AMC used its San Diego Comic‑Con Hall H session on Friday to drop a pulse‑pounding trailer for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 and to reveal that the series will conclude with an eight‑episode fourth run next year. Stars Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride told the packed crowd that Season 3 bows on Sept. 7 on AMC and AMC+, while cameras roll this month in and around Madrid on the show’s final chapter.
The new footage picks up on the Thames—where last season left the pair—before a storm wrecks their boat and strands them on a Spanish shore; along the way they meet Stephen Merchant’s sardonic “last Englishman in England,” who can’t sail alone.
Showrunner David Zabel said shifting the action yet again lets the drama “explore spectacular European settings” while charting how the outbreak reshaped Spain just as it did France. Production will move through Galicia, Aragón, Catalonia, Valencia and the greater Madrid region, giving the franchise its widest canvas since the mothership’s atlanta days.
AMC entertainment chief Dan McDermott praised Reedus and McBride for steering “two of the most iconic characters in television” across continents and genres. Reedus called the coming finale “a celebration of what we’ve shared,” while McBride assured fans there is “still so much story left to tell,” even as the spinoff signs off.
The panel also confirmed that Ride with Norman Reedus returns Sept. 14 and that other spin‑offs, including a freshly renewed Dead City, remain in active development—evidence that AMC’s wider zombie universe will keep shambling long after Daryl and Carol finish their European odyssey.
