The Walking Dead Premiere Shatters Cable Demo Ratings Records, Draws 7.3 Million Total Audiences

Behind-the-moments turmoil did little to decelerate The Walking Dead ratings behemoth, which opened up up its second season at 9 PM last evening to staggering amounts: 4.8 million audiences in Grownups 18-49 4.2 million audiences in Grownups 25-54 7.3 million total audiences for premiere 11 million total audiences for your evening The 18-49 and 25-54 tallies broke fundamental cable’s previous records released with the premiere of USA Network’s The Dead Zone in June 2002 (4. million in 18-49, 4.millions of in 25-54). When compared with Walking Dead‘s highly rated series premiere a year ago (5.2 million total audiences, 3.5 million in 18-49), the summer season 2 opener was up an impressive 38% in general audiences, 36% in 18-49 and 35% in 25-54. While using 9 PM airing as well as the 10:30 PM and 12:30 AM encores, the Walking Dead premiere came a complete of 11 million audiences. The Walking Dead is among people rare television programs which will achieve both a core genre fan additionally to broad audiences simply trying to find a great, character-based story, mentioned AMC leader Charlie Collier. The Walking Dead is becoming most likely probably the most-seen drama inside the good status for fundamental cable is staggering, similar to our zombies. UPDATE: AMC’s talk show Speaking Dead got away and off to an excellent start during the night time, carrying out a first rerun in the Walking Dead premiere. It averaged 1.2 million total audiences, 795,000 grownups 18-49 and 735,000 grownups 25-54.