Sunday, May 24, 2026

Lowest Ratings Ever: “The Walking Dead” Returns with First Episode Since October, Dropped Another 8%

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“The Walking Dead” is crawling dead, to its end. I don’t understand why there are spin offs coming.

Sunday night’s episode was the first since October. The show returned down 8.25% with just 1.756 million viewers. That’s literally one-tenth pf its 17 million when the series was all the rage. That was a long time ago.

The ratings have collapsed over time, this whole last run, since it began in August. But with this disappointing return, things are only going to get worse. Where did all the viewers go? I guess all their favorite characters have been eaten or whatever.

 

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York 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. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. 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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