The results are in for the new world of walkers, and they are huge. The series premiere of Fear the Walking Dead pulled in 10.1 million viewers Sunday night.

According to AMC, Fear the Walking Dead’s impressive ratings are the highest for a series premiere in the history of cable TV.

“Thank you and congratulations to Robert Kirkman, Dave Erickson, the brilliant executive producers and the entire cast and crew of ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, in a press release. “It is increasingly difficult to evaluate a show’s success on night one. However, we are releasing these live/same day ratings because ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ delivered record-breaking numbers that are all the more special in this era of time-shifted viewing and audience fragmentation. To have a companion series to the #1 show on television driving communal, urgent viewing, social activity and pop cultural relevance of this magnitude is truly differentiating. Of course none of it is possible without the fans, whose passion leads to these remarkable results.”

Fear the Walking Dead begins at the outset of the zombie apocalypse. Set in Los Angeles and following a couple of blended families, viewers get to see how people reacted in the early days of the outbreak. Remember, we didn’t get to see this part of the apocalypse in the original Walking Dead because Rick was in a coma.

These impressive numbers say a couple of things for Fear: One, people are really excited for The Walking Dead season 6 to premiere in October. Two, people cannot get enough of the undead. And three, people were really curious about Fear’s premise.

It’ll be interesting to see how the numbers hold for the remaining five episodes in season 1. Did viewers enjoy the premiere enough to want to return next week? Will the numbers grow like the number of infected? We’ll have to wait and see!

Hypable readers seemed to be pretty pleased with the premiere overall — our commenters expressed support for the show in our recap of episode 1.