'Walking Dead' Ratings Tick Upward This Week
by EG
After two consecutive weeks of ratings declines and the least-watched season premiere in years, The Walking Dead posted a ratings gain this week, suggesting that the series' audience might have stabilized. Before you get too excited, though, understand that the gain consisted of only 170,000 viewers over last week's audience. If anything, it looks like season 8 may be settling into its ratings comfort zone. That's the good news. The bad news is that that comfort zone is the lowest of any season since the second.
Via TV By the Numbers.
After two weeks of declines following its season premiere, “The Walking Dead” improved a little in the ratings Sunday night.
The show delivered a 3.9 rating among adults 18-49 and 8.69 million viewers, up from 3.8 and 8.52 million the previous week.
“Shameless” dipped a little bit in its second week back on Showtime, scoring a 0.5 and 1.37 million viewers vs. 0.7 and 1.86 million for its season premiere. That’s in line with its average from a year ago.
“Outlander” was steady in adults 18-49 (0.3) but down a bit in viewers (1.49 million vs. 1.62 million). “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” matched the 1.0 for its premiere the previous week and was up a bit in total audience (2.56 million vs. 2.43 million). Hallmark’s movie “Enchanted Christmas” earned a 0.7 and 3.62 million viewers.
See the rest of the numbers at TV By the Numbers.
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