The ratings for Hell on Wheels have dropped lower and lower so AMC decided to end the series with season five. Will the fifth season’s ratings be the show’s best numbers yet or, will they drop lower. Will the execs regret not cancelling the show instead of giving it a final season? Stay tuned.
A gritty period drama that takes place in the 1860s, Hell on Wheels revolves around the institutionalized greed and corruption behind the building of America’s Transcontinental Railroad as loyalties are abandoned and the race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines intensifies. The cast includes Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Christopher Heyerdahl, Robin McLeavy, Jennifer Ferrin, Phil Burke, Tim Guinee, Dohn Norwood, Reg Rogers, Byron Mann, A. Zhou, Tzi Ma, and MacKenzie Porter.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
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For comparision: The fourth season of Hell on Wheels averaged a 0.37 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.09 million viewers.
What do you think? Do you like the Hell on Wheels TV series? Do you think it should be ending? Would you watch a sixth season?
Anybody that is a true fan of this show from the beginning knows that this show has been going downhill ever since around season 2 middle of season 3 it started slowing down and getting very monotonous and it was all about the Swede and Cullen chasing after one another and chasing after colors wife and family or whoever she was that had his baby with her Mormon family I understand they were trying to tell the story of the railroad being built but it just seemed too far off track and very little was focused around that railroad except… Read more »
It sounds like you watched more than one episode–surprising–if you didn’t like it why did you watch them–you know you can change the channel.
Please bring the show back and let us have a proper ending. This show is amazing and everyone I know loves it.
I don’t understand how they figure up the ratings and how many viewers are tuning in, because everybody I know watches this show and LOVES it. The ratings just cannot be correct. I am thinking that they only consider viewers that are tuning in at the time the episodes air, and not the viewers that actually have a social life on Saturday nights and therefore set their dvrs to record the show. That’s the only conclusion I can come up with because there’s no way the ratings have dropped throat drastically when everyone loves the show. That being said, I’ve… Read more »
I agree I love the show but it has been getting a lot more rotten All That season was nothing but the Swede chasing after Anson Mount and it got annoying the first two seasons were the best when they built the town and everything was still in the beginnings of who was who, and who had what, and who was getting what, and who wanted what, but the last three seasons have went downhill completely and I am sad to see it go I’m glad they finally killed the swed off but it was a little too late I… Read more »
Did you ever consider that a lot of us could not watch until it hit Netflix reason GOOGLE FIBER did not have AMC . Then t
the powers that be granted GF access MIRACLE and then whoever cancelled the BEST SERIES ever made SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!
Been a fan since the first episode and looked forward to the next season. I record every show so I didn’t miss anything. I found out when this last season started the it was the final episodes. I am going to miss it and most of the characters, especially Mr Cullen Bohannon.
So stupid they cancelling the show ratings is pretty much not the tell all it used to be if that’s there justification to cancel. I have watched it all on Netflix or with my DVR on recordings from my cable provider. Ratings don’t account for all the true totals that should be accounted for in considering a shows true worth, what about people who buy TV show services and buy them just for a certain series or shows. People who don’t watch it.on Saturday nights or whatever day it happens to air. They are stuck in old ways of thinking… Read more »
I really enjoyed the show Hell on Wheels. I am very sad to learn that AMC has cancelled it. I wish AMC would reconsider and continue the series.
I absolutely LOVE this show and am heart broken that it will be ending!!! I can NEVER get enough of Cullen and Hell On Wheels!!!!:(. PLEASE…..I beg you PLEASE…..bring our Cullen back!!!!! Try a different night, try something…ANYTHING! We adore this show and am on pins & needles every week looking forward to the next episode. What will it take?????? Devastated in Colorado!!!!!
I enjoyed HOW; a gritty, old-fashioned Western. But I have to say the fibal episode of the series was a real downer. I would have preferred Cullen to get something for his 5 years in Purgatory.
The best thing on tv today! I love the history & different nationality groups actually doing the physical labor, love the railroad camps & the people who lived in the camps, the families, the kids, the businesses, everything! I love the rough & rugged Cullen, he makes the show, but scenes of sex need to be turned down a bit because I sure didn’t understand why Cullen forced himself on Mei? I lost interest in his character at that point, just got turned off.
forced himself? I am guessing you mean the scene with the nitro on the table…. that was just a little rough dangerous sex … they were laughing at the end.. hardly forced..
I absolutely love this show and really wish there were more episodes and seasons. The show deserves higher ratings. Excellent acting of all. I am so going to miss Hell on Wheels. It has been so great to watch a show with some substance to it, full of history. Not like all these reality shows that are a total waste of telecasting.
I can’t believe hell on wheels is going to be over! I love that show so much and I watch it on Netflix! I am waiting for the next season to come on! 🙁
We watch Hell on Wheels on Netflex over and over, one of the best shows I’ve seen, my husband and I watch it faithfully and if not we record it so we do not miss any of it. Please do not cancel it.
I am going to miss Cullen Bohannon as much as I miss Jack Bauer.
great show, so much better than the other junk on TV nowadays, first show to really show Chinese culture & contribution to the West
I am Shocked and very disappointed that this is the final season of Hell On Wheels. My wife and I always look forward to seeing the next episode. we are very concerned about all the other shows we like that have been cancelled, and don’t want Hell On Wheels to be put out to pasture. please reconsider this. We are older but we still like to watch programs that we like and enjoy, and Hell On Wheels is one of them. Thank you for listening.