The Walking Dead Ratings Fall To Lowest In Years

[hex]

10 as in 10 million? Didnt people saying westworld is a big success when it's just averaging a million more?

The difference is "Westworld" is in it's first season and those numbers are the biggest debut for an HBO show since "Game Of Thrones". Plus the ratings continue to rise.

"TWD" is in it's 7th season and the numbers continue to drop.

Also the bar for success is a lot lower on HBO vs basic cable, same as the bar is lower for basic cable vs network TV.

"TWD" ain't going anywhere, regardless because AMC has nothing to replace it with.

Fred.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

I like the show but it is starting to get repetitive..I usually think people overreact just because an episode isn't action packed but these past two episodes have been so trash

"Westworld". That's all I'm gonna say.

Fred.

I don't have HBO but I been hearing good things about this show plus my bae Tessa Thompson is on there

 

[3rd Koast Kang]

Thought I was the only one who thought shyt is wack now. I made it up to season 5 but I cant watch anymore. These nikkas just going in circles.

 

[beenz]

10 as in 10 million? Didnt people saying westworld is a big success when it's just averaging a million more?

1M is a major success cuz HBO is on a premium pay channel. thats 1M people paying $10-$15 a month just for that one channel.

AMC needs ratings because they obviously can charge more for all the commercials if they have more viewers watching. HBO doesn't depend on advertising obviously.

 

[Tasha And]

Thought I was the only one who thought shyt is wack now. I made it up to season 5 but I cant watch anymore. These nikkas just going in circles.

That's the same season I stopped. Though it wasn't really a conscious decision. I had something to do one Sunday night so I missed an episode in the middle of season 5. I told myself "no problem, I'll just catch up later in the week"

But before I knew it, it was Sunday again and I couldn't watch the new episode because I still hadn't watched last weeks. So I told myself "no problem, the mid-season finale is in a few weeks. I'll just wait until they all air and have something to watch during the off-season"

The off-season came and one day I realized that to catch up I would have to spend an entire day binging the walking dead

And it was like suddenly, I realized I didn't really give a fukk about these characters or subplots anymore. I had been depending on the comic fans to give me hope. First it was, yeah I know season 2 sucks but wait until Michonne comes....Michonne came and the show as still

Then they were like, wait until you see Tyreese.....Tyreese came and even my love for Cutty couldn't stop me from hating his character

So then it was, yeah I know this show still sucks but wait until The Governor storyline kicks in.....and the Governor storyline started and the show was still

Then the comic fans told me well, wait until the cannibals show up......some okay moments, but overall still



When I stopped watching, the Beth Storyline was going on with everyone hates Chris, and I was told Morgan had appeared, but I just couldn't muster up the energy to spend 4-5 hours watching it so I could catch up. I had only been really watching it so I could crack jokes and have fun with people online as the show aired. Without that fukkery, there was no way I could have enjoyed wasting a perfectly good Saturday on a show that kept delivering empty promises. I was free

I think I ended up binging The Sopranos instead and finally let go of that L

I do remember when season 6 came back around, I heard the internet saying just you wait until Negan shows up....the end all be all....before Negan won't compare to After Negan.........and I briefly thought about binging so I could watch....but man I saw those 10 episodes or so staring at me and I felt too overwhelmed to even fake like I could do it Def not falling for the "just wait until blank happens" that the comic fans love to dangle in front of bored show only viewers anymore.

I'm hearing that the show is as bad as it's ever been, even post-Negan, but as always, there is another promise, just wait until All Out War

fukk you

I think that is the real danger in the bleeding of viewers that the show has at the moment. Not that fans aren't watching the show anymore, but that they will stop watching it live, and treating it as an event that must be shared with everyone else as it airs. Or when they come to the decision to watch Westworld live, and catch Walking Dead later in the week. And the moment that happens is the moment apathy could creep in. And before you know it, the person saying "I'll catch up later" might turn into the "I don't feel like watching 4 straight hours of this". When you take away the water cooler aspect of watching the show, you take away a large incentive to even watch the show.

