AMC NETWORKS ANNOUNCES MAY 4 RETURN FOR "THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY" AND DEBUTS OPENING MINUTES FROM THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SEASON TWO PREMIERE EPISODE

NEW YORK - February 25, 2025 - Back in the New York groove! AMC Networks announced today that the second season of the highly anticipated The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere Sunday, May 4 at 9pm ET/PT on AMC and AMC+. The opening minutes of the eight-episode second season, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan as fan-favorite characters "Negan" and "Maggie," were also released.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.

The series also stars Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek, Mahina Anne Marie Napoleon, Lisa Emery, Logan Kim, Dascha Polanco and Kim Coates, amongst others. Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons serves as showrunner and executive producer on the series, along with Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe, Cohan, Morgan, Brian Bockrath, Michael Satrazemis and Colin Walsh.

At the time of its release, Dead City's first episode ranked as AMC+'s #1 season premiere of all time [AMCN Internal Reporting, Unique Viewers in First 60 Days of Release] and viewership grew nearly every week during S1 [AMCN Multi-Platform L+7] The Walking Dead Universe series continue to be top performers across platforms and on AMC+, each ranks among the top 10 seasons of all time in viewership [AMCN Internal Reporting Avg Streams/Ep, First 60 Days.]

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