"The Walking Dead" Season 3 Ratings: Premiere Breaks Records
10/15/2012


"The Walking Dead" continues to shatter ratings records. The Season 3 premiere of AMC's popular drama had 10.9 million viewers at 9 p.m. and 15.2 million when factoring in the encore. It was up 50 percent compared to the Season 2 premiere.

"Thank you to the fans for making 'The Walking Dead' such a tremendous success. We are honored and humbled that television's largest adult audience resides on AMC. So many people on both sides of the camera worked tirelessly on this project, and I thank and congratulate each of them for their amazing contribution," Charlie Collier, president of AMC, said in a statement.





"The Walking Dead" Season 3 premiere not only set a series record, but also beat popular dramas "The Good Wife" (9 million viewers, 1.7 rating) and "Revenge" (8.2 million viewers, 2.7 rating) in total viewers and in the demo rating in the competitive 9 p.m. timeslot.

According to AMC, "The Walking Dead" Season 3 premiere had 7.3 million adults in the 18-49 demographic. AMC reports "The Walking Dead's" 18-49 demo viewership is more than any other show on both broadcast and cable this year.

The premiere is also the biggest basic cable telecast ever amongst total viewers.

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Did anyone see last nights episode? It was awesome. Thought it was one of the best to date.

I recorded it & watched it today. I was really shocked by one of the main character's death. I did not expect that at all. I was really expecting Hershel to be the next casualty, boy was I wrong about that one. Great episode by the way.

I recorded it & watched it today. I was really shocked by one of the main character's death. I did not expect that at all. I was really expecting Hershel to be the next casualty, boy was I wrong about that one. Great episode by the way.
It was a great episode. I was shocked by the death, but I can't say I'm disappointed. I was not a fan of the character. This certainly does change the direction of several characters though.

From next weeks previews, it looks like Rick may be going off the deep end. And I wonder how Carl will cope with his part in all of it? Should be a good episode.

The Walking Dead keeps outdoing itself. Last nights episode was fantastic. Can't wait for February 10.