Fans of AMC's hit TV series The Walking Dead will have to wait it out until the fall to see their favorite characters return to the small screen.

However, that hasn't stopped them from scouring the Internet for the latest details on the upcoming season 4.

In the show's latest scoop, IGN is reporting that Walking Dead loyalists can expect another time lapse for its future installment. Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd recently spoke to the website about the respective time jumps.

"I don't think it's changing it. Every season, yes, there will more than likely be a passage of time. It's unlikely to follow directly after the end of this episode," she said.

Although The Governor (David Morrissey) is clearly Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) main arch nemesis at this point, it appears as though Carl (Chandler Riggs) is becoming more and more like a mini-governor, as the finale saw him kill a member of Woodbury who had already surrendered.

Hurd addressed the complexities pertaining to the slowly forming wedge between Carl and his father.

"It's complex. It's clearly right in his mind, he personally saw how walking away, as he walked away from that walker that killed Dale, was the wrong thing to do. And he felt that Rick, his father, should have just killed another man in cold blood, and that that would have been the right decision. That's unlikely something that Rick is going to do. And we'll have to see more of parenting in the apocalypse, and how Rick deals with that."

The Walking Dead is set to make its season 4 return in October of 2013. Keep checking back for more of the latest details on the zombie series.

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