'Walking Dead Ratings Are in Freefall
by EG
The collapse of The Walking Dead has been slow but spectacular. After delivering its least-watched season premiere ever last week, the show's second episode this week boasted the third lowest ratings in series history. Worse, the ratings for the episode were within a hair of being the worst ever, being edged out only by the second and fourth episodes of the first season. Read on for more dire predictions about the show's future.
Via Forbes.
Last week there was good news and bad news when it came to the season 9 premiere of The Walking Dead. The good news was that the premiere was solid, marking what appeared to be a change in the wind for The Walking Dead as a whole under new showrunner Angela Kang.
The bad news was that way, way fewer people had stuck around to watch it after the conclusion of the Negan War in season 8.
The premiere had 6.08 million viewers, down from 7.92 million in the season 8 finale and way down from 11.44 million in the season 8 premiere. It’s actually the lowest rated episode of the show since a singular episode in season 2.
But the problem is that things are clearly about to get even worse.
The Walking Dead’s ratings decline when fans lose interest generally, yes, but we can see clearly from the history of the show that big moments that displease the fanbase also cause almost instant mass exoduses of viewers, and that’s almost always tied to the death of a beloved character.
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