Airing on Sunday nights, The Last Man on Earth has never been a hit in the ratings and the numbers keep dropping. Will they keep falling? Will the FOX show be cancelled or is it essentially guaranteed to be renewed for a fourth season so there will be enough episodes for a syndication package? Stay tuned.
On The Last Man on Earth, a deadly virus has devastated the planet and Phil Miller (Will Forte) believes he’s the last human alive. Phil eventually finds other survivors and he ends up being alternatingly elated and miserable. What will happen next? The rest of the cast includes Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Mary Steenburgen, and Cleopatra Coleman.
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.
5/8 update: You can see the rest of the latest night’s ratings.
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For comparisons: The second season of The Last Man on Earth averaged a 1.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.75 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 like The Last Man on Earth TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled instead of renewed for a fourth season?
5/10 update: FOX has renewed The Last Man on Earth for a fourth season. Details here.
I love this show and believe that the low ratings are due to the fact that we get a new episode then a 3 week break, then another new episode and another 4 week break. If the network would do a regular season with a new episode each week, the ratings will be better.
I’m normally not the sort of individual to become hooked on a TV Series. My partner is very similar, however we were both gutted to find that there may never be a Series 4. Considering the total space of Fox TV series currently on air it amazes me that Fox are even considering not renewing. If Fox don’t renew I sincerely Amazon or similar do in their place. **Please don’t kill off The Last Man on Earth!** How many famous cameo appearances??
I love The Last Man on Earth. Please do not cancel the show
FOUND ON HULU! LOVE THIS SHOW! PLEASE KEEP!
The latest episode adjusted up to a 0.8.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/sunday-final-ratings-april-23-2017/
Thanks.
No problem.
Please cancel and put it out of its misery.
Omg fox cancelled Grandfathered and left this garbage show on the air? At least grandfathered had a better storyline compared to this idiot ridden show. Got bored of watching this non sense of a show.
That steady ratings plummet after the latest season premier says it all. I wasn’t the only non-left winger watching. It helps to get outside your little bubble and know your audience, Will.
Even aside from Will Forte indulging his childish partisan side by giving fist bump material to liberals wanting to watch the Trump people they hate most die one by one this past season premier, the show honestly hasn’t been very good for years. It was at its best in the early episodes when PHIL (not “Tandy’) really was the last man on earth we knew about. After that his character just became annoying and unrelatable. It was one unnecessary, absurd lie after the other, more cringeworthy than funny. They’ve been phoning it in creatively for most of the series. They… Read more »
The show supposedly takes place in the near future. The announcer even said “Betsy DeVos, sixty-one years old”. That’s only two years from now. The gag is that most people feel that the government, the President especially, is immune to any catastrophic events that occur. People believe the President has everything from a deep underground bunker to an escape pod on AF1 to survive a catastrophe. So when she declares how certain she was that the government has an answer, they ran down the entire cabinet to drive the point home that the virus was taking everyone out, not just… Read more »
It can be more than one thing. With respect I think you’re missing the partisan angle here. If you read the Twitter feeds of Will Forte and some others involved they’re very much part of the Hollywood s echo chamber who loudly HATES Trump, hates Republicans generally, and is constantly and uncritically retweeting whatever the liberal blogosphere’s talking points of the day are. These idiots see themselves as heroes on the front lines of the “Resistance”. I don’t buy the notion that the FLASHBACK showing real life Trump officials, especially ones Democrats bashed most and tried to block, dying one… Read more »
Yes keep the show going it is super funny
Just found this show and went on a bing watch. Love it. Please dont cancel. I am so hooked. All the charecters are fantastic and story line.
Please do not cancel this show – it’s great. Love it. Look forward to it every Sunday night. Wish it was on earlier. Have to tape then watch sometimes. Does that affect what you think viewership is or do you count recordings??
I love this show. Yes it’s a bit variable in laughs from one episode to another but there are too many unanswered plot lines to kill it off yet. Please, please if you decide to finish it at least wind the series up properly. Try getting in a couple of extra writers to freshen up the scripts. It still has huge potential and is one of the funniest series I’ve seen for a long time.
What happen to the episode why kept re run. I been waiting 2 weeks already. It’s such a good show
After just a couple of shows, now we just have reruns. What’s up?