Last night's (yawn) record-breaking broadcast of The Walking Dead tallied 10.5 million viewers during its 9 p.m. premiere, with an aggregate of 15.2 million viewers including the debut and midnight rerun, handily beating every other show on television for the evening and putting the series on track to best not merely all of its cable competition but every series of the fall broadcast season as well.
Granted, it's been a weak season for the networks, but that's still a major victory—the highest-rated regularly scheduled show on broadcast right now is CBS' perennial hit Two and a Half Men, which has clocked in at an average of 5.0
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