A show with great ratings, The Walking Dead’s large audience grew last season so there’s essentially no chance that this AMC series will be cancelled for quite awhile. How soon will it be renewed for a seventh season? Stay tuned.
On The Walking Dead, a group of humans struggle to survive and adapt to a world that’s filled with zombies. This season, the large cast includes Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lennie James, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Sonequa Martin-Green, Michael Cudlitz, Alanna Masterson, Christian Serratos, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Tovah Feldshuh, Alexandria Breckenridge, and Austin Nichols. Which actors will be around for season seven?
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.
10/30 update: AMC has renewed The Walking Dead (season seven) and Talking Dead (season six).
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For comparisons: The fifth season of The Walking Dead averaged a 7.36 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 14.38 million total viewers.
What do you think? Do you still like The Walking Dead TV series? How many seasons do you think it should run?
I am so sick of TWD as it’s become. The writers’ work is very poorly researched and so lazily written, this show should have gotten the axe, regardless of ratings. A near total lack of balance, which I find essential to any fiction, regardless of its genre. Anyone who gives me the “it’s apocalypse, what do you expect,” “that’s the apocalypse for you,” or similar excuses will be ignored. Zombies in themselves ignore science to be sure, but the show writers have ignored far more science than I deem should be permissible, even for a zombie drama. “We’re all carriers,”… Read more »
TWD has become a zombie unto itself. It’s depressing unjoyful meandering is just waiting for a 45 to its TV brain. There’s nothing edifying, no respite from the total onslaught of weekly misery index. Beyond this, there is the never rot zombie factor and with their simple herd behavior anyone with a brain would have culled them all in season 2.
I agree, TWD is so lazily written now, poorly researched, and has a total lack of balance. Anyone who tells me “that’s the apocalypse for you,” better not reply. All fiction has to have balance, regardless of its genre, lacking balance kills stories, too much of anything and not enough of other things is bad for fiction.