After becoming a staple of the CBS Thursday night schedule for four seasons, the network has moved Elementary to late on Sunday nights. Will viewers follow the crime drama to the new night? Will the ratings fall because of football game overruns? Will it be renewed for a sixth season or, will it be cancelled instead? Stay tuned.
A contemporary update on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters, Elementary follows eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Doctor Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) as they help solve crimes in modern-day New York. Aidan Quinn and Jon Michael Hill co-star in the series.
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.
5/22 update: You can see the rest of the latest night’s ratings.
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For comparisons: The fourth season of Elementary averaged a 0.96 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.74 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 Elementary TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for season six on CBS?
5/13 update: Elementary has been renewed for season six on CBS. Details here.
Awesome show will most likely be canceled just because it is the best show out there that is just how the stupid networks operate!!!
Renew it!!
Renewed .. but stay focused on solving the mystery and leave the personal lives alone
Please renew elementary it’s the beat detectiv TV show on TV if it’s cancelled I and thousands of people will have to watch the other rubbish that is produced. :((
Unfortunately for me, and CBS, if they take Elementary off it will be one less hour of tv that I watch; so therefore one less hour of viewing CBS. As they take my show off, I refuse to watch any new ones. I only watch CBS, as for new shows, anything else I view is on a network that relives the glorious past. CBS, I am down to seven (7) current day series that I watch; all on your network. That’s a total of six and a half (6 1/2) hours of tv a week, and at this point you… Read more »
Really appreciate this show for the actors, directing, settings and story line. Hope they renew for a 6th season! It’s one of only 3 shows that I watch.
Yes Elementary should be renewed for a 6th season.
Best written, most interesting stories and terrific cast!
I love this show, I love the idea of a male and female partnership of Sherlock Watson. Lucy Liu has been my favorite since her early days in the showbiz. This show gives happiness to me. The perfect antidote after a stressed out day at the office. Please don’t cancel the show. there is now what they call netflix. If CBS doesnt want this show anymore, please sell it to netflix who has millions of viewers all over the world. Just don’t cancel it yet.
Last nights’ hastily ended spode’ was not of the usually crisp variety I’ve come to appreciate . My wife and I were chanting “Who wrote this?” “Who wrote this?”
Reading through these comments, one thing sticks out – most of them seem to have been made by people who are, on average, more intelligent than… well, AVERAGE. That being said, it seems to me that the people who watch this show likely have more MONEY to spend than the “average” viewer (intelligent people tend to have better-paying jobs and correspondingly higher incomes, therefore more discretionary spending). Perhaps that is something worth considering before making a decision on Elementary’s renewal. Quality over quantity is not such a bad thing, is it? 😉
wow! this show needs to be put out of its misery, cbs must be making big bucks in syndicaton
I used to be a devoted fan but stopped watching because the actor playing Sherlock has increasingly clipped and unintelligible speech and is so boring to watch (yawwwwn). Not to mention now he’s shaved his head which makes him even less interesting to watch. Yes his character is eccentric but his acting is so d r y. I have watched many british tv shows and personally speak 5 languages–but there is no one on tv at present more difficult to listen to. Keep Lucy on, she is impeccable…
Find a new Sherlock and all your viewers would be back!
Put on the closed captioning. I can’t understand him sometimes either, but cc makes all the difference!
CBS keeps loyal fans guessing about when Elementary begins, because so often it’s delayed due to Sunday afternoon sports overruns. I hope they take this into consideration, because we are willing to search for it. Excellent show and I hope it wins another season. I would imagine any of the other networks would be thrilled to have its viewership, and we would likely put it in any other networks’ top 10 primetime shows.
Love the show, favorite for my wife and I. Writing and plots are great. Please don’t cancel!
Elementary is the main TV show that I look forward to seeing each week. The popular “BIG” TV shows that everyone likes to talk about seem to rarely be the shows I enjoy (and I don’t see the appeal of most of these other shows). Elementary, and a handful of others, are some of the few shows that have survived over the last few years. They keep me coming back during the season and looking forward to each fall. I’m hoping that this show keeps going.
This is a smart show involving interesting characters. KEEP IT!