The Walking Dead Season 5 Return Date Revealed, When Will New 2015 Episodes Air?

AMC's The Walking Dead is in the midst of Season 5 and continues to be a ratings juggernaut for the network. The show had a strong run of eight episodes to start the season, and now the 2015 return date has been revealed for one of the most popular shows on television. So read on to find out when you can watch more adventures of Rick Grimes and his crew.

The Walking Dead returns Sunday, February 8.

Seth Gilliam joined The Walking Dead in Season 5 as Father Gabriel Stokes, who had been surviving the zombie apocalypse in his church. Rick and his group came across him, and the man has been a coward and almost a complete liability ever since. But would the increasingly ruthless Rick actually kill him, particularly in light of his actions in the midseason finale?

The "Mega Buzz" column at TV Guide sheds some light on that possibility.

"One has to wonder exactly how long Father Gabriel, whom Rick already didn't trust, will stay with the group. 'In the new world, you stand on your own two feet and you are who you are. If you're a coward, we find out very quickly you're a coward,' Andrew Lincoln says of Gabriel foolishly leaving the church and almost getting Carl and Michonne killed. So will the increasingly lethal Rick keep a coward around? 'Rick has seen that this guy is not necessarily a villain,' executive producer Scott M. Gimple says. 'Gabriel is somebody who is just catching up to what the world is and his place within it. Rick still has a great deal of that humanity left. He isn't simply a monster, and I think that's good for Gabriel.'"

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