You didn't exactly have to be Nostradamus to see this one coming, but ahead of its seventh season premiere next week, The Walking Dead has been renewed for an eighth season of zombie madness and human terror.
The series is lining up to finally solve the "who did Negan kill?" cliffhanger from the end of the last season, meaning we'll finally get the answer to which of Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) group Jeffrey Dean Morgan's baseball bat-wielding bad guy offed in a bone-crunching attack. And given that it scores consistently high ratings in the US (it's the top show on home network AMC), here and around the world means we can pretty much expect to see it continue for as long as there is life there.
“Eeny, meeny, miny, more,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, in a message before a retrospective special designed to catch audiences up on the show so far. “What a joy to partner with Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple and some of the hardest-working people in television to bring The Walking Dead to the fans. And, most important, thanks to those fans for breathing life into this remarkable series right along with us.”
The Walking Dead returns next Sunday.