{"id":21730,"date":"2012-03-20T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=21730"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:50:40","slug":"the-walking-dead-season-2-ratings-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-season-2-ratings-double\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead Season 2 ratings double"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21732\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-season-2-ratings-double\/attachment\/the-walking-dead-season-2-finale\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21732\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21732\" title=\"The Walking Dead Season 2 finale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-2-finale.jpg\" alt=\"The Walking Dead Season 2 finale\" width=\"608\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-2-finale.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-2-finale-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) in Season 2 of The Walking Dead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The shocking finale of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-season-3-doctor-whos-david-morrissey-is-the-governor\/\">The Walking Dead<\/a><\/em> Season 2 hit ratings of 10.5 million when it aired on cable channel AMC, nearly double the 5.4 million who tuned in when the series aired on Halloween 2010, and a significant increase on the Season 2 mid-season premier which drew in a not-unimpressive 8.1 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Already the most watched cable drama series ever, Season 2 has set a new record, and along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/tag\/game-of-thrones\/\">Game Of Thrones<\/a> is one of the few genre shows whose ratings have defied the trend and actually risen across the broadcast of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking finale of Season 2 of AMC&#8217;s The Walking Dead is watched by 10.5 million viewers in the US, setting a new record for the most watched cable show ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":21732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1550],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-Walking-Dead-Season-2-finale.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}