Here are the newest ratings for The Firm. This TV series picks up 10 years after the events in the John Grisham novel and stars Josh Lucas, Molly Parker, Callum Keith Rennie, and Juliette Lewis. The first season of The Firm typically airs Thursday or Saturday nights on the NBC network.
These are the TV show’s ratings for the 2011-12 season, the best way to tell if The Firm is going to be cancelled or renewed for season two. Check out our NBC ratings report card to see how this show’s numbers compare with the others on the network.
These figures will be updated as the weeks progress so be sure to bookmark and return to this page:
Final series ratings: 0.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.87 million total viewers.
Episode 01-22: Saturday, 07/14/12 (finale)
0.3 in the demo (-25% episode-to-episode change) with 1.72 million. (fast affiliate numbers)
Episode 01-21: Saturday, 07/07/12
0.4 in the demo (-20% episode-to-episode change) with 2.27 million. (fast affiliate numbers)
Episode 01-20: Saturday, 06/30/12
0.5 in the demo (0% episode-to-episode change) with 2.56 million. (fast affiliate numbers)
Episode 01-19: Saturday, 06/23/12
0.5 in the demo (+25% episode-to-episode change) with 2.14 million. (fast affiliate numbers)
Episode 01-18: Saturday, 05/26/12
0.4 in the demo (0% episode-to-episode change) with 2.3 million. (fast affiliate numbers)
Episode 01-17: Saturday, 05/26/12
0.4 in the demo (0% episode-to-episode change) with 2.4 million. (fast affiliate numbers)
Episode 01-16: Saturday, 05/12/12
0.4 in the demo (-20% episode-to-episode change) with 2.2 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.65 in the demo with 3.11 million.
Demo average rank: #20 of 20 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
UPDATE: The Firm has been cancelled by NBC but…
Episode 01-15: Saturday, 04/28/12
0.5 in the demo (+67% episode-to-episode change) with 2.1 million; tied for third in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.67 in the demo with 3.17 million.
Demo average rank: #20 of 20 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-14: Saturday, 04/21/12
0.3 in the demo (0% episode-to-episode change) with 1.80 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.68 in the demo with 3.25 million.
Demo average rank: #20 of 20 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-13: Saturday, 04/14/12
0.3 in the demo (+33% episode-to-episode change) with 1.90 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.71 in the demo with 3.36 million.
Demo average rank: #20 of 20 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-12: Saturday, 03/31/12
0.3 in the demo (-25% episode-to-episode change) with 2.20 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.74 in the demo with 3.48 million.
Demo average rank: #20 of 20 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-11: Saturday, 03/24/11
0.4 in the demo (-33% episode-to-episode change) with 2.90 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.78 in the demo with 3.60 million.
Demo average rank: #19 of 19 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-10: Saturday, 03/10/11
0.6 in the demo (+50% episode-to-episode change) with 3.50 million; tied for third in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.82 in the demo with 3.67 million.
Demo average rank: #18 of 18 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-09: Saturday, 03/03/11
0.4 in the demo (0% episode-to-episode change) with 2.20 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.84 in the demo with 3.69 million.
Demo average rank: #18 of 18 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-08: Saturday, 02/25/11
0.4 in the demo (-20% episode-to-episode change) with 2.30 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.90 in the demo with 3.88 million.
Demo average rank: #17 of 17 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-07: Saturday, 02/18/11
0.5 in the demo (-38% episode-to-episode change) with 2.70 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 0.97 in the demo with 4.10 million.
Demo average rank: #17 of 17 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
UPDATE: The Firm has been moved to Saturday nights (the network TV graveyard).
Episode 01-06: Thursday, 02/02/12
0.8 in the demo (0% episode-to-episode change) with 3.0 million; third in the timeslot.
Season average: 1.05 in the demo with 4.34 million.
Demo average rank: #15 of 16 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-05: Thursday, 1/26/12
0.8 in the demo (-11% episode-to-episode change) with 2.75 million; third in the timeslot.
Season average: 1.10 in the demo with 4.61 million.
Demo average rank: #15 of 16 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-04: Thursday, 01/19/12
0.9 in the demo (-10% episode-to-episode change) with 3.42 million; third in the timeslot.
Season average: 1.18 in the demo with 5.07 million.
Demo average rank: #15 of 16 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episode 01-03: Thursday, 01/12/12
1.0 in the demo (-29% episode-to-episode change) with 4.23 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: 1.27 in the demo with 5.62 million.
Demo average rank: #12 of 15 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
Episodes 01-01 and 01-02: Sunday, 01/08/12
1.4 in the demo (-8% episode-to-episode change) with 6.32 million; fourth in the timeslot at 9pm, second at 10pm.
Season average: 1.40 in the demo with 6.32 million.
Demo average rank: #9 of 14 scripted TV shows on the network (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012).
