Ratings Watch: ‘The Walking Dead’ Still Killer in Its Return

Michael Schneider February 21, 2016, 8:36 pm

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These zombies are very much alive.

AMC’s The Walking Dead returned last Sunday for the second half of the Season 6 with 19.1 million viewers (after three days of DVR and VOD usage is included).

That’s down just slightly from last year’s midseason premiere (20.3 million). The Walking Dead was also the most-timeshifted show of the week, jumping 5.3 million viewers in three days.

Among adults 18-49, The Walking Dead jumped from a 6.8 rating to a 9.6 when Live+3 ratings were tallied, up vs. the show’s final episode in the fall (9.3).

Among other series, NBC’s The Blacklist had the highest time-shifted percentage lift of the week (up 65%) of any show on the Big 4 broadcast networks. On cable, shows with hefty lifts included FX’s The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story (+91%), USA’s Colony (up 100%), Showtime’s Billions (+90%), Bravo’s Top Chef (+114%) and MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles (+123%).

Here are the top 25 shows (including Live+3 DVR and VOD data) among total viewers and adults 18-49 for the week of February 8 through 14, 2016.

Total viewers chart:

RANK	SHOW & NETWORK	LIVE+3 DAYS DVR/VOD	WATCHED LIVE/ SAME DAY
1	The Big Bang Theory CBS	20.9	16.3
2	NCIS CBS	19.6	16.9
3	The Walking Dead AMC	19.1	13.7
4	NCIS: New Orleans CBS	15.0	12.6
5	Blue Bloods CBS	14.5	10.9
6	Campaign 2016 Republican Debate CBS	14.0	13.4
7	Scorpion CBS	13.9	11.4
8	NCIS: Los Angeles CBS	12.6	9.8
9	Madam Secretary CBS	12.1	10.1
10	Hawaii Five-O CBS	11.8	8.9
11	Criminal Minds CBS Chicago P.D. NBC	11.6 11.6	9.0 8.3
13	Modern Family ABC	11.0	7.8
14	Grey’s Anatomy ABC	10.9	8.3
15	Chicago Fire NBC Life in Pieces CBS 60 Minutes CBS	10.8 10.8 10.8	8.1 9.3 10.4
18	American Idol (Wednesday) Fox The X-Files Fox	10.7 10.7	9.2 8.3
20	The Blacklist NBC	10.6	6.4
21	American Idol (Thursday) Fox Law & Order: SVU NBC	10.4 10.4	9.0 7.6
23	The Good Wife CBS	10.2	8.0
24	Scandal ABC	10.0	7.0
25	Code Black CBS	9.9	7.1

Total viewers; in millions

Adults 18-49 chart:

RANK	SHOW & NETWORK	LIVE+3 DAYS DVR/VOD RATING	WATCHED LIVE/ SAME DAY RATING
1	The Walking Dead AMC	9.6	6.8
2	The Big Bang Theory CBS	5.6	3.8
3	Modern Family ABC	3.9	2.6
4	Talking Dead AMC	3.6	3.1
5	The X-Files Fox	3.5	2.5
6	Grey’s Anatomy ABC	3.4	2.4
7	Scandal ABC	3.3	2.1
8	How to Get Away with Murder ABC	3.2	1.8
9	The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story FX	3.1	1.5
10	The Bachelor ABC NCIS CBS Chicago P.D. NBC	3.0 3.0 3.0	2.5 2.4 2.0
13	Law & Order: SVU NBC	2.9	1.9
14	Scorpion CBS 2016 NBA All-Star Game TNT NBA All-Star Saturday Night TNT	2.8 2.8 2.8	2.1 2.7 2.6
17	American Idol (Wednesday) Fox Criminal Minds CBS	2.7 2.7	2.2 1.8
19	Black-ish ABC The Goldbergs ABC Life in Pieces CBS The Blacklist NBC	2.6 2.6 2.6 2.6	1.8 2.0 2.1 1.4
23	American Idol (Thursday) Fox Lucifer Fox Chicago Fire NBC	2.5 2.5 2.5	2.1 1.7 1.8