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Lauren Cohan Comments On the Possibility of Maggie Returning to “The Walking Dead”

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7 years ago

February 6, 2019

The first half of the ninth season of “The Walking Dead” marked the departure of Andrew Lincoln and his Rick Grimes, and it was also the end of the road for Lauren Cohan‘s Maggie. Yes, Rick’s final episode was Maggie’s final episode, but AMC hardly even made that clear. The reason? Unlike Lincoln’s deal, Cohan’s has been left open for a future return to the show.

At the TCA’s winter press tour this week (via Deadline), Cohan herself commented on the rumors that she’ll eventually be returning to the hit zombie series.

“There may have been some conversations but everything is so early days ambiguous,” Cohan said during the press tour. “We’ll have to see what happens.”

As we learned last year, AMC is also working on a series of made-for-TV movies set in “The Walking Dead” universe, so even if Maggie doesn’t return to the show, she could always get her own movie. As for why Cohan left, that’s because she took a leading role on ABC’s “Whiskey Cavalier,” a brand new series that’s set to premiere later this month, on February 24.

AMC programming president David Madden had said last year, “I would hope it’s not the last you’ll see of her for the show. We definitely feel there is more of Maggie’s story to tell. We did not, as you have seen, kill her off in 905. We established that she is out there somewhere. And that’s something we would like to pay off by having her return, if her schedule permits.”

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

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10 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.