Black Summer is an upcoming American web television zombie apocalypse drama series, created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams, and a companion prequel series to the Syfy television series Z Nation. The first season, consisting of 8 episodes, is set to be released on Netflix on April 11, 2019.
The series is produced by The Asylum, the same production company behind Z Nation, and will be written and directed primarily by Hyams. Jaime King stars in the lead role as Rose, a mother who is separated from her daughter during the earliest and most deadly days of a zombie apocalypse.