Sunday, June 21, 2026

Sunday Ratings: “The Walking Dead” Dies a Little More Loses Another 500K Viewers

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“The Walking Dead” used to be scary. But now it’s their numbers that are spooking everyone.

Sunday night the show fell by 500,000 viewers to 2,259,000. The prior week was 2.7 million and already in peril.

The combination of Oprah with the royals, the NBA All Star game, Critics Choice Awards, and doing the dishes made “The Walking Dead” squeal and evaporate like a dead zombie. I am so sorry.

The All Star game scored 4,665,000 million and certainly grabbed cable viewers. Oprah did the rest.

That’s also the lowest number ever for “The Walking Dead,” whose interest seems to be gone. Are they still making spin offs and standalone movies? Hmmmm…..

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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