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‘The Walking Dead’ Premiere Draws Huge Ratings
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Tom Cheredar   |  

The Walking Dead on AMCIf there was any fear that Halloween night might have hurt ratings for The Walking Dead‘s opening episode, they can now be dispelled.

An estimated 5.3 million people tuned in and a cumulative viewership of 8.1 million for the 11:30pm and 1am rebroadcasts of the new AMC series — making it the highest delivery of any cable show premiere in 2010, according to the studio.

Clearly people loved what they saw and with AMC pairing the show with its Fearfest horror movie marathon, I’d be shocked if those numbers didn’t hold steady for following weeks as well.

And for those of you who are part of movie and television check-in service Miso, you may have noticed that The Walking Dead took the first and fourth highest spots on their trending programs list last night. (This is because there were two options to check in for this show.) The super viewing majority killed the number two trending program, which was game 4 of the World Series.

Check out the television ratings highlights after the jump and tell us what you thought of the episode.

Key Ratings Highlights for The Walking Dead:

* 10 pm airing – 3.7 HH rating with 5.3 million total viewers;
* 10 pm, 11:30 pm and 1am airings – Cumed to a 6.0 HH rating with 8.1 million viewers;
* Adults 25-54 – 3.1 million viewers;
* Adults 18-49 – 3.6 million viewers;
* Adults 18-34 – 2.1 million viewers.

3 Comments »

  1. what an incredible first episode!

    Comment by cc — November 2, 2010 @ 2:37 am

  2. Freakin awesome! Very good pacing and acting, with some gore thrown in for good measure. I think the show will be succesful even for non-comic aware people. The Walking Dead is not really about zombies, its about how fast can people in extreme situations lose thier humanity or retain it.

    Comment by Define999 — November 2, 2010 @ 10:27 am

  3. Anyone know where you can watch this online (minus spam)?

    Comment by John Smtih — November 2, 2010 @ 10:43 am

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