Goldberg, with Chambliss and Goldberg as showrunners for the second consecutive season. The executive producers are Kirkman, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero, Gale Anne Hurd, Scott M.
The series is a companion series to The Walking Dead, which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, with the season containing the second crossover character between the two series with the introduction of Dwight ( Austin Amelio), the first being Morgan Jones in the fourth season. The fifth season of Fear the Walking Dead, an American horror-drama television series on AMC, premiered on June 2, 2019, and concluded on September 29, 2019, consisting of sixteen episodes.