As reported several weeks ago, AMC announced that it was unable to complete post-production work on the 16th and final episode of The Walking Dead season 10 due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the complete shutdown of all film and TV production.

With the length of the current lockdown a giant question mark, AMC and the Walking Dead team cannot say with any certainty when the season 10 finale, “A Certain Doom,” will be completed.

“I mean, the trick with post-production that a lot of people don’t realize is there’s so many little refinements and last-minute embellishment,” says Greg Nicotero, the show’s makeup effects supervisor and an executive producer, who also directed the episode.

He continues, “You have to do post-production sound, and you have to do music, and then you have to go in and do color timing to make sure that every shot in a scene is color timed the same way so that they look all look like it’s coming from the same scene…There are quality checks that you have to do, to make sure there’s not like a Starbucks cup in the shot, or whatever. There’s a lot of those little fine-tuning elements that all happen within two to three weeks of delivering the episode to the network.