Week-to-week gains: Nikita.
Week-to-week losses: Arrow, Supernatural, The Carrie Diaries, and Cult.
Below are the CW TV show ratings averages as of the end of week 28 of the 2012-13 season (Sunday, April 7, 2013). Ratings are typically the best way to tell if a show will be cancelled or renewed.
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| The CW TV shows |
18-49 demo rating (actual) |
Viewers in millions |
Ratings pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Vampire Diaries (renewed) | 1.3 (1.30) | 2.77 | season 4 ratings |
| Arrow (renewed) | 1.1 (1.08) | 3.28 | season 1 ratings |
| Supernatural (renewed) | 0.9 (0.91) | 2.11 | season 8 ratings |
| Beauty and the Beast | 0.6 (0.63) | 1.70 | season 1 ratings |
| Hart of Dixie | 0.6 (0.56) | 1.41 | season 2 ratings |
| America’s Next Top Model (renewed) | 0.5 (0.48) | 1.23 | cycle 18 ratings |
| The Carrie Diaries | 0.5 (0.46) | 1.16 | season 1 ratings |
| Gossip Girl (ended) | 0.5 (0.45) | 0.90 | season 6 ratings |
| 90210 (cancelled) | 0.4 (0.41) | 0.84 | season 5 ratings |
| Emily Owens, MD (cancelled) | 0.4 (0.37) | 1.27 | season 1 ratings |
| Nikita | 0.4 (0.36) | 1.18 | season 3 ratings |
| Cult | 0.2 (0.21) | 0.71 | season 1 ratings |
These charts incorporate the daily final CW show ratings (reported 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 Friday nights
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.
Part of the reason why the disappointing Raitings got started to began with the cw network didn’t really fix the Nielsen raitngs on time so there was two cancellation for two different shows on the cw network and that was why GG and 90210 got canceled
The cw network should be fousing on renewing 90210 for a full season 6
and Bring back GG for a full season 7
Nkita never had a raiting hit? So there is a chance that GG and 90210 could be renewed back on the network with no disappointing raitngs
The cw network should be fousing on renewing 90210 for a full season 6
and Bring back GG for a full season 7
Nkita never had a raiting hit? So there is a chance that GG and 90210 could be renewed back on the network with no raitngs hits