Season 11 of AMC's The Walking Dead will not air this fall as originally planned, and has instead been pushed to 2021. However, The Walking Dead Season 10 is getting six bonus episodes, which are also set to arrive in 2021.

During the Walking Dead panel at Comic-Con@Home, showrunner Angela Kang discussed the current plan for airing new episodes of the Image Comics-based series, citing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as the reason for Season 11's delay. "Obviously COVID has disrupted a lot of things for every workplace, including ours," Kang said. "The writers' room for Season 11 has been going remotely the past few months. We haven't been able to start production but we will get back to work as soon as we safely can. We will not be airing Season 11 episodes this year as we normally would in October, but we're excited to announce an extended Season 10, where there will be six extra episodes to follow the finale. Those will likely run in early 2021 if all goes well. We're working on those now, and will have more to share soon."

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Rather than the start of Season 11, this October will actually be home to the Walking Dead Season 10 finale, which itself was previously hit with a delay as a result of the global health crisis. Season 10 premiered early last October, with its penultimate episode airing in April before the finale was put on hold.

Airing Sunday, Oct. 4 on AMC, The Walking Dead Season 10 finale stars Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, and Cooper Andrews.

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