Despite a big drop in the ratings last year, The Walking Dead remained AMC’s highest-rated scripted show. It’s doubtful anyone was worried that The Walking Dead would be cancelled and indeed, it’s already been renewed for season 11. Will the ratings take another big fall? How long can this TV series continue? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
A zombie apocalypse drama based on the Robert Kirkman comics, season 10 of The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Danai Gurira, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Khary Payton, Cooper Andrews, Avi Nash, Callan McAuliffe, Nadia Hilker, Eleanor Matsuura, Lauren Ridloff, Cailey Fleming, Samantha Morton, Cassady McClincy, and Ryan Hurst. The story started 10 years ago with one man trying to find his family. That family grew and gradually communities took shape. They fought and survived, thrived and gave birth to a new generation. The 10th season picks back up with the group in Oceanside as they continue to train in case The Whisperers return. Tensions are high as the heroes struggle to hold onto their concept of civilization.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly in the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
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For comparisons: Season nine of The Walking Dead on AMC averaged a 1.88 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 4.95 million viewers.
Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you like The Walking Dead TV series on AMC? Are you glad that it’s been renewed for an 11th season?
*9/9/20 update: AMC has announced that The Walking Dead will end with an extended 11th season.
It’s really astonishing that a show could lose double digit millions of viewers in a few years due to the hubris of those in charge of it. They had a golden goose and they beat it death. The first time jump was when they started killing it for me, besides killing off a character in season two that shouldn’t have been killed off for at least a couple of more seasons if at all. I despise time jumps and this show had so many I can’t even count them all. It felt like a journey that you were brought along… Read more »
If AMC hadn’t fired Frank Durabont they would still be getting 5’s in the demo. Killing off all the interesting characters, watering down with spin-offs, taking a surprisingly unique down to earth – with realalistic characters – and then turning it into a done to death clichés and same as other shows tropes – I’m waiting for a musical episode or a ground hog day episode at this point; boring writing, woke writing and woke off screen as well, Also the past couple of seasons were “this is us” with zombies, Judith is ridiculous now, they made negan boring to… Read more »
It’s not terrible but I miss Rick and Carl should have lived.
Wow! The last episode was duller than a test pattern. If not for fast forward capability this would have been unwatchable. Fortunately, I only lost 18 minutes of my life. Writers…I only have one request: feel free to kill everyone but the dog.
I am so heart broken that the walking dead is no longer going to be!! I have been a loyal fan from day one!! And I feel like your abandon us .. Instead of making new shows you should keep the original a live
Ah yes, finally. Plus 6 more episodes of season 10, The World Beyond premiere, Fear the Walking Dead, Season 11, and a new spin off coming up featuring Daryl and Carol! Plenty of zombies upcoming! I love it.
Are they ever going to announce a date for episode 16? Wouldn’t now be a good time to debut the new show? C’mon AMC, give us our zombie fix!
This show sucks.
new writers? Worst year ever
Season 11 will be the last. The numbers don’t lie and they still have hopes for a movie franchise….
The walking dead is a great show , hopefully they keep making new episodes & continue for at least 5-10 more seasons . Why not the simpsons are doing that & the Stones are still playing great music & touring . So don’t fall down now
I agree with you why can’t they keep the first walking dead alive instead all these fun offs
Easy to understand why ratings are dropping. It’s BORING! That & the fact they’ve killed off almost all the stars. In order, the following are the last characters I like: Dog, Judith, Negan & Darryl.
I don’t follow this like some of you but, could someone please tell me what happened to all the guns? There were up to their neck in automatic weapons when they beat Negan. Where did they go?
I keep hoping that someone associated with the writing of this show will realize that we are tired of the never ending good guys vs bad guys wars. Give us some SCIENCE FICTION about the zombie apocalypse.
What started it, what did the governments of the world do to try and prevent /find a cure for it. Is anyone anywhere working on a cure or a vaccine? And please don’t anyone from AMC give us the “we’re following the comic books” line. They deviate from the comic books all the time when it suits them.
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Wasn’t that what Fear The Walking Dead was supposed to do? Instead it turned into a clone of The Walking Dead with no real information.