After its debut, it looked like the new Hawaii Five-0 was one of those rare animals — a revival of a classic TV show that didn’t crash and burn immediately. Still, the series isn’t turning out to be as big a success as CBS might like you to believe. The series started off very strong in the ratings but has been losing steam every week.
Hawaii Five-0 debuted on September 20th to a 3.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic (the number that the networks care about) and 14.2 million total viewers. In week two, those numbers dropped 8% but that really isn’t bad for a new show. In week three, they dropped another 3%. This past Monday, they dropped a whopping 11%, hitting a low of a 3.1 rating and 10.7 million viewers.
The CBS series still places first in its timeslot, most closely challenged by Castle. That ABC series registered a 2.7 and 10.66 million viewers this week, up 4% from last week. If Hawaii 5-0’s downward trend continues, it won’t be long before the show loses in the timeslot and could end up in danger by the end of the season. For now, it’ll almost certainly get an order for nine more episodes bringing it to a full season. Beyond that, we’ll have to wait and see.
Interestingly, last year’s timeslot holder, CSI: Miami was doing much better at this point in the season. After four episodes, it was averaging a 4.1 in the demo and 13.72 million while Hawaii Five-0 is currently averaging a 3.5 rating and 12.47 million. Perhaps CBS should have left Miami in its old timeslot.
What do you think? Will Hawaii Five-0 end up surviving past this season? Was it a mistake for CBS to boot CSI: Miami out of its established timeslot?
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Hawaii 5-0 is great. Actually being an older viewer I think it is better than the original that starred Jack Lord. With all the stupid reality shows and too many nighttime drama’s this show is a breath of fresh air.
Please DO NOT cancel Hawaii Five O. With all the reality junk on tv this is a show that always delivers. Again, please DO NOT cancel it.
I agree with Annie 200%!! I’m so sick and tired of good shows being cancelled and BS reality TV!!! It needs to stop how many singing shows can you have, it’s so ridiculous. I look forward to this show and other shows that are not reality TV shows. Also it’s funny if you look at other shows that have been cancelled people always come back and complain after the fact about their favorite shows being cancelled.
The music is very loud and we miss much of the dialogue but we enjoy the banter between Steve and danno when we can hear it
as for DLM, Mel, Sue K they have no idea what they are talking about. The only thing I agree with is get rid of the reality shows but (Keep Hawii five o. )I look forward to watching this show and couple of others after work. If CBS cancelled this show that would be really bad decision on their part. This shows has everything that I like , like romance, drama surprising twist. Hopefully CBS listen to fans, otherwise CBS is run by idiots. Annie