Though the ratings have dropped quite a bit, The Walking Dead has remained the highest-rated scripted series on AMC. Now, it’s been decided that there won’t be a 12th season but spin-offs are in the works. Will the cable channel execs regret the decision to end the original show? Could the original Walking Dead series return someday? Stay tuned.
A post-apocalyptic horror series, The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Christian Serratos, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Cooper Andrews, Callan McAuliffe, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eleanor Matsuura, Nadia Hilker, Cailey Fleming, Cassady McClincy, Lauren Ridloff, Paola Lázaro, and Michael James Shaw. The show focuses on survivors of a zombie apocalypse as they try to stay alive under near-constant threat of attacks from “walkers”. With the collapse of their civilization, the survivors must confront other human survivors who have formed groups and communities with their own sets of laws and morals. As the 11th season begins, the group returns to Alexandria from a critical food mission but realizes it isn’t enough, so Maggie proposes a new plan. Meanwhile, those captured by the strange soldiers are relocated to another undisclosed location.
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: Season 10 of The Walking Dead on AMC averaged a 0.99 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.04 million viewers.
Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). Early fast affiliate ratings (estimates) are indicated with an “*”. While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
What do you think? Do you like the The Walking Dead TV series on AMC? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a 12th season?
To be honest it is really bad in the last season.
Really after you got people hook then you started slowly turning it into a ***** dominated BS impowering stinkfest you put every black man with white women and the main character who was interested in a fine WHITE WOMEN YOU KILLED HER OFF IN S 5 or so. To find the ugliest black women for a hook up! Not to mention all the gays lizzy like everyone in the post apocalyptic world is only going to be ran by women lizzy homosexal by S9 you even had to get to trans I THINK? NOT SURE!? I am so sick of… Read more »
The series did go from a very unique show that had relatable everyday characters to being more woke, hollywood, and clichéd. Regular people though don’t care about having mixed relationships or gay characters in shows, just the intentions behind them. Rick and Michonne were not good together because they were more like brother and sister and didn’t have chemistry but I did think that michonne was going to have a relationship with the leader of Alexandria’s son before he died and that would have been pretty organic. AMC is just ticking boxes, I agree with that, and I am always… Read more »
The walking dead is my favorite huge fan but the 11th season ain’t it and I only watched 10 episodes we need rick back
I am a die heart fan of the walking dead and will always be I just wish it wasn’t ending