With him front-and-centre, fans will keep watching. Reedus – who, along with Lincoln and Melissa McBride (Carol), is one of the few actors remaining from season one – has been a fan favourite for as long as the show has been on air. The immediate outcome is that Norman Reedus’s Daryl Dixon will almost certainly step into Rick’s still-warm cowboy boots as the show’s primary focus, a theory backed up by reports that the actor is in negotiations for a $20m pay packet. What’s less certain, and more worrying to the millions of devoted fans still tuning in after eight seasons of endless woe, is what direction the show will take once Rick is out of the picture. If the show sticks to its tried-and-tested (see: predictable) formula, this almost certainly means Rick will kick the bucket in the mid-season finale. Like Cohan, Lincoln will be phased out over the coming season. (Cohan’s Maggie will now appear in only six episodes of season nine’s 16, before she presumably comes to some grisly end.) And now the show looks set to weather its biggest storm yet, as Lincoln himself – very much the stubbly face of the franchise since its inception in 2010 – also announces his departure. Then news broke of series stalwart Lauren Cohan’s exit, after lengthy contract negotiations allegedly failed to see her salary brought into line with those of her male co-leads, Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Norman Reedus (Daryl). First came the announcement of his departure as series head, replaced by one of the show’s writers, Angela Kang. W hen Walking Dead showrunner Scott M Gimple stated that season nine of AMC’s zombie hit would be “ very much a new show”, he wasn’t joking.
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