The Walking Dead - Opens to Huge Rating Numbers
1 Nov 2010
Ratings The Walking DeadAMC's The Walking Dead premiere ratings are enormous: The 90-minute Halloween night premiere delivered 5.3 million viewers.
That's the largest audience for any cable series premiere on any network this year.
It's also the highest premiere numbers for any series in AMC's history.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Thats great news, I'm sensing a quick second season order now :)
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic news. If this show can retain a simple majority of these premiere ratings (especially the great demo numbers) throughout the season then a second season is a lock.
ReplyDeleteI tuned in, and im glad i did, the pilot was fantastic! it actually reminded me of the LOST pilot, similar tone/mood of not knowing what the fuck is going on, but also looks like it will be very character driven! Hopefully this cements us a 2nd season!
ReplyDeleteoh when I read "Huge rating" I thought it was going to be like 20 million viewers...I guess cable isn't watched so much on the US...
ReplyDeleteNo it isn't but the total viewers doesn't matter actually. The 18-49 rating is what's important. The ratings for the premiere: 3.6, which is better than any cable premiere this season, and actually matches the premiere of "The Event" and bests a few other shows on major network television like CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. (No Ordinary Family, All of NBC's current ratings, except The Office, and half of FOX's schedule...) The 18-49 ratings demo is the one that advertisers want to spend their money on, and the higher the rating, the better the show is doing, even if it has a low overall viewing audience. The current highest rated show (to my knowledge) is Glee I think (With a rating around 4.6-5.0) See how close that is to 3.6? And Glee usually has around 11-12 million viewers--The Walking Dead got a huge rating with less than half the audience. This is gigantic news for AMC.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Mad Men doesn't go past 2 million viewers usually (I think around the season premiere it hits around 2.7m viewers) and a 1.0 in the ratings. Breaking Bad, to my knowledge does about the same.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely! 6 episodes people, not to hard to stick around and make this show thrive! Hell, we stick around for 22 episodes of shows less great than this one!
ReplyDeleteI think it was something like 3 times larger than Mad Men or Breaking
ReplyDeleteBad ever got.
Totally.
ReplyDeleteActually I had misread the numbers: they had already translated the rating into total 18-49 viewers, so the rating was like a 2.7. Still, no one else on cable can pull those numbers...
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