'Walking Dead' Gets Ratings Bump for Latest Episode
by EG
The Walking Dead was in the news last week after the announcement that Lennie James' character Morgan would lead a crossover between TWD and Fear The Walking Dead. That buzz may have been reponsible for a slight bump in TWD's ratings this week, which turned around after a weeks'-long slide. Ratings for this week's episode were up about 5 percent from the previous week, but the episode's total viewership was still only about 8.9 million, a level the series hasn't seen since 2011.
Via Deadline.
Ever since executive producer Robert Kirkman announced at New York Comic Con last month that there would finally be a crossover between The Walking Dead and spinoff Fear The Walking Dead, fans of the zombie apocalypse franchise have been figuratively dying to get specifics.
Well, the big reveal of who would the bridge between the two AMC series was unveiled live on Talking Dead on Sunday and the result was a double digit ratings bloom for the Chris Hardwick series.
With TWD cast members Melissa McBride and Avi Nash on the TD couch along with super fan Kevin Smith, it was made clear Lennie James’ Morgan will being the character making the shift from the mother show to the companion series’ fourth season.
An original TWD cast member, James will stay on the mother show for more of its eighth season but has already started filming on FearTWD in Austin, TX this week.
Coming off a TWD that itself was up 5% in total viewers and 4% in the key demo over last week, the November 26 TD scored an audience of 3.2 million. In the key demo, the sixth episode of the seventh season of the TWD aftershow delivered a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49 with 1.7 million watching in that metric.
Or to put it another way: Talking Dead was up 23% in viewership and 21% among the 18-49s from its November 19 show. That is the third best TD has done this season so far, with the two-hour TWD cast past and present filled opener of October 22 holding the top spot in both total audience and demo.
Read the rest of the story at Deadline.
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