"Walking Dead" had 15.6 million viewers last night. "Better Call Saul" had 8.4 million viewers.
"“The Walking Dead” returned for the second half of its fifth season with a mid-season premiere that delivered 15.6 million total viewers and 10.1 million adults 18-49. “The Walking Dead” remains the #1 show in all of television among adults 18-49. Last night’s episode was the highest performing regularly-scheduled entertainment program of 2015. With time-shifted playback added in, this mid-season premiere of “The Walking Dead” should exceed more than 20 million viewers.
"AMC also expects to see significant time-shifting activity for “Better Call Saul,” as the show is opening up a new night of original programming for the network on Mondays. AMC will next release ratings information for “Better Call Saul” early next week, with the arrival of live+3 Nielsen ratings for the two-night premiere."
"AMC today announced that the premiere of “Better Call Saul” last night was the biggest series premiere in cable history, drawing 4.4 million adults 18-49 and 4.0 million adults 25-54. The second episode of “Better Call Saul” airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, as part of a two-night television premiere event."
The new episode of "Better Call Saul" on tonight without "Walking Dead" numbers affecting it, will give a better calculation of numbers watching "Better Call Saul".
“The new episode of “Better Call Saul” on tonight without “Walking Dead” numbers affecting it, will give a better calculation of numbers watching “Better Call Saul”.
Walking Dead has been on for a while and people are familiar with the show, Better Call Saul, not so much. For that reason isn’t comparing ratings at this point a bit like comparing apples to oranges?
The shows are in the same class, actually. Excellent drama is excellent drama, regardless of the setting.
TWD consistently breaks ratings records, which is why AMC sandwiched “Better Call Saul” between it and TWD’s discussion show, “Talking Dead.” They knew what to do to make sure “Better Call Saul” was seen by the largest audience possible.