Sky becomes the home of ‘The Walking Dead Universe’ as confirms it will air multiple new spinoff series.
Broadcaster Sky has released a teaser for the upcoming series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, alongside a premiere date of Friday May 31st, 2024.
Starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, The Ones Who Live sees the return of beloved TWD characters Rick Grimes and Michonne in an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance and an unstoppable power. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before?
The series also stars Pollyanna McIntosh, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Terry O’Quinn, Matthew August Jeffers, Craig Tate, Breeda Wool and Andrew Bachelor, among others.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is executive produced by Showrunner Scott M. Gimple, Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth, Brian Bockrath and Greg Nicotero.
The Walking Dead Universe on Sky
The broadcaster also confirms it will be the home of the franchise for the foreseeable. From Sunday 19th May, all 11 series of The Walking Dead will be available on demand from Sky and the NOW streaming service.
In addition to being the exclusive home of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live it will also air other spinoffs;
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
After Daryl Dixon’s departure from The Commonwealth, a capsized Daryl washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. His arrival in France raises the ire of leaders within a splintered, but growing autocratic movement centered in Paris, and endangers a young boy at the heart of a benevolent religious movement called the Union of Hope.
Daryl agrees to shepherd the child and his caretakers on their pilgrimage to The Nest, a sanctuary which promises safety, in return for the Union’s help securing him passage back to America. The series tracks Daryl’s journey, fighting his way through the unique Walker strains and provincial violence of France – conflicts rooted in both pre-walker personal histories and the deep history of France. Along the way, Daryl will find his steadfast desire to return home complicated by the new connections he forms and the renewed sense of hope these relationships give him.
In addition to Norman Reedus, the series stars Clémence Poésy, Adam Nagaitis, Anne Charrier, Eriq Ebouaney, Laika Blanc Francard, Romain Levi and Louis Puech Scigliuzzi.
The Season 1 Box Set of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will be available from August, with Season 2 coming later in the year.
The Walking Dead: Dead City
Years have passed since we last saw Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan, (Jeffery Dean Morgan) and the old enemies must now form a tenuous alliance in order to carry out a dangerous mission. Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland, where they discover that 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.
But as the pair moves deeper into the gritty depths of the walker-infested city, it becomes apparent that the traumas of their tumultuous past may prove just as great a threat as the dangers of the present.
The series also stars Gaius Charles and Željko Ivanek.
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 1 lands later in 2024, with season 2 to follow in 2025.