Although it doesn’t do nearly as well in the Nielsen ratings as the original series does, the Fear the Walking Dead TV show has been AMC’s second-highest rated series. As a less popular prequel to the mothership, which has a sequel on the way, how much longer can it continue? Will Fear the Walking Dead be cancelled or renewed for season six? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
An AMC horror drama, Fear the Walking Dead stars Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia, Garret Dillahunt, Maggie Grace, Jenna Elfman, Alexa Nisenson, Austin Amelio, Ruben Blades, and Karen David. In the fifth season, Morgan Jones (James) leads the group to find other survivors and make the best of a devastated world.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
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For comparisons: The fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead averaged a 0.78 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.265 million total viewers.
What do you think? Do you still like the Fear the Walking Dead TV series? Should this AMC TV show be cancelled or renewed for a sixth season?
*7/19/19 update: AMC has renewed Fear the Walking Dead for a sixth season.
This season of Grey’s Anatomy was AMAZING! I had no idea they were adding zombies to the show. What a plot twist!
Sick to death of the documentaries! This show has become very slow and boring. Why did you kill off all the good people? Won’t be watching season 6.
I will finish out season 5, but will not invest any more time with this weak story telling. Enough already with the documentary approach. You can get away with one lazy episode, but they seem to hang their hats on this device. Hey AMC, THERE IS NOTHING CUTTING EDGE WITH THIS TACTIC. The characters are dry and boring (this is why they had to bring Morgan and Dwight on board). They stories are forced and regurgitated.
Different writers each week and the lack of continuity is showing. They are trying the kinder gentler approach and now the show belongs on Lifetime or Hallmark. “Give it a chance” they say. We have given it a chance since season 1. We are a loyal fanbase. Each week we hope for better and “give it a chance” only to be disappointed again. We are so loyal we even accept mediocrity. A show like this 10 years ago would have never survived the first season. I am now out of gas… pun intended. Fire Gimple.
I wish the show would go off the air. It is totally asinine now. If one more of the losers becomes a pacifist…. terrible writing.
FTWD needs to stop farming its cheap writing labor from the Gimple / USC film school pool. That would be a good start. Enough with the protege sycophants already!
Seriously what is with the lack of firearms? There are 450 to 500 million firearms in the Us and half a trillion, that is 500 billion rounds of ammunition in the US, and it takes 100 years to go bad. They are driving when gas and diesel fuel would be bad and useless, but have no guns?
Maybe the helicopter people have it.
Boring!! Good bye FTWD!!
Renewed for season 6 Judy. If you don’t like Fear, don’t watch. Let the people who do like the show enjoy it in peace.
They built a plane (which none of them could fly, let alone land) and lit a runway with Christmas lights. This is worth watching? Earlier they created Anthrax by scraping cow hides, NOT AT ALL Plausible. Better off watching paint dry. There are better shows being held up because this drivel is being made, that is why people do want to allow those that like it to “watch in peace.”
I used to LOVE this show, but most of season 4 and 5 have been a real disappointment. I feel like its bringing down the original series down by association.
The ratings are horrendous. The show runners have to go. The writing needs to get better. Enough with the humans are more of a threat than the dead. This show needs a lead in. There are some decent actors and actresses in this show. They aren’t doing enough to make the viewers root for them.
In my opinion, FTWD was never interesting or entertaining. The characters are unlikable and fail to garner sympathy. The character back stories all have been far beyond boring fillers. Viewers only watch because we need something walker related to tie us over until TWD RETURNS. John, June, and Daniel are the only characters worth saving. I put June in there only because her loss would be devastating to John. I recommend a story line where the group gets split up. All except Morgan and the aforementioned die from toxic gas. Morgan leads J,J, and D to Alexandria, then takes off… Read more »
Bring Madison back
I don’t understand how people are saying that the writing and or showrunners have ruined this show beginning with season 4. This show has been terrible since day one! That’s why they killed off almost all of the original cast because the ratings have been dropping more and more every season. Boring characters and bad writing has always been there. In my opinion, FTWD should have been a mini-series, not an on-going series. If you remember, the storyline of Fear was suppose to be the time period that Rick Grimes was in a comma, a prequel to the original series.… Read more »
These showrunners from season 4 and 5 really suck, they’ve ruined what once was a good show. Everything went downhill since the first crossover, the writing is so poor that they needed to fill the gap with another character from TWD for season 5… seriously? And just in case, they brought back Ruben Blades in order to ruin his character too.
R.I.P. Fear the walking dead.
Honestly, this show just needs to end. The writing is painful to watch. The group is so stupid and the kids are annoying.
And here we go again. Can’t the writers be a little more imaginative? Yawn! Haven’t we seen this before? Negan from Walking Dead?
The show is getting better and better! Everyone needs to give it a change!