This season, ABC’s Castle will be airing opposite NBC’s highest-rated scripted series and one of CBS’ top-rated TV shows — The Blacklist and NCIS: Los Angeles. Will the ratings continue to fall or could they rise against this stiff competition? Cancelled or renewed for season eight? We’ll have to wait and see.
As last season of Castle proved, the relationship of author Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is anything but smooth. The rest of the cast includes Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Tamala Jones, Molly Quinn, Penny Johnson Jerald, and Susan Sullivan.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly 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.
5/8 update: ABC has renewed Castle for an eighth season.
Final season averages: 1.57 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 8.47 million total viewers.
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Due to a Nielsen glitch, some of the early ratings of the 2014-15 season were revised a few weeks later.
For comparisons: The sixth season of Castle averaged a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 10.18 million total viewers.
Note: 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 Castle TV show? Do you think it should be cancelled or be renewed for an eighth season? Is it time to end the series?
Watched it until this season. It just got boring. Used to love it. To bad.
I use the PVR AND TAPE BOTH OF THEM, With BELL FIBE I get the same channels on different time zones
if they cancel castle im never watching it again
they should bring kate+castle together or they will lose their ratings
Why are the new episodes all DARK???
I hate it and have been a die hard fan since episode 1 season 1!
Just watched ‘Cool Boys’ episode. It was so refreshing without all the Kate C_ _ P! And quirky and entertaining as well as being a drama also. This is how Castle used to be. Get back to the original concept, please!!!
If Rick and Kate have a problem they need to work it out. I have asked Matt from tv line if the two have a problem working together, no answer. But they are not the biggest problem, it is the two show runners. Winter told us no divorce between the two of them, what was the last thing you saw last night. It all a game the these folks, how can we get the fans all mad. After a time you start dropping your off because you are just sick of all the smoke and mirrors and misleads. I think… Read more »
If Castle and Kate cannot get their act together soon, viewers will turn to another program. Their storyline is just beyond stupid. This used to be a fun drama with such quirky elements. It was fun to watch but now the couples storyline and all of Kate’s ‘poor me’ problems have made it just sickening.
thats dumb why would they put them divorced plus the directors make them act like that
The Castle writers have no common sense. They portray the detectives as intelligent in one scene and then have the characters do something stupid in the next scene.
In the last episode I watched, one detective shot at a shadow and shot his partner. Intelligent people do not shoot at shadows!! That was the final episode I shall ever watch. The writers have ruined this once enjoyable series.
Bring back “Forever”!!!!
I too would like to see forever come back but not for the same reason as you do, I’d rather see forever in the place of the new ones they put in this year, as far as Castle goes it is meant to be comedy drama not just drama like you’re trying to make it to be now, the writers are making it more like law and order or criminal mind, I do not know if they noticed your ratings are dropping fast, my opinion they are letting the actors put too much input what they want, either way I’ll… Read more »
Love the how but not liking this years format. It doesn’t make sense. Please put it back.
Don’t you dare cancel the series, I love the show, last show ” The Nose” was super, I keep replaying it, the actress who played the Nose. You should bring her back for more shows,LOVED her.
totally agree with you there. loved her 😀
I have loved Castle from day 1. I rewatch old episodes regularly. But the bottom line is for some inexplicable reason the writers or producers or both have gradually wandered away in the past few seasons from the basic principle that made it so much fun to watch. Characters that had great camaraderie solving a crime. That’s it! None of the other crap they kept adding * cough Beckett’s moms ridiculously complicated and far too long running story line cough* I was relieved when the Beckett’s Mom thing was finally done with. Then they felt the need for overly dramatic… Read more »
WOW you did a fantastic job you hit that right on the nail that could not have been better said I agreed with ever word you said in fact I was going to write one just like it well done Sue, it is too bad the writers don’t listen to the viewers like you I do not think there will be another season, but you got to look at this way they came off of failed program the following they were the writers on that program to. As far as I’m concerned they never did finish season seven they never… Read more »
if they don’t take it back to the fun crime solving show that had them working together with some humor mixed in like the first few years I will also be gone. I watch the reruns all the time because I like the concept back then but as Sue said so well the writers have forgotten why we watched it for so many years and are unwilling to have the two of them marries and solving crimes together then it is time for the writers to go or the show will fail. I am giving it a chance to come… Read more »
I have loved Castle from day 1. I rewatch episodes regularly. But the bottom line is for some inexplicable reason the writers or producers or both have gradually wandered away in the past few seasons from the basic principle that made it so much fun to watch. Characters that had great camaraderie solving a crime. That’s it! None of the other crap they kept adding * cough Beckett’s moms ridiculously complicated and far too long running story line cough* I was relieved when the Beckett’s Mom thing was finally done with. Then they felt the need for overly dramatic wedding… Read more »
Please write to The President of ABC, Mr Paul Lee,500 South Buena Vista Street,Burbank Ca 91521-4581. Express your concerns
Dear Lady:
Your thinking would be great in an ideal world, however the President of ABC obviously doesn’t give a damn about what “people or viewers” think – or Castle would have improved by now! Read any web site reviews , the viewers are in unison: return Castle to what it was in Seasons 1-6. You have to be dumb to not realize what’s going on! He does not care!
You still need to write. It like voting you might not like the way things are going but you still need to vote ( this case write). If we do not things will never change.
You are right Barb, a very disappointing start to season 8. The two new show runners in the first two episodes have burnt the ship we all have been riding for the first seven seasons leaving us no way home plus a lost of 2 million fans from the year before. I feel need to go back to season 6 episode 16 when castle heard a knock on his door, it was Alxis asking her dad if should could come home. We need to see now Kate knocking on the door asking the same question. It needs to happen before… Read more »
Castle has been my favorite T.V.show in a long time. This season I have been very disappointed in the storyline. It took them so long to get together and already they have separate lives. I wish they were still together and working.
The whole cast of crew in Castle are great. I love it that the characters have not changed much.
Please get Castle and Beckett together again.
Don’t cancel. That is my vote.
Barb
Barb here we are on 10/26 waiting to watch a rerun of season 7. I would have pick the episode before the one they are doing . Episode 6 would fit better, it was the one they finally got married, but we are going to watch episode 7. Both of these episodes had super ratings to what we have now 9.4 million viewers to are now number of 6.5, WOW not doing to good. Last week we got to watch The Nose and our show runners and writers got us to the point that the best part of that episode… Read more »