The Walking Dead Ate the Face Off Everything on Broadcast This Season So Far

An 8.7 in the demo, and it's still hungry

The Walking Dead is back, and with it, viewers in the dollar demo. Broadcast watchers have stayed away in droves this season. But with the dead resurrected yet again, everyone who loves TV stayed home Sunday night to see what would happen to Rick and the gang during "No Sanctuary," the huge premiere episode for the fifth season of the show. (It involved face-eating. Also fire.)

Oh yeah, and the ratings? An 8.7 in the demo with 17.3

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