The Walking Dead will grow "more complicated" in its fourth season, producer Gale Anne Hurd has claimed.

The zombie drama - which stars Andrew Lincoln and David Morrissey - will premiere its next run on UK and US screens later this year.

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"The world is certainly no safer [next season]," show exec Hurd told the Los Angeles Times. "In fact, it becomes a lot more complicated.

"I think that our band of survivors might have become a little too complacent about the threat that the walkers pose. They're a very serious threat. I think the complacency towards walkers has probably run its course."

Hurd also revealed that fans should expect The Walking Dead to divert further from writer Robert Kirkman's original comic series.

"They are on two separate tracks and sometimes they intersect but more than likely there's not going to be any sequence of panels from the comic book that's going to be brought to life exactly the same way on the series," she said.

"Since Robert Kirkman's in the writers room, everything has his approval. He's involved in every decision. When we do depart with characters, their fates or their interactions, he's had his voice heard."

The Walking Dead's third season concluded on March 31 on AMC and will air tomorrow night (April 5) on FOX in the UK.

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Watch a clip from The Walking Dead's third season finale below:

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