The Walking Dead Universe* finds new UK home on Sky – with The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live coming exclusively from this month

Sky today announced that all episodes of hotly anticipated spinoff series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live will be released exclusively on Sky Max and NOW from Friday 31 May.

Fans of the franchise will also be able to binge all eleven series of the original post-apocalyptic horror The Walking Dead from Sunday 19 May, with franchise spin-offs including The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and The Walking Dead: Dead City coming to both Sky Max and NOW later this year.

Starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, The Walking Dead: 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.

Lucy Criddle, Sky Director of Acquisitions and Strategic Projects, commented on the news: “The Walking Dead Universe has a huge and ardent UK fanbase and we know audiences on Sky and NOW will be buzzing to see Rick Grimes and Michonne reunited in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, as well as being able to dip into the wider universe, enjoying all 11 seasons of the original The Walking Dead series, as well as new spin-offs Daryl Dixon and Dead City.”

“We are delighted to have found a new home for The Walking Dead Universe in the UK.  As we enter an exciting new chapter in the evolution of this franchise, with three new eagerly awaited, character-driven series, Sky is the perfect, premium home for UK viewers to embrace all things Walking Dead,” said Mike Pears, executive vice president of distribution and content sales for AMC Networks. “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is the most successful series in the history of AMC+, even including the original series, so it is fitting that it will lead the way as Sky brings this entire universe to U.K. fans in the coming weeks and months on Sky and NOW.”

*The Walking Dead Universe will be available on Sky Max and NOW from the following dates:

• All 11 series of The Walking Dead will be available on demand on Sky Max and NOW from Sunday 19 May

Exclusive to Sky Max and NOW will be:

• All episodes of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, available from Friday 31 May
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon S1 Box Set available from August and S2 coming later in the year
• The Walking Dead: Dead City S1 available later in 2024, with season 2 to follow in 2025

Synopses:

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead follows a group of survivors who travel in search of a safe and secure home during the zombie apocalypse. The series explores the challenges of life in a world overrun by walkers who take a toll on the survivors, and sometimes the interpersonal conflicts present a greater danger to their continuing survival than the zombies that roam the country. Over time, the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death, and some grow willing to do anything to survive.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?

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 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.

Press Contacts:

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Note to Editors: Sky is acquiring the following series from The Walking Dead franchise:

The Walking Dead Original Series

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

The Walking Dead: Dead City

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

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A trailer for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live can be embedded using the link here:  https://youtu.be/khbACBNjQTE