SpotVault - The Walking Dead (AMC) - Fall 2019 Ratings

The Walking Dead

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SpotVault - The Walking Dead (AMC) - Fall 2018 Ratings

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, Outlander, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Robot

These numbers are current through Monday, October 23.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The Walking Dead (5.03) returned for what looks like another year as the biggest entertainment program on TV. It'll take a few weeks to really get a gauge on how fast this show is bleeding, because it was never going to to live up to the show's most impressive performance ever, the 8.36 at the start of last fall. While it was actually pretty close to the Plus of its 2014 and 2015 season premieres, it was also just the second Dead premiere to come in lower than the previous season finale.
  

SpotVault - The Walking Dead (AMC) - Fall 2017 Ratings

War of 18-49 Updates for Cable 2017: Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars and more!

Here's a quick catch-up on War of 18-49 pages for cable shows that have already existing War pages. Click the names in each one of these tables to see the now-updated War of 18-49 page. The last version of this was 11 months ago, so we're covering seasons that have concluded since then. (I'm gonna try to start doing these more frequently so that these pages don't go many months without updates.) See also last week's summer broadcast update.

Cablemetrics: Big Little Lies, The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands

These numbers are current through Monday, April 3.

WHAT MATTERS:

• HBO's Big Little Lies finished out its The Night Of-like trajectory with a new series high at 0.66, over a tenth above its previous peak. Both of the HBO minis shook off an early stinker result, slowly inched up during the mid-section of the season, and ended on three consecutive new series highs.

Cablemetrics: Big Little Lies, Into the Badlands, The Walking Dead

These numbers are current through Monday, March 27.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Big Little Lies (0.54) rose to another new series high on Sunday, up by a full tenth from last week. AMC also had a nice Sunday with The Walking Dead (4.88) and week two of Into the Badlands (1.49) both on the upswing.

Cablemetrics: Feud: Bette and Joan, The Arrangement, Big Little Lies, Homeland

These numbers are current through Monday, March 6.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The Sunday after the Oscars brought fairly mixed news to the broadcasters, but on cable it was mostly positive:

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, Big Little Lies, Major Crimes, Sun Records

These numbers are current through Monday, February 27.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The Academy Awards have never been a major stumbling block for The Walking Dead, and this year was no exception; it was down just 6% to a 4.95 this week. That point was down 19% from the year-ago telecast against the Oscars, basically the same trend as the -20% from week two.

The Top 10 TV Ratings Moments of 2016

It's time for my seventh annual look back at the year's top 10 moments in TV ratings! As always, the criteria are pretty subjective, but I go for a blend of 1) relatively isolated incidents that are impressive for their sheer enormity/cultural impact and 2) moments that exemplify much larger trends in TV this year. Please let me know about my most egregious rankings/omissions. Happy New Year!

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead finale and more from Week 12

These numbers are current through Monday, December 12.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Just one quick note this week: The Walking Dead went up by just 3% for its midseason finale, closing the half-season on a 5.09 demo. It had a similarly small bump last fall, but this still narrowly went down as a new worst-ever y2y trend for the show at -27%.

Cablemetrics: Westworld, The Walking Dead, Shameless, The Royals

These numbers are current through Monday, December 5.

WHAT MATTERS:

• After a big penultimate week spike, Westworld followed it up on finale night by only staying flat week-to-week at a 1.02 demo. (However, it did set new highs in both total viewers and the 18-34 demos.) It still goes down as one of the cable elite, but a long wait for season two begins.

Cablemetrics: Vikings, Westworld, Shooter, Incorporated

These numbers are current through Wednesday, November 30.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Wednesday saw the return of History's resilient Vikings with a 0.71 demo rating. It's technically the second half of season four, but the year-to-year comparisons will be against the first half of season four since it was almost a full year ago (premiering on February 18). By that measure, it's down a relatively decent 13%.

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, Westworld, American Horror Story

These numbers are current through Monday, November 14.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Week four saw another small decline for The Walking Dead (5.43), and a worst-yet 20% behind the year-ago fourth episode.

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, American Dad!, People of Earth, Salem

These numbers are current through Monday, November 7.

WHAT MATTERS:

• AMC's The Walking Dead (5.68) took another dip in its third week, and this point was 15% below the year-ago week three (as it grew by a few tenths in week three of last season).

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, People of Earth

These numbers are current through Monday, October 31.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Week two of The Walking Dead brought a 27% week-to-week drop, but the resulting 6.09 demo was only about a single tenth behind the year-ago week two. Sustaining that stratospheric level from the cliffhanger-inflated premiere was probably never gonna happen, but it would go down as a huge win if all this can ultimately keep the show within a league average drop. So week two looks positive in that sense, especially since it had World Series competition as well. (The aftershow Talking Dead plummeted even harder, down 45% to a 2.03 in week two.)

Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, Talking Dead, Westworld, The Strain

These numbers are current through Monday, October 24.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Many like to reminisce about the days when a TV program could end its season on a cliffhanger and capture the national imagination for the entire summer. But it looks like that is still possible even in 2016, as The Walking Dead (8.36) exploded from a 2015-16 season that was mostly in the 6's and somehow found the show's second-best raw number ever. Whatever historical adjustment you use for this show, it's pretty clearly a more impressive performance than the raw series high, an 8.65 for the fall premiere two years ago. It's also probably gonna be over six times the big four league average for this season, which is getting into (or even beyond) Friends finale territory.

SpotVault - The Walking Dead (AMC) - Fall 2016 Ratings