The Walking Dead only has a ‘few seasons left’, Chandler Riggs suggests, as his character Carl is cruelly killed off

Now avid followers of the AMC zombie drama are dissecting the message posted on The Spoiling Dead Fans site.

Showrunner Scott Gimple had boasted at LA’s PaleyFest in March that The Walking Dead could run for 20 seasons or more.

So fans are puzzling over Riggs’s claim that it is in its ‘final seasons’ when it’s only halfway through season eight.