Although its ratings have dropped off some over the years, The Walking Dead TV show is still the best rated scripted AMC TV series, so a network-dictated cancellation seems unlikely at this point. Where the Nielsen ratings are concerned, the horror series even dwarfs its prequel — Fear the Walking Dead. Although season eight kicks off with episode 100 — an ideal amount for syndication, last spring at PaleyFest, showrunner Scott M. Gimple teased (joked?) that it would also kick off the next 100 episodes. Since The CW‘s former cancellation bait, Supernatural, has 300 episodes in its sights, who are we to judge? Let’s just let the eighth season ratings speak for themselves. Will The Walking Dead be cancelled or renewed? Stay tuned.
A zombie apocalypse drama based on the Robert Kirkman comics, season eight of The Walking Dead stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Lennie James, Alanna Masterson, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Austin Amelio, Tom Payne, Xander Berkeley, Katelyn Nacon, Steven Ogg, and Pollyanna McIntosh. The eighth season of The Walking Dead on AMC kicks off with Rick (Lincoln) and company banding together with the Kingdom and Hilltop, in order to bring the fight to Negan (Morgan) and the Saviors. **Update below.
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For comparisons: The seventh season of The Walking Dead on AMC averaged a 5.39 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 11.349 million total viewers.
What do you think? Do you still like The Walking Dead TV series? Should this AMC TV show be cancelled or renewed for season nine? How long would you like it to last?
**1/13 update: AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for season nine and named a new showrunner. Details here.
Well surprise surprise, the new season of Fear the Walking Dead has already introduced a new group of bad guys into the mix that want all of the “stuff” that our gallant band of survivors now have. They’re called “The Saviors,” oh wait, that’s Neagan’s group. This new group is “The Vultures.” sigh…..
Crazy
Shocking.
The first six seasons were good.Until they killed Glen,Abraham and now Carl!!Though their deaths may have temporarily moved the plot forward its not paying off well.Negans story isnt bad its just overused and thats what makes the story boring!!Of the season 8 finale doesnt do it right am done..Period
i tried to tell the fans of this show, that bringing negan in to soon would slow the action.!!! negan should haved been brought in episode 100.!! ratings are tanking.!! this show is starting to suck.
This season has been a disaster, slow and boring as hell! Why they stuck in time? Why is all about Negan and his stupid group? Why the show turned into a cheap soap opera?
They need to get out of Virginia. I only keep watching because I find so little on TV to watch. A 3.39 live average, not counting plus 3 and 7 isn’t bad for a lot of shows, but it is for this show. With the plus 3 and 7, it better finish over a 5.0
Literly too much . I think enough . Like Dexter before .
That’s a huge drop. Well the episode was boring, so I understand.
Use to love this show. No more. Glad Carl bit the big one. So glad for fast forwarding. Didn’t have to listen to his whining moralizing. I just hope Rick becomes Zombie meat before the series ends.
its a good show, the problem is their starting to milk every episode like a soup opera.!! i think george romero was right when he said, its a show with a few dead people in it.!!!
I love the show but it is getting to be nothing but a “good guys vs bad guys” shoot out at the OK Corral every season. I wish the show would get back to the virus/cause of the infection and what’s being done to combat it and trying to find a cure.
Also more background stories on searching for supplies, food, etc.
No one wants to see background stories on gathering supplies
The show has been in decline ever since they decided to drop zombies to the background, because the “real enemies” are “people”. (I don’t care what pseudo-philosophical people say, this is a ZOMBIE show, and should be ABOUT zombies) Not just that, they made zombies weak and easily killable, to maybe satisfy the group of wanting to watch zombies get killed all the time, rather than the other way around, zombies terrorizing humans, REAL horror (like in the greatest Season 1) So no, it’s not “zombies fatigue” but “bad people fatigue”. Afterall, every other show is about bad people, and… Read more »
tout a fait d’accord avec toi , cette série est devenue une purge , un calvaire a regarder
EP 5 was just awesome; a weak ep4 is to blame for that decline. This show is simply amcesome!!
Please finish the killing cycle of each season, we really got tired of that, gathering people around then attack to the bad camp and keep doing that. Why people care about this show so much? Yes it was good at first with many great and questionable scenes and good talk you know like a cautionary tale but nothing left of it.
Don’t get me wrong I love this show but keeping it longer means nothing and needs to be finished.
Considering how many shows that are on now are getting WORSE and WORSE RATINGS, along with WORSE and WORSE with the storylines, I would prefer to see this show stay around. They’ve been in basically 2 places for 8 seasons. It is time to get the main cast( or whoever the show runner wants to keep in the show) back on the road at the end of the season.
Even with a huge drop, it’s still by far the leader in ratings.
But shows can drop very quickly. As soon as it hits the 5/6 million mark, it is going to be in the danger zone. There is no good television these days and no big franchise has come along since so that might help it but it has peaked already, downhill from here. People would like to see an end goal at some point, otherwise we watch to go around in circles like the characters. We want satisfaction from this, we want to see what the point of all this is other than trying to drag it out at our financial… Read more »
Game of Thrones is still good, and it’s ratings aren’t dropping at all. In fact, it’s season 7 finale has surpassed The Walking Dead’s season 7 finale in 18-49 to become the top-rated show.
Yes it did. How many years did it take for that to happen? How many seasons did The Walking Dead have higher ratings than Game of Thrones? I’m sure Game will have better ratings next season than TWD, but then GAMES IS OVER! Keep in mind that GAMES has a WAY HIGHER BUDGET than The Walking Dead. Will The Walking Dead be back for a season 9? Or a season 10? Stay Tuned.
A lot more people watch Game of Thrones than The Walking Dead. Nielsen Ratings don’t tell the whole story. The reason as to why Game of Thrones has lower Nielsen Ratings is because it’s a premium cable channel, you’ve to pay a lot more to watch GOT compared to TWD. So those 18-49 ratings don’t actually matter more than overall viewers, every viewer is a paying subscriber, and they pay more than the average TWD viewer. Besides, less and less people watch live TV, so GOT’s gains are also spectacular in this day and age where almost every show is… Read more »