Week-to-week gains: Body of Proof and 20/20.
Week-to-week losses: Modern Family, How to Live with Your Parents, The Middle, Suburgatory, Happy Endings, Splash, Wife Swap, and Dancing with the Stars (both editions).
Below are the ABC TV show ratings averages as of the end of week 29 of the 2012-13 season (Sunday, April 14, 2013). Ratings are typically the best way to tell if a show will be cancelled or renewed.
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| ABC non-scripted TV shows |
18-49 demo rating (actual) |
Viewers in millions |
Ratings pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bachelor | 2.8 (2.78) | 8.50 | cycle 17 ratings |
| Dancing with the Stars (spring) | 2.5 (2.48) | 14.65 | cycle 16 ratings |
| Dancing with the Stars (fall) | 2.3 (2.29) | 13.87 | cycle 15 ratings |
| Dancing with the Stars (spring, results) | 2.2 (2.20) | 12.32 | cycle 16 ratings |
| Dancing with the Stars (fall, results) | 2.2 (2.16) | 12.92 | cycle 15 ratings |
| Shark Tank | 1.9 (1.88) | 6.61 | season 4 ratings |
| Celebrity Wife Swap | 1.8 (1.83) | 5.40 | season 2 ratings |
| Splash | 1.7 (1.73) | 6.68 | season 1 ratings |
| The Taste | 1.6 (1.55) | 4.51 | season 1 ratings |
| Primetime | 1.5 (1.50) | 4.72 | season 24 ratings |
| America’s Funniest Home Videos | 1.5 (1.48) | 6.50 | season 23 ratings |
| 20/20 | 1.5 (1.46) | 5.34 | season 35 ratings |
| Wife Swap | 1.5 (1.45) | 4.44 | season 7 ratings |
These charts incorporate the daily final ABC show ratings (reported and copyrighted 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.
What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the averages? Which show(s) do you feel should be doing better or worse, based on their quality? Comment below.
