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“The Walking Dead” Ratings Continue to Drop, With Season 9 Premiere Pulling in Half the Viewers of Season 8 Premiere

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When “The Walking Dead” premiered to 5.35 million viewers back in 2010, it was a good sign that AMC was onto something, and the viewership only grew from there. The numbers of subsequent premieres kept going up, with the series pulling in a massive 17.30 million viewers for the premiere of its fifth season. But in the last few years, the numbers have been steadily dropping at concerning rates, with the premiere of Season 8 grabbing 11.44 million viewers, considerably down from the previous season’s 17.03 million who tuned in for the premiere.

Those numbers continue to drop, as we’ve learned today that this past Sunday’s ninth season premiere has brought “The Walking Dead” back to its Season 1 numbers. The Season 9 premiere drew 6.1 million viewers, essentially *half* the number of Season 8’s premiere.

That the series has returned to its starting numbers in its ninth season, well, that’s not great news. Especially since Season 9 was heavily promoted as being a “fresh start” for the show. Put in an even more grim context, the Season 9 premiere is now the lowest rated in the 18-49 demographic (2.5) in the show’s history. Season 1’s premiere had a 2.7 rating in the demo.

The Wrap makes sure to note, “Still, The Walking Dead Season 9 premiere was popular enough to make it the No. 1 cable show thus far this season among adults 18-49. It’s the seventh-straight season that claim holds true.”

Regardless of how huge the series still is, when compared to others on TV right now, “The Walking Dead” is one show that clearly seems to be well beyond its best days, even if AMC is insisting that the series still has a good 10 years left in its sails. We’re not so sure about that, and we expect that this season’s numbers are only going to drop even further from here.

Perhaps the impending exit of Rick Grimes will give the show a much-needed boost.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Sandra Yi Sencindiver in “Foundation”

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