'Walking Dead' Ratings Continue to Plummet

The ratings for last week's season premiere of The Walking Dead were not good by the series' first-episode-of-the-season standards, but the numbers weren't bad overall. This week, however, the season's second episode put up numbers that have to be worrisome for the show's producers and its network.

The episode's 8.9 million total viewers were the smallest audience for the series since March of 2012. That was the middle of season two, before the series became a breakout hit and, eventually, the biggest show on TV. Back then it was just another moderately talked-about cable series, and that may be what TWD is once again. Now its only bragging rights lie in the fact that it's still the biggest scripted cable series on Sunday night.

Via TV By The Numbers.

“The Walking Dead” put up ratings on Sunday that were the show’s lowest since the late stages of its second season more than five years ago.

The show was still Sunday’s biggest draw on cable by a long shot, but its 4.0 rating among adults 18-49 was the lowest for the show since March 11, 2012 — the next-to-last episode of Season 2. “TWD’s” 8.92 million viewers were the least since the Season 2 finale.

Other cable series took a hit Sunday as well, perhaps in part due to a highly rated World Series game on FOX. “Keeping Up with The Kardashians” (0.4) was off a tenth of a point in adults 18-49 dipped under a million viewers. “Outlander” (0.3, 1.52 million viewers) was also down (vs. 0.4 and 1.7 million) after several weeks of viewer growth.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (0.3) fell out of the top 25, and the finale of “The Deuce” (0.2, 771,000) was off a bit from previous weeks.

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