Ratings: Grammys Soar to Second-Finest Audience Ever The Walking Dead Sets Records

Jennifer Hudson The 54th Annual Grammy Honours acquired its second-finest ratings ever Sunday since the record companies paid out tribute to Whitney Houston, because the midseason premiere in the Walking Dead scared up considerable amounts too.See the Grammys fashion hits and missesThe three-and-a-half-hour broadcast nearly bending last year's viewership getting an astounding 39 million audiences - second only to the 51 million who up-to-date towards the 1984 telecast, throughout which Michael Jackson won accurate documentation eight honours.Compared to last year's ceremony, the show was up forty percent inside the grownups 18-to-49 demo, nabbing a 14.1. The rating might be the finest since 1990, when Milli Vanilli won Best New Artist (which was later suspended).Grammys: The most effective and worst performancesThe surge is most likely due to Houston's unforeseen dying on Saturday. Through the show, Jennifer Hudson completed "I'll Always Adore YouInch inside the six-time Grammy winner's recognition.On cable, The Walking Dead's winter premiere came 8.millions of audiences Up within the 7.3 million who seen the fall opener. Furthermore, it acquired 5.4 million audiences inside the demo and 4.4 million audiences inside the grownups 25-to-54 demo, which causes it to be probably the most effective telecast for nearly any drama in fundamental cable history. The series premiere of Kevin Smith's Comic Males adopted the zombie hit with 2 million audiences together with single.3 rating.8 p.m.CBS: 54th Annual Grammy Honours 39 million audiences (14.1 demo rating) [8-11:30 p.m.]ABC: Not such a long time ago 8.64 million audiences (3.)Fox: The Simpsons 4.3 million audiences (2.) Napoleon Dynamite 3.8 million audiences (1.7)NBC: Dateline 2.05 million (1.6) [7-9 p.m.] 9 p.m.ABC: Desperate Regular folks 6.3 million audiences (1.7)Fox: Family Guy 5 million audiences (2.5) American Father! 3.5 million audiences (1.7)NBC: Fear Factor 3.7 million audiences (1.5) [9-11 p.m.]10 p.m.ABC: Pan Am 2.7 million (.7)