For Walking Dead fans who need a fix before the new season premieres in the fall, the actor who plays biker Daryl Dixon has just the thing: Ride with Norman Reedus.
AMC announced Friday that the new non-fiction series, which features Reedus hitting the road to explore biker culture, will premiere June 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (A teaser will run during Sunday's broadcast of Fear the Walking Dead.).
Reedus, a longtime motorcycle rider and enthusiast, tells USA TODAY that Ride focuses on the freedom and fun of riding. Each episode follows the actor and a companion to different places, with stops at custom bike shops, tattoo parlors, collectors' warehouses and even a roadside smokehouse.
"It's not like a chop-shop show. There's a bit of that but it's more of a travel experience: Let's take this journey on motorcycles and meet people along the way. It's very fun and interesting and we had a blast making it," he says. As they ride, Reedus and his companion "learn about each other and the towns we're going through."
Reedus's companions include director Robert Rodriguez, actor Balthazar Getty and Peter Fonda, whose Easy Rider is a seminal celebration of the open road. Reedus will travel to North Carolina, Florida, California, Nevada, Texas and Louisiana.
"Hearing stories about Easy Rider and seeing the world through Peter's eyes was amazing," says Reedus, who has worked with Fonda previously.
One word of advice from watching Daryl on Dead last season: Don't let anyone take your bike.
