‘Walking Dead’ set to start new season with a bloody end

It’s the episode that Walking Dead Heads have been eagerly dreading for months. “The Walking Dead’s” Season 6 cliffhanger left viewers dying to know which of their beloved characters is about to die.

Will it be Rick, who leads a group of scrappy survivors across a zombieinfested landscape? Will it be Daryl, the fan favorite? Will it be Glenn, who miraculously avoided being devoured by Walkers earlier in Season 6? Or will it be Maggie, whose pregnancy represents hope and a future?

It could be any one of these or some other cherished member of the group. That’s why fans have been so edgy since May. guaranteed an eighth season.

The Season 7 premiere will be followed at 10 p.m. by an expanded 90-minute edition of “Talking Dead,” live from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Host Chris Hardwick will be joined by 12 cast members and executive producers Scott M. Gimple and Robert Kirkman for the after-show discussion.

You’ve got to hand it to “The Walking Dead.” This show knows how to bring in a new character.

“Negan talks a lot. He loves the sound of his own voice,” Morgan says. “Don’t get lulled by that. The second you think it’s another Negan monologue, maybe it’s not.”

The actor remembers the tense situation — tense on screen and maybe a little bit off screen — when

PHOTOS by GENE PAGE/AMC The introduction of a villain named Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in the Season 6 finale has had fans of “The Walking Dead” on edge since May, eagerly dreading Sunday’s premiere of the series’ seventh season.