The long-awaited Walking Dead Season 10 finale finally has a release date. During The Walking Dead Comic-Con@Home panel, moderator Chris Hardwick announced that the Season 10 finale premiere date is October 4 at 9 p.m., followed by the delayed series premiere of The Walking Dead: World Beyond at 10 p.m.
Both The Walking Dead finale and the new spinoff series, World Beyond, were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While this will be the only new Walking Dead episode to air in 2020, all 10 episodes of World Beyond have been filmed and will air without any impact from the pandemic. The Walking Dead Season 10 finale was originally supposed to release on April 12, with TWD: World Beyond intended to premiere immediately following the finale, also on Sunday, April 12.
Watch Comic-Con’s 2020 Walking Dead panel in full below:
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Showrunner Angela Kang confirmed that The Walking Dead Season 11 won’t premiere in October 2020, despite most previous seasons sticking to a fall debut. This is no surprise, as production has been delayed while the country has been in lockdown due to the virus. However, Kang did say that the writers’ room is already working on new episodes, and the plan is to extend Season 10 by six episodes, which will air in early 2021.
“The writers’ room for Season 11 has been going remotely for the past few months. We haven’t been able to start production, but we’ll get back to work as soon as we safely can,” said Kang. “We will not be airing Season 11 episodes this year as we normally would in October, but we’re excited to announce an extended Season 10, which will be six extra episodes to follow the finale which will air in early 2021 if all goes well. We’re working on those now, and we’ll have more to share soon. It’s an extension of episodes beyond the finale.”
This episode extension makes The Walking Dead Season 10 the longest season of the show to date; with the addition of six new episodes, it will be 22 episodes in length.
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Of the Season 10 finale, director Greg Nicotero teased that “the last five minutes of the episode take it to a whole other place.” We know the Season 10 finale marks the return of Lauren Cohan’s Maggie to the series after her departure in Season 9, and Kang revealed what else she is excited for fans to get to see.
“I’m excited for people to see what happens with Beta, what happens with Carol and her revenge arc, Daryl and his leadership role. I’ll say that Seth [Gilliam’s Father Gabriel] has some amazing scenes in this episode. The Commonwealth group, we will get to what I think is a really cool point for them for their journey. Everybody’s at play,” said Kang. “We see the return of Maggie, Negan has a key role to play — every person in the cast, they are an important part of the puzzle. I’m really excited for everybody to see our whole group doing their thing, working together to face what’s in front of them.”
Be sure to tune into Comic-Con@Home on IGN Live for an exclusive interview with The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Lauren Cohan, as well as with World Beyond showrunner Matt Negrete, to preview everything you have to look forward to in The Walking Dead universe. And be sure to check out our full Comic-Con 2020 panel schedule for all the latest and greatest from Comic-Con@Home.
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