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The Walking Dead ratings thriller for FX

FX is buoyed by the ratings for the 5th season premiere of The Walking Dead and its global express launch.

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2014-01-18_1307FX is buoyed by the ratings for the fifth season premiere of The Walking Dead earlier this week.

The season five primetime play ranked #1 on STV for the day, and with a total of 191,000 viewers tuning into FX and FX+2 across the day.

Jacqui Feeney, Managing Director for FOX International Channels Australia said “The Walking Dead has become a global phenomenon, and these numbers confirm the dead have never been more alive across the continent. We are thrilled with the results and thanks to our FX fans who welcomed the series return, there’s plenty more dead ahead.”

The series was simultaneously launched in 125 territories with FOX claiming it pioneered the strategy of globally launching shows within 24 hours of their US premiere.

The zombie series has already been renewed for a sixth seasion with Scott M. Gimple returning as the series’ showrunner and executive producer along with executive producers Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse.

The Walking Dead airs Mondays at 1.30pm & 8.30pm AEDT on FX.

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  2. I don’t think I can bear to wait for the current season to be on the new Boxsets channel, but I just hate the ad breaks on FX…
    I’m used to quality drama on quality channels.
    With no embedded ads.

  3. @narocos – TWD isn’t something you can jump into, it would be hard to know what is going on. The very first episode introduced Rick (the guy who killed the butchers) as a mild mannered small town cop & then the world goes to hell. The audience got to experience with him what’s it’s like being plunged into an apocalypse. The rest of his group meet over the seasons & everyone goes through a lot of growth adjusting to this strange new world. I love it because you see these people who were lawyers, office workers, delivery guys, etc become the kick arse survivalists you saw in this episode. I’ve watched the entire series 3 times (I’m obsessed, I even have the action figures lol!) & it’s so good. This episode was one of the best they’ve done – it was slower paced in the first couple of seasons & I liked that, you got to understand the characters & know why they…

  4. narocos300 Foxtel is launching a box sets channel soon. Which is every series of select shows available anytime. Stop watching current season now. Catch up on old seasons first. Totally worth it.

  5. @narocos300 If you can wait until Nov 3, you will be able to watch all previous seasons on the new Box Sets channel and save yourself some money on the DVDs

  6. I’ve just tuned in from this season as I’ve just joined the foxtel Gang, and will probably have to buy the previous Seasons on DVD to catch up 🙂

    It was pretty good, but no where near long enough but there obviously building on from previous Seasons and Mythology that I’ve missed can’t wait till next week 🙂

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