'Walking Dead' Gets Small Ratings Bounce This Week

Thanks to glitches in data reporting from the Nielsen Company, fans who have been keeping an eye on ratings for The Walking Dead have had a long wait to find out how the series did this week. When the news finally came, it wasn't great, but it was a lot better than it has been lately.

This week's episode drew 10.68 million total viewers, up about half a million from last week. The good news is that the gain marks the first time that there's been a positive week-to-week ratings trend in the second half of the season. The bad news is the bump up is a modest one from last week's season-low level.

This week's thirteenth episode of the season still drew many fewer viewers than any episode since season three, and it's one of six episodes so far this season to draw fewer than 11 million viewers.

TWD was still the highest-rated program on Sunday, although the kiddie talent show Little Big Shots on NBC came pretty close to matching TWD's total viewership with 10.1 million viewers. NCIS: Los Angeles and 60 Minutes on CBS were not too far off, either, with 9.3 and 10 million, respectively. None of those series, however, came close to matching TWD's numbers among younger viewers.