Norman Reedus says undead walking will not end in 2026 after all. The fourth and final season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will air in 2027 on AMC and AMC+, pushing the offshoot’s finish into the next calendar year.
Reedus Sets the New Timeline
Reedus’ update shifts the finish line for the series from the year AMC had already laid out earlier in 2026. The move matters because The Walking Dead stories now run through Daryl Dixon and Dead City, and the Daryl Dixon run has been a September release each season.
The timing also gives the final season a different runway than fans were expecting. Instead of closing out in 2026, the fourth season now lands in 2027, extending the life of Daryl and Carol Peletier’s story in the offshoot.
Spain and the 2025 Shoot
The final season was filmed in Spain through the third and fourth quarters of 2025, which means the production is already in place for the finish line that now sits in 2027. That kind of gap between filming and release is not unusual in television, but here it stretches the end of a franchise branch that viewers had been expecting to wrap sooner.
Sixteen episodes had also been part of the wider expectation around the franchise in one calendar year, making the revised schedule feel even more compressed for viewers tracking both Daryl Dixon and Dead City. With the final season on the way, the practical takeaway is simple: the wrap-up is still coming, just not in the year AMC first pointed to.
What Fans of The Walking Dead Wait For
Fans of The Walking Dead who follow the spinoff now have a clear target year instead of a near-term finale. Reedus’ statement settles the release window for the fourth and final season, and it leaves the franchise’s next step in one place: the end of Daryl and Carol Peletier’s run on AMC and AMC+ in 2027.
