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Scott M. Gimple ran The Walking Dead as showrunner from its fourth through eighth seasons, steering the zombie drama through some of its highest-rated years, and later returned to shepherd its spin-off, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. His writing and producing credits before that stretch back to Fillmore!, Life, FlashForward and Chase — work across comics and television that built the résumé to run one of the 2010s' biggest shows.