Week-to-week gains: Scandal, Castle, and 20/20.
Week-to-week losses: Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, The Middle, How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), Revenge, Nashville, Red Widow, Happy Endings, Shark Tank, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Wife Swap, Bet on Your Baby, and Dancing with the Stars (both nights).
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Below are the ABC TV show ratings averages as of the end of week 32 of the 2012-13 season (Sunday, May 5, 2013). Ratings are typically the best way to tell if a show will be cancelled or renewed.

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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.