Overview
- AMC and AMC+ will premiere The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 on Sunday, July 26, with the network releasing a trailer and first‑look photos on June 10 to kick off promotion.
- The new trailer teases fresh dangers, shifting alliances, and an all‑out battle for control of zombie‑infested Manhattan while emphasizing Maggie and Negan’s uneasy cooperation.
- Jimmi Simpson appears as a smarmy post‑apocalyptic bartender who offers moments of levity, and the season introduces series regulars including Raúl Castillo, Aimee Garcia, Keir Gilchrist, Lisa Emery, Logan Kim, Gaius Charles, and Michael Emery.
- Seth Hoffman takes over as showrunner for Season 3 with Scott M. Gimple remaining an executive producer, and Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan continuing as both stars and executive producers.
- The Manhattan setting raises practical and moral stakes for community building in the franchise and the season will test whether Maggie and Negan can overcome their violent past to keep a nascent city alive.