'Walking Dead' Ratings Are in the Basement Again

If you were hoping that last week's small gain in the ratings for The Walking Dead was a sign that the series' disastrous eighth season was turning around, you were in for a disappointment this week. The seventh episode of the season was, by far, the lowest-rated episode of the season so far, and it took the series back to the season-two-level ratings it's been posting all season.

As an illustration of how far and how fast the series has fallen, consider that the audience for this week's episode was smaller than that of last season's premiere by nearly 10 million viewers, a drop of 56 percent. Next week is the series' mid-season finale, which typically sees a big ratings jump from previous episodes, but it may be already too late to salvage the season.

Via Comicbook.com.

After finally seeing a gain following a six-year low, The Walking Dead's ratings have hit a new low for Season 8.

Sunday's Episode 8x07, the penultimate episode of 2017, had 7.47 million people watching live, earning a 3.3 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. It's the lowest number since November of 2011 and March of 2012 but, unsurprisingly, remains atop the chart for Sunday night programming.

In second place was Talking Dead, which hauled in over 2.7 million viewers and a 1.2 rating as a packed couch of guests joined Chris Hardwick to recap the episode.

"We listen to what they have to say, and we're in touch with them in lots of ways," The Walking Dead's Jadis actress Pollyanna McIntosh said of the ratings on ComicBook.com's After the Dead. "I think season seven knocked a lot of people sideways with the gore, you know? And we took that into account, but it also set up... the truth of it, this is a show from a comic book, you know? And people will be dying in hideous ways. I mean, that's part of the personality of the comic book. And as long as we keep the great character development and the great threads of morality and the human condition within there, I think we have some room to have a bit of fun with that blood and gore."

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