Dead Air: Zombies or No Zombies, Sunday Broadcast Ratings Continue to Slump

Resurrection, Believe hit series lows

Now that The Walking Dead has staggered off for its customary six-month between-seasons break, broadcasters last night may have hoped to regain some of their lost potency in the Sunday 9 p.m. time slot.

Didn’t happen.

According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the three regularly scheduled broadcast series that had previously gone head-to-head with AMC’s zombie apocalypse drama were either down or flat versus last week. On ABC, the supernatural drama Resurrection averaged 8.05 million viewers and a series-low 2.2

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