The Walking Dead: Will Dead City have a season 4?

The franchise doesn’t want to stop. But for now, nothing else has been officially ordered.

Negan and Maggie haven’t quite finished their trip to New York.

In any case, that’s what Scott M. Gimple, boss of The Walking Dead franchise, says, who explains that the finale of season 3 does not mark, in his mind, the end of the Dead City series. So when is season 4?

For the moment, no date, because it has not been officially ordered. But interviewed by The Direct during MultiCon 2026, Gimple was optimistic:

“I hope everyone continues to hope, because the show is doing well in terms of ratings and people like it. So I think it has a good chance of being renewed…”

Nothing is guaranteed, therefore, but the desire to continue is there.

Above all, Gimple explains that the era of streaming has profoundly changed the way AMC evaluates the longevity of its series. When he was showrunner of The Walking Dead, he could almost calculate the lifespan of a season based on the evolution of the audiences. Today, the metrics are much less simple and the economic equations have changed.

“We’re in a different time… I can’t even wrap my head around it all. It’s such an unprecedented, almost unreal time. Back when I was overseeing The Walking Dead*, I could do this simple calculation: if the audiences halve every year, we have three or four years left. Today, it’s much trickier… The indicators are no longer as clear-cut and the business model is very different. So we’ll see what happens.”

He nevertheless remains convinced of one thing: “The great story of The Walking Dead will certainly continue.”

For now, the next step in the franchise will be season 4 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, scheduled for early 2027, and which should conclude the European spin-off led by Norman Reedus.

This is the only Walking Dead song on the agenda at the moment. The only officially announced release (even if a new crossover is currently in preparation).

Because Gimple recognizes one thing: if TWD wants to survive, it will do so at a “slightly slower” pace. New seasons of spinoff series will arrive with “less urgency and rush.”