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The Walking Dead hits a high for FX

The Walking Dead season premiere scored the highest audience numbers FX has ever enjoyed.

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2013-10-15_2202The Walking Dead scored huge ratings in the US at over 16.1 million viewers and in Australia it also scored well in the Subscription TV world.

The fourth season premiere hit the best ever ratings for the show and the highest audience numbers FX has ever enjoyed.

The season 4 premiere was the top rated title on Monday averaging 100,000 viewers, but had a total of 216,000 viewers across FX and FX+2.

Karin Simoncini, Managing Director for FOX International Channels Australia said “The Walking Dead has become a global phenomenon, and these numbers confirm that the show has a growing following in Australia. We are thrilled with the results and sincere thanks to fans that welcomed the much anticipated season 4 return to FX.”

The show also top trended on Twitter.

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  3. Homeland is fast-tracked, it rates 400k.
    Masters of Sex is fast-tracked it rates 300k.

    The Walking Dead rated 100k on cable at 8:30pm and 25% of household have cable. So it wouldn’t have rated more than 400k on FTA at the same time. Probably less that that because more of the people who watch things like The Walking Dead have cable. Most cable dramas rate a lot less than The Walking Dead in the US, more like 3-5m.

    The Blacklist rated 1.3m on Monday.

    So it just isn’t economical for FTA to buy them. The Sopranos was shown by Nine at Midnight and got around 600k (back in the days when top 8:30pm dramas rated 2m)

    Also Foxtel has deals for HBO for exclusive showing for years. And some sort of deal with 20th Century Fox and Showtime.

  5. @MHA – Problem for FTA is that none of those could start at the times the Reality Shows are on anyway, so there would be a glut of shows to show at those later times (they can’t fit them all in).

    M rated is only allowed on between 8:30 pm and 5:00 am (and 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm on schooldays) MA15+/AV15+ rated is only allowed to be shown between 9:30 pm and 5:00 am. Much like Hannibal had to shown at a later time on Seven, Sons Of Anarchy is on at 9:30pm on ONE, Breaking Bad is shown at 9:30pm on ABC2 and etc., so would The Walking Dead and those ilk of shows.

  7. You are so right Randwick. The FTA networks with all their reality show dross are mostly no-go zones in our house. Why aren’t all these HBO, AMC, Showtime, FX, Sundance programs on FTA first? They would draw much larger audiences fastracked on FTA instead of being left as Pay TV premieres with duiluted numbers owing to the high pricing of Pay TV and ready availabilty elsewhere.

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