Kiefer Sutherland is no stranger to television viewers, having starred on more than 200 episodes of 24 on FOX. Will Designated Survivor be as big a success for ABC? Will it be cancelled after one year or, will it be renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
A political thriller, Designated Survivor follows Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland), a lower-level Cabinet member, who ends up becoming the President of the United States. He struggles to keep the country and his own family from falling apart — while navigating the highly-volatile political arena and leading the search to find who is responsible for a horrific attack. The rest of the cast includes Natascha McElhone, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, LaMonica Garrett, Tanner Buchanan, Kal Penn, and Maggie Q.
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 — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/18 update: You can see the rest of the latest night’s ratings.
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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 like the Designated Survivor TV series on ABC? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
5/11 update: ABC has renewed Designated Survivor for a second season. Details here.
I am very upset that you would consider taking the designated Survivor off the air. This show has legitimate scenarios with our own current affairs in Our Land today. The cast and crew have created a phenomenal eye-opening show that will open the eyes American people making all aware the possibilities that could burden our Lives in the very near future. Please do not cancel. Job well done and kudos to the writers as well as the actors
I absolutely love this show. I watch most of my dvr recorded shows the next day along with a lot of other friends and family. So I’m sure there are a lot of fans that aren’t being added in to these statistics. Please keep show on. 😉
This is one of the few shows that I actually look forward to watching. It should be renewed. I hope that this long break isn’t an indication of the end. There are
many shows that deserve to be over – not Designated Survivor.
Our family enjoys the tension of Designated Survivor and thinks that it should be renewed for Season 2.
The show has a good story line , but when the last show was 30 days ago you make it hard to stay interested in the show. I would like to see it renewed, but please stop taken long breaks in new episodes
Love this show. Bring it back!
How could you NOT renew this series, it is absolutely excellent….please don’t let this be yet another unfinished show like Jericho, Survivors, etc. The viewing public deserves to have closure on this compelling drama!!
Yes, I really enjoy the shoe. Please renew it. It’s a worthy watch unlike most shows these days.
Best new show ever. I’m a late viewer as I just watched on shaw on demand; as I bet lots of others where to busy in the fall to watch any TV. But this is intense. Please do not cancel
Loved this show – every episode was a cliff-hanger. I hope it comes back!
I thoroughly enjoyed this show and hope it comes back. Every episode is a cliff-hanger!
I love this show and I look forward to season two. Keifer Sutherland is a great actor and this movie is alot of danger and questions about what happened and what will happen. Please continue with season two.
Love the show and DEFINITELY want to see a lot more if it for many seasons to come!!!
I have been looking forward to seeing more episodes of
Designated Survivor. I hope you bring the show back. It was
nice to see a show that is meant for a mature audience and not some sort of reality show. Please renew the show.
After this historic election year it’s very nice to see that our government still has checks and balances. I would really like to see the designated Survivor continue on! So I can have some Faith in Our Government!!!! Even
If it is an Hour of a Fake Goverment struggling to Bring Each And Every American together After Our Country has Lost Hope and Faith in Every aspects of our Government!!!!
Great show – we want to see more!