 

[Red Shield]

That's the same season I stopped. Though it wasn't really a conscious decision. I had something to do one Sunday night so I missed an episode in the middle of season 5. I told myself "no problem, I'll just catch up later in the week"

But before I knew it, it was Sunday again and I couldn't watch the new episode because I still hadn't watched last weeks. So I told myself "no problem, the mid-season finale is in a few weeks. I'll just wait until they all air and have something to watch during the off-season"

The off-season came and one day I realized that to catch up I would have to spend an entire day binging the walking dead

And it was like suddenly, I realized I didn't really give a fukk about these characters or subplots anymore. I had been depending on the comic fans to give me hope. First it was, yeah I know season 2 sucks but wait until Michonne comes....Michonne came and the show as still

Then they were like, wait until you see Tyreese.....Tyreese came and even my love for Cutty couldn't stop me from hating his character

So then it was, yeah I know this show still sucks but wait until The Governor storyline kicks in.....and the Governor storyline started and the show was still

Then the comic fans told me well, wait until the cannibals show up......some okay moments, but overall still



When I stopped watching, the Beth Storyline was going on with everyone hates Chris, and I was told Morgan had appeared, but I just couldn't muster up the energy to spend 4-5 hours watching it so I could catch up. I had only been really watching it so I could crack jokes and have fun with people online as the show aired. Without that fukkery, there was no way I could have enjoyed wasting a perfectly good Saturday on a show that kept delivering empty promises. I was free

I think I ended up binging The Sopranos instead and finally let go of that L

I do remember when season 6 came back around, I heard the internet saying just you wait until Negan shows up....the end all be all....before Negan won't compare to After Negan.........and I briefly thought about binging so I could watch....but man I saw those 10 episodes or so staring at me and I felt too overwhelmed to even fake like I could do it Def not falling for the "just wait until blank happens" that the comic fans love to dangle in front of bored show only viewers anymore.

I'm hearing that the show is as bad as it's ever been, even post-Negan, but as always, there is another promise, just wait until All Out War

fukk you

I think that is the real danger in the bleeding of viewers that the show has at the moment. Not that fans aren't watching the show anymore, but that they will stop watching it live, and treating it as an event that must be shared with everyone else as it airs. And the moment that happens is the moment apathy could creep in. And before you know it, the person saying "I'll catch up later" might turn into the "I don't feel like watching 4 straight hours of this". When you take away the water cooler aspect of watching the show, you take away a large incentive to even watch the show.

Did the same shyt... missed a ep and before I knew it was I far behind. Forced myself to get caught up with the Beth storyline.. but dropped the show completely right before Rick took over that dc town.

 

[Black Andy Dwyer]

TWD is reaching Lost status at this point. Too many fillers cause AMC wants to milk this for as long as possible. I'd be cool with shorter seasons if they dropped the filler and kept moving things forward.

 

[Mr210]

Seasons need to be 10 episodes not 16...I'm reaching my end with this show, I don't even catch it live anymore

 

[ORDER_66]

Seasons need to be 10 episodes not 16...I'm reaching my end with this show, I don't even catch it live anymore

Some shows are worth the 16 episodes... I mean shyt look at 24... If the entire season is incredible it's worth the slowdown but Walking Dead gotta reinvent the wheel and have an end goal. it should be making it to washington... and finding what happened to the rest of the country, that would be badass..

 

[Black Andy Dwyer]

Some shows are worth the 16 episodes... I mean shyt look at 24... If the entire season is incredible it's worth the slowdown but Walking Dead gotta reinvent the wheel and have an end goal. it should be making it to washington... and finding what happened to the rest of the country, that would be badass..

See that's what I was hoping the show would be exploring. Like what happened to all the rich people during the outbreak? You can't tell me there isn't some sort of safe haven where the 1% resides as if nothing ever changed. I don't read the comics so I don't know if that's ever touched on, but it would be cool so see that explored on TV.

