Nicotero issued a flat denial when asked if The Walking Dead toned down the violence due to viewer response.
Last week, The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd said that the grisly AMC drama’s producers toned down the show’s violence after negative response to the gruesome Season 7 premiere.
The Walking Dead returns Sunday, Feb. 12 at 9/8c on AMC.
“We were able to look at the feedback on the level of violence,” Hurd said during a Walking Dead panel at the National Association of Television Program Executives conference in Miami last Wednesday.