The Walking Dead Changes Showrunner As Ratings Fall

The Walking Dead has as much exposition as Mac in Lethal Weapon 5

Gimple got promoted so now he runs EVERYTHING. THIS MAN SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE. Scott that ****** Gimple has been ruining this show since season 1 with all his pussy "Lets tlak about our feelings" dialouge. And the lines for this show have always been shit mostly due to him and people who probably speak broken english.

"Lets go see what we see"
"I had to keep them safe"
"If you take, you don't get to live, if you live you can't take"
and my favorite
"I don't know who I was then or now, but now I know who I was then, and I know who I am now"

THAT IS TWD DIALOGUE EVERY EPISODE

I believe the show is still VERY, VERY popular. Case in point, they have added ANOTHER The Walking Dead Tour in Atlanta. There are at least 3 different daily tours! The media explosion (choices) most certainly accounts for some of the dip in "viewership". However, the story line needs some fresh perspectives. Not since Neagon lined all of the remaining crew up to decide who's head to bash in has the show been "must see." Wasn't that 2 years ago?

media is available from an ever increasing range of sources. just because people are not watching it on tv doesnt mean they are not watching it. for example. netflix exclusive movie bright has pretty high viewing figures on netflix but the actual overall viewing figures across multiple sources is off the chain

Franchise became pathetic, hope it will change.

It was time for Gimple to go. His whole philosophy that " no one is safe" is getting annoying. I know he got a promotion but it was a way for AMC to get rid of him making day to day decisions on TWD.

Based on some of the bad decisions being made on the show lately, especially the imminent death of Coral (in my Rick voice), no wonder the show is falling off

Gimple received a promotion, so I don't think AMC was disappointed with him.

That season @ the farm was too boring imo.

I think the show is just getting old and stale. This past season, or half season was pretty weak. The Neagon character is a great character, but the show is just not very interesting and there are WAY too many plot holes and things that just don't make sense. The writing is what you would expect from a show in its eighth year. They need some fresh ideas. I believe this "kingdom" storyline is the absolute worst idea they've had. Prior to the "kingdom" I believe the show was still pretty good. IMHO the show climaxed when they killed off Beth.

He's right about ratings not being so relevant. I hardly know anyone who watches anything on cable anymore, it's all Netflix and Hulu and so forth. I haven't watched the show from cable since like season 2.

Hmm, changing showrunners may provide a short relief but the problem is not showrunners, it´s the show getting old and stale and after 8 years of the same , no wonder people look elsewhere.'

I just feel like the show has no purpose, i think they should try and find a cure or vaccine or a remote island or whatever. No its just kill kill kill. Almost no interesting characters left and mark my words the will kill of more characters that have been on the show since S1-S2.

i think the show need to come to end just like doctor who. i didnt really like how the last 2 seasons where for both

The writing on this show has been a sputtering mess for years now.

Z nation is better in my opinion. The whacky different types of zombies are fun. Also z nation actually has zombies in it.

The show is dead so he's walking?

- too many filler episodes
- no overarching story, no search for a cure or a solution
- zombies took a backseat, they're just annoying things now and no longer the main antagonists
- way too much nonsense in the writing, idiotic combat tactics

While there are Zombies I will keep watching. I just love anything with a post-apocalyptic vibe. A series tends to run out of steam because everything has just been done before. It has to try and keep re-inventing itself and sometimes it works while other times it falls flat on its ass. Must admit I don't like these overall bad guys like The Governor and Negan they remind me of Comic Book villains surprisingly enough. And in a TV series I think they are just too over the top for the perceived reality.

Not sure ratings these days are a good indication of popularity as they were. A lot of people don't necessarily watch at the time of broadcast but watch it on catch-up, streaming services and download etc. But at the same time I think David Alpert is kidding himself if he thinks this is the sole reason for the decline. The decline is down to a fall in the quality of the show. Inevitable perhaps, but still possibly salvageable. I would end it to be honest, do some other spin-offs going in different directions. Perhaps a different country, it would be interesting to see a setting where firearms are not so prevalent and how people cope etc.

I thought her name was familiar, so I googled it and she has written some of the worst episodes over the last two years of TWD. For anyone thinking she will improve the product...don't.

They keep dragging it out too much with these perspective episodes. Season 7 really kicked things up a notch, it was so good and started with a bang yet so far season 8 has been a bit of a cluster **** and for the most part, boring. I hope these new showrunners can bring it back up to scratch for the arrival of the whisperers, Neegan the badass from season 7 seems like a big pussy in season 8.

They're still making this? I dropped out somewhere around S5 or S6.

I was honestly surprised the show was still on, I'm one of the people who refused to play their bs game with the season 6 cliffhanger, and switched to the comics instead. Better tools and respects the audience and their intelligence and doesn't promise something to get you interested and then pull the rug out in the 11 th hour and laugh because you have to wait 8 months. ...

The show is past its prime. I'm should have wrapped up a season or two after the Governor was knocked off. Neegan is the single most annoyimng character in tv history. And not annoying in a bad like. I mean like when he is on the screen the show spirals out of control and I want to turn it off. The actor is so one dimensional in his moves, speech pattern - it truly is comical. It is totally absurd to believe that no one can just kill this guy! He has a baseball bat! That's it. A baseball bat. He should have died a few shows after he was introduced to the series. It has become repetirive, boring and monotonous. The show needs to end and wrap things up with this season, which really should be its last.