Saturday Night Live has hit their highest ratings in six years this weekend with Alec Baldwin’s record-breaking President Trump impressions. Baldwin, who portrays President Trump on the show, hosted his 17th show on Saturday, which is more than any other host in the show’s history.

The episode received a 7.2 overnight rating, which is the highest rating since 2011, CNN reports. The ratings mean 7.2% of all homes watched the show on Saturday.

CNN pointed out that when Trump himself hosted the show as a presidential candidate in November 2015, the show got a 6.6 rating.

The show’s higher ratings come not only on the night of Baldwin’s historic hosting gig but also shows Saturday Night Live’s focus on political satire.

Actress Melissa McCarthy made another surprise appearance on Saturday as White House press secretary Sean Spicer, a week after her portrayal of the White House spokesman went viral. Baldwin also reprised his role as Trump to mock his battle with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over his immigration ban.

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The Walking Dead has been at the center of a heated controversy about the level of violence in its episode with Season 7 kicking off with skull-crushing scenes.

When viewers threatened to boycott the show arguing that The Walking Dead has gone too far since Negan joined the cast, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd explained last month that they “toned down” the violence in the next episodes following fans’ reactions to the show.

But the core of the Walking Dead fans bashed the show for even considering reducing the violence.

As a result, Scott Gimple and executive producer Greg Nicotero have stepped up to make it clear that they would never compromise their creative vision with restrictions on the level gore. Those who tune into The Walking Dead for violence can once again be excited to watch the hit Sunday series.

Gimple’s explanation is that the rest of Season 7 is less violent than the premiere only because only the premiere justified so much violence.

“The violence in the premiere was pronounced for a reason. The awfulness of what happened to the characters was very specific to that episode and the beginning of this whole new story. I don’t think that’s the base level of violence that necessarily should be on the show. It should be specific to a story and a purpose, and there was a purpose of traumatizing these characters to a point where maybe they would have been docile for the rest of their lives, which was Negan’s point.”

Nicotero argues that the show will never restrict themselves.

“As brutal as that episode 1 was, it’s still part of our storytelling bible, which is what the world is about. I don’t think we would ever edit ourselves, and I think — even after looking at that episode 1 again — as tough as it was for people to watch, I don’t think we would have done it any differently. I don’t think we’ll ever pull ourselves back. There is definitely a difference between violence against walkers and human on human violence, but truthfully, we’re serving our story.”

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To go along with Sunday’s mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead, Match.com is launching a new entertainment-driven platform targeted at bringing singles together over their love of a particular TV show.

“We realized that with singles in America today, one of the things that they connect on the most is the shows they watch and they love, and we wanted to figure out how to replicate what’s happening in the real world on the Match site and on the app,” explained Match.com CEO Mandy Ginsberg.

When AMC airs on TV, Match.com will invite their subscribers to talk about the how in a “live online viewing party” where users can connect with other singles interested in The Walking Dead.

After testing on previous episodes of The Walking Dead and Scandal, where 4 out of 5 people at the viewing party stayed for the entire hour-long broadcast. Also, Match found a demographic of people interested in the platform.

“We were a little nervous because we thought people might be inappropriate or say things that we’d have to monitor, but the fact of the matter is we didn’t need to because people were so into the show and were so funny in talking about what could happen, what they liked, what they didn’t like, it was so organic,” Ginsberg said.  “It was like they were sitting at brunch with a bunch of friends and talking about what happened on ‘Scandal’ last night.”

The idea came after a study that Match.com conducted on singles in America, their dating habits, and viewing habits. The results of the survey found “millennials are 270% more likely than those of other generations to be turned on by someone who watches the same shows as they do.”

As a result of these findings, Ginsberg said Match.com  is incorporating more TV shows into their platform to help singles make a new connection in the “entertainment-led society”.

“People didn’t used to talk about series, but now we all sit down and blow through them pretty quickly, so we think about shows in terms of series, and no one talked like that five years ago,” Ginsberg said. “If we can have people connect over series, that’s something we’re very excited about, I think it could change the game in terms of starting real conversations.”

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