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If you signed up for the cabler’s $5-a-month AMC Premiere service this weekend, you got access to “A New Beginning” a full day before it aired on the traditional small screen at 9 PM ET. Similar to how the likes of the already well watched Starz drama Power has carved out a greater audience by dropping new episodes at midnight on Sundays for fans who sign up for the premium cabler’s app, AMC gave TWD fans an early bite on the show’s season premiere for the first time this weekend.
While still the second highest-rated show on TV behind NBC’s This Is Us in the key demo, that’s a lot of premiere numbers and perhaps a long-ish way of saying T he Walking Dead’s blockbuster days seem to be behind it.īecause the future came knocking this weekend for TWD and it brought a bit of Power with it, it seems.
It’s also a 51% free-fall from what the series based on Robert Kirkman’s comics drew for the Season 8 opener in the demo arena it has dominated for ages.Ĭompared to the Season 8 “Wrath” finale of April 15, “A New Beginning” fell 23 % in total viewers and 27% among 18-49s. Do the math and that’s an all time season opener low., down 7% from the Season 1 debut. The cast and crew are hoping the 100th episode is how The Walking Dead gets its groove back. Up against a strong Sunday Night Football Lone Star state NFL matchup between the Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys, TWD’s Season 9 start drew 3.2 million viewers and a 2.5 rating in the coveted 18-49 demo. That “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be” episode had just more than 17 million viewers, and was virtually tied with the Season 5 debut. Year to year, the Season 9 premiere of TWD was down a further 14% in total audience from the fall the Season 8 opener saw after the series’ near all-time high of the double death Season 7 debut of October 23, 2016.
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