Although Arrow is no longer The CW’s best-rated TV show, by the end of season five, it remained a top-four performer in terms of both its demo ratings and total viewership. Still, the law of diminishing returns usually starts to ramp up around this time in a show’s life. Is this the beginning of the end? Will Arrow be cancelled or renewed for season seven? Stay tuned.
A CW superhero adventure drama set in the DC Comics universe, Arrow stars Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Willa Holland, Paul Blackthorne, Echo Kellum, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy, 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 fifth season of Arrow averaged a 0.62 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.755 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 a seventh season on The CW?
4/2/18 update: The CW has ordered a seventh season of Arrow for the 2018-19 season. Details here.
Have watched Arrow from the beginning but started losing interest during season 5 & more so now during season 6. I don’t like the 2 different teams against each other & Oliver always seeming not to be as effective as he use to be. Think having a 1/4th of the show concentrate on Oliver’s & Felicity’s relationship would be enjoyable to watch. Plus miss the flashbacks. If the writing gets better then would like to see Arrow come back for another season.
Love this show. I’ve been binge watching it on Netflix. Surely they are good for a couple more seasons. I know it’s essentially an action oriented comic book soap opera, but it still entertains.
cancel Arrow, the show is horrible
Cancel it. It’s nothing more than olicity shipper dreck at this point. Even the redemption of Black Siren won’t save it. I’ve stopped watching and so have the majority of Arrow fans. Killing Laurel Lance killed the show. The ratings plummeted and they’ve been in free fall since.
The lowest rated episodes of the season were olicity centric epis. CW should realize the show is done.
first 4 seasons were great 5&6 blow the show isnt worth watching cancel arrow it gets worse every week
show sucks a** now it was a great show now i only watch to see if it gets better but it just gets worse every week
The son is annoying thou..He doesn’t nothing but ADD to the whole “family/father/son” drama bit..He does NOTHING for Olivers character..Nothing positive anyways..He’s more of a drag..He’s NOT the titular role ‘Connor Queen,’ right?
LOVE IT PLEASE KEEP!!
cancel arrow, the show was goid the first 4 seasons mid season of 5 i stopped it in my dvr if i was able to watch it then i did otherwise i didnt care season 6 i have only watched 3 or 4 episodes the show is terrible now the crossovers are dumb not everyone watches all the shows
Arrow is terrible now i cant believe it went this far it should have ended after the 4th season and season 5 was bad this season i stopped after the 3rd episode
Arrow can be described in one word “SUCKS”
CANCEL IT. Most of the story lines and scripts has gone down the toilet these days.
Please cancel after next season or this season need to end like the simpsons.
Please don’t cancel the show, this show has so many possibilities they can flip around plots and characters like crazy even if it is to get more ratings. It’s the best show ever.
After writing on this comment I started reading reply’s on here its the same old story most of what people say is that Felicity is the blame for the show sucking and they killed Laurel. But I don’t see it that way I am a 67 year old woman and growing up in the 50’s. I had the privilege of being a person to basically grow up reading the DC Comics. No! there wasn’t a Felicity Smoak in the Arrowverse but there was a Lisa Prebbles she is your Felicity Smoak on Arrow I don’t know why the writer’s didn’t… Read more »