Three more renewal announcements came out of Comic Con yesterday (I covered the Krapopolis announcement at this link), and I expect even more over the last day or say. AMC has decided to extend Daryl Dixon’s journey in the TWD spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and will be bringing that one back for a third season. Its same-day linear viewing was not spectacular in its first season, but it made up for that with delayed and digital viewing, and the network wants to keep its Walking Dead franchise alive. The show returns for its second season on September 29th, and with this announcement it will probably start production on the third year in short order. There has been no word yet on a third season of The Walking Dead: Dead City.
The Walking Dead: Daryll Dixon follows Daryl who sets out to find Rick Grimes but somehow gets carried across the ocean to France. He journeys across that country encountering the survivors there while also trying to find a way back home. It stars Norman Reedus, Clémence Poésy, Adam Nagaitis, Anne Charrier, Eriq Ebouaney, and Melissa McBride will be joining the cast in its second season.
Robert Kirkman announced at Comic Con that the animated superhero series Invincible will be continuing to a fourth season on Prime Video. That show has not performed nearly as well in viewership as Amazon’s other superhero series The Boys, but since it is an animated entry it is not as expensive to produce and it has still drawn decent viewing numbers across its first two seasons. The third season of the series was produced concurrently with the second and it should arrive in early 2025. That could then have the fourth season on target to premiere about one year later.
Invincible focuses on the titular hero who is the son of the powerful superhero Omni-Man. But as he starts up his career as a crime fighter, he learns that his father has some dark secrets in his past. The voice cast includes Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, J. K. Simmons, Zachary Quinto, and Gillian Jacobs and it is based on the long-running comic of the same name by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman.
Another animated entry that received a renewal announcement at SDCC is Hulu’s sci fi comedy Solar Opposites. That show is heading into its fifth season on August 12th, and the streamer has committed to keeping it around through a sixth season at least. The fourth season only spent one week in the Nielsen Streaming Rankings, but it has performed relatively well for a Hulu original. The streaming services tend to cap off their originals around the third or fourth year, but animated entries sometimes go longer and it is possible that the show could stick around for a few more years.
Solar Opposites follow four aliens who escape from their dying planet and crashland on Earth into a move-in ready home in suburban America. The voice cast includes Justin Roiland, Thomas Middleditch, Sean Giambrone, and Mary Mack.
All three of these shows already had renewals in place and these announcements are just extending their runs, so they do not impact the current Cancellation/Renewal Score. At this point, the score stands at 32 renewed sci fi and fantasy entries (42% of shows tracked) vs. 21 cancelled and ending (28%). You can see the breakdown of the numbers and the full list of shows for the current and prior seasons at our Cancellation Watch Page.
We are almost at the end of the 2023-24 season and I expect more announcements to come over the next month or so. You can see the status of all this season’s shows at this link. And be sure to follow this site and the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site for updates and breaking news.
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