'Walking Dead' Is Top-Rated Scripted Show of Season, in a First for Cable

By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - For the first time, a cable show is the top-rated scripted series on television - and we have zombies to thank. AMC's "The Walking Dead" was not only the highest-rated scripted show of the 2012-13 season, but the second highest-rated show overall, behind NBC's "Sunday Night Football." It's a victory not just for cable, but for scripted TV. For nearly a decade, the reality competition "American Idol" was television's top-rated series. (It was only in 2011-12 that "Idol" was surpassed by football. ...



via TV News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/walking-dead-top-rated-scripted-show-season-first-002415227.html