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Shane, Hersel and Many More Characters from the Past Will Return to “The Walking Dead” This Sunday

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8 years ago

October 29, 2018

This coming Sunday night’s episode of “The Walking Dead” promises to provide an emotional goodbye as well as a cast reunion for the sendoff of Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes, who is being written out of the show in this week’s fifth episode of Season 9. Teased last night, it’s looking like Rick is going to be killed off, so make sure you have tissues handy.

The next episode is sure to be the most must-watch in the show’s 8 year history, and the official “Walking Dead” Twitter account is promising the return of many familiar faces.

They tweeted last night, “Next week’s Walking Dead will be more of an emotional rollercoaster than 701. Shane, Hersel, Sasha and MANY more return.”

Adding an extra layer of emotion to the episode, it’ll feature the final performance from Scott “Hersel” Wilson, who passed away earlier this year. Again, have… tissues… handy.

Next week’s #WalkingDead will be more of an emotional rollercoaster than 701. Shane, Hershel, Sasha and MANY more return 👀

— The Walking Dead (@TheWalkingDead) October 29, 2018

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Replicants Rule the World in First Images from Prime Video’s ‘Blade Runner 2099’ TV Series

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7 hours ago

July 23, 2026

Meagan Navarro

Blade Runner is headed to the small screen in Prime Video’s upcoming Blade Runner 2099, set 50 years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, in a world where replicants have emerged on top after an uprising.

Humans are no longer in power.

At the forefront of the new series are stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo), and EW has shared the first images of their characters.

Yeoh stars as a replicant Blade Runner named Olwen, facing the final days of her life. It’s a twist on the Roy Batty story from the first film; here, that story will be told from the replicant’s perspective.

Opposite her is Schafer as Olwen’s partner, Cora, a human fugitive pretending to be a replicant. Olwen and Cora will be working together to investigate missing rogue replicants.

Blade Runner 2099 comes from Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Amazon Studios. Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) is writing, showrunning, and executive producing.

Jonathan van Tulleken (“Shōgun”) will direct and executive produce the first two episodes.

Luisa tells EW that Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi noir acts as the series’ North Star, but it’ll forge its own identity: “We leaned into sunshine noir. You’re still very much in the Blade Runner world, but the show is about a birth. It’s about a birth of a city. It’s about a birth of a replicant era. These characters are discovering who they really are. And so the climate is hot, it’s sticky, it’s sunny. We’re on the coast a lot. We’re in Santa Monica a lot. So it’s like you’re seeing Ridley’s texture, but you’re seeing it in the sunshine noir filter.”

The showrunner adds, “The show is really imagining what comes after us, and what does it mean to be human in a world where humanity is no longer relevant?“

Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) also star in the upcoming series. Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), and Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon) join as recurring guest stars.