The Walking Dead is allowed to use the F-word in season 8

Strict rules meant the AMC series had to censor the expletive from every previous episode

The Walking Dead is perhaps the one television show which truly justifies its characters swearing considering they're caught up in a zombie apocalypse and continually hunted by bloodthirsty dictators. However, strict rules placed on the AMC series has meant it's had to censor the word "f*ck" from every episode for the past seven seasons.

This could be a thing of the past following reports that a new guideline has "been relaxed" meaning Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the gang may be dropping a few more F-bombs in the forthcoming eighth season - according to Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Dave Erickson, anyway.

“You get a specific number of curse words you can say, and then there’s a list of what you can and can’t do,” he told ComicBook.com.

“I think it was our script coordinator who told me there was an email had come up. There had been a memo saying we could now say ‘f*ck’ twice over the course of an entire season.

"I don’t know at what point AMC corporate decided to allow it, but they did.”

While not a true mark of good writing, there have certainly been moments in the show's history which would have benefited from the use of a swear word - most notably the final moment of season five and Negan's itroductory speech which saw producers go so far as to film expletive-filled versions of the scenes with especially for the DVD boxset release.

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