The Walking Dead Season 8 confirmed ahead of Season 7 premiere

AMC’s smash hit zombie show will be back for more
Renewed: The Walking Dead will be back for Season 8
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Ben Travis17 October 2016

Good news for fans of shuffling corpses and collapsing societies: The Walking Dead has already been renewed for Season 8.

AMC’s hit zombie saga will be continuing past Season 7, which is about to debut in the US on October 23.

"What a joy to partner with Robert Kirkman, Scott M Gimple and some of the hardest-working people in television to bring The Walking Dead to the fans,” said AMC President Charlie Collier.

"And, most important, thanks to those fans for breathing life into this remarkable series right along with us."

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The show, based on Robert Kirkman’s ongoing comic book series, seems to have plenty of life in it yet – having just brought in big baddie Negan.

The ruthless villain from the books has arrived in the form of actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and made a (head) cracking entrance at the end of Season 6 – killing one of the main characters with his barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat Lucille.

However, the show left things on a major cliffhanger, failing to reveal who had actually been bumped off, with the revelation set to come in the opening minutes of Season 7.

What’s more, director Greg Nicotero has hinted that Negan actually kills more than one member of Rick Grimes’ group in the season premiere.

“If we would have shown the deaths, then they wouldn't have felt our characters in season seven the way they need to,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

The Walking Dead Season 7 debuts in the UK on Fox on Monday October 24.

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