 

[ORDER_66]

See that's what I was hoping the show would be exploring. Like what happened to all the rich people during the outbreak? You can't tell me there isn't some sort of safe haven where the 1% resides as if nothing ever changed. I don't read the comics so I don't know if that's ever touched on, but it would be cool so see that explored on TV.

Yeah this shyt is frustrating because they acting like there was NOWHERE safe from the zombie outbreak or that they was working on a cure or some shyt!?!?

 

[Jello Biafra]

From TVLine:

The Walking Dead Hits a Four-Year Ratings Low — 6 Possible Reasons Why

Hey, don’t put this on Tara and Heath. Though Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead drew the AMC drama’s lowest numbers (10.4 million viewers and a 4.9 demo rating) since “Hounded,” all the way back in Season 3, the supporting characters on whom the installment was centered aren’t to blame. At least not entirely. Our six theories as to why the series has taken a dip?

1 | Backlash from the Season 7 premiere
More than half of the viewers who voted in our October polls said that the show had gone too far with its violent depiction of Glenn and Abraham’s murders, and almost 40 percent of respondents swore that they were done with the show. Maybe it just took them a while to realize that, when they’d claimed to be through, they’d actually meant it.

2 | Negan
Perhaps at the moment the audience just isn’t in the mood to watch a totalitarian ruler who thinks he’s hilarious tear apart a nice place like Alexandria while intimidating, demoralizing and/or humiliating every character who challenges him.

3 | Separation anxiety
Our core group of survivors is so scattered at this point that we’ve only seen them together in Episode 1’s bittersweet fantasy sequence. What’s more…

4 | People vanish for what feels like ages
We haven’t seen Carol in a month. Or Morgan. Or, after his eagerly anticipated introduction, King Ezekiel. (And you know there’s a problem when Enid is getting more airtime than Carol.) Meanwhile…

5 | We’re watching strangers
So many new characters have been introduced — and so quickly — that we aren’t getting to know them, much less care about them. And honestly, how many of us could even pick a Richard or a Benjamin out of a lineup?

6 | It’s depressing as hell
We know that we’re headed for an epic showdown. In the meantime, however, it’s a bummer-and-a-half to see Rick so broken and scared, and Daryl, reluctantly playing Negan’s lapdog.

I agree with pretty much all of those reasons.

 

[Optimus Prime]

It will be alright when it comes back in February especially if they end this first half with a big win over Negan. They will have no competition on Sunday nights in 2017. HBO won't have a big show on unless they run that Young Pope show at the same time and it takes off. They do need to shake things up though. Why hasn't someone visited DC to see whats going on at the White House or Pentagon. Even if its full of walkers, DC should be filled with supplies and/or the government might be surviving underground somehow. FTWD did reference that the 1% might have known what was going on and they maybe held up somewhere. Only thing though, i think the show-runner said they are going to follow the comics more closely and if thats true, its not going to change much

 

[beenz]

TWD is reaching Lost status at this point. Too many fillers cause AMC wants to milk this for as long as possible. I'd be cool with shorter seasons if they dropped the filler and kept moving things forward.

if they had shorter seasons, they'd be giving you two split seasons of 5 episodes each. I could easily see that kinda bullshyt.

 

[beenz]

It will be alright when it comes back in February especially if they end this first half with a big win over Negan. They will have no competition on Sunday nights in 2017. HBO won't have a big show on unless they run that Young Pope show at the same time and it takes off. They do need to shake things up though. Why hasn't someone visited DC to see whats going on at the White House or Pentagon. Even if its full of walkers, DC should be filled with supplies and/or the government might be surviving underground somehow. FTWD did reference that the 1% might have known what was going on and they maybe held up somewhere. Only thing though, i think the show-runner said they are going to follow the comics more closely and if thats true, its not going to change much

they ain't gonna get a big win over negan in this first half of the season. they might only get a small bit of their self respect back. nothing more I'm guessing.