The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live‘s premiere episode last Sunday, has received total of 3M viewers, according to the Nielsen Rating list, Deadline exclusively reports. That defines this series as the biggest premiere AMC has had in six years when the series The Terror premiered in 2018.
According to Deadline, The Ones Who Live premiere has done huge viewership numbers on the AMC+ streaming app. It is now, for AMC, one of the most viewed episodes ever. The streamer stated that the show’s enormous streaming number has outdone any other show’s season premiere views on its platform. Furthermore, last Sunday, gave another historical achievement to AMC, in which it was the biggest day for direct-to-consumer sign-ups.
The show is now the sixth spinoff in the TWD franchise, and it stars Danai Gurira (Black Panther, Talking Dead, All Eyez On Me) and Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, This Life, Penguin Bloom). According to Deadline, the show focuses on the love story between the two characters Michonne and Rick. They are distanced by ghosts of their past and an unstoppable power that complicates things between the two. The pair are thrown into a different kind of world, in which there is a war against the dead and living people. But without each other, are they found? Or will they become the Walking Dead? Will they become enemies? Lovers? Or stay just the way they are?
The cast also includes Terry O’Quinn (Lost, Blind Fury, Patriot) as Beale, Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman, Darlin’, Offspring) returning as Jadis from The Walking Dead, Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer, Spartacus, Heartlock) as Pearl and Matt Jeffers (New Amsterdam, Unidentified Objects, Exit Interview), according to Deadline.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’s first episode of the first season is now available for streaming on AMC+, and new episodes will be released each Sunday.