'Fear the Walking Dead': When will Season 6 return after its bone-chilling midseason finale in Episode 7?

New episodes of 'Fear the Walking Dead' are expected to air after the conclusion of 'The Walking Dead' Season 10 in April
(AMC)
(AMC)

For the first time since the series began, 'Fear the Walking Dead' will not be airing all of its episodes in the same year. The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed all 'The Walking Dead' franchises back, as production within safety guidelines becomes an issue. 'Fear the Walking Dead' takes its midseason break with Episode 7, 'Damage from the Inside', leaving 'Walking Dead: World Beyond' to wrap up its first season with a two-hour special next week.

'Fear the Walking Dead' will return some time in 2021, most likely after the main 'The Walking Dead' series rounds off its extended Season 10. Aside from special events where the season finale of one show leads into the season premiere of another, like when Morgan (Leslie Jones) crossed over from one show into the other, 'Fear the Walking Dead' airs when 'The Walking Dead' is off-air, ensuring a relatively steady stream of 'The Walking Dead' content throughout the year.

'The Walking Dead' Season 10 is expected to return on February 28, with six episodes that will end with 'Here's Negan' on April 4, 2021 - meaning that we can expected to see 'Fear the Walking Dead' return for its eighth episode either on April 4, or on the week after, April 11, depending on whether or not 'The Walking Dead: World Beyond' premieres its second season at around the same time.

'Fear the Walking Dead' left off at a tense point. After a horrifying detour involving a mad taxidermist modifying zombies in a cabin in the woods, Dakota (Zoe Colletti) joins Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) to defect to Morgan's (Leslie Jones) settlement. With her sister missing, Virginia (Colby Minifie) is enraged. She shows Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) that she's got a pregnant Grace (Karen David) captured, and that she wants Strand to strack down every single one of Morgan's surviving group. Virginia herself is very much on the edge, having recently lost her hand, Tank Town, and now her sister.

Between the masked castoffs from the Pioneers that Sherry (Christine Evangelista) is a part of, Morgan's group of survivors, and 'The End is the Beginning' cult, there are a lot of forces arrayed against Virginia, and it's starting to look like everything she's in charge of is on the cusp of crumbling away.

'Fear the Walking Dead' will return in 2021, on AMC.

GET THE BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT STORIES
STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX.

MORE STORIES

Ian Brennan revealed the future for Netflix's ‘Monster’ and explained why finding a story that can fit the series is difficult.
4 hours ago
‘MobLand’ Season 2 returns with 10 episodes, new threats for the Harrigans, and more trouble for Harry Da Souza.
8 hours ago
‘Fargo’ alums are reuniting with Noah Hawley on his latest project, as FX's 'Far Cry' adds more stars to its cast.
10 hours ago
The role marks a notable return to network TV for the Emmy winner, after successful stints in various TV series.
11 hours ago
The new project will follow Emma and Eli, longtime friends who reconnect for a common goal
19 hours ago
'Ted Lasso' Season 4 Episode 7 focused on the team's off-field struggles as they dealt with financial pressure, family responsibilities, and more
20 hours ago
The CIA thriller follows a fired case officer pursuing a $15 million bounty on an elusive assassin, and it features an insane cast.
1 day ago
The MGM+ series revisits a 63-hour 1977 standoff where Tony Kiritsis held Dick Hall captive with a shotgun.
1 day ago
Chris Pratt returns as James Reece in Season 2 of 'The Terminal List,' which follows his next mission across several countries.
1 day ago
‘Sheriff Country’ and ‘Fire Country’ will return with their new seasons on October 9 on CBS.
1 day ago