The Crown, The Walking Dead: The most anticipated TV coming later this year

In a year already full of film and TV releases, there's still much to come. For the fall and winter months, streamers and traditional broadcast networks are locked in an original-content race — all looking to command eyeballs and bump up audience numbers in an already-overstuffed industry.

The good news? Lots of new shows for media-hungry TV fans. Here, CBC News has compiled some of the buzziest — and some of the lesser known — shows coming out later this year. 

Netflix

Following on the heels of four incredibly successful seasons, Netflix's The Crown — a biopic that follows Britain's Queen Elizabeth from her coronation to increasingly modern-day events — will drop in November.

After two seasons of Olivia Colman portraying the queen, English actor Imelda Staunton is set to debut an older, though no less regal, Elizabeth for Season 5.

The series was still filming its following sixth season on the day of the queen's death earlier this month, resulting in a temporary hiatus both on that date and for her funeral on Sept. 19.

At the time, writer Peter Morgan described the newest season as a "love letter to her."

AMC

After an unbelievable 12-year run, The Walking Dead's main series will conclude next month. The eight remaining episodes of the zombie-apocalypse show will air beginning on Oct. 2. Canadian watchers can stream on AMC+, or on participating cable providers.

Netflix

This Kid Cudi "TV special" ties into the musician's latest album, boasts co-stars Timothée Chalamet, Macaulay Culkin, Jaden Smith, Vanessa Hudgens and Cudi himself, and uses the increasingly popular pop-art style first popularized by smash hit Into the Spiderverse.

The series — which will debut alongside his 10th studio album of the same name — follows Cudi as up-and-coming artist Jabari "as he attempts to balance love and success."

In a tweet promoting Entergalactic, Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi) described it as "really f--king special," and that "minds will melt."

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