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More than 10M watched ‘Breaking Bad’ finale

The series finale of “Breaking Bad” scored a whopping 10.3 million viewers on AMC — by far the biggest audience in the show’s storied history.

Th show averaged a 6.5 household rating — a 300 percent increase over last season’s finale, which aired in 2012 as the first half of the show’s fifth season.

That was up from 6.6 million who tuned in for the show’s penultimate episode, which aired Sept. 22.

Sunday night’s finale, which aired from 9 to 10:15 p.m., also averaged 6.7 million viewers in the advertiser-coveted demo of adults 18-49 years old.

In the finale, series protagonist-turned-evil drug kingpin Walter White (Bryan Cranston) took care of some loose ends before being killed in a hail of bullets.

The 10.3 million viewer number is remarkable, considering that “Breaking Bad” averaged only 1.2 million viewers when it premiered in the summer of 2008 as a little-known series given only seven episodes to prove itself.

Sunday’s night’s finale also set a “BB” record on Twitter, with 1.24 million tweets from 601,370 unique users during the live telecast (on both coasts).

The show hit a peak of 22,373 tweets-per-minute as the finale began on the East Coast, and Cranston tweeted, “Well, this is it…”