Last year, fans were able to enjoy the Fear the Walking Dead TV show, without worrying about its cancellation or renewal chances. As the fourth season kicks off, the audience doesn’t have that luxury. Despite two seasons of ratings drops in the 50% neighborhood, it was still AMC’s second highest performing scripted series — behind The Walking Dead, of course. Can it keep its death-grip on second place, this time around? Will Fear the Walking Dead be cancelled or renewed for season five? Stay tuned.
An AMC horror drama, Fear the Walking Dead stars Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Rubén Blades, Danay Garcia, and Colman Domingo. In the fourth season, The Walking Dead‘s Lennie James brings his Morgan Jones character to the prequel series, as the recent past merges into the present struggle. While encountering new friends and enemies, the crew will fight for and with each other, as well as against the dead. Also joining in season four are Maggie Grace, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman, Kevin Zegers, and Evan Gamble. **Status update below.
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 third season of Fear the Walking Dead averaged a 0.88 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.364 million total viewers. Compared to season two, it was down by about 52% and 44%, respectively.
What do you think? Do you still like the Fear the Walking Dead TV series? Did you expect AMC to cancel or renew this TV show for a fifth season?
**7/29/2018 Status Update: Fear the Walking Dead has been renewed through season five on AMC. Details here.
I did not like season 4, I wouldn’t mind if it gets cancelled. I know that many viewers did not like Madison, but for me, she was the main reason to watch and enjoy the show, and also Nick and Alicia and Strand. Now it is about June and Al and Morgan, who – although I like the actors – I do not care for much/enough. And don’t get me started about the murdering Charlie brat. I stopped watching TWD as soon as Negan showed up, and now I will not continue to watch FTWD, so cancel it, I don’t… Read more »
I feel that I have to watch because i’ve followed twd & fwd, but i really don’t enjoy it anymore. The new characters totally suck… dirty crazy lady sucks, horrible acting and character… beer guy really??? and the two new comedian trucker actors make no sense,,, Morgan was not a great character to begin with so to make the transition of episodes got boring… Sad to say but this prob should all end soon… Seems like no good stories or actions left… Wake up kirkman, give us something good!
I think something is wrong in the season average!
Season 3 has better ratings than Season 4
FEAR started out very slowly and for a while it looked like it was going to be a quality show about the initial outbreak. I liked the art-house style season 1. Season 2 i admit was troubled but ok and season 3 finally found its footing and started to become a good story. But season 4, omg, with a few good eps in the first half of the season i was willing to keep watching but after Madison was killed like a punk who cant climb a fence, with her kids in a car with a horn that obviously doesnt… Read more »
Agreed, first the time jump plus the “crossover” (takeover), new showrunners didn´t give a f*uck about the other 3 seasons… and then Madison´s death, that was the final nail in the coffin for this series. I can´t believe they took the original cast and made them so dumb on the first half of season 4, totally disappointed.
I take season 4 over season 3 anyday. We have better writing and likable characters now.
Season 3 was terrible, the story was all over the place and Madison was a terrible person. Season 3 did not find its footing, season 3 is what sent this show on a doward spiral . I do not know which is worse, season 3 or the people spamming the Web trying to rewrite history with Madison being a great character and season 3 having good ratings, where it reality, no one liked Madison and season 3 lost half of its ratings from season 2.
I TOTALLY 1,000% AGREE!!! When Nick got the gate, and then Madison, it was just so sad. I really loved those characters and the Clarke family. Alicia is OK but she is the only one left. I would rather Nick was back. And now, all of these new twists and turns in the show. It doesn’t have the same feeling that it had before. If you have a few really good fan favs on a show, I don’t think you should get rid of them. I know Frank wanted out, but still I would have begged to keep him on… Read more »
I think the new people running the show are morons. They seem to think that confusing story lines and killing off beloved characters is the way to run a business. It seems they were brought in to kill the show. It’s a shame, but I’m willing to pull the plug before it gets any worse.
To be fair the characters were always dumb and their deaths are irrelevant. The show is just more bare now.
It was supposedly renewed for a 5th season. As far as beloved characters, I never liked Nick. Killing off Kim Madkins may have been a mistake. When the killed off her husband in season 3, I thought that was terrible mistake.
Yes, Travis was AWESOME! I wish they hadn’t killed off so many members of this family.
