |
July 19 2019 | Series was renewed for a sixth season by AMC. |
June 2 2019 | Fifth season of Fear the Walking Dead premiered on AMC. |
March 2019 | AMC settled the lawsuit with Mel Smith, with the specific details of the settlement remaining confidential. |
March 2019 | Karen David joined the main cast for the fifth season as Grace. |
March 5 2019 | Fourth season released on Blu-ray and DVD featuring four audio commentaries. |
February 2019 | Judge Lucy Koh rejected AMC's motion to dismiss the lawsuit, determining that a discovery phase and expert testimony would be necessary to evaluate the similarities between Dead Ahead and Fear the Walking Dead. |
January 2019 | Austin Amelio joined the cast as Dwight, previously from The Walking Dead. |
2018 | The show received Visual Effects Society Awards nomination for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects and multiple Saturn Awards nominations, including for Alycia Debnam-Carey and Michael Greyeyes |
2018 | Filming for the fourth season started in various locations around Austin, Texas, including Dell Diamond baseball stadium and Brackenridge Hospital. |
December 2018 | Filming for the fifth season began, confirmed to be shot in New Braunfels, Texas. |
December 2018 | Rubén Blades confirmed to return in the fifth season as Daniel Salazar. |
July 2018 | Mel Smith, creator of Dead Ahead comic book series, filed a lawsuit against AMC Studios alleging that Fear the Walking Dead's second season stole thematic elements from his work, specifically the concept of survivors fleeing a zombie apocalypse by boat. |
July 28 2018 | Series was renewed for a fifth season. |
July 28 2018 | Series was renewed for a fifth season by AMC. |
April 15 2018 | Fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead premiered on AMC. |
March 13 2018 | Third season released on Blu-ray and DVD with audio commentaries and deleted scenes. |
2017 | The series was nominated for Best Horror Television Series at the 43rd Saturn Awards, with acting nominations for Kim Dickens and younger actors Alycia Debnam-Carey and Lorenzo James Henrie |
November 2017 | Lennie James, portraying Morgan Jones from The Walking Dead, confirmed to crossover and join the main cast in the fourth season. |
June 4 2017 | Third season of Fear the Walking Dead premiered on AMC. |
April 2017 | Dayton Callie and Sam Underwood joined the series as members of the Otto family, and Lisandra Tena joined as Lola Guerrero. |
April 2017 | AMC renewed the series for a fourth season and announced Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg as new showrunners, replacing Dave Erickson. |
March 2017 | Daniel Sharman joined the cast as a series regular. |
January 6 2017 | Filming for the third season began in Baja California, Mexico, using some of the same location sites as the second season. |
2016 | The series was nominated for Best Horror Television Series and Best Actress (Kim Dickens) at the 42nd Saturn Awards |
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