Cablemetrics: Into the Badlands, Big Little Lies, The Arrangement, Underground

These numbers are current through Monday, March 20.

WHAT MATTERS:

• After 15 months off, AMC's sophomore drama Into the Badlands returned with a 1.42 demo rating, retaining less than a third of its lead-in from The Walking Dead (4.72). That's a far cry from the November 2015 series premiere (3.15) as well as the other two episodes that aired after The Walking Dead (2.27 & 2.46). Of course, Dead itself was getting much bigger raw ratings back then (with a 6.51, 6.65 and 7.02 in those weeks). Like last year, Badlands will get three weeks of The Walking Dead as a lead-in before setting out on its own.

• It was a nice week for some female-skewing newbies. After Bravo's Imposters (0.31) rose to a new series high on Tuesday, E!'s The Arrangement (0.38) had its own new high on Sunday. For perspective, both shows are still retaining half or less of their big reality show lead-ins, but improvement is good. And Big Little Lies, which at least skews female for an HBO show, also had a new series high at 0.44 on Sunday.

• On the flip side, WGN's Underground (0.23) and the Freeform comedies Baby Daddy (0.21) and Young and Hungry (0.18) all had considerable drops in their second weeks back.

FULL TABLE:

Name	Net	Ep	A18-49	Last	Seas	Avg	y2y	Proj	ProjPlus	Skew	Male
The Walking Dead Spring	AMC	14	4.72	-3%	7	5.04	-19%	5.10	412	59%	53%
Into the Badlands	AMC	1	1.42		2	1.42	-55%	0.81	65	52%	54%
The Haves and the Have Nots	OWN	11	0.67	+12%	4	0.69	-13%	0.69	55	34%	30%
Greenleaf	OWN	1	0.48		2	0.48	-43%	0.36	29	37%	28%
Legion	FX	6	0.34	-11%	1	0.48		0.44	36	58%	61%
The Detour	TBS	5	0.44	+2%	2	0.46	+8%	0.44	35	51%	52%
Bates Motel	A&E	5	0.48	+17%	5	0.46	-23%	0.42	34	45%	43%
Being Mary Jane	BET	9	0.34	-8%	5	0.42	-43%	0.42	34	55%	22%
Homeland	SHOW	9	0.45	+2%	6	0.39	-15%	0.43	35	41%	52%
Feud: Bette and Joan	FX	3	0.29	-3%	1	0.37		0.31	25	30%	48%
The Arrangement	E!	3	0.38	+19%	1	0.35		0.35	28	57%	20%
The Magicians	SYFY	8	0.29	+21%	2	0.34	+10%	0.33	27	50%	56%
Big Little Lies	HBO	5	0.44	+22%	1	0.34		0.37	30	44%	44%
Underground	WGNA	2	0.23	-38%	2	0.30	-9%	0.29	23	44%	37%
The Fosters	FREE	16	0.28	+8%	4	0.30	-6%	0.30	24	51%	23%
Workaholics	COME	10	0.28	0%	8	0.29	-11%	0.29	24	78%	68%
Colony	USA	10	0.24	-14%	2	0.26	-30%	0.26	21	41%	47%
Major Crimes	TNT	17	0.27	-7%	5	0.26	-31%	0.30	24	15%	37%
Girls	HBO	6	0.26	-16%	6	0.25	+4%	0.26	21	55%	44%
Baby Daddy	FREE	2	0.21	-28%	6	0.25	-4%	0.25	20	62%	32%
Imposters	BRAV	6	0.31	+35%	1	0.24		0.27	21	43%	26%
Billions	SHOW	5	0.28	-10%	2	0.24	-17%	0.27	22	39%	62%
The Americans	FX	2	0.24	0%	5	0.24	-16%	0.22	17	33%	58%
Outsiders	WGNA	8	0.20	-5%	2	0.22	-23%	0.22	18	36%	54%
Young and Hungry	FREE	2	0.18	-22%	4	0.20	-27%	0.19	15	62%	35%
Detroiters	COME	6	0.24	+50%	1	0.20		0.22	17	68%	66%
Baskets	FX	9	0.17	-19%	2	0.20	-26%	0.20	16	53%	53%
The Expanse	SYFY	7	0.13	-13%	2	0.19	-15%	0.19	15	41%
Sun Records	CMT	4	0.12	-14%	1	0.15		0.13	11	29%	46%
Crashing	HBO	5	0.11	-35%	1	0.14		0.13	10	47%
Humans	AMC	6	0.10	-5%	2	0.14	-65%	0.14	11	37%

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