AMC Renews Walking Dead for a Fifth Season

 

AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a fifth season, the network announced Tuesday.

"We are very happy to make what has to be one of the most anti-climactic renewal announcements ever: The Walking Dead is renewed for a fifth season," AMC President Charlie Collier said in a statement. "This is a show that has erased traditional distinctions between cable and broadcast. Its expanding base of passionate fans has grown every season, most recently — and most notably — with the season four premiere earlier this month, which broke viewership records for the series and became the biggest non-sports telecast in cable history. On behalf of the incredible team on both sides of the camera, thank you to the fans and here's to more Dead."

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Scott Gimple will return as showrunner alongside executive producers Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Dale Alpert, Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse.

AMC is also developing a Walking Dead spin-off set to launch in 2015. Kirkman, Hurd and Alpert will serve as executive producers.

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Exclusive Walking Dead First Look: Is the Prison No Longer Safe?

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There are no safe places on The Walking Dead.

Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the rest of the survivors learned that the hard way over the course of the first two episodes as a flu ravaged through the prison. As if that wasn't enough, now there's a vicious murderer roaming the halls!

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In an exclusive first look at Sunday's episode, we get a glimpse of the group that leaves the prison in search for supplies to help keep the group alive. Meanwhile, Rick and the others who stay behind must deal with the recent losses while trying to preserve what remains. Check it out:

The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9/8c on AMC.