It was a very disappointing debut for this high-profile legal drama. In addition to the weak cumulative ratings, the early numbers indicated that many viewers tuned out as the two hour premiere progressed. Fewer people are expected to watch the next episode and The Firm already can’t afford to lose any viewers.
Compared to The Cape’s premiere one year earlier, the peacock network is down by 46% in the demo and 25% in total viewers. The Cape fell to a low 1.2 in the demo before being cancelled by NBC.
Note: These ratings are collected by the Nielsen company and are the final national numbers. These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings and are reported on by most other outlets. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you like The Firm TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Image courtesy NBC.
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PLEASE!!!!!! Do NOT cancel this! I watch EVERY episode every Saturday night with my wife. Great show!
Great TV show. My wife and I look forward to each episode and are worried it will be canceled. This is our favorite TV show each week! Our vote is to definitely bring it back!!
I think “The Firm” is one of the best shows on T.V. and I look forward to watching each week. I was quite disappointed it wasn’t on last night. Josh Lucas is a phenomenal actor, and the entire cast is superb with great chemistry. Please don’t cancel it!
The TV executive that would cancel the firm should be cancellued.
This is a great show. And so different than other stuff on T.V. I really hope it isn’t cancelled. Although NBC has a pattern of taking off anything worth watching. Don’t cancel!!!
the best new show on tv. great action. similar to 24. Put this show on in prime time
A great program, please continue. If I were to make one suggestion: stop telling two stories in two different time frames . . . too complicated. You know, KISS.
Very smart drama. Interesting cast and twists. I’ll continue to watch
So my wife and I rarely find a show we both really like until The Firm came on. We love this show and make it our special appointment to watch this, initially each Thursday, and the Saturday. Don’t cancel the show. There’s nothing else good to watch.
You know, I really wanted to like this series … I have read many Grisham novels and seen many of the films based on his work. Until this series, they have been universally intelligent and entertaining. The suspenseful ones got their intensity directly from the storyline. NOT SO with The Firm – TV Series.
The whole fractured timeline thing did not work for me. The “flash-forwards” did not “tease” me: they insulted my intelligence. I love “working” to discover the story — that’s the whole idea in mystery and suspense. The Firm just randomly minced the story up, only to dole it out in frantic “stayed-tuned-for-more” bits over many episodes. If you have a story to tell, then tell it — don’t obscure it, and don’t be so contrived and deliberate in obscuring it. Let the storyline create the suspense. Campy directing manufactures canned suspense; it does not keep my interest as a viewer. The frantic motion, music and dutch angles for those scenes were also straining — it was as if 1960′s Batman directors finally got a gig to do a “serious” show.
And what were we offered while we were arbitrarilly waiting for the “series-plot” to develop over time? We were served episode-plots of “pious-St.-Mitch-battles-the-uncaring-legal-system.” That didn’t work either — it was like “Quincy, M.E. gets a law degree” — tiresome, and difficult to take seriously. The original book/film Mitch wasn’t pious: he was a lawyer with good ethics caught in a bad situation. (He was also a wee bit greedy, which just made him that much more believable.) Let’s have the credible Mitch back, please. The episode plots felt like padding material to get about 2 hours worth of “series-plot” to fill an entire season.
And what ever happened to the Mob? They were antagonist #1 for a while, then just decided to be nice? I can’t believe that several weeks of development were spent on characters that just decided not to participate in the story anymore. I am miffed that you wasted my time on them. Maybe they re-appear in later episodes, but who will remember them anymore .. … … who will still be watching?
I faithfully made it through 15 episodes of time slot changes, lousy time slots, and 4 weeks of preemption by unwatchable entertainment shows. Mr Grisham has a lot of credibility with me as a storyteller, so I continued to hope a bad show would turn around. But enough is enough, NBC, I give up and will watch no more.
I agree that this series should be cancelled. The story and storytelling are not good enough. I would love to see intelligent, suspenseful television. The Firm wanted to be that, but it fails to respect it’s own material, and so fails at telling it’s own story.
Please make intelligent television. I will watch that.
Please don’t cancel the show!! My husband and I look forward to every Saturday night sitting down together and watching the show! We will be extremely disappointed in NBC if you cancel this show. We don’t watch any other shows on NBC because we haven’t cared for a lot of the shows they air, but this show has caught and kept our interest. We absolutely love it. If NBC were to cancel it, we would go back to watching nothing on NBC once again.
We love this show at my house, please dont cancel.
Absolutely the best thing on TV … move to a weeknight, please … keep it at least one more season. Cannot wait until the next episode … acting and writing superb.
Well, here it is Saturday night and all set up to watch The Firm only to discover a repeat of The Voice!!! Really? We need a repeat of The Voice? Please, don’t cancel The Firm! It is one of the best shows on t.v.! Can somebody please explain to me why other age groups don’t count?
This is GOODTV-storyline -actors-we truly enjoy the firm-please keep in the lineup
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