Fear The Walking Dead has barely taken its first stumbling steps into season five, but that’s not going to stop us from looking into the future, because if there’s one thing you need to do if you want to survive a zombie apocalypse, it’s plan ahead.
And, despite the fact season five was slightly down on season four’s viewing figures at the start, there’s no way this thing isn’t going to keep going – Fear is AMC’s second-biggest series (and we all know what the top-rated series is. Hint, it also features ‘The Walking Dead’ in the title), and we’ll get a proper ‘goodbye’ season if it ever does end.
We’ve scoured the internet for all the latest news, gossip and scoops around Fear The Walking Dead season six – so make sure you bookmark this page for updates as soon as new information comes in. You can’t be too careful where there are dead-heads lurching around.
Fear The Walking Dead season 6 air date: When will it be on?
Since season two, Fear The Walking Dead has had a broadcast pattern that sees a premiere in April one season and in June the next. So, going by that structure, we’re due an April 2020 season-six premiere. Though AMC may surprise us all and go back to season one’s August premiere date.
But we’d stake our zombie skull necklace on it coming in mid-April next year.
Fear The Walking Dead season 6 cast: Who will be in it?
Well, we’d expect Lennie James, Danay Garcia, Maggie Grace, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman, Alexa Nisenson, Austin Amelio, Ruben Blades, and Karen David to all return – though any (and all) of them could still get their faces chomped off in season five.
Fear The Walking Dead season 6 plot: What will it be about?
If the fifth season has had one main theme, it's hope, with Morgan taking the leadership role as the gang try to find other survivors so they can band together to survive a smelly apocalypse.
But this is the (Fear The) Walking Dead universe, which means what goes up must come down. We'd expect season five to finish on a fairly major cliffhanger, one that puts our heroes into a completely new (and horrendous) situation, one that brings Fear further into the major crossover AMC clearly has planned for next year.
"Right now 2020 is a really big year for the universe in general, and the shows," showrunner Scott Gimple said at WonderCon earlier this year. "It's the beginning of our next decade so we're kicking off in style."
This time next year, Walking Dead fans will have FOUR series to get excited about. The original series, Fear, the untitled spin-off and the first instalment of Rick's movie trilogy.
We fully expect AMC to go full MCU next year, tying all of its Walking Dead properties together. We've already seen those seeds sown in season five, with the clear crossover Easter egg hinting at Rick's current situation that landed in episode one.
We predict we'll see more of this sort of thing in season five before the Fear finale sets up 2020's crossover event, an event that'll definitely involve season six.
"I will say there are different sorts of crossovers we are going to do to tie the shows together, tie the universes together in certain ways that have to do with the greater happenings in the world," Gimple said.
"In telling stories of the past we might see characters interact, or just see those characters we've not seen in a while."
And we've had some solid intel on where Fear season five's arc will take these characters. "It's going to take them to an entirely new and strange and dangerous environment that they've never been to before."
"It may involve a plane, and we're going to see the difficulties that their mission presents, but also the internal things that our characters are dealing with that are maybe preventing them from fully living," showrunner Ian Goldberg said.
Yeah, it sounds like they're on the way to The Commonwealth to us.
Fear The Walking Dead season 6 trailer: When will we see it?
If the show does land in April, we'll see our first footage in March. If it's June, we'll see the season six trailer in May. But with AMC building to this big relaunch year, all bets are off. One thing's for sure, whenever it lands, it'll be in this article, so keeping coming back to this feature like you're a zombie using your undead instinct to head towards a shopping mall.
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