AMC’s The Walking Dead returned last night from its third-season break with 12.3 million viewers, a series high for the zombie apocalypse drama. Up against the Grammys, the 9 PM midseason premiere pulled in 7.7 million viewers among Adults 18-49, a basic-cable record for a series and up 6% from the show’s previous high for its October 14 season premiere. In total, 16.6 million viewers watched Walking Dead last night combining the 9 PM premiere and 11 PM, midnight and 2 AM encores on AMC. The series was back Sunday for the last eight episodes of its third season after a break of more than two months.
The big numbers Sunday come after a record-breaking third season so far that saw the show pull in a massive 10.9 million Live+Same Day total viewers for its October 14 premiere, which bested all other telecasts cable and broadcast. The Walking Dead’s midseason finale on December 2 garnered 10.5 million viewers in its 9 PM time slot and 15.2 million for the entire night with encores. The Walking Dead’s Season 3 series average in the 18-49 demo is ahead of the averages for big network shows like The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and NCIS.
Walking Dead was renewed for a fourth season late last year. That season is expected to begin in October, according to series executive producer Gale Anne Hurd.
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The show has been a melodrama mess since last season and whoever is handling the social media is writing it like an obnoxious tween. There was actually a point the pages used to be fun to follow along but between the spam and copy/paste, it’s a waste of time. Shame on AMC’s Social Media or Marketing person. It’s really gone down hill.
I am a huge fan of TWD and for me the fact the world is overrun with zombies is a premise not a central plot point. If the story was just about zombies and killing them, we’d be watching a video game not a tv show. The zombies are not characters, we are not invested in them or love or hate them; they are merely plot devices and props. The real story is how do these people survive? How do they rebuild? What strange bedfellows we engage when the world is flipped on it’s axis?
I love the writing and the characters and cannot imagine my zombie world without a Glen or Darryl or Maggie. And Andrew Lincoln is an incredible actor; his performances continue to astound. BTW, you can’t kill Rick – it’s his story. He dies and there is no more Walking Dead.
I love this series and i hope it keeps going for as long as ????????
Wow some of you guys are clearly just blindly bashing the show.. Most of what your saying makes no sense an clearly shows as stated above that you obviously are not familiar with the show.. As far as the acting .. Most of them are fantastic.. If they were all as bad as you say believe me no one would watch the show.. The fact that the ratings are so good should show you that your wrong.. Stop bashing everything about the show.. You don’t seem cool or smart .. The opposite actually. Of course there are some things about the show that are mediocre .. But not everything lol
Sweet1 I agree with you 100%. Great show great acting great writing !!
Okay, this last episode left me in serious HYSTERICS!! Craziest emotional roller coaster. Not to mention Michonne and that cat. I rofled so hard.
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Awesome show, i watch for character interactions.
Zombies are an after thought dont care about other shows listed, they have yawn factors as in i dont care about their stories. I like the zombie storyline
Its a good show so why bash it,talk trash say the actors suck..grow up you know its good or you wouldn’t watch it I watch the first two seasons on netflix and then season 3 on cable me and my wife love it so either enjoy or don’t watch but for it to be on basic cable its d*&@ good and people think if it was too happen people wouldn’t make the house towns or building look all that great u wouldn’t have the time or the proper material or skills to make the stages look fantastic so keep in mind of what’s going on and how would u be able to build construct ur temp shelter or arena from just picking up what u could find I think everything matches up well…..their doing something right a whole lot of people are watching every time it comes on…thanks amc