AMC Renews "Fear the Walking Dead" for 8th Season, Kim Dickens Returns as Regular

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"Fear the Walking Dead" Renewed for Season 8, Kim Dickens Returns as Series Regular
by Nellie Andreeva
Dec. 6, 2021


AMC’s "Fear the Walking Dead" has been picked up for an eighth season, the network announced Sunday night on "Talking Dead" following the Season 7 fall finale.

Former cast member Kim Dickens, who played Madison Clark in Seasons 1 through 4, is set to return. She will make her first appearance in the second half of Season 7, which debuts April 17, and will continue as a series regular in Season 8.




“If there were a Mt. Deadmore, Kim Dickens’ face would be on it. Madison Clark is a foundational character to TWDU — heroic, complex, an everyperson who becomes a warrior and then a force of benevolence,” said Scott M. Gimple, Chief Content Officer of The Walking Dead Universe.

“Kim Dickens’ raw talent, strength, and brilliance will electrify TWDU once more and we couldn’t be luckier to have her back.”

https://deadline.com/2021/12/fear-th...-7-1234885278/

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How Colman Domingo Helped Bring Back Kim Dickens to "Fear the Walking Dead"
by Dalton Ross
June 2, 2022


Fans were not happy when Madison Clark was killed off back on season 4 of AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead". And they weren't the only ones.

Kim Dickens, who played the tough as nails post-apocalyptic leader (and lead on the show) was refreshingly candid about her disappointment with the move at the time, calling herself "heartbroken" over a storyline in which Madison sacrificed herself by leading zombies back into the baseball stadium and then locking herself in so the others could escape.




Seeing as how Dickens clearly was not thrilled with being written off the show back in 2018, once producers started entertaining the idea (and endless fan requests) to bring Madison back, they had to figure out the best way to approach the star to see if she would entertain the idea of returning. Or, rather, the best person. And that person turned out to be a member of the cast.

"Colman Domingo and I have remained really good friends," explains Dickens. "He was sort of the liaison for them, because I think they kind of asked him to gauge my temperature."




So how did that conversation go between Dickens and Domingo?

"He was like, 'Will you talk to them?'" recalls Dickens. "And I was like, 'Yeah, I'll talk to them. But why do they want to talk to me? We broke up!'"

After a hearty chuckle, Dickens adds "No, I said, 'Of course I will.' I just showed up on the Zoom [with producers] and I said, 'I'm here to listen.' And they pitched me what I thought were really fun, kind of brilliant ideas."




Those ideas will finally hit the screen with Dickens' much anticipated return in the season finale on Sunday, June 5. She will then go back to full cast member status for season 8, which begins filming this summer.

https://ew.com/tv/kim-dickens-colman...g-dead-return/

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FearTWD begins its epic final season May 14th on AMC & AMC+