That’s funny, because I never knew this show had any beloved characters. Further more, you can’t kill a show that’s already dead.
This show is terrible, without its main characters, meaningless deaths, unrealistic plots, and after losing your main theme (this was supposed to surround the virus when it was first discovered and plagued the nation, but that didn’t even last one season, it quickly became TWD) its just time to cancel the show. This barely brings in 1 million views now, and all fingers point to the writers and management! Not only was nick mistreated, but the writing, jeez what a way to turn not only TWD but now FTWD into a cheesy horror flick with no logical standpoints behind who… Read more »
Cancel cancel cancel, get rid of it please.
This show needs to cancel, after season 3 this show has a terrible plot, has the feel of TWD( with its unrealistic aroma, one character view per episode, and the drama oh my!) and more recently, TWD is horrendous!!! TWD has bad writers which have turned it into a cheesy horror flick, with meaningless deaths and unrealistic plots, and fear has sadly fallen into the same category. With nick leaving (look up how AMC mistreated him) that alone was enough for me to quit watching. In spite of this, I tried to move on without our lead characters and the… Read more »
Spot on, but Nick was the one wanted to leave and at least it was a decent death, not like Maddison s.
I haven’t watched since the 3rd episode of season 2, but the fact that they’ve killed all but one of the main cast by season 4 should tell you everything you need to know about this show. Boring…Boring…Boring!!
Ughhhhh”……..the writers should all be fired.
The ratings should be high enough for a season five renewal, but killing off Nick and Madison may drive people away. Is this Lennie James’s(Morgan) show now? We can only watch and see. The Walking Dead is going to lose 2 SUPER MAJOR characters in the first half of the coming season. We will see what happens there.
Da wird genau das selbe passieren. Die Einschaltquoten werden noch mehr fallen.
Und bei TWD ist es dann die Daryl Show.
I still watch FTWD but I’ve decided to let the episodes pile up so I can watch them all at once. I find that most garner the same criticism as TWD and as owners of network channels would say ratings don’t lie.
Most people aren’t watching anymore at all.
I also still watch Fear The Dead. This season was really good. I’m ready for season 5
It was good then went horribly horribly wrong! WTF is up with 9 commercials between segments? Seriously? and no code and now again, NO CODE! and why why why the flashback, flash forward. flash back flash forward…THAT SUCKS!
It was never good.
Season 3 and 4 are much better than the first two. Story and even the zombie moments have gotten far more exciting and fresh than anything that the mother show had to offer for a very long time. Also, the protagonists act much more believable – No useless, bulletwasting gunfights for episodes or cheesy villains.
Btw, why do you keep hanging around here harping on about the show (and apparently even watching it) if you hate it so much?
Bullet wasting gun fights, bad zombie moments and pathetic characters and actors that nobody wants to root for is Fear in a nutshell. They should kill off more characters or cancel.
Looks like you‘re confusing FTWD with TWD. Bad zombie moments? The zombie encounter in the FEMA shelter in episode 6 was so much more suspenseful than anything TWD did in this department for a very long time.
You must be one hell of a maso/chist to keep watching FTWD if you hate it as much as you say – If you keep complaining about the show even if you don‘t watch it anymore though (why stay with a “boring show with bad zombie moments and pathetic characters” after all?) you‘re the troll here.
Of course. Gotta be a troll bot cause I don’t agree with you. No sense in trying to have a civil conversation with the likes of you. Get a life (or keep spending it obsessing with shows you hate, what do I care).
Fwiw, there are plenty of people who agree that the shows quality has improved a lot but I guess they gotta be troll bots too then. (http://tvline.com/2018/05/21/fear-the-walking-dead-season-4-review-amc-drama-improved/ , https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/03/13/season-4-of-fear-the-walking-dead-is-so-much-better-than-the-walking-dead-its-not-even-funny/#77b4f71d465c)
Dman it’s exactly the opposite of what u said. seasons 1 and 2 were far better than seasons 3 and 4 cause sadly the show became after season 2 more like a walking dead series than the series it was in the earlier seasons. this was not supposed to be another walking dead clone. it was something different and it was interesting especially in season 1 when we got to see a common family in the outbreak of the virus. not a war band dealing with zombies a long time after the virus exploded. now sadly FTWD became another TWD… Read more »
Hi Alycia. I see you.
the most boring show ever, it should be cancelled already
It still sucks