‘Walking Dead’ Ratings Fall To Midseason Return Low; Steady With 2018 Last Show

The dreaded Whisperers have truly arrived on The Walking Dead but the scariest villains from the comics couldn’t make much ratings noise against the Grammys on Sunday.

Music’s biggest night hit its lowest result ever among adults 18-49 on February 10 and the zombie apocalypse drama tumbled to a midseason return viewership and demo rock bottom too.

While the Greg Nicotero directed “Adaptation” started putting the horror back into the AMC series based on Robert Kirkman’s comics, the decline that has plagued TWD the past few years seems to have become the norm – as is the case in the majority of TV, as the Grammys could tell you.

Back for the first time since November 25 last year, the ninth episode of the ninth season of TWD was watched by an audience of 5.2 million. Among the 18-49 demo, there were 2.6 million viewers for a 2.0 rating.

Basically, steady for the Season 9 midseason finale of last fall in both categories, the midseason return fell 44% from the Season 8 midseason return of February 25, 2018.

Dominated by the anticipated death of Chandler Riggs portrayed Carl Grimes, that midseason return did not face the Grammys on CBS. However, “Honor” episode did take on and beat the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Games.

Viewershipwise, Sunday’s Season 9 midseason return dropped 40% from its Season 8 equivalent. Before this week, the previous TWD midseason return low was the 8.1 million who tuned in for the Season 2 return on February 12, 2012.

Yet, in an ever-changing TV landscape, all is not ratings doom and gloom for AMC’s big kahuna.

TWD is still the top-rated show on cable. Also, despite a loss to the Grammys among the 18-49s this year, remains the second highest rated series on all of TV after NBC’s This Is Us.

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