"The Walking Dead: Dead City" Sets Premiere Date

AMC has unveiled the premiere date for the highly-anticipated spinoff series "The Walking Dead: Dead City", starring “TWD” vets Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

The series, which was originally set to debut in the spring, will premiere on Sunday, June 18 at 10 pm ET. It will air on AMC and AMC+. Subsequent episodes will move to the 9 pm ET timeslot.

It comes as the series showrunner Eli Jorné along with Cohan and Gaius Charles were on a panel at the WonderCon event in California.

Jorné explained what the upcoming series has to offer both loyal fans of The Walking Dead and newcomers.

“It is The Walking Dead like we’ve never seen it before. We haven’t really lived in a city like this.” Jorné noted. 

“It is New York; there’s skyscrapers up to the sky and a million and a half walkers. And for characters like Maggie and Negan, who’ve been running through the woods for a long time, it’s just a whole new world that’s just extremely claustrophobic, scary, and also, as you’ll discover, has pockets of survivors, you’ll get to see all the strange new ways they live in the apocalypse, it’s definitely like nothing you’ve seen before.”

He also confirmed the casting of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" actor Logan Kim, who has been tapped to portray the teenage Hershel Rhee. 

The 16-year-old actor will replace Kien Michael Spiller, who played the character during the last two seasons of "The Walking Dead". 

Hershel was named after his grandfather (Scott Wilson), who served as a mentor and father figure to the original Atlanta survivors until he was killed in Season 4 at the hands of David Morrissey's The Governor.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City” follows Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) 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. 

The six-episode series also stars Gaius Charles, Zeljko Ivanek, Karina Ortiz, Jonathan Higginbotham, Trey Santiago-Hudson, Charlie Solis, and Mahina Napoleon.

“Walking Dead” creator Scott M. Gimple, Jorné, Cohan, Morgan, and Brian Bockrath serve as executive producers. 

It is the fourth spinoff in the Walking Dead universe following "Fear The Walking Dead", "World Beyond", and "Tales of the Walking Dead" and is the first sequel to the original Walking Dead series.