Cablemetrics: The Walking Dead, People of Earth

These numbers are current through Monday, October 31.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Week two of The Walking Dead brought a 27% week-to-week drop, but the resulting 6.09 demo was only about a single tenth behind the year-ago week two. Sustaining that stratospheric level from the cliffhanger-inflated premiere was probably never gonna happen, but it would go down as a huge win if all this can ultimately keep the show within a league average drop. So week two looks positive in that sense, especially since it had World Series competition as well. (The aftershow Talking Dead plummeted even harder, down 45% to a 2.03 in week two.)

• The new TBS comedy People of Earth had some previews after the baseball playoffs but had its official timeslot opener on Halloween with a 0.34/0.28 demo for the double-episode premiere. That's a touch above where Angie Tribeca opened its second season (0.29) on this night back in June, but well behind other recent TBS premiers like The Detour (0.52) and Wrecked (0.61). It will hope to get some help in week two from the return of American Dad!, whose return got bumped to next Monday.

FULL TABLE:
 

Name	Net	Ep	A18-49	Last	Seas	Avg	y2y	Proj	ProjPlus	Skew	Male
The Walking Dead	AMC	2	6.09	-27%	7	7.22	+4%	7.01	556	62%	53%
Talking Dead Fall	AMC	2	2.03	-45%	3	3.01	+21%	2.60	206	61%	51%
American Horror Story	FX	7	1.41	+4%	6	1.70	-6%	1.40	111	68%	42%
South Park	COME	6	0.84	+11%	10	1.01	+19%	1.05	83	77%	75%
Westworld	HBO	5	0.65	-6%	1	0.74		0.68	54	54%	62%
Queen Sugar	OWN	8	0.48	-6%	1	0.52		0.50	40	35%	28%
Shameless	SHOW	5	0.42	-24%	6	0.50	-22%	0.50	39	49%	52%
Atlanta	FX	9	0.32	-27%	1	0.44		0.43	34	63%	55%
The Strain	FX	10	0.39	-3%	3	0.42	-32%	0.41	32	55%	51%
People of Earth	TBS	2	0.31	-9%	1	0.31		0.27	22	46%
Z Nation	SYFY	7	0.24	+4%	3	0.27	-24%	0.25	20	38%	51%
Better Things	FX	8	0.16	-27%	1	0.20		0.19	15	53%	42%
Eyewitness	USA	3	0.20	+33%	1	0.18		0.18	14	36%	38%
Divorce	HBO	4	0.16	-11%	1	0.18		0.16	13	35%	51%
For Better or Worse	OWN	6	0.20	+5%	4	0.18	-29%	0.17	14	33%
Aftermath	SYFY	5	0.19	-5%	1	0.18		0.18	14	35%
Van Helsing	SYFY	7	0.16	0%	1	0.17		0.17	13	32%	52%
Falling Water	USA	3	0.15	-6%	1	0.17		0.15	11	37%	37%
Insecure	HBO	4	0.13	-13%	1	0.14		0.13	10	42%
Masters of Sex	SHOW	8	0.08	-33%	4	0.11	-17%	0.11	9	32%
You're the Worst	FXX	9	0.10	-17%	3	0.11	-15%	0.11	9	58%

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