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AMC’s The Walking Dead once again took a ragged bite out of the Winter Olympics, topping the 9-10 p.m. EST segment of NBC’s Sunday night coverage by more than 20 percent.
According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the Feb. 16 installment of Robert Kirkman’s dystopian drama averaged 13.3 million total viewers and a 6.8 in the dollar demo, easily beating NBC’s analogous Olympics program (5.6).
This marks the second time Atlanta’s shambling corpses bested the world’s top athletes; last week, the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead scared up a whopping 8.2
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