While it was once a top Nielsen ratings performer for The CW, the Arrow TV show has slipped some over the years. During the regular 2017-18 television season, it finished in dead center — ranking seventh out of the 13 scripted TV shows we tracked. Now that the series is back for a seventh season, can it regain some lost ground, or is it on its way out the door? Will Arrow be cancelled or renewed for season eight? Stay tuned. **Status update below.
A CW superhero adventure drama set in the DC Comics universe, Arrow stars Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Echo Kellum, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy, Colton Haynes, Kirk Acevedo, and Katie Cassidy. Five years after surviving a ship-wreck in the South China sea, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Amell) returns home a changed man. Now, disguised as the Green Arrow, he’s back in Star City and bent on righting his family’s wrongs. Although Oliver has solidified his crime-fighting force, enemies from his past return to threaten it, leaving him to reconsider his relationships with his chosen family.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly in the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
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For comparisons: The sixth season of Arrow averaged a 0.43 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.267 million total viewers.
Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you still like the Arrow TV series? Should it be cancelled or renewed for an eighth season on The CW?
**1/31/2019 Status Update: Arrow has been renewed for season eight on The CW. Details here. That will be the final season.
The show had a great following but after they tried to incorporate new storylines to help create buzz for new shows, The Arrow itself suffered. Stephen Amell is awesome but there’s only so much u can do as an actor when you’re left to carry another shows success on ur back. Best of luck to all involved. You guys deserved better.
How the hell renewed this garbage? season8 seriously it should be cancelled at the end of the worst season in tv history season 4. Awful and stupid dialogues awful fights. Of course watching this Felicity made me abandon the show the actress should change job immediatelly. Hopefully she plays only to these garbages and I dont believe she will play in any kind of show again.
How do you get a 44.44% drop in the 18-49 demo and an 18.55% drop in overall viewers? Do the one thing that the fanbase had said would be the last straw for most of them: have an olicity baby. I’m laughing as I’m imagining Beth explaining this to CW execs. lol
Unless she’s got something up her sleeve and Mia’s really not the olicity kid, Arrow will probably never get a million viewers again.
Do not worry Arrow will have 1 milion viewers next week again , but I agree the show sucks so much after Oliver went out of jail .
It’s like they are purposely trying to tank the show. Well it worked for me I’m not going to even make it to the end of the season.
It sure looks that way, doesn’t it? The one thing the non-shippers said would drive them off was an olicity baby, so what does Beth do? Whips one up.
I’VE been looking forward for them to cancel Arrow which is not the happen till next year or at the end of this year at some point hopefully and am not looking forward to batwomen i think they need to cancel the idea of batwomen because if they were to change there mind about doing batwomen the supergirl could still be on Sundays and have superman on Mondays and keep all the other show’s as will..
cancel the show it is terrible now and storyline is bad ever since season 4 ended stop dragging the show and be creative and come up with a new show not just ways to keep making crappy episodes for a terrible show
Cancel it
Past Sins was a great episode! I would have loved more E2 Laurel backstory, but what we got was really good. Oliver needs to lighten up on his father, he already knew he wasn’t perfect, but he killed himself so Oliver could survive. I love that he’s reaching out to Emiko, I just hope she meets him halfway. It’s not his fault that their father abandoned her and her mother. Or was forced to, I didn’t quite figure all that mess out. The only shortcoming is Felicity and her impossible abilities. I didn’t think anything could top last season’s tracking… Read more »
-9? I guess I got some olicity fans out there. lol