Los Angeles – FOX, the exclusive international home of The Walking Dead, revealed the series’ record-breaking ratings streak continues with its newest installment. This season’s opener showed an impressive 34% average growth in Live+Same Day viewing across the 28 metered markets where data was available at issue. In the 28 markets across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America where performance metrics were available overnight, The Walking Dead consistently outperformed its prior seasons records and dominated as #1 in its slot.

FOX is the exclusive international home of The Walking Dead and the global leader in delivering the best-scripted entertainment to international audiences first.  Partnering with AMC on the series at script level, FOX launched the first ever global simultaneous release in 2010.  Already announced to be returning for the 8th season, The Walking Dead returns to over 200 million international viewers in 127 countries on FOX, with season 8 kicking off with the 100th episode of the series.

The global premiere was up 34% in Live+Same Day viewing (where applicable) average rating across 28 metered markets from episode 1 premiere prior season. On social media, The Walking Dead clocked over 3 million global public online mentions, generating 1.2 million more mentions than the season 6 finale.

Across its FOX+ airings, the season opened with an outstanding 3.2 TVR among FOX+ subscribers, 6 times higher than the closest competitor, and obtaining a 37% share of the audience. This was the best rating for a FOX+ series of the last three years.