{"id":34182,"date":"2013-01-15T07:31:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T07:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=34182"},"modified":"2013-01-15T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T09:35:27","slug":"the-walking-dead-season-4-showrunner-is-ghost-riders-scott-gimple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-season-4-showrunner-is-ghost-riders-scott-gimple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead Season 4: new showrunner is Scott Gimple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_34183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34183\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34183\" title=\"The Walking Dead Season 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-4-616x410.jpg\" alt=\"The Walking Dead Season 4\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Though a ratings hit, AMC&#x2019;s The Walking Dead has gone through 3 showrunners in 3 seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/walking-dead-showrunner-scott-gimple-glen-mazzara-406144\">According to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, Scott Gimple has replaced the departing Glen Mazzara as executive producer on Season 4 of AMC&#x2019;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/34176\/the-walking-dead-season-3-part-new-trailer\/\"><em>The Walking Dead<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gimple, who wrote 5 episodes of the show, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/10137\/the-fall-of-serialised-drama\/\"><em>FlashForward<\/em><\/a> and<em>&#xA0;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/16544\/ghost-rider-spirit-of-vengeance-teaser-poster-and-trailer-hit-the-net\/\">Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance<\/a><\/em>, and was Mazzara&#x2019;s number 2 following the departure of the original showrunner and creator Frank Darabont in <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> Season 2.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzara&#xA0;will remain &#xA0;as&#xA0;showrunner&#xA0;through the second half of Season 3, overseeing post-production&#xA0;on the series, as filming has already completed. Gimple will take over when Season 4 begins&#xA0;production later in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-needs-more-than-7-seasons\/\"><em>The Walking Dead<\/em>&#xA0;Season 3<\/a>&#xA0;will return to Fox in February.&#xA0;<em>The Walking Season 2<\/em>&#xA0;is&#xA0;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-DVD\/dp\/B005ZCIF7S\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352283177&sr=8-1&tag=scifinowmag-21&link_code=as3&creative=9298&camp=2506\">available on DVD priced &#xA3;24.99<\/a>&#xA0;and&#xA0;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-Blu-ray\/dp\/B005ZCIKWI\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352283177&sr=8-2&tag=scifinowmag-21&link_code=as3&creative=9298&camp=2506\">Blu-ray priced &#xA3;27.99 from Amazon.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance writer Scott Gimple replaces Glen Mazzara as showrunner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":34183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[1550],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}