Everything you need to know about The Walking Dead: Dead City

The Walking Dead: Dead City is the fourth spin-off series of the franchise based on the smash-hit graphic novels by Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore.

Picking up after the main series finale, Dead City follows Negan and Maggie as they head to Manhattan, New York.

Once full of bright lights and bustling streets, Manhattan is now cut off from the mainland and with the dead and denizens who have turned the Big Apple into their own world.

Desperate to find her son, Hershel, Maggie resorts to asking for help from old foe, Negan, who is now looking after a selectively mute young girl and on the run.

With a deal being struck, the pair need to confront their past to survive the present.

But with so much bad blood between them, and zombie hordes around every corner, it’s a lot easier said than done.

In season two, which is set to air this summer, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides in the growing war for control of New York City.

As their paths intertwine, they come to see that their way out is far more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.

**Who starred in The Walking Dead: Dead City and where have we seen them before?**

The main cast of season one are:

Lauren Cohan (The Boy, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice) as Maggie Greene
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural, Watchmen) as Negan
Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights, Taken: The TV Series) as Perlie Armstrong
Željko Ivanek (Madam Secretary, True Blood) as "The Croat"
Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i) as Ginny
Logan Kim (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) as Hershel Rhee
Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale, The Blacklist) as Tommaso
Karina Ortiz (Orange Is The New Black, The Long Road Home) as Amaia
Lisa Emery (Ozark, Jessica Jones) as "The Dama”
Dascha Polanco (Orange Is The New Black, In The Heights) as Major Lucia Narvaez
Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy, American Primeval) as Breugel
Jake Weary (Oh, Canada, How to Blow Up a Pipeline) as Christos
Pooya Mohseni (Law & Order: SVU, See You Then) as Roksana

Also, it’s never off the cards that some familiar faces from Negan and Maggie’s past could resurface, even if it’s just through flashbacks.

**How many episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City are there?**

The Walking Dead: Dead City’s first season ran for six episodes and season two ran for eight episodes.

There’s plenty of other Walking Dead content to sink your teeth into.

The Walking Dead’s main series ran for a total of 11 seasons and 177 episodes.

There are also five other spin-offs besides Dead City, eight seasons of webisodes, the multiple tie-in video games and, of course, the graphic novels that started the entire franchise.

What other spin-offs of The Walking Dead are there?

The Walking Dead is a whole universe - and at the time of writing (April 2025) there are six official spin-offs to build the world even more.

These shows are based before, during and after the main Walking Dead series, building up the world as we know it and, in some cases, providing context to the behaviour or the main characters in the series.

Aside from Dead City, these are the other five spin-offs available.

Fear The Walking Dead (2015 - 2023)

The first spin-off of the show, Fear the Walking Dead can theoretically be split into two eras.

For the first three seasons, Fear acts as a prequel to the events of the main series and focuses on a ‘blended’ family as they navigate life during the onset of the outbreak.

Central to this is Madison Clark, a high school counsellor, her fiancé Travis, and his ex Liza, as well as the children they have together and from previous families.

From season four, as Fear’s timeline begins to run in line with the main series, the show shifts to focus largely on Morgan Jones (Lennie James), a character who originated in The Walking Dead.

The show ran for eight seasons and 113 episodes, airing its finale on November 20, 2023.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020 - 2021)

The Walking Dead: World Beyond follows a group of teenage survivors as they become the first generation to come-of-age in the wake of the zombie apocalypse.

Set approximately 10 years after the outbreak, the group begin the series having grown up within the walls of Nebraska State University - a safe zone protected by the US military.

As a result, they have lived both a sheltered existence having never left the campus, but one where they’ve practically known nothing but life post-outbreak.

The show was fixed from the outset to only run for two seasons, totalling 20 episodes, and aired its finale on December 5, 2021.

Tales of the Walking Dead (2022)

Tales of the Walking Dead is a six-episode anthology series, with each instalment focusing on sole stories of people’s lives surrounding the outbreak that changes their world forever.

Among the stories is that of Dee (Samantha Morton), a protective mother trying to survive with her daughter, and her journey to become the Whisperers leader Alpha as we know her in the main series.

Other episodes include appearances from Terry Crews as a Doomsday prepper forced to leave the safety of his bunker to locate a friend, Olivia Munn as a woman on the road trying to find safety, and Parker Posey and Jillian Bell as warring employees who are forced to work together to survive.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023)

The second post-finale spin-off, Norman Reedus reprises his role as Daryl Dixon, who finds himself in France with no memory of how he got there.

Wanting to find a way back home, self-styled loner Daryl finds himself connecting with other survivors, complicating matters.

Season two has already been confirmed, but with the subtitle ‘The Book of Carol’, confirming Daryl’s right-hand woman from the main series, Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) will take a central role in the upcoming episodes.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024)

The Ones Who Live is the long-awaited spin-off focused on the main series’ former leading man Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira).

The series tracks where Rick Grimes has been since he was last seen in The Walking Dead, and his efforts to get back to Michonne, as Michonne also tries to find him after discovering he was actually still alive.

The Ones Who Live ran for six episodes, and there’s currently no plans for a second season.

Webisodes

On top of the official six, full-length spin-offs, there are also eight seasons of ‘webisodes’ - totalling 63 episodes - that are connected to the show. These are exclusively short, online clips, with each collection having an overarching plot and loose tie-ins to both The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead.

These are the official webisode ‘seasons’:

Torn Apart - Six episodes
Cold Storage - Four epIsodes
The Oath - Three episodes
Flight 462 - 16 episodes
Passage - 16 episodes
Red Machete - Six episodes
The Althea Tapes - Six episodes
Dead In The Water - Six episodes

All the webisodes are available to watch on YouTube.

**What is the age rating of The Walking Dead: Dead City?**

The Walking Dead’s official rating in the UK, as certified by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), is 18 for the complete run.

This rating asserts the show is suitable for adult audiences only - and is definitely not for the faint-hearted.

Reasons for this rating include:

Heavily implied sex scenes, including implications of rape or assault.
Severe levels of violence including creative kills
Regular depictions of decomposed, rotting corpses.
Graphic use of blood and gore - including flesh being pulled from live bodies and spurting blood from wounds.
Use of weaponry including guns, arrows, barbed wire bats and knives.
Frequent depictions of perilous scenarios including torture, abduction, car chases, and facing numerous zombie hordes.

**How to watch The Walking Dead: Dead City in the UK**

Sky is the official UK home for the essential shows of The Walking Dead franchise.

As well as the main series, we also have all released episodes of Dead City, Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live.

All are available now on Sky and streaming service NOW.