ABC certainly needs new shows that are a hit in the ratings. They didn’t have much luck last season. Will this year be different or will much of their new crop of TV shows be cancelled as well?
There’s lots of data that network execs looks at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but ratings are the major ingredient. These charts will be updated daily, as new ratings data becomes available.
ABC shows (so far): 20/20, 500 Questions, America’s Funniest Home Videos, American Crime, The Astronaut Wives Club, The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, The Bachelorette, BattleBots, Black-ish, Boston EMS, Castle, Celebrity Family Feud, Celebrity Wife Swap, Cristela, Dancing with the Stars, Extreme Weight Loss, Forever, Fresh Off The Boat, Galavant, The Goldbergs, The Great Christmas Light Fight, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, In An Instant, Last Man Standing, Manhattan Love Story, Marvel’s Agent Carter, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, The Middle, Mistresses, Modern Family, Nashville, Once Upon a Time, Primetime: What Would You Do?, Repeat After Me, Resurrection, Revenge, Rookie Blue, Save My Life: Boston Trauma, Scandal, Secrets and Lies, Selfie, Shark Tank, The Taste, and The Whispers.
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A couple of notes about these charts:
These figures are updated automatically as new ratings are released. The averages are based on the final national numbers (live plus same day viewing), unless marked with an asterisk (*). For technical reasons, I have to resort them manually so feel free to let me know if I missed something.
Keep in mind that the demo numbers are typically what’s most important to advertisers. Therefore, that’s how the networks measure success. Advertisers pay more for ad time on a show that has a higher demo rating. Because older viewers don’t count? No, it’s because younger viewers watch less traditional TV and are harder to reach.
Demo numbers are typically reported using the 10ths decimal place (2.4, for example). In the averages, I’m using an extra decimal for easier ranking.
The networks take into account when shows air on Fridays and Saturdays, nights when TV viewership is lower.
Note: Due to Nielsen reportings glitch, some ratings for Modern Family, SHIELD, Once Upon a Time, Nashville, and Revenge have been adjusted downward. Nielsen has only released restated numbers for the first week of the season (9/22-9/28/14) so far.
What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the ratings? Which shows should be doing better? Which one do you think will be cancelled next?
TV and ABC really needs to stop cancelling or renewing based of demos. It’s obvious that more viewers DVR than actually watch when it airs…there’s just not enough time during the week for that. Forever is an incredibly awesome show and definitely my favorite, if they cancel based off demo I will be severely disappointed. There are so many dedicated fans which can be seen on the comments of this site alone and the show is put together and shot so well. The cast and characters are the most dynamic and unique I have seen in a long time and… Read more »
Don’t they realize 5 million people watch it and will be very disappointed? I wish we could cancel THEIR favorite shows and see how they feel.
So what do you suggest they do renew every show?
Agree Stephanie. Forever is definitely one of the best shows on TV. I am tired of them always canceling the great shows and leaving the wakeful ones on. Sure hope it gets picked up for another season.
Theyve been doing that for the past 60 years. It won’t change. And plus, the whole reason they don’t include DVRs is because people skip thru the commercials.
They have been doing it for the past 60 years and I don’t expect them to completely change their whole system, it’d just be better if they would not rely so heavily on demo and take other factors more into consideration. If they just widened their perspective a little more then maybe they wouldn’t cancel awesome shows that everyone loves.
if they did that advertisers would pull their ads since demos is what makes them money, if you owed a network, your network would not last, sorry but just because 10 people beg not to cancel a boring show like Forever, doesn’t mean they will renew it, Forever wasn’t going to last Forever anyway.
I don’t see resurrection on Sunday’s at 9 when it’s supposed to be on. There is another show on instead called secret of lies or something like that. Is it not on anymore? I hope it is my family and I sure liked watching it and looked forward to it the next week.
Resurrection season is over, most likely won’t be back
Do you network people realize you have people out here that are OVER 49 and want something on TV worth watching??? We are at home watching TV not out partying!!
You get rid of great shows to put on crap reality shows that most of us could care less about. For Gods sake your target people should not be 18-49 for ALL shows, think about the ones that are home all the time.
Forever is just a great show! Leave it alone! Please.
Man your after my own heart. I could not have said it any better. You kinded wander were there heads are.
That’s becasue people over and under 18-49 are less likely to buy stuff from commercials.
I’m 25 and think this is one of the best shows ever! Some people can’t watch due to work (or my parents going to bed early) so why do we need to pay because their are less than 5 million people watching and loving this show!? I wish there was a way to let them know we watched the show, even if it was on Demand later!
Please don’t cancel the show Forever. You finally get a decent show and want to cancel it. There is nothing on but reality shows. Give it another chance.
Yes!
Castle, Forever , Modern Family, the Goldbergs and the Middle MUST STAY. The new
secrets and Lies are what I watch on ABC. These are some of the BEST shows on TV.
KEEP them ON!!!!! I forgot American Crime
Castle, Forever , Modern Family, the Goldbergs and the middle MUST STAY. The new
secrets and Lies are what I watch on ABC. These are some of the BEST shows on TV.
KEEP them ON!!!!!
Yes they should keep forever on and some other castles in the other hand I loved that show but Castle and Beckett gittin to greedy they are wanting too much to sign so I say drop them their ratings are dropping anyway and I’m not blaming ABC for that is strictly the cast but I do hope they keep forever anyway
I hope they do not cancel forever. Or Castle.? There is one big question I’d like to know if I mean a[ big if] they cancel Castle will they keep writing the books??
About Castle the creator of that show did a remarkable job not just marketing the show but the books and CDs he did fantastic job considering all the cast members was actually nobodies there are only about one had that anybody knew. Nathan Fillion he was on firefly for 10 episodes before he was canceled but to rest of no body heard of them Susan was on two or three soap operas and Stana katic was it a couple movies but they were flops I mean terrible ones but that creator did a fantastic job because he got right people… Read more »
Hey all you good people out there. The one big question wonder somebody out there knows the answer the question is, if Castle does not come back on gets canceled or what ever the reason, are they still going to write them books of Castle there actually pretty good books! I’ve been trying different places to find out but no one seems to know.
Thank you
It will not be too much longer before we well know which shows are canceled and which shows are not, all the good shows are on the bubble and all the stupid shows and all the shows with sex in it is the one they are renewing, but you got to expect that do to the age that there catering to the 18– 49 but really – 18—— 32, myself I would not like to see any of them cancel even the ones they already canceled because I don’t think they’re going to get any better they might have more… Read more »
Castle last night they got back to the original a good show I hope they keep it up next season.
They need to keep Forever! It’s such a great show. Love the cast, story line, and everything about Forever. The way shows are rated really needs to change. Not everyone watches tv on their television anymore and so many awesome shows that have been cancelled wouldn’t have been if the stone age way of rating was eliminated. Forever is a keeper!
I do agree with you wholeheartedly, I hope they do keep forever that is one fantastic show.
The shows on ABC that I watch religiously or tape to watch later are Resurrection, Secrets and Lies (new), Revenge, Dancing with the Stars, Mistresses, Castle, Repeat After Me (new), Nashville, American Crime (new), and How to Get Away with Murder. I certainly hope you DO NOT CANCEL any of these shows as I watch a lot of shows on ABC (more than any other network). Don’t know how you do the ratings but I do know a lot of people tape shows to watch later due to busy lives. Please keep all these shows coming.
The only show hear that is in danger is Resurrection. That will get cancelled
they can’t cancel Nashville its a great show
Come on people keep Forever on the air! It is my favorite show on the air right now. It passed The Walking Dead on my list which I didn’t think any show could do! I am 40 and watch it every week and DVR the whole series and rewatch it several times throughout the week. Farever fans out there we need to band together and save this show!
I do agree with you. There’s no reason why they cannot leave forever on. Except it don’t have a high enough reading between 18 to 49 I guess a by over 49 is a second-class citizen they don’t count sound like the government doesn’t it what they should do have a voting system. I don’t mean just by emails lot older people that like these programs don’t know nothing about computers. Sincerely Dennis
I agree, it is one of the most creative shows in a very long time. Plus Judd Hirsch deserves another hit series.
Forever is my most favorite show. My heart will be broken if i can’t watch Henry and this show 🙁 Please hope it will be renewed.
Yes I agree to a forever is a good program I love it. There is only two programs I watch. Forever is one and Castle is the other. I hope they do not cancel either one
WHY would you cancel a great show like FOREVER? Its a fantastic show. There are so many horrible shows on TV in general. One season is not enough to tell if a show could be a success. PLEASE give it another season and see what happens.
It’s a “here we go again” scenario re the program “Forever” to stay alive. Once again to note is, I am over 49. Is over 49 to be euthanised?Wake up ABC.
You people on ABC just don’t get it. An upcoming show about hate crimes as if it’s not enough to commit a crime but you have to determine if hate is part of the crime. Thought police, is that what you want to promote. And you wonder why people don’t watch your idiotic shows. Get a life and stop with the limited liberal mindset. You are only hurting your ratings. Kind of like the Prius car. Yuppie non-sense. You would have thought you would have grown up by now. This is the reason Fox is kicking your ass……Keep it up… Read more »
I him an older person man oh man this guy is something else. Far as I am concerned ABCs doing just fine they got some of the best programs.
abc has mostly non sexy family friendly shows like the middel, goldbergs, modern family, blackish, fresh off the boat, last man standing, cristella, dancing with the stars, americas funniest home videos, once upon a time, galavant, agents of shield, shark tank… i mean you seriously make zero sense… their lineup is factually laden with family friendly unsexy shows…
I am sick and tired of having decent series threatened and or cancelled. If they are not laden with sex scenes they don’t make enough profit. Yes, Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder are great but so sre the non or less sexy series such as Resurrrection, Revenge, Nashville etc. My group of friends are 55 + and we have spending power. Reevaluate your advertisement strategies. I prefer to view a great story-line without sex scenes on a weekly basis. If I want to see more I will go and see Fifty Shades again.
I could not say it any better I to is one of those over 55 the people that like some type of movies or shows. That’s fine, but they should have shows for us older people that don’t like to hide her eyes on every other scene.
I sure hope you keep forever going it is a good clean entertaining show, I also like Castle which I watch. But the way Stana Katic she was saying on the interview that the program pretty well gone it’s course to me sound like she’s tired playing that part so they might as well get rid of. And start another program, like it without her.
seriously? Stana Katic never said anything about the show being near it’s end! I really find it crazy how people miss represent what a person says. At any rate, if she does decide to move on …the show is over period. Without either of the two main performers the show is finished. And as to doing another as good as “Castle” good luck with that!! There are a lot who are trying to copy the show already but none are even close !
Well I am sorry to pop your bubble but she definitely said that.
There is way you can check on of what she said go to YouTube type in Castle or Stana katic and interviews check the latest.
Oh don’t worry about “bursting my bubble” Just read what was actually said in the utube article, which by the way was written in December of 2014!! The article said “Ms. Katic said in a previous interview that …if the character is complete, if the story is finished then it would be time to end the show and move on when your on a high note. That is just a statement of fact not a suggestion that the show is near it’s end!! The story can be kept going for as long as the writers care to and the actors… Read more »
I don’t know which interview but that was last year they were just coming off a good year high marks. All you have to do is look at 2014 2015 rating season seven then go back and look at season six. Yes 2013 and 14 they were going to renew for two years yes he’s got talent for Castle what I seen her she was good in Librarian other than that she was not any good in any of them the movie’s was nothing but flops like Ferrer as of love terrible for lovers only that real bad X-rated in… Read more »
I love watching “Nashville”. I can’t understand why ABC can consider to cancel this amazing serie. If you take a look on the social media, you can see how frustrated so many thousands of fans, cry out for help! Please ABC, don’t break all the #Nashies hearts. Ee do what we can to promote Nashville and I really don’t think you can say the same.
Give us #Nashies a hand and add at least 25% more viewers to the apx. 6mil already in front of the screen every Wednesday.
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Total Viewrs don’t matter,18-49 demo does.Nashville will be renewed for syndication plus it makes money through music sales.