‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Will Live to See Season 3

Ryan Berenz
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Fear the Walking Dead - Mercedes Mason, Alycia Debnam-Carey
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Mercedes Mason, Alycia Debnam-Carey

Fear not, fans of Fear the Walking Dead. AMC’s The Walking Dead spinoff has found a safe haven for a third season on AMC, the network announced today. The renewal comes only a few days after FTWD Season 2 debuted, with 8.8 million viewers in Nielsen Live+3 ratings according to AMC. The Season 2 premiere was the top show on cable Sunday.

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Also renewed, naturally, was the Talking Dead: Fear live aftershow hosted by Chris Hardwick (though he wouldn’t have been hurting for work if the show didn’t return).

While the FTWD Season 2 premiere won the night easily, the 3.1 rating in 18-49 was significantly lower than the 4.9 rating for the series premiere and 0.3 lower than the first season finale.

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Have fans smarting over The Walking Dead season finale started to run out of goodwill for the franchise? And with the origin story of the zombie plague in Los Angeles already told, will viewers be wary of sticking with a series that — like its characters — might go adrift at sea?

I’m still watching FTWD each week in the hopes that all the current characters meet a grisly death and the slate can be wiped clean for a whole new cast and story.

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    CyanCoathanger

    I don't think Fear's lower ratings have anything to do with Walking Dead's finale. At the end of Fear's first season, many people expressed doubt about watching another season because they were so disappointed with the first one. I'm sticking with it for now, but I don't really like any of the characters on it. I agree...sink the boat and find a new group to follow!

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      GoldFlame

      Why are there so FEW comments here?

      I haven't watched this week's Fear yet....My husband doesn't even want to...

      If they don't get some different clothes on the junkie kid....I'm out.

      It's driving me NUTS. He's been swimming twice, and don't try to tell me there aren't clothes on that yacht...And also....Nobody else seems to wear the same clothes 24/7 do they?

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      CyanCoathanger

      I don't know why people aren't commenting more about the Walking Dead shows here. I used to avoid the conversations about them on other sites because there were too many people giving spoilers from the comics.

      I don't notice anyone else's clothes probably because they're just regular clothes like jeans and t-shirts. At least he hasn't been wearing the Members Only jacket lately. Oh, I did notice the other boy wore shorts (at least part of the time) last season, and he was wearing skinny jeans in the latest episode.

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