{"id":111226,"date":"2018-04-24T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=111226"},"modified":"2018-04-24T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:23:43","slug":"ratings-fear-walking-dead-sinks-without-twd-lead-still-tops-westworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/04\/24\/ratings-fear-walking-dead-sinks-without-twd-lead-still-tops-westworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings: &#8220;Fear The Walking Dead&#8221; Sinks Without &#8220;TWD,&#8221; Still Fares Well Competitively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airing without lead-in support from &#8220;The Walking Dead,&#8221; Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Fear The Walking Dead&#8221; predictably fell from last week&#8217;s premiere in adults 18-49 and overall viewers.<\/p>\n<p>According to live+same-day data posted by Showbuzz, Sunday&#8217;s episode drew a 1.09 adults 18-49 rating and averaged 3.07 million overall viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers markedly trail the 1.63 rating and 4.09 million viewer mark posted by last week&#8217;s episode.<br \/>\n They nonetheless top the show&#8217;s third season average (0.9 rating, 2.4 million viewers).<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this season of &#8220;Fear&#8221; has been rebooted into a more conventional &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221; spin-off (and even features a crossover character in Morgan).  The previous three seasons functioned as a loosely related prequel\/auxiliary series.<\/p>\n<p>As such, it was not unreasonable expect non-trivial ratings improvement this year.  And insofar as dramas often fall as their seasons progress, there is no guarantee viewership for the current season of &#8220;Fear&#8221; will remain comfortably ahead of last season&#8217;s audience level.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is doubtful AMC is too concerned.  &#8220;Fear The Walking Dead&#8221; remains a strong performer by conventional cable standards.  In terms of Sunday&#8217;s cable originals, it beat everything but NBA Playoffs coverage.<\/p>\n<p>It, notably, outperformed HBO&#8217;s heavily hyped &#8220;Westworld&#8221; premiere in the live+same-day ratings (0.89 rating, 2.06 million viewers).  While the comparison is not technically apples-to-apples (&#8220;Westworld&#8221; airs on a premium channel with less reach, and HBO shows tend to receive atypically massive lifts from DVR, encores, on-demand and streaming), big HBO dramas definitely <i>can<\/i> attract live viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The victory is, therefore, not something to completely dismiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fear The Walking Dead&#8221; was also up from its third season average.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[671,4865],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings: &quot;Fear The Walking Dead&quot; 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