Fear The Walking Dead ratings strong despite heavy competition
By Adam Carlson
AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead finds their television ratings holding steady through season 2 despite tough competition from shows like HBO’s Game of Thrones.
This week was an exceptionally tough one for Fear The Walking Dead. The AMC companion series has been struggling to pick up extra viewer during the second season and has found themselves up against some of the strongest competition in their Sunday night time slot.
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Putting things in perspective, AMC’s zombie survival drama went head-to-head with established juggernaut Game of Thrones for the second week in a row. Not only that, but the show had a professional wrestling pay per view to contend with when WWE Payback was live at the same time as well as episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, The Good Wife, Family Guy, and Last Man On Earth.
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Despite that competition, ratings for Fear The Walking Dead didn’t dip for episode 4 titled “Blood in the Streets” according to ComicBook.com, drawing in approximately 4.8 million viewers with 2.1 million of those in the coveted adults 18 – 49 demographic. Last week, “Ouroboros” scored 4.73 million viewers, while opposite the Game of Thrones season 6 premiere.
It is fascinating to see that Fear The Walking Dead is holding steady against this amazing competition, as AMC is proving that their zombie survival drama fans are a loyal bunch who continue to tune in to find out what is going on with Victor Strand and the Manawa, Clark, and Salazar families. Even though the show doesn’t have the established characters or audiences like the long-running shows listed above, this record-breaking program shows why fans will always be hungry for the undead, even when The Walking Dead goes on break.
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You can catch Fear The Walking Dead on Sunday, May 8, 2016 when the AMC drama shows “Captive”, the fifth episode of the show’s second season and the eleventh overall episode in the series. Hopefully, ratings can continue to hold steady or even climb slightly as fans continue to tune in and find out just how hard it is to survive the zombie apocalypse, even when living on a boat in the middle of the ocean.