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When does The Walking Dead: Dead City take place? One on-screen date stamp finally pinned it down
Dead City has never said a year out loud. Not in the 2023 premiere, not in Negan's dialogue, not on a calendar in a single frame. What it did do, in the season 2 premiere, was hang a sign on a fence.
September 5, 2026 5:58 pm
Why did they kill Lily in Hell on Wheels? Dominique McElligott learned her character's fate only days before filming
Lily Bell carried two full seasons of AMC's Hell on Wheels — the widowed English surveyor's wife who ripped an arrow out of her own shoulder in the pilot and used it on the man who put it there. Then the season 2 finale aired.
September 2, 2026 9:02 am
What happened to Claudia in Interview with the Vampire? It took two actresses to tell her story to the end
AMC's adaptation gave Claudia more screen time than either the novel or the 1994 movie, and then took her out in the most protracted way any version has managed. Two performers split the role across two seasons, and the second one inherited the part specifically to play the execution.
September 1, 2026 10:37 am
Avengers Endgame: Encore re-release tickets get an on-sale date
Marvel just set the on-sale date for Avengers Endgame: Encore tickets—find out when you can grab yours.
August 26, 2026 2:33 pm
Plans in play for Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon reunion, says The Walking Dead boss
The Walking Dead boss weighed in on whether a reunion could actually wrangle Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, and other fan favorites back together.
August 21, 2026 11:40 am
How many seasons of Hell on Wheels were there? AMC split the final one in two, a year apart
Anson Mount's Cullen Bohannon chased the transcontinental railroad across five seasons of AMC drama, and the episode math is odder than the season count suggests. Two of those summers were technically the same season.
August 19, 2026 4:29 pm
Why was Ruth hanged in Hell on Wheels? She was offered a pardon, an escape and a jailbreak — and turned down all three
The title of the episode is "Thirteen Steps," which is the number of stairs up to the gallows in Cheyenne. It aired on AMC on November 15, 2014, written by Tom Brady and directed by Roxann Dawson, and it spends most of its 42 minutes inside a jail. Nobody in town wanted Ruth Cole to hang. That includes the man legally required to do the hanging.
August 19, 2026 10:21 am
What shows are like Landman? Where to go next — inside the Taylor Sheridan stable and beyond it
Landman finished its second season in January 2026 with a Paramount+ viewership record and a third season already ordered. Season 3 started filming in May 2026. That leaves a gap, and Paramount+ has spent five years building an entire catalog designed to fill exactly this kind of gap.
August 18, 2026 2:39 pm
Why did Hell on Wheels kill Elam? The decision was made a full year before it aired
Elam Ferguson was there from the pilot. He was also, by the end of season three, wrestling a grizzly bear in the show's most-discussed cliffhanger. Then AMC let him sit off screen for six episodes of season four before bringing him back for two, and killing him in the second. The reason has nothing to do with the writers' room.
August 15, 2026 11:34 am
What happens to Durant in Hell on Wheels? His final scene is set 16 years after everyone else's
Hell on Wheels wrapped its five-season AMC run on July 23, 2016, with the golden spike driven at Promontory Summit in 1869 and Cullen Bohannon sailing off toward China. Every character's story closes in that year — except one.
August 13, 2026 9:48 am
Why did Rick leave The Walking Dead? His exit came with a promise AMC never kept
Andrew Lincoln walking away from The Walking Dead in 2018 was, at the time, roughly the cable equivalent of Jennifer Aniston quitting Friends mid-run. He was the face of the biggest show on television, nine seasons in.
August 12, 2026 4:31 pm
Who does Cullen end up with in Hell on Wheels? The finale answers it without ever showing it
The Hell on Wheels series finale, "Done," aired on AMC on July 23, 2016, and closed five seasons of railroad building with a question the show had been circling all year: what does Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) do once the railroad is finished?
August 12, 2026 4:05 pm
The Walking Dead nearly lost Jeffrey Dean Morgan, he reveals
Jeffrey Dean Morgan nearly bailed on The Walking Dead: Dead City—and he’s explaining why.
August 12, 2026 9:57 am
What happened to Beth in The Walking Dead? Her storyline caused one of the show's biggest fan revolts
The Walking Dead killed beloved characters for a living, but only one death got plastic cutlery mailed to a production office by the boxful. It came in the season 5 midseason finale, "Coda," which aired November 30, 2014 — and the fallout made Good Morning America. Here's what happened to Beth Greene, and why fans took it so personally.
August 6, 2026 5:22 pm
What happened to Naomi in Hell on Wheels? Her storyline confused fans twice over
Naomi Bohannon had one of the strangest arcs on Hell on Wheels — and fans found themselves doing a double take at her twice, for two completely different reasons. One was a behind-the-scenes casting problem. The other was a quiet goodbye that took the show's hero out of his own family. Here's what actually happened.
August 5, 2026 11:14 am
AMC Theatres shatters 106-year attendance record as 10.2M pack screens in five days
On the back of 2026’s blockbusters, AMC has chalked up a weekend to remember — but how big was the bump?
August 3, 2026 3:30 pm
Where is the cast of Hell on Wheels now? Cullen Bohannon traded the railroad for the Enterprise
Hell on Wheels ran for five seasons and 57 episodes on AMC from 2011 to 2016, following the mercenaries, laborers, and schemers building the Union Pacific's transcontinental railroad. Nearly a decade after the final spike, its cast has scattered in some genuinely surprising directions.
July 29, 2026 9:14 am
Who is Hell on Wheels based on? The real men (and the very real town) behind the AMC western
Hell on Wheels ran on AMC for five seasons from 2011 to 2016, following the construction of the first transcontinental railroad through mud, blood, and corporate greed. If you've ever wondered how much of it actually happened, the answer is: more than you'd think.
July 28, 2026 1:01 pm
Streaming Guide: Where to Watch Pinocchio: Unstrung, Robert Englund’s Chilling Take
Robert Englund has unveiled a first-look teaser for his twisted Pinocchio reimagining.
July 25, 2026 4:11 pm
How does Hell on Wheels end?
Hell on Wheels spent five seasons and 57 episodes on AMC building toward one date: May 10, 1869, the day the golden spike completed the Transcontinental Railroad. When the series finale, "Done," aired in July 2016, it opened with that ceremony at Promontory, Utah — and then asked the harder question.
July 24, 2026 2:58 pm