After a strong opening for its Season 7 premiere, viewership for AMC’s hit zombie show The Walking Dead continues to decline. Episode 6, which aired on November 27, reached 14.3 million total viewers, according to The Wrap. Of the total, 8.9 million viewers came from the important 18-49 demographic. These numbers include figures for November 27 and three days after, to factor in DVR and such.
As The Wrap notes, 14.3 million viewers is absolutely massive for a cable TV show. However, it’s a dropoff from what the AMC show had been netting for viewers in the past. According to the site, it’s almost a four-year low, falling back to where figures were for the second half of Season 3 in 2013.
The Walking Dead‘s Season 1 premiere drew more than 17 million viewers, which was close to a record for the show. A strong start was expected, as the fist episode finally answered the Season 6 finale cliffhanger question of which character the evil Negan would murder with his barbed-wire baseball bat, Lucille.
Episode 7 premiered on December 4, though viewership figures for the show have not been released yet.
An eighth season of The Walking Dead is on the way, scheduled to start in late 2017 with the show’s 100th episode. Showrunner Scott Gimple is coming back for the new season.
The next Walking Dead game, Telltale’s The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, debuts on December 20 with a two-part premiere.
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