A few years ago, FOX had some of the top-rated TV shows on the air. Now, the network is struggling. Which series will be cancelled and which will be renewed? Stay tuned.
How do the execs decide what to cancel or keep? They look at a lot of different factors but the ratings play a very large role. The higher the ratings, the better chances a show has of surviving.
FOX shows this season (so far): American Idol, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Backstrom, Bob’s Burgers, Bones, Boom!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Bullseye, Empire, Family Guy, The Following, Glee, Golan the Insatiable, Gotham, Gracepoint, Hell’s Kitchen, Home Free, Knock Knock Live, The Last Man on Earth, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, The Mindy Project, Mulaney, New Girl, Red Band Society, The Simpsons, Sleepy Hollow, So You Think You Can Dance, Utopia, Wayward Pines, and Weird Loners.
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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 and Saturdays, 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?
Sleepy hollow great show.
Bones viewers on thursday 16.10 were 6.56 not 5.562 please correct
Thanks for noticing.
I love Gracepoint – it is a great show, great script, great actors – Fox please don’t take it off – but you could find a better night and time for it up against Football and Scandall , what were you thinking – wed, at 8.00 would have been a much better time slot or Saturday at 7 or 8 – and you should know that because of the 45% jump in people watching in the up to 3 day later group – you just need to give it a chance.
MULANEY is the most stupid show ever and so is Bob’s Burgers.
I agree to BRING BACK SURVIVING JACK! It was hilarious!!
Sleepy Hollow & Red Band Society is very good!!!
BRING BACK SURVIVING JACK! It would be a hit! Mulaney is TERRIBLE CRAP!
Red Band Society is great!
RED BAND SOCIETY is the best new show this season. Unique concept, excellent writing & the young actors they cast as the R.B.S. are mesmerizing & really draw you into their characters lives. The ratings don’t look so good, but hopefully executive producer Steven Spielberg has enough pull w/ Fox to keep it on the air.
ScoSleepy Hollow, Red Band Society, The Simpson’s, Family Guy and Gotham are all great shows if you all would you all would agree
Sleepy Hollow, Red Band Society, The Simpson’s, Family Guy and Gotham are all great shows if you all would you all would agree
“Sleepy Hollow” is my show!!!! I’ve taken a liking to “Red Band Society”… It might be better suited for a younger audience, but, I guess I am… “Gotham” is okay thus far and I’ve seen the “special” for “Mullaney” and it looks good….
Sleepy hollow is amazing. U r missing out if u haven’t watched it. See if it’s on netflix or something. The only problem was season one was too short. Keep it around
in the first graphic the most watched show by the demo is new girl and not red band society
Thanks!
The only show I watch on FOX is Bones, and since this will be their last season (which I hate to think of since I’ve been watching since Day 1 and all repeats), I will be looking elsewhere for my TV viewing, none of these other shows listed appeal to me.
Who said this is the last season of Bones? I’ve seen interviews with the producers who’ve said it might not be. I sure hope it’s not!
FOX ? Are you saying that the tv network with all those sexy good looking Fox News Foxes are still around? They are the only thing worth watching on FOX!
Other than Gotham and Simpsons I don’t see much there I’d care about one way or other. On the other hand if they were to say the fox propaganda channel was getting cancelled then there’d be reason for all Americans to cheer. That cancer needs to go, keep the entertainment side of fox but get rid of what’s jokingly referred to as fox news….news made up on the spot to suit their politics
as opposed to the stellar news agency that is MSNBC? and CNN is called the Clinton News Network for a reason. None of them tell the truth about anything. Look up the fake crap that they all pull, such as doctoring videos, cutting and editing audio recordings, acting like they are on site when they are really in a studio in front of a green screen.
I haven’t watched anything on Fox in years. Literally. I am planning to watch GOTHAM, MULLANEY, and RED BAND SOCIETY this fall. They must have hired some new suits.
I plan to watch the same ones Jay is going to watch. During the summer we only watch So you think you can dance, on Fox…. And we watch their news, too.