The highly anticipated companion series to 'The Walking Dead' finally premiered last Sunday, and as predicted, made cable history.

The LA prequel series ended up gaining 10.1 million viewers along with an incredible 6.3 rating among adults 18-49. This makes the premiere of 'Fear the Walking Dead' the largest series premiere in cable TV history.

"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. "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."

Instead of focusing on an unfamiliar cast of characters, 'Fear the Walking Dead' introduces a family that discovers the initial catastrophe of the outbreak.

"There's Madison (Kim Dickens), the matriarch of the group, a high school guidance counselor and mother to Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), who attends her high school, and Nick (Frank Dillane), her estranged drug-addicted son. Madison is currently seeing Travis (Cliff Curtis), an English teacher at school and divorced husband of Liza Ortiz (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and father of Christopher (Lorenzo James Henrie). Travis is still trying to be a good father to Chris, but he's clearly head over heels in love with Madison," writes EW.

All of the events seen in the series will be taking place while Rick is in a coma, making crossover of characters from the original series not likely.

'Fear the Walking Dead' is scheduled for six episodes this season.