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Guess What? Even More “The Walking Dead” Spinoffs Coming Soon

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6 years ago

March 5, 2018

The ratings may be down, but “The Walking Dead” is still one of the biggest and most popular shows on television. AMC is currently finishing up the main show’s eighth season, while spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead” is gearing up for its fourth. And let’s not forget digital series’ like “Red Machete,” which delve even further into the world.

So what’s next? Are more spinoffs on the way? According to Scott Gimple, who becomes chief content officer of the brand beginning with Season 9, the answer is YES.

“We’re going to be doing traditional stuff, non-traditional stuff, stuff people don’t expect,” Gimple just told THR. “But yes, definitely scripted. The odds of unscripted are very remote. But I’m not going to say no. We’re going to have cool new Walking Dead stuff.”

He continued, “We have a bunch of different things in mind. Some things that are really complimentary to the stuff we’re doing now and some stuff that’s far afield and very different. I’m hoping to do a variety of different projects that are probably more in line with what we see on TV but maybe in different rhythms and formats and things like that. I’m talking about different ways to tell stories, possibly with characters we know and possibly with characters we don’t [know].”

Needless to say, “The Walking Dead” isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

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Thandiwe Newton Joins the Cast of “Wednesday” Season 2

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2 hours ago

April 23, 2024

John Squires

Pictured: Thandiwe Newton in 'God's Country' (2022)

Last week we learned that Steve Buscemi had joined the cast of “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix, and Variety lets us know that Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”) has also signed on.

Jenna Ortega is back as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with Steve Buscemi playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy.

Jenna Ortega stars in the hit series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series. Christina Ricci also appears in the show, playing a brand new role, with Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.

“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” The series follows…

“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes of the show’s debut season.

We don’t know much about “Wednesday” Season 2 at the moment but Jenna Ortega has promised that the new season will be “bolder” and darker than the first season of the series.

“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more,” Ortega said last year.

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