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AMC has spent a lot of time advertising the episode of Sunday night The dead who walk like the last appearance of Rick Grimes on the show, but the efforts only brought a little help.

After spending most of the season dropping ratings, the new Sunday night episode, "What Comes After," brought a slight improvement to the series. 5.4 million viewers listened to the season 9 episode, earning a score of 2.1 in the coveted 14-49 age bracket. Although these figures are far from the peaks achieved by the series in the past, they represent a 6% increase over last week's ratings and audience. It should also be noted that this is the highest record since the premiere of Season 9, which has attracted 6.1 million viewers and a 2.5 demo.

The increase in the number of viewers and audiences should be encouraging, but things have been rather difficult for The dead who walk all season Judging by the promotion of the episode by AMC, it is reasonable to assume that the network thought that Rick's goodbyes would attract an even larger crowd.

While The dead who walkthe ascent was quite small, Speak dead saw a much bigger boost. The post-AMC show brought together 2.7 million viewers, as well as a score of 1.0 in the demo. These numbers represent increases of 48% and 66% over last week's episode. The appearances of Melissa McBride, Scott Gimple and Yvette Nicole Brown are partly behind the gains.

During the new Speak dead episode, Gimple announced that Rick Grimes would be back in a trilogy of television movies that will flow from The dead who walkand tell the story of his time after his release.

"We have a lot of things on the horizon – starting with a new epic starring one of the greatest actors in the history of television and one of the best people that I've never met, "said Gimple in his release.

"These films are going to be great evolutions of what we have done in the series, with the scope and scale of the features. We start with the first part of Rick Grimes 'ongoing story, and there is still much to do, with new worlds of The Walking Dead and the faces of the series' past, as well as new characters that we hope to become. favorites, told by TWD veterans and emerging voices. We want to innovate with different and distinct stories that are all part of the same world and have captivated our imagination for nearly a decade of the dead. "

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