Last year, FOX launched 10 new shows and ended up cancelling most of them. How will the network do in the ratings this time around? 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 Grit, American Idol, Bob’s Burgers, Bones, Bordertown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, Coupled, Empire, Family Guy, Gotham, Grandfathered, The Grinder, Hell’s Kitchen, Home Free, Hotel Hell, The Last Man on Earth, Lucifer, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, Minority Report, New Girl, Rosewood, Scream Queens, Second Chance, The Simpsons, Sleepy Hollow, So You Think You Can Dance, Wayward Pines, World’s Funniest, and The X-Files.
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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?
Lucifer is the best show on TV! Please renew!
I hope you cancel “The Real”
Can’t wait for DWTS to start, love that show
Is The Preachers coming back?
Bring Second Chance back!!! Disappointing to hear that one of the best shows on tv was cancelled! Very interesting concept and different. I couldn’t watch during its scheduled air time, but would stream it the next day. Networks must understand that the old way of rating a show’s popularity isn’t always reflected by the typical viewership during the scheduled rotation.
Love second chance…please bring it back- here’s to hoping to see a different outcome! 🙂
Please bring second chance back! A lot of people were not aware of the show and now that more people have found it and finished season one, we all want season 2! I love second chance, i did not hear about it until there were only 2 episodes left of season 1! I want season 2! How many people need to request it before you guys will bring it back?
Second Chance was a very good show. I am so disappointed that it was cancelled. Not a very good thing to do, by putting it on a Friday night, being a new show.
Love second chance looking forward to second season
I am not in your typical demographic of 18-49….older folks DO purchase goods and services, too! We love “Lucifer”…the comedic elements are superb! As college graduates, we feel, that we are being overlooked, when it comes to promising tv shows and the products, hawked, during these time slots….we no longer have young children, in our homes, but, we do have grandchildren, who, most likely, spend more time, with us, watching tv, as a family, than they spend, with their nuclear families.
I haven’t watched much network TV this season. I love Netflix. I would love to have the same access to American channels. I will be sad to see Micheal Weatherly leave NCIS and the end of Bones but 12 years is a good run. I love CSI Cyber but I am taping network TV to fast forward commercials.
Please do not cancel Lucifer, I love the show!!! It is one of my favorites! Tom Ellis plays this part so well as do all of the characters, it makes me laugh waiting to hear what is going to come up about his dad and his brother!!! Please keep them! Put a pg 13 on it but dont cancel it!!
Please renew Sleepy Hollow! It had the double problem of being moved to Friday nights and Nicole wanting out of her contract. Everything is set up to continue forward with Crane. I know Friday shows (especially those freshly moved to Fridays) are frequently forgiven ratings fluctuations. Please let there me a Season Four!