AMC has predictably issued a swift third season renewal to “Fear The Walking Dead.”
The news comes following the release of live+3 data for this past week’s second season premiere. Per AMC, Sunday’s “Fear The Walking Dead” drew 8.8 million total viewers — 5.3 million of whom were adults 18-49 — on a live+3 basis.
“What Dave Erickson and Robert Kirkman have invented in ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ is to be applauded. Watching Los Angeles crumble through the eyes of our characters and seeing each make decisions and try to figure out the rules of their new world – it’s fresh, eerie and compelling and we’re all in for the ride,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “As Victor Strand observed, ‘The only way to survive a mad world is to embrace the madness.’ We thank the millions of fans for embracing this mad world and look forward to sailing far into the future.”
As noted, “FTWD” is only one episode into its sophomore season. The sixteen-episode third season will premiere in 2017.
Each of those episodes will also be accompanied by the renewed “Talking Dead: Fear.”
