Day of the Dead (TV series)

Six strangers try to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion.

• Keenan Tracey as Cam McDermott, a high school senior and son of a local police detective who spends his free time working odd jobs to get out of his small Pennsylvania hometown
• Daniel Doheny as Luke Bowman, the son of town mayor, Paula Bowman
• Natalie Malaika as Lauren Howell, a sarcastic assistant mortician at the local mortuary
• Morgan Holmstrom as Sarah Blackwood, former Special Forces now working on a fracking crew outside of town. She discovers a mysterious body which plunges her into the middle of a zombie invasion.
• Kristy Dawn Dinsmore as Amy, a life coach and daughter of the town doctor. When the dead start to rise, she begins a transformation as she fights for survival.
• Miranda Frigon as Paula Bowman, the town Mayor
• Christopher Russell as Trey Bowman, Paula's husband and Luke's father
• Dejan Loyola as Jai Fisher, a doctor and Amy's fiancé

In February 2020, it was announced Syfy had given a straight to series order of 10 episodes for a series based on Day of the Dead.^[12] The show was written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas who also served as showrunners.^[13] In October 2020, it was announced Keenan Tracey, Daniel Doheny, Natalie Malaika, Morgan Holmstrom and Kristy Dawn Dinsmore had been cast as regulars in the series.^[13] The series premiered on October 15, 2021.^[14]