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ABC Ratings Race: How’s Revenge Doing? Should ABC Have Renewed It?

Published:November 11, 2012

Revenge season two ratingsLast May, Revenge was on the bubble and could have been cancelled. The ratings had fallen quite a bit over the course of the season and even hit a series low in May. ABC gambled and renewed it but was that the right decision?

It seems so. Revenge has been doing relatively well this season. It returned strong, to a 3.2 rating with 9.74 million viewers — the show’s best showing since its series premiere a year earlier. The numbers have come down since then but are still an improvement over Spring 2012. It’s currently the fourth-highest rated scripted series on the network.

Looking at the list below, it’s very doubtful that ABC will make a similar gamble with 666 Park Avenue or Last Resort.

What do you think? Was ABC wise to renew Revenge or did they just get lucky that its ratings have improved? Comment below.

Here are the season averages as of Thursday, November 8, 2012:

ABC Scripted
TV shows		 18-49 demo
rating (actual)		 Viewers
in millions		 Ratings
pages
Modern Family 4.8 (4.83) 12.38 season 4 ratings
Grey’s Anatomy 3.6 (3.58) 10.06 season 9 ratings
Once Upon a Time 3.4 (3.42) 10.09 season 2 ratings
Revenge 2.8 (2.77) 8.54 season 2 ratings
Suburgatory 2.7 (2.70) 7.20 season 2 ratings
The Middle 2.6 (2.60) 8.60 season 4 ratings
Malibu Country 2.3 (2.30) 9.13 season 1 ratings
The Neighbors 2.1 (2.14) 6.87 season 1 ratings
Nashville 2.1 (2.12) 6.80 season 1 ratings
Castle 2.1 (2.05) 10.54 season 4 ratings
Last Man Standing 2.0 (2.00) 8.07 season 2 ratings
Scandal 2.0 (1.98) 6.13 season 2 ratings
Last Resort 1.7 (1.68) 7.29 season 1 ratings
666 Park Avenue 1.7 (1.65) 5.02 season 1 ratings
Private Practice (last season) 1.6 (1.63) 5.76 season 6 ratings
Happy Endings 1.6 (1.60) 4.94 season 3 ratings
Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23 1.5 (1.45) 3.73 season 2 ratings
ABC non-scripted
TV shows		 18-49 demo
rating (actual)		 Viewers
in millions		 Ratings
pages
Dancing with the Stars 2.2 (2.24) 13.48 cycle 15 ratings
Dancing with the Stars (results) 2.1 (2.08) 12.41 cycle 15 ratings
Shark Tank 1.8 (1.83) 6.55 season 4 ratings
Primetime 1.5 (1.50) 4.72 season 24 ratings
America’s Funniest Home Videos 1.4 (1.44) 6.11 season 23 ratings
20/20 1.4 (1.43) 5.30 season 35 ratings

These charts incorporate the daily final ABC show ratings (reported by Nielsen) and are sorted by the 18-49 demographic. Network advertisers typically prize those viewers most and so will pay more to reach them. There’s lots of information that the networks take into consideration when cancelling or renewing a TV series but the ratings are the biggest factor. The higher the ratings, the better chance that the show will be renewed. And yes, they take it into account when a show airs on a Friday or Saturday night.

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Jon L. Hanson February 21, 2013 at 1:23 am

Excellent Show – - Well Cast – -
Interesting Plot Lines !!!

Wish it did not Conflict with “The Good Wife”
However, I watch “Revenge”

ABC-7 has almost all the best shows on Television !!!

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Janice January 25, 2013 at 11:29 pm

I LOVE Emily(Amanda) I love all the twist
And turns. I pray nothing terrible happens to
Nolan.
My sister and I renlly love this show, pls pls
Don’t ever cancel this show. IT IS WONDERFUL

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