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It was #3 in viewers among all Sunday night programs (beneath &#8220;Little Big Shots&#8221; and &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;) and #1 among cable programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TWD&#8221; led into &#8220;Talking Dead,&#8221; which drew a 1.56 rating and averaged 3.56 million overall viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82317,"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":[671,1539,3787,969],"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;The Walking Dead&quot; Dips Despite Lack Of Oscars Competition, Still Dominates Sunday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unlike last week&#039;s episode, this Sunday&#039;s &quot;The Walking Dead&quot; did not face competition from the Academy Awards. 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