Andrew Lincoln's New British Thriller Sounds Like a Real Swerve From The Walking Dead

After spending over a decade as part of one of TV’s biggest franchises, British actor Andrew Lincoln is understandably known by many viewers through AMC’s megapopular zombie series The Walking Dead . On that show, he played ultimate good guy Rick Grimes, a dogged and self-sacrificing leader determined to protect his people from a variety of threats, both living and undead. But now that his run on spinoff series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live has basically wrapped up Rick’s story (not to mention given him a sort of happy ending that his character has more than earned), the actor is set to return to television in a very different kind of role.

Showtime has picked up the six-part thriller Coldwater, which aired earlier this Fall on British network ITV, and if the early revie