FOX International Channels (FIC) premiered its first original production – The Walking Dead on FX across Asia on Friday, November 5. The zombie action series reached as many as 450 million homes of FIC audiences across the region in this first-run TV event, only a week after its successful launch in the US. The show got off to a stellar start in the US, drawing the largest audience for an original series on cable TV channel, AMC, with more than 5.3 million viewers, 3.6 million or which are estimated to be aged 18-49.