Television life imitating comic book art? After shockingly boffo premiere ratings, The Walking Dead's second episode dipped only slightly, and now the third episode has seen total viewership spike back up to near premiere episode levels. The coveted 18-49 demo has remained virtually unchanged since the premiere.
Ratings for The Walking Dead – Episode 3
- 10pm airing – 5.1 million viewers
- Adults 18-49 – 3.3 million viewers
Ratings for The Walking Dead – Episode 2
- 10pm airing – 4.7 million viewers
- Adults 18-49 – 3.3 million viewers
Ratings for the The Walking Dead – Episode 1
- 10pm airing – 5.3 million total viewers
- Adults 18-49 – 3.6 million viewers
Robert Kirkman is having a good month.
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Cowabunga! Word of mouth still works.
When will AMC be launching their premium all comic-book-adaptation channel, with series of "Preacher", "Strangers in Paradise", and "Alias"?
And BOOM goes the dynamite!! That’s awesome news.
Incredible.
I want to see Y the Last Man on tv next.
I really want a Y: The Last Man tv show on AMC!!!!!!
@S1lentslayer – I would love to see Y. But issue with Y would be that the networks would need to commit to the WHOLE story. They don’t tend to do that. Let’s hope it gets made.
I am so happy for the success of the show.
watching this show really makes me think they could pull of Preacher on cable tv
The wife avoided the first 2 eps because she thought it would be scary…now she asked me to DVR the repeats that were on last night so she could watch the series from the start. You can’t resist. ha
Well, this really is insane. Now the viewership grows in the same manner as the readership. Now I know Kirkman sold his soul.
This is tremendous news! I really enjoyed episode 3….
I would love to see 100 Bullets get the treatment. It would have to be on HBO or Showtime but it would make a great series and you wouldn’t have to follow the book exactly. There’s room to do different things.
I think Y is the logical choice for the next mid-major comics series to be adapted to tv.
Yep, Y tlm would be awesome. And if they got BKV involved, even better. Would it be better to have an outsider manage or interpret your material? Creators could be be to attached to it and maybe even hinder themselves a bit. Just a thought. Happens to others in the arts. Kudos to kirkman’s creation and the team that beautifully rendered it on the screen.
You figure its a certainty that Y gets made eventually, I just hope its a series as opposed to a movie.
You’d have to think Y would be fairly cheap to produce except for the monkey wrangler each week. It definitely makes sense more as a tv series than movie.
I don’t have cable, but I do have cable internet. I subscribed to the show via Amazon: love it! No commercials. Cost per episode: $1.89. Well worth it. Congrats to everyone involved. You deserve an even larger viewership.
At least it beat out Sarah Palin’s reality show ratings…which is proof the apocalypse isn’t here….yet.
wait. was that tonight? LOL! I thought that was the rerun. XD. That’s fine I’ll pick up the rerun later on next week.
i agree with everyone on the y the last man series.id also like to see a hellblazer hbo show.i also thought watchmen would have worked better as a show.
As it should. It’s a fantastic example of hopefully more comic related serials.
I’m letting everyone I know that they should watch it but he said maybe.
Final numbers were 5.074 million, 2.5/7 A18-49. Not bad at all! I wonder what kind of deal Kirkman has with AMC…I’ve heard cable networks are notoriously cheap to their creators. Hopefully he’s well compensated.