The zombies who have been made so popular due to the show named The Walking Dead aired on AMC is now having outsize ratings which this show has bagged even for the channel. The mid-season finale is speculated to have 6.9 million viewers which are rare for a TV show to usually have. The show has seen so much popularity it is believed that this will eat the entire TV broadcast, especially at places where the same is really popular among people of all age groups. If this is the popularity of the show in 2012, then don't know what this will reach by the year 2020.
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