The Charts: The Walking Dead Returns to the Charts as Gotham Drops Off

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As expected, The Walking Dead returned at or near the top of all the charts it usually appears on with its mid-season premiere this past Sunday. It was Number 1 on the cable Top 25 based on total viewers and also on the General Sentiment chart the tracks social network activity. And it took second place on the Nielsen Twitter Ratings behind the Grammy’s. Expect it to remain high on these charts as it wraps up its fifth season. FOX’s Gotham fell out of the charts for the first time this season that it was airing a new episode. That show has seen its ratings drop the last few weeks, enough to get it out of the Top 25 with the latest tally. It has already been renewed for a second season, so it is safe. But it would be nice to see its numbers start trending up as the season closes out.

Here is the full look at chart activity for genre shows for the week of February 2nd thru 8th:

Nielsen Twitter Rankings
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment
The Walking Dead	AMC	2	n/a	Up

Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Ratings 18-49
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment	Rating	Prior Week
No Genre Entries

Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment	Viewers (MM)	Prior Week
Person of Interest	CBS	20	n/a	Up	9.3	n/a

Cable Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment	Viewers (MM)	Prior Week
The Walking Dead	AMC	1	n/a	Up	15.6	n/a
The Talking Dead	AMC	25	n/a	Up	2.8	n/a

General Sentiment – Broadcast Networks Top 25
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment
Agent Carter	ABC	9	9	Same
The 100	CW	12	15	Up
Vampire Diaries	CW	14	12	Down
Supernatural	CW	15	14	Down
The Flash	CW	17	25	Up
Gotham	FOX	19	18	Down
Arrow	CW	21	23	Up
The Originals	CW	22	21	Down
Sleepy Hollow	FOX	24	19	Down

General Sentiment – Cable Channels Top 25
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment
The Walking Dead	AMC	1	n/a	Up
12 Monkeys	Syfy	22	n/a	Up

Nielsen Twitter Ratings ranked based on the Unique Audience – The total number of distinct Twitter accounts accruing at least one impression of one or more different Tweets ascribed to a TV episode. More info at this link.

General Sentiment tracks activity across the social networks for shows airing new episodes in Prime Time (start times between 8:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST Monday – Saturday and 7:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST on Sunday). This data collected on seven (7) major broadcast networks and 43 cable television networks. More info at this link.