The Walking Dead returns in the US on 12 February and will air the following evening in the UK, 9 pm on FOX.
You may have read last week that The Walking Dead producers made the decision to tone down the violence in future episodes due to fan backlash following the traumatic season 7 opener.
“If we’re ever going to see something that pronounced, there needs to be a specific narrative purpose for it.”
The former told Entertainment Weekly: “The violence in the premiere was for a specific narrative purpose and I would never say that that’s the baseline amount of violence that we would show on the show.