✖ The Walking Dead returns this summer with the start of a final season that gets back to the "usual scope and scale" fans expect after a decade of the Dead, says showrunner Angela Kang. After the coronavirus pandemic delayed the original special effects-heavy Season 10 finale by six months and pushed production on Season 11 into early 2021, Kang and the Walking Dead writers' room got to work on six bonus episodes extending the tenth season with smaller-scale stories focused on characters like Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). With filming underway on the 24-episode final season,