#SDCC2019 'Fear The Walking Dead' Renewed For Season 6; New Cast Members

The cast and creators of Fear The Walking Dead have completed their panel at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con.

Attending the panel were showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg; executive producers Robert Kirkman, Dave Alpert, Gale Anne Hurd, and Greg Nicotero; and director and co-executive producer, Michael Satrazemis as well as Scott Gimple, chief creative officer of The Walking Dead franchise. In addition, Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Danay Garcia, Maggie Grace, Jenna Elfman, Alexa Nisenson, Austin Amelio, Rubén Blades, and Karen David. The panel was moderated by Chris Hardwick.

Gimple made the announcement that the series has been renewed for a season 6 and season 5B will return August 11th with the midseason finale airing this Sunday. In addition, Gimple announced that Colby Minifie, Peter Jacobson and Colby Hollman will be joining the cast.

Gimple continued to talked about the series exploring more of the post-apocalyptic Walking Dead universe.

“The big secret is that there have been other civilizations that have survived the apocalypse,” revealed Gimple. “We are about to show a lot more.”

Gimple finished up by mentioning the a new Walking Dead series is in development but no further details of the series were given.

Source: Deadline