The CW is the smallest television network and their TV shows draw far fewer viewers than the others. However, they still have to cancel and renew series. Will your favorites survive to see another season? Stay tuned.
CW shows this season (so far): The 100, America’s Next Top Model, Arrow, Beauty and the Beast, Cedric’s Barber Battle, Dates, The Flash, Hart of Dixie, iZombie, Jane the Virgin, Masters of Illusion, The Messengers, The Originals, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Reign, Significant Mother, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and A Wicked Offer.
How does The CW decide what to cancel or renew? They look at a lot of different factors but the ratings play an important role. The higher the ratings, the better chance a show has of surviving. Here’s how the network’s shows are doing so far:
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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 therefore supposedly 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 or Saturday, nights when TV viewership is lower.
What do you think? Which shows are you rooting for? Which one isn’t as big a hit as you thought? Are you hoping any series will get cancelled to make room for something else?
so shows with .6 and below ratings, only a million viewers AND down over 15/20/25 y-o-y and still get renewed….
The CW must have NOTHING in development. A test pattern could get higher ratings than some of the shows they renewed. If you had a ,8 and then a .6 the next year you looking at .5 or less the following year and that is acceptable? CW must have really low standards.
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i am so happy that all of my shows are renewed rooting for The Orginals JTV The Flash Supernatural Arrow The 100 TVD Regin ANTM
Remember that cw cares a lot about their raitings but they need people to watch their cw programming shows on their network
They are actually also one of the few networks that rely on their world wide audiance. Their shows has the one of the biggest and most loyal fanbase across the globe. Why do you think 7H/OTH/Charmed…. (I can go on) lived for so long? Not just bcs of the US fanbase…..TVD just reached 24 million fans on facebook. Thats much more then any other CW fanpage on FB.
The interest in their shows world wide are huge. They make alot of money by selling them to networks across the globe.
Just about ALL of my favorite shows are on the CW!
Reign, 100, & Arrow. I’m a huge Netflix watcher (as are a ton of my friends), I hope when it comes to raitings, that’s taken into account.
I like the originals, reign, the 100, then supernatural, tvd. I hope too see Jane the virgin and Hart of Dixie go before a by if the others.
Me too Well BATB And HOD raitings are really bad if BATB and HOD gets canceled we have to move on
Love the flash!! I’m 50 years old , loved comic books as a kid.
This show is great , my grandson loved it too! Keep it up.
I think more episodes with the Flash and Arrow together would be great !
So The Originals lost the most, is anyone really surprised? They did it to themselves.
I’m loving the Flash! Barry, Iris, Joe and Cisco are my favorites!!! It’s such a great show. Westallen remind me of Clark and Lois.
Look forward to watch more of the cw programin shows
THE Originals
JTV
The Flash
Supernatural
Arrow
The 100
TVD
Regin
American Next Top Model
More Superhero shows
I record The 100, Reign, Vampire Diaries, The Originals, The Arrow, Flash. I’ve been hooked on all of them since the Pilot for each one. I record them so I can watch several episodes in a row. If for some reason, it doesn’t record, I catch them on Hulu.
Does that help to lower the ratings for those shows? I sure hope not.
We need to tell Mark Pedowitz that because I don’t think he’s checking the DVR raitings ON DEMAND RAITINGS AND IT’S GONNA BE DIFFICULT FOR MARK TO CHECK NETFLIX
Pedowitz does check & care about DVr numbers,online viewing,Netflix,OnDemand
When will we know the date for BATB to return? I would like to hear from CW?
I read the book Vendetta that is out, but I read it in one day.
What is BATB?
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The 100 is my favourite show! i love clarke and everyone else. I REALLY hope it will be renewed! It is an excellent show and all my friends are obsessed with it too
The 100 is such a great show! It’s exceeded so many of my expectations, with the first season being so intense and now being halfway into season 2, I’m so terrified that the show’s going to be cancelled. There’s no clear distinction between what’s right and what’s wrong and that’s so clearly seen in the show, the characters are all flawed and yet they have such great qualities you cannot identify them solely on their flaws. I seriously don’t understand why the ratings are so low, this is the show everyone should be watching! It’s not like Pretty Little Liars… Read more »
i agree with you too, it not like in the vampire diaries where it is all about drama and not a lot of action. The 100 is exciting and the characters are more real. It defiantly deserves more ratings than what it gets.
I love the originals and Reign, it’s soooo sad that Reign’s rating are so low 🙁
The plot is really great imo, it has tons of characters,
Lots of up and downs, and it’s historical and I absolutely love the theme,
I hope both of these series would be renewed and get more viewers
I love CW watch almost all these shows. My favorite is BATB so am sorry to see no stats on this show??? I do not watch. The Originals or Jane the Virgin. And never will.
I can’t imagine that people don’t like jain the virgin and the originals they are really good shows and I love them if we keep on watching these shows and only then the raitings will get high and the cw will give more renewals and if we don’t watch them it will get canceled
And why exactly ? Have u even given it a try?
The originals is amazing, amazing , amazing
Its really deeper than just some pointless sci-fi action.
It has plot, and it focuses on the most important thing in any human life
I think it’s worth giving it a shot
I love the 100 and hope its not cancelled for a long time. i normally record it and all my friends come over just to watch the show
Absolutely smitten by THE FLASH!
Barry and Iris are wonderful together and the rest of the cast is very inviting.
I like the story lines, the overall premise, and consider THE FLASH my new favorite show.
With any luck, the drama will not be torpedoed like Sleepy Hollow and Person of Interest.
Looking forward to the return of excitement on January 20, 2015.
Go WestAllen!
The 100 is so god
The Originals and the TVD